(1959) Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Mark Eden, Gerald Flood. This is a very grim tale about a group of British POWs, held by the communist forces in North Korea during the Korean war of the 1950s.  It deals with a small prison encampment...

CASTLE OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. A Euro-horror classic about a writer who accepts a bet that he'll be alive in the morning after spending the night in a haunted castle. Top notch, supernatural horror as Barbara portrays a tortured...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1931) Richard Dix, Irene Dunn, Estelle Taylor, William Collier, Jr.  Oscar winner for Best Picture! Dix takes his wife from peaceful Wichita to the rugged Oklahoma Territory during the Land Rush to start a newspaper...

(1965) Milo O'shea, Christine Hargreaves, Patsy Rowlands, Desmond Jordan, Bernard Kay. O’shea is wonderful as an eccentric plant geneticist who cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby.  Things start to get out of hand when his plants begin to develop into Chlorophyll-fueled monstrosities...

(1963, Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen) Lucy Kelly, Annabelle Lee, George Edgely, Max Anderson.  One of our favorite exploitation films.  A busty sex kitten makes her move on her old Uncle Shug, who showers her with money in return for “favors.”  There’s just one hitch...

(1929, MGM) Condemned! Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, Dudley Digges, William Elmer.  Colman, a suave thief, is sentenced to a stretch at Devil's Island.... Madame X.  Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Sidney Toler. A disgraced woman is forcibly parted from her young son...

(1943) Willy Castello, Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson.  This is one of those lovable “crime doesn’t pay” exploitation films, with convicted and about-to-be-executed criminal Castello (Lucky Lombardo) telling the sordid tales of his past...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kirk Morris, Luciana Gilli, Piero Lulli, Andrea Scotti, Hélène Chanel, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa. Mysterious "phantom invaders" are raiding villages in the desert for gold. Morris is a shipwrecked warrior who falls in love with a princess, whose entourage is traveling across the desert.  When the princess is kidnapped by the “phantoms,” Morris and his companion trudge across the desert in hopes of rescuing her...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Rosalba Neri, Philippe Hersent.  The Roman Senate is bitterly divided between the patricians and the plebeians. Alberto Lupo plays a traitorous senator who conspires against a handsome and powerful Roman warrior, played by Gordon Scott...

(1930, Columbia) Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Boris Karloff, Constance Cummings, DeWitt Jennings.  Huston is brilliant as a hard-nosed prison warden.  His daughter, Cummings, falls in love with a floundering inmate played by Holmes. To complicate matters, Holmes witnesses the murder of another inmate who was killed for being a squealer...

(1960, aka La Llorona) María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Mauricio Garcés.  A married couple is warned by the wife’s father that their son will die before his fifth birthday because of an ancient curse...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Diana Sorel, Nicholas Ney, Inés Morales, Loreta Tovar, Beatriz Elorrieta, Jose Villasante.  At last, a nice quality anamorphic release of the English version of this obscure Euro-vampire film.  The patriarch of a wellborn Spanish family has come down with a strange blood disease...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah Zulfikar, Mahmoud El Meligy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim.  We haven’t viewed that many Egyptian horror films, but this is absolutely the best one we’ve seen so far.  A lawyer is summoned to an antiquated palace/mansion that’s known by locals to be not just haunted, but cursed as well.  Even his coach driver will not go too near the place...

(1954) Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Robert Berri.  Eddie, as Lemmy Caution, hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has been watching.  Later, he finds the other agent murdered...

(1930, Columbia) Buck Jones, Miriam Seegar, Charles Morton.  There’s great resentment in town on the part of the local cattlemen.  Their herds are running out of water while the sheepherders have all water they need.  Buck, as sheriff, tries to keep the two sides at bay...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Lawford, Ira von Fürstenberg, Georges Géret, Maria Grazia Buccella, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Wolfgang Preiss.  One of the most enjoyable Eurospy films we’ve seen in a long time.  Géret is excellent as a French pickpocket who inadvertently steals some highly classified papers that belong to the U.S...

(1937, aka GLUBOKIY REYD) Konstantin Bartashevich, Nikolay Belyaev, Aleksandr Cheban.  Russia is attacked by a neighboring country that’s never identified.  The invaders bomb a Soviet town. In response, the Soviets counterstrike enemy targets...