(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Essy Persson, Erik Schumann, Helga Anders, Margot Trooger, Karin Field.  A young, misguided couple tries to rob a jewelry store. When their plan goes south, a policeman ends up dead...

(1938-1940) Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Maris Wrixon, Evelyn Brent, Dorothy Tree, Henry Hall, Charles Trowbridge.  A must for Karloff fans.  You get all five of Boris’ Mr. Wong films, plus his final Monogram outing, The Ape, on two dual-layer DVD discs.  With the success of the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto series over at 20^th Century Fox during the 1930s, Monogram decided to take the plunge into an Oriental detective series...

(1931, Warners) Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell.  Edward G. gives the quintessential “tough-guy” performance as Rico, a two-bit hood driven by his desire to "be somebody."  With merciless skill he ruthlessly climbs the ranks of organized crime... Disc 2: Dance, Fools, Dance. Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Billy Bakewell, Clark Gable. Ruined by the ‘29 crash, Crawford turns reporter while her brother (Bakewell) joins a bootlegging mob. Gable is his cold-blooded boss...

(1929, United Artists, MGM) The Locked Door, Barbara Stanwyck, Rod La Rocque, William Boyd, Betty Bronson. Barbara’s first talkie.  Out on a wild party boat filled with booze and unsavory types, Barbara falls for a decadent sleazebag played by La Rocque... Voice of the City, Robert Ames, Willard Mack, Sylvia Field, John Miljan.  This MGM crime quickie is about an escaped prisoner who’s really innocent...

(1938, aka CRACKERJACK) Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison, Leon Lion.  Walls is great as a gentleman-thief known to the public as "Crackerjack". When a gang of crooks hijacks a plane to steal diamonds, Walls outsmarts them and snags the loot himself...

(1930, RKO) Betty Compson, Lowell Sherman, Raymond Hatton, Ivan Lebedeff. People gather in a sinister island castle on a stormy night somewhere in the Caribbean.  A shot rings out...

(1934, aka THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY) Malcolm Keen, Jane Baxter, Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter, Ernest Thesiger, Viola Keats, directed by Michael Powell.  This is a pretty good whodunit, with lots of suspects to choose from.  A gala social party is being held at the house of a big newspaper publisher.  The publisher (played to hilt by Keen) is a total cad...

(1930) Huguette Duflos, Kissa Kouprine, Maxime Desjardins. It’s a dark night at a mysterious castle. Inside, a scientist works in his lab, which is filled with glowing equipment.  The night is interrupted by the arrival of a fiend...

(1931) Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Minnie Rayner, Leslie Perrins, Jane Welsh, Norman McKinnel.  A pretty British girl calls in Dr. Watson for advice—her brother has been cheating in high stakes bridge games.  What’s even worse is that her brother’s activities are also known to the sinister Professor Moriarty, who blackmails him into helping him with his nefarious schemes.  Enter Sherlock Holmes, who dives into the situation to set things right and defeat his wily, longtime nemesis. Wontner may well be the best purveyor of the Holmes character outside of Basil Rathbone.  Norman McKinnel is brilliantly wicked at the film’s climax.  The first of five films starring Wontner as Holmes. From 35mm. 

(1930, Warners) Disc one:  Sinners Holiday. Grant Withers, James Cagney, Joan Blondell. A mother struggles to manage her family, especially with her wild son, (Cagney’s film debut), who becomes embroiled with a bootlegger... Disc two: Doorway to Hell.  Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Dorothy Meadows. A gangster successfully organizes the underworld factions of Chicago into a single efficient crime syndicate...

(1929, Paramount) Neil Hamilton, Warner Oland, Doris Hill, Fredric March, Eugene Pallette.  An early whodunit with a great cast.  March plays a sleazebag-wannabe actor who’s been playing around with the wife of his director (Oland) as well as another young girl (Hill).  When Oland’s wife ends up dead, he confronts March with a knife...

(1930, MGM, Fox) Disc one:  The Unholy Three. Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliot Nugent.  Lon stars as a ventriloquist who leads a bizarre criminal trio consisting of himself, a strongman, and a midget... Disc two: Born Reckless.  Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan. A gangster is given a choice to go to the slammer or enlist in the army...

(1930, Warners, Paramount) Film one: The Widow from Chicago. Alice White, Edward G. Robinson, Neil Hamilton. A dame seeks revenge against a gangster for the murder of her brother... Film two: For the Defense.  William Powell, Kay Francis. Powell is a dapper defense attorney known for his ability to win acquittals for his underworld clients...

(1950, Universal) Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks, Ross Elliot.  B Film Noir movies honestly don’t get much better than this (7.2 on IMDB).  Ross Elliott plays a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnessing a gangland hit job while walking his dog.  He spends the rest of the movie on the run from the killer, the cops, and his wife (Sheridan), who finds herself on the run, too...

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1953) Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Tissier, Albert Dinan, Peter van Eyck.  Here’s an adventure-intrigue-science fiction thriller that most fans never even knew exited—with Von Stroheim no less!  A Foreign Legion officer is killed in southern Morocco after witnessing a secret experiment involving a fantastic new death ray...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

(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...