(1932) Jerry Verno, Anthony Holles, Edgar Norfolk, Philip Durant, Sybil Grove Verno plays a bemused office clerk who has grand ideas about his future.  He’s caught play acting in front of his boss’s mirror and is loudly reprimanded.  Concurrently, a convicted jewel thief is released from prison and tailed by the police in the hope of him leading them to a cache of stolen pearls...

(1959) Pavel Makhotin, Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgiy Shamshurin, Anatoliy Shamshurin. A young man stumbles onto a secret cache of video tapes showing an unknown cosmonaut in space flight.  Years later, and now a young scientist, a huge surprise awaits him when the tapes are reexamined...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sheldon Pearson, Cindy Ellis, Penelope, Ann Grant, Holly Saunders.  This disturbing psychological horror/exploitation thriller is about a modern-day writer who’s obsessed with the Marquis De Sade.  Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he begins to live out De Sade's violent sexual fantasies...

(1930, 1940) Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton; Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Spencer Williams.  Disc one features INGAGI, a notorious docu-drama of Forgotten Horrors fame.  An expedition enters the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe...  Disc two features SON OF INGAGI, which is a sequel in name only.  It’s a full-blooded horror film about a lady mad scientist and her killer ape-man

(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...

 (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Ingmar Zeisberg, Paul Klinger, Judith Dornys, Friedrich Joloff.  The utterly imposing Dartmoor prison is surrounded on all sides by perilous swamps.  Yet a dozen prisoners have escaped in recent years—none of whom have ever been seen again...

(1930, Fox) Maureen O’Sullivan, El Brendel, John Garrick, Marjorie White, Frank Albertson.  It’s New York in 1980.  In a dazzling lab scene, scientists revive a man (El Brendel) from 1930 who was struck by lightning in mid-golf swing...

(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...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

(1969) George Cole, Peter Halliday, June Barry, Lillias Walker, Stanley Meadows.  In the future an incredible system has been created that allows a person to die, but pass his soul onto someone else, thus enabling one to potentially live forever...

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. 1. THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE (1930). 2. HABEAS CORPUS (1928) 3. DO DETECTIVES THINK? (1927) 

(1970) Alex Sanders, Maxine Sanders.  A witchcraft docu-drama about real-life witch Alex Sanders and his wife Maxine, both of whom star in the film...

(1950) Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, June Elvin, David Greene, Lesley Osmond, Stewart Rome.  Jewel and Warriss were a British comedy team (as well as first cousins) dating back to the early ‘30s.  In this film they play a couple of bungling detectives hired to clear the son of a British colonel, who’s landed in jail on murder charges.  The boys set out to find the real killer...

LILIOM (1930) Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, H. B. Warner, Estelle Taylor, Lee Tracy.  A wonderful film!  Farrell is Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at an old-time carnival.  He finds himself torn between the affections of his beautiful, hardnosed boss; and a pretty servant girl...

(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

(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...

(1948) Heinz Rühmann, Anneliese Römer, Hans Cossy, Hilde Hildebrand.  A humanoid alien from a distant solar system travels the universe using mental concentration, which is shattered, though, when passing Earth. Landing below, he is immediately targeted by the police...