(Upgraded 5/31/24)   NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman.  We thought it would be very appropriate to have one of the greatest horror films of all time on our bi-centennial double feature.  A great, great film. SATANIK (1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Julio Pena, Madge Kabopka, Umberto Raho, Armando Calvo. A hideously ugly woman drinks a potion for beauty. Her scheme eventually backfires though, as the potion loses potency and she transforms into an ugly monster... 

(1961, Upgraded 12/2/21) Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard, Russ Bender. A juvenile delinquent swears revenge on all those who helped send his wacko brother to the gas chamber. He and his sleazy girlfriend decide to bump them off one at a time...

(1924, Universal, Updated 5/27/24) Jack Hoxie, Alton Stone (Al Hoxie), Eugenia Gilbert, Claude Payton, William Lester, William McCall, Buck Connors, Pat Harmon. This is a very interesting western dealing with Amnesia. Jack plays a cowboy who has lost his memory because of war injuries.  Some scheming no-gooders get him to...

(1961, Upgraded 5/12/22) Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Bernard Blier, Pierre Blanchar.  Blanchar is a Nazi war criminal who lives in a magnificent old castle.  He gathers a number of his old allies for nefarious purposes...

(1935, Reliable, Upgraded 3/30/24) Tom Tyler, Jean Carmen, Earl Dwire, Julian Rivero. Extremely likeable Tyler vehicle with Tom playing a fun-loving, yet consumate trouble-maker who's given a chance to clean up his act by a lenient judge.  He accepts a position as the over seer of a large ranch plagues by...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Holmes Herbert, Leonard Mudie. Boris has grotesque makeup on once again. This time he portrays Valdar, a Nazi spy trying to sabotage the war effort in England.  The beautiful Margaret Lindsay is also a spy but does she work for...

(1969, Upgraded 12/14/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Heidy Bohlen, Miha Baloh, Michaela May, Herbert Fux.  An FBI agent is killed by the mob after making off with five million in gold bars in a robbery gone bad. Agent Jerry Cotton is called in to...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1960, Upgraded 8/27/21) Gary Clarke, Marlo Ryan. Dick Gering, Carol Dawne. Boy meets girl. Love, lust, and trouble follow. Two teenagers are determined to marry, but find themselves at odds with a jealous teenage thug, as well as their parents...

(1968, Upgraded 12/12/22) George Nader. Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Solar, Carl Mohner. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist. Jerry is able to make off with the loot himself—12 million bucks!  Watch for a...

(1965, Upgraded 3/16/24) Byron Mabe, Jerome Eden, Mai Jansson, Mimi Marlowe, Carol Dark.  This is a remarkable David Friedman film about a couple of hoodlums that kidnap a young girl and keep her in the cellar of a deserted warehouse where they subject her to all kinds of mental, physical, and sexual mistreatment.  For being such a low budget affair this is really a well-made film...

(1945, Upgraded 3/3/21) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan. A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder. Savage is priceless as the female psycho who...

(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.

(1930, Upgraded 4/3/21) Eric Von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas. Strange drama about a crazed ventriloquist and ;his dummy, "Otto," which exudes a strange hold over him. Von Stroheim is SUCH an SOB. Lots of big staged musicical numbers that reek of nostalgia...

(1948, Upgraded 12/30/20) Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell, Jack Webb.  Basehart portrays one of the most brutal, ingenious killers ever put on the screen in this story of the LA police and their hunt for him.  The opening drive-up scene is very memorable and will jolt you right out of your seat...

(1961) Peter Cushing, Keith Mitchell, Adrienne Cori, Peter Arne, Kai Fischer, Martin Stephens. Exciting action with plenty of sword play as a forgotten British noble returns to claim his title and finds himself pitted against...

(1960, Upgraded 8/27/21) John Ashley, Lowell Brown, Judy Nugent, Steve Stevens, Daria Massey, Gary Vinson. A rich teenager finds himself shunned at school because of his wealth. He sets up a high school protection racket that leads to all kinds of fun problems for school officials...

(1949, Upgraded 8/26/21) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker.  Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print.  Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...

(1949, Upgraded 12/14/21) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge. The dashing Richard Todd plays an up and coming author who absconds with his beautiful blonde mistress (the wife of his publisher) on an outbound train.  Soonafter the train leaves the station he has second thoughts and, much to the chagrin of everyone else on board, pulls the emergency cord and...

(1952, Upgraded 10/25/22) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him...

(1933, Warners, Upgraded 11/11/21) William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Paul Cavanough. There's no doubt that William Powell was one of the best screen detectives in the history of film, and here's a fine example. Powell is Philo Vance trying to solve a murder centered around seven suspects and a dead...

(1942, Upgraded 10/14,21) Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall, Al Burnett, Max Bacon, Peter Graves. This top comedy fantasy has a meek soldier saving his pals with a sword he believes to be Excalibur. Is it real?  The final scene has a real...

(1959, Upgraded 21/2/21) Jean Evans, Karl Light, Mary Gonzales. A maniac kidnaps a young girl and keeps her in a shack in the woods. When he goes to confess his crimes, he's chased and killed by the girl's psycho/sicko housemate. Creepy and bizarre with some...

(1960, Upgraded 11/10/21) Lurene Tuttle, Tris Coffin, Myrna Dell, Nelson Leigh, Don Grady, Victor Lundin, Paul Dubov, Eric Morris, Byron Foulger. Tuttle plays the sadistic, killer "mommy" who leads her murdering pack of bestial sons through a series of robberies and murders. Also featured are well-known criminals like Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and Alvin Karpis.  The gang's activities are...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam, George Curzon, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A married couple, vacationing in Switzerland, becomes aware of an assassination plot. Before they can inform the police, though, their daughter is kidnapped to keep them quiet.  Things end up in a strange London church that's being used as a...

(1967 aka THE BODY IN CENTRAL PARK, Upgraded 12/13/22) - George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Richard Munch, Helga Anders. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter. There’s a terrific scene where...

(1956, Upgraded 3/21/21) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris.  This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue.  A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...

(1965, aka MANHATTAN NIGHT OF MURDER, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Monika Grimm, Peter Kuiper, Silva Solar. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Their specialty is extorting money from small business owners.  Things get out of hand, though, when they murder one of the merchants.  The only witness is...

(1935, Upgraded 11/27/22) Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, John Turnbull, Cathleen Nesbit, Ronald Ward. You've simply never seen this wonderful British fantasy-drama from such a beautiful print. The setting is an old boardinghouse filled with a variety of people, all with different problems. They're lorded over by an evil, mephisto-like slum lord. The tenants' lives are changed forever by the arrival of a...

(1932, Upgraded 8/18/21) Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson. Wontner's third Sherlock Holmes film.  A beautiful but troubled young woman comes to Sherlock Holmes asking for protection from an escaped killer.  Also at play is a missing treasure. Things take a turn for the worse when...

(1959, Upgraded 12/16/21) Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Eva Bartok, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Jean Anderson. Forget Alphaville, this IS the best Constantine film. Eddie's a tough sailor who's being flown back to the mainland for trial. Also on board is the sleazy snake who turned him in, played to the hilt by Attenborough. The plane is filled with many colorful characters: stuffy socialites, sexy playgirls, etc. During the flight, a fire erupts...

(1948, Upgraded 12/18/22—Now in Color) Bill Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Richard Loo, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguston, Victor Sen Young, Milton Kibbee, Carole Donne. Gritty espionage film of a U.S. agent falling into a web of "yellow peril" intrigue. Lundigan plays an agent for the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau...

(1945, Upgraded 10/15/21) James Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers. Edgar Ulmer's best PRC next to Detour. A boy dreams his dad dies and his mom becomes prey to a con-man, and it all comes true! A well-crafted thriller that...

(1958, Upgraded 10/3/21) Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Lesley Bradley. Tarzan goes up against an unscrupulous hunter who wants to steal animals from the jungle. After Tarzan stops him dead in his tracks he then has to contend with the man's brother, who comes gunning for him.  Soon the setting shifts to a fabulous, lost city in the...

(1938, Upgraded 12/4/21) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme, C. Henry Gordon, George Barbier, Hedda Hopper, George Meeker. More jungle adventures of Tarzan as he intercedes on behalf of a safari of zoologists who are threatened by a underhanded guide who plans to sell one of their party (the beautiful Eleanor Holme) to a corrupt local ruler (played to the hilt by the sinister C. Henry Gordon).  Watch for the...

(1946) Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale.  Robinson is excellent as the soft-spoken investigator, Mr. Wilson of the War Crimes Commission.  He is searching for the notorious Franz Kindler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, who is hiding, incognito, in plain sight.  Robinson releases one of Kindler's former cronies in an effort to track down his target, but he is murdered before he...