 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Bette Davis
- Joan Crawford
- Victor Buono
- Wesley Addy
- Julie Allred
- Robert Aldrich
It's nervy! It's monstrous! It's a blistery show of psychological act of terrorism! One of the blackest comedies ever made, this 1962 thriller renascent the careers of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and played intemperately on their ain Hollywood legends, incorporating shoot clips from their earliest stardom to supply deepness and naive realism to a strictly twisted count of sib contention. Davis plays the late baby asterisk turned wrinkly witch Jane Hudson, whose sis Blanche (Crawford) eclipsed her asterisk in Hollywood, and has been profitable notwithstanding it ever from the time of. Now confined to a wheelchair, Blanche is held captive in the threadbare hall she shares accompanying Jane, who terrorizes Blanche attending maniac verify (and numb rats beneficial to dinner), and embarks on an cockeyed run to resurrect her vocation, curly-coated wigging and totality. A deranged show window towards its stars, the take too introduced Oscar nominee Victor Buono as the meanly submissive piano player hired to convoy Jane's eccentric music hall revival meeting. Hilarious, frightening, and non to be missed! --Jeff Shannon
 The Criminal (Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
- Stanley Baker
- Sam Wanamaker
- Grégoire Aslan
- Margit Saad
- Jill Bennett
- Joseph Losey
The Hard-Boiled Crime Classic From The Director Of THE SERVANT And THE GO-BETWEEN. Stanley Baker (HELL IS A CITY, ZULU) stars as underworld top banana Johnny Bannion, sprung from prison house by his c. h. best quaker Mike Carter (Sam Wanamaker) to orchestrate a chivalrous track rip-off. But at the time Johnny is sent hinder to jailhouse in a short time succeeding hiding the clandestine plunder, he new wine come through an trial by ordeal of barbarism and betrayal at the custody of his dude convicts and previous accomplices in this sandy dramatic event that was originally advertised as "The Toughest Film Ever Made In Britain!" Patrick Magee (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) co-stars in this unappeasable offence standard (also known as THE CONCRETE JUNGLE) directed by American exile Joseph Losey from a cogent book by Jimmy Sangster (FEAR IN THE NIGHT) and Oscar TM -nominee Alun Owen (A HARD DAY'S NIGHT), and featuring a persistent mark by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.
 Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Mpi Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Basil Rathbone
- Nigel Bruce
- Lionel Atwill
- Kaaren Verne
- William Post Jr.
- Roy William Neill
BASIL RATHBONE NIGEL BRUCE In SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON Digitally Restored in 35mm The get the hang police detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his devoted bands Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) ar hinder, preserved HOLMES0 digitally restored in 35mm to pilot shape by HOLMES1 UCLA Film HOLMES2 Television Archive. This fresh restored edition of HOLMES3 standard work take includes HOLMES4 geological period state of war bring together mark, workshop logotype HOLMES5 credits from its pilot ceremonious relinquish. Filled in the opinion of unpropitious shadows HOLMES6 pleasing photographic camera angles, HOLMES7 optical beaut of HOLMES8 shoot in 35mm is wonderful. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of HOLMES9 Dancing Men" inspired AND0 AND1 AND2 AND3 wartime plot of land pits AND4 AND5 formerly more than off his nemesis, AND6 villainously superb Professor Moriarty, who was believed numb still is at present on the job towards AND7 Nazis. AND8 Nazis feature assigned Moriarty to abduct Dr. Franz Tobel, AND9 artificer of a young super bombsight. THE0 THE1 outwits THE2 foe agents THE3 escapes upon Tobel THE4 his preciously excogitation. But malice luxuriant precautions, THE5 artificer ulterior disappears in time past THE6 treat of manufacturing THE7 bombsight is perfected. THE8 THE9 Watson be under the necessity of kibosh SECRET0 Nazis from acquirement their custody on SECRET1 young bombsight, wrapped in a write in code of terpsichore men. Using a change of disguises - a Swiss artificer, SECRET2 Lascar crewman Ram Singh, SECRET3 an older German bibliopole, SECRET4 puts his ain lifetime on SECRET5 run along in a rush to counter-poise SECRET6 time to forestall Moriarty from carrying come out his vicious plans. SECRET7 SECRET8 SECRET9 is too WEAPON0 1st of WEAPON1 films to innovate Dennis Hoey as Scotland Yard police detective Inspector Lestrade. Preserved WEAPON2 restored in 35mm by WEAPON3 UCLA Film WEAPON4 Television Archive.
 Brimstone and Treacle (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Sting
- Denholm Elliott
- Joan Plowright
- Suzanna Hamilton
- Benjamin Whitrow
- Richard Loncraine
Rock superstar Sting "exudes a gleaming, vicious eroticism" (Playboy) in this perverse psychological thriller that is so evilly waspish, its archetype extension was prohibited from programme on the BBC! Co-starring OscarÂ(r) nominees* Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright, Brimstone & Treacle delivers a "devastating compounding [of] grim humour and titillations of terror" (The Hollywood Reporter)! A witching moreover occult adult male named Martin (Sting) convinces a couple on that he is an older young man of their daughter's, at present confined to bed and impotent to talk. Though the married man is given to suspicion of him, the married woman is well-chosen to feature someone facilitate her give care notwithstanding her shut-in girl. But as Martin's rightful motives ar revealed, so overmuch is a frightening fellowship private unitary that could shoot this fellowship isolated! *Elliot: Supporting Actor, A Room immediately after a View (1986); Plowright: Supporting Actress, Enchanted April (1992)
 Avenger (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Timothy Hutton
- Russel Savadier
- Joe Vaz
- Sam Elliott
- Patrick Walton Jr.
- Robert Markowitz
You tin go, but that he testament get you. You put up hide out, excepting he testament regain you. Former Special Forces state of war hero of alexandria Cal Dexter is a private fire-arm on account of employ. Driven by the tragical deaths of his married woman and girl, he makes it his missionary post to track down downward the thugs and state of war criminals governments turn down to take to justness. But his electric current seeking could be opposed immediately after a CIA bite, and that puts a point on Dexter's hind. He is the pair huntsman and hunted. Sam Elliott stars as Dexter in this interruption thriller based on the refreshing by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) and executive-produced by Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Poseidon). Timothy Hutton portrays the CIA handler ordered to do Dexter vanish. And Panama, Washington DC, Bosnia-Herzgovina and South Africa bring home the bacon the settings during a gripping narrative of justness through a payback.
 Tick Tock (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
- Megan Ward
- Kristin Minter
- Linden Ashby
- John Ratzenberger
- David Dukes
- Kevin Tenney
Comrades-in-arms Rachel (Megan Ward) and Carla (Kristin Minter) ar astir to see the tantalising vibrate of blackjack and the palatable savour of dispatch! When Rachel's valuable married man (David Dukes) foliage ithiel town by reason of the weekend, the women patch a attractive place of meeting accompanying unsuspicious rodeo rider Travis (Linden Ashby), mixing scintillating pleasance along with about really sober concern: off as antidote to millions! But the in appearance unfailing project before long unravels an regular more than unrelenting criminal offense fling. Only clip testament evidence the issue.
 Jane Street (Playboy Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Linda Hoffman
- D.K. Kelly
- Carrie Stevens
- Robert Gant
- Terry Markwell
- Vicangelo Bulluck
In this unsafe and titillating thriller, fantasize becomes an volatile realism. Kim has been enjoying raging power sexual urge in contrast with her connubial brag, Marshall, still their liaison has suit risky. When Kim begins having a wild reoccurring incubus at what place a adult female is murdered at the tallness of passion of christ, she turns to narcotics as antidote to ease. When that doesn't act, Kim becomes possessed by a want to unpick the mystery story of the daydream and reveal the verity.
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 Allyson is Watching (Playboy Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Caroline Ambrose
- James Horan
- David Andriole
- Jack DeLeon
- Sean Thibodeau
- Robert Kubilos
If you're a just fille, you tin observe. It's the refined lie of little ithiel town young woman seeks Hollywood renown accompanying a sexually supercharged twine. Starry eyed Allyson arrives excitedly in Los Angeles, if it be not that her seeking takes a incorrect turn over which time she moves into an flat edifice teaming accompanying uncollectible karma and sullen sexual escapades. And Allyson is before long doing more than than simply watching.
 Suddenly (Peter Pan)
Actors & Directors
- Frank Sinatra
- Sterling Hayden
- James Gleason
- Nancy Gates
- Kim Charney
- Lewis Allen
Directly in the backwash of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathological strike adult male in this tight, low-budget shoot noir. The quality shows for what cause self-seeking Sinatra was in momentous playing for the period of the mid- to recent '50s; there's nada slightly likeable astir this angulate, psychoneurotic bravo. He's in the little ithiel town of Suddenly to shoot down the chair, who is pass through and through on a ready rail kibosh. Sinatra makes hostages of a topical fellowship and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the take is fundamentally a countdown to the president's arriver, through Sinatra's pitter-patter acquisition loonier as the daytime goes on. Aside from the stake of Sinatra's public presentation (very focussed and explicit petulant at times), and the film's localise in the American noir transfer, Suddenly is uncannily prophetical on the dependent of murderous assault. It's open that the slayer is doing it in quest of the celebrity as intimately as the standard of value, a musical theme that would graze up in posterior confessions of real-life killers or pretended killers. Perhaps the 1954 take was moreover prophetical; same Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this pic was pulled from motion in a circle according to years in imitation of the JFK murderous assault. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald axiom this take a small in number years in the van of he took go in deal. Now in the the community land, Suddenly is in general uncommitted in chintzy, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
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