Drama - DVD

Everything you want in a film noir you'll find in "Out of the Past." A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good. A moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin. Plus...

<p>Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller tap in time and rat-a-tat lines. Lucille Ball braves a date with an obnoxious lumber baron. Eve Arden can't recall Hamlet but one meets so many people in the big city. And Katharine Hepburn becomes Broadway's biggest star in...

<p>Opening just as European World War II hostilities ended, and four months shy of the Japanese surrender, China Sky is a smaller-scaled but worthy entry in the annals of adaptations of the novels of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck (The Good...

<p>Single, attractive Isabelle ("Izzy") Grossman has a rent-controlled uptown apartment and a blooming career in publishing. She also has Bubbie, a tradition-minded grandmother who's hired a matchmaker to find a husband for Izzy. There's already a prospect: the corner pickle seller?!? Amy Irving as...

<p>Billie Dove and Rod La Rocque star in this risque part-talkie comedy, once believed to be lost but now restored. Relentlessly pursued by gold digger Viola Hatfield (Gwen Lee), millionaire Michel Towne (La Rocque) decides to put her off through a marriage of convenience....

<p>Between the years 1933 and 1939, over 800 Jewish members of the German film industry would flee the Nazis and make their way to Hollywood. Adapting to a new culture and homeland, they would soon have a massive impact on American cinema through their...

<p>Beside their nuptial promises, newlywed society sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) and crime novelist Harriet Vale (Constance Cummings) make another vow: no more crime in their lives. Fat chance for that when the lovebirds and faithful butler Bunter (Seymour Hicks) arrive at the...

<p>"DEMOBILIZED OFFICER, finding peace unbearably tedious would welcome any excitement. Legitimate, if possible, but crime of humorous description, no objection. Reply at once -- Box X 10, The Times." With the placement of this curious advert, Capt. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, World War One veteran...

<p>Both Marion Davies and Billie Dove were one-time Ziegfeld chorus girls, so they became a natural fit as pals and romantic rivals when Davies' chum, two-time Academy Award winner* Frances Marion (with input on dialogue from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes author Anita Loos), fashioned Davies'...

<p>From W. Somerset Maugham's popular 1925 novel about an unloving marriage at a flash point and a selfish adulteress who travels a turbulent path to redemption, this second film version of The Painted Veil fixes Eleanor Parker (of the 1946 Maugham-based Of Human Bondage),...

<p>David and Lynn Conway are a two-career New York couple. He (Robert Montgomery) is a shipbuilder whose opportunities have been sparse. She (Virginia Bruce) manages a thriving theatrical agency and has been the major breadwinner for a while. But he's just received a prime...

<p>The Spanish-American War is over, but not the scourge of death. Yellow fever has killed more U.S. soldiers deployed to Cuba than battle -- and a medical team led by Dr. Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) is determined to defeat the microbial enemy. The secret...

<p>Following triumphs in the silent The Patsy, The Cardboard Lover and Show People, Marion Davies took her first headlong leap into talkies with the crazy-quilt musical- comedy-romance Marianne, inspired by and from the scriptwriter of (believe it or not) King Vidor's The Big Parade....

<p>How the West Was Won aired as a sprawling maxi-series of double-length episodes broadcast over three seasons -- a true saga, as befits the film that inspired it. Each installment presents unique themes, viewpoints and characters, all tied together by their connection to the...

<p>Tarzan swings back into action in this thrill-packed adventure starring Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Joanna Barnes and Robert Douglas. When a Watusi leads them to believe his distant homeland lies near an elephants' graveyard, Colonel James Parker (Douglas), his daughter Jane (Barnes) and partner...

<p>Robert Taylor wins track meets, friends and Maureen O'Sullivan in this smashing British collegiate comedy costarring Vivien Leigh. Arriving in England to attend Oxford's Cardinal College, cocky American athlete Lee Sheridan (Taylor) soon learns his boasts have earned him more enemies than mates. Dating...

<p>Robert Taylor and Susan Peters are trapped between love and war in this WWII romantic drama, costarring Robert Benchley and featuring the music of Tchaikovsky. When John Meredith (Taylor) meets amateur pianist Nadya Stepanova (Peters) at a Moscow concert in 1941, the America conductor...

<p>Robert Taylor and Greer Garson prove love is better the second time around in this off-the-wall romantic comedy costarring Lew Ayres. When Sky (Ayres) introduces his new fiancee Linda (Garson) to his best pal Jeff (Taylor), he's dismayed when he's dumped over lunch and...

<p>A dashing nightclub host uses his looks and charm to separate an heiress from her fortune in this riveting crime drama starring Virginia Bruce and Robert Taylor in his first leading role. When Toni Bradley (Bruce) inherits her wealthy father's New York businesses, the...

<p>Remember to knock five times, as the Cinema Speakeasy is open again with a quintet of controversial pre-Code classics. Lionel Barrymore stars as a DA who commits the perfect crime in W.S. Van Dyke's Guilty Hands, costarring Kay Francis. Next Warren William is crowned...

<p>Less than a decade after its three season stint on television, Gilligan's Island reigned supreme as a smash syndication success story. Picking up new fans each and every year, with scores of them being the after-school crowd, a revival via animation was a Gilligan-apropos...

Project Greenlight Executive produced by Oscar and Golden Globe - winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Project Greenlight spans the entire filmmaking process, taking a revealing, uncensored look at the challenges facing a first-time director. Equipped with a Hollywood-vetted script and surrounded by a...

<p>As painter Walter Hartright (Gig Young) walks through the wooded dark night to Limmeridge House, she arrives like a heavenly apparition: The Woman in White, the title character of Wilkie Collins' pioneering 1859 mystery novel, well-embodied in this eerily effective, lushly atmospheric screen adaptation...

<p>Marion Davies was twice the age of the character she was playing, but never you mind. As a plucky Irish lass taken from village life in Erin to claim a 2-million inheritance if she lives three years with a snooty family of destitute British...

<p>Dulcy Parker is the most well-meaning, supportive fiancee a business up-and-comer could want, except that she's a birdbrain who spews idiotic malapropisms when otherwise not saying and doing the wrong thing to the wrong person throughout the weekend dinner party she's arranged to better...

<p>Peter O'Toole and Susannah York star in this controversial tragicomedy about a brother's obsessive love for his sister. Having left her husband, Douglas (Michael Craig), Hilary (York) moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink (O'Toole), who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous...

<p>In a reckless quest to avenge his father's death, sword-maker On loses his right arm and becomes a disgraced outcast in the martial world. On's only hope for retribution lies in his ability to create a new style of fighting that will both compensate...

<p>Following their collaborations on the international art house hits Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, director Zhang Yimou and actress Gong Li reteamed for this bigbudget fantasy. Stepping in front of the camera this time, Zhang stars as a Qin Dynasty chamberlain who makes the...

<p>Blaxploitation superstars Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee and Jim Kelly take on the mob in this super-charged, action-packed thriller. When Melinda Lewis (McGee) is found brutally murdered in his L.A. apartment, smooth-talking disk jockey Frankie J. Parker (Lockhart) turns sleuth to clear his...

<p>Chad Everett and James Daly, as Chief of Surgery Joe Gannon and Chief of Staff Paul Lochner, return for another season of their groundbreaking medical drama. While the country around it seethed through a time of astonishing societal changes, Medical Center remained at the...

<p>Dr. Kildare's swansong fifth season carried with it some significant changes to the show's format. No longer a once-weekly one hour drama, Dr. Kildare was now a twice-weekly half hour serial with storylines stretching over multiple parts and, perhaps even more excitingly, James Kildare...

<p>In 1957, two starkly dramatic movies about a mentally troubled woman with three distinct personalities vied for attention. The second of these elevated Joanne Woodward to stardom and won her a Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve. But the first, arriving...

<p>Three become five as two new Centurions-John Thunder and Rex Charger- join the fight against the malevolent Doc Terror and his mechanoid minions. It's a much-needed boost too, as Crystal Kane and her original three Centurions Max Ray, Jack Rockwell and Ace McCloud- find...

<p>Cowboy king George O'Brien rides high in this 3 Disc, 9 Movie Collection of some of his most thrilling RKO oaters. The good-natured, barrel-chested, good-man-in-black delivered justice and box-office gold for RKO Pictures during his reign, only giving up his reins when duty called...

<p>HEDY LAMARR IS TONDELAYO, THE JUNGLE TEMPTRESS WHO SCORCHES THE SCREEN WHILE TOYING WITH MEN. The damned hot air, damp rot and isolated monotony keep the men at an African plantation either drowning in drink or at each other's throats with frayed nerves. But...

<p>CAN LOVERS HEDY LAMARR AND ROBERT TAYLOR ESCAPE THE SHADOW OF HER HALF-CASTE ORIGINS? Hedy Lamarr's next screen destination after her splashy Hollywood debut in Algiers was exotic Saigon, where she bewitches heartthrob Robert Taylor as alluring Manon DeVargnes, the half-caste whose mixed-race French/Vietnamese...

<p>The action and adventure never stop in this thrill-packed sequel to King Solomon's Mines, starring George Montgomery and directed by Kurt Neumann (The Fly). Determined to succeed where his father failed, Harry Quartermain (Montgomery) convinces jungle guide Rick Cobb (David Farrar) to accompany him...

<p>College friends Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) and Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) run a thriving rural Massachusetts girls' school. Karen is in love with local doctor Joe Cardin (Joel McCrea), and they plan to marry soon. Then an incorrigible, vindictive student tells a shocking fib...

<p>A suspenseful, romantic drama of a woman's past and how it affects her daughter, her husband, her best friend and their futures is depicted with a deep understanding in this picture of a woman who has deceived herself and her husband. Susan Hayward makes...

<p>Martin Lynn (Farley Granger) has crossed his breaking point. Poor, stuck in a menial job and mourning his recently deceased, devoutly Catholic mother, the mentally fraying youth visits his local pastor to arrange a decent funeral for her and, in a frustrated rage, kills...

<p>"Gary Cooper is at his very best." (The Hollywood Reporter) in this enchanting romantic comedy where East meets West...and white collar meets dusty lapel! "Tailor-made for Cooper" (Variety) and costarring Merle Oberon in a "graceful and persuasive performance" (Variety), this is "first-rate entertainment" (Time)....

<p>There's no business like minstrel-show business as Wayne Morris headlines his first Monogram Western. In Sierra Passage, he plays sharpshooter Johnny Yorke, adopted by a traveling troupe of entertainers led by impresario Thad Kring (Lloyd Corrigan) and trick-shot Sam Cooper (Roland Winters) after his...

<p>Her Majesty, Love is a film frolic of firsts and lasts. It sadly marks the last movie for Broadway's vivacious Marilyn Miller (star of the earlier Sally and Sunny, adaptations of her stage musicals available from Warner Archive), who would return to the boards...

<p>In The Affairs of Annabel, Lanny decides to promote Annabel's upcoming film The Man and the Maid by getting her a job as a servant, but the stunt backfires when gangsters take over the household. Lanny's harebrained schemes continue in the second film of...

<p>"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett (Wayne Morris) offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron (James Lydon), who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police...

<p>What would you do if you had all the time in the world? This new otherworldly drama from Matt Miller (Chuck), Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes) and Jennifer Gwartz (Veronica Mars) follows Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd -- Fantastic Four, Ringer), a star New York...

<p>From the director of Things to Come and Invaders from Mars comes this delirious Cold War thriller starring Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid and Raymond Burr. Stopping to fish in the small town of Winnoga, vacationing journalist Matt Corbin (Reid) discovers most of the village...

<p>Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa and Ernest Borgnine star in this engrossing drama about a young man's love for a call girl. The son of a domineering businessman (Borgnine), Nick Stratton (Franciosa) boasts he "could make love in 12 languages," but nothing prepares him for...

<p>Across the desolate desert terrain on the ride to San Bernardino, gold-laden prospector Ford Smith (Wayne Morris) and former blackjack dealer Mary Smith (Virginia Grey) quickly learn they have company. Three camel-riding Arabs -- played in a capricious bit of casting by Anthony Caruso,...

<p>Director Robert Aldrich reteams with Kiss Me Deadly screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides for this action-packed WWII adventure starring Robert Mitchum. When American war correspondent Mike Morrison (Mitchum) stops off in Athens on the eve of the German occupation, he's duped into carrying a list of...