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AFRICA SCREAMS
Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Abbott & Costello, Charles Barton
1949 / 79 min / G / b&w

ANGEL & THE BADMAN
Quirt Evens, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl.
John Wayne, James Edward Grant
1947 / 100 min / NR / b&w

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Paul Muni , Archie Mayo
1946 / 100 min / NR / b&w

ATTACK OF THE JUNGLE WOMAN
A party of engineers seek a continental highway route from South America through Central America to the United States.
Paul Frees, Joseph R. Juliano
1959 / 75 min / PG / color

BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN
Large, rarely boring Italian war film set in North Africa during WWI.
Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Giorgio Ferroni
1969 / 96 min / PG / color

BEAT THE DEVIL
Very funny offbeat satire of mystery films. Written by Truman Capote.
Humphrey Bogart Jennifer Jones, John Huston
1953 / 89 min / NR / b&w

BEHIND CLOSED SHUTTERS
Massimo Girotti
Luigi Comencini
1950 / 90 min / R / b&w

BLOOD TIDE
A sea creature is found off the coast of Greece by a treasure hunter. Locals appease the monster and save their village.
James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer, Richard Jefferies
1982 / 82 min / R / color

BONNIE'S KIDS
Two promiscuous young girls cause lots of trouble at their uncle's home after he rescues them from their drunken stepfather.
Tiffany Bolling, Robin Mattson, Arthur Marks
1973 / 84 min / R / color

BOOB TUBE, THE
A hilarious spoof and parody of soap operas and TV in general.
John Alderman, Christopher Odin
1975 / 90 min / R / color

BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE
A brilliant surgeon keeps the decapitated head of his financee alive after an auto accident while he searches for a suitable replacement body.
Jason Evers,Virginia Leith, Joseph Green
1962 / 82 min / NR / b&w

BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET
Black visitor from another planet impresses people on Earth by not saying anything. Cult John Sayles film.
John Sayles, Joe Morton
1984 / 109 min / NR / color

BUCKET OF BLOOD
Cult favorite Dick Miller stars as a sculptor with a peculiar "talent" for lifelike artwork. Was made in 2 days.
Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Brian Desmond Hurst
1934 / 55 min / NR / b&w

CLOCKWORK BLUE, A
1965 / 80 min / R / color

COUNT DRACULA & HIS VAMPIRE BRIDE
Scotland Yard police call in a vampire researcher named Van Helsing to help put a stop to a series of vampirism crimes.
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher
1960 / 85 min / NR / color

COUNTRY BLUE
Rednecks in a south Georgia town. Our hero is in love with the married daughter of his boss. He is fresh out of prison and decides that he is going nowhere in his job, so he decides to rob a bank and go to Mexico, taking his bosses daughter with him.
Dub Taylor, Rita George, Jack Conrad
1973 / 110 min / R / color

DEAD MEN WALK
The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
George Zucco, Sam Newfield
1943 / 65 min / NR / b&w

DEMENTIA 13
John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won't get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran dies if John is dead.
William Campell, Francess Ford Coppola
1963 / 75 min / NR / b&w

DENTIST, THE
Early Fields short.
W.C. Fields
1933 / 20 min / G / b&w

DEVIL'S HAND
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.
Linda Christian , William J. Hole Jr.
1962 / 71 min / PG / b&w

DISORDER IN THE COURT
Short Subject. Three Stooges
1939 / 20 min / G / b&w

DRESSED TO KILL
A set of cheap music boxes that people are willing to kill for puts Sherlock Holmes on the case. Solid early Rathbone.
Basil Rathbone, Roy William Neill
1946 / 72 min / NR / b&w

FAREWELL TO ARMS, A
Tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during WWI
Gary Cooper , Frank Borzage
1932 / 78 min / NR / b&w

FATAL GLASS OF BEER
WC Fields short subject.
W.C. Fields
1932 / 20 min / G / b&w

FIST OF FEAR, TOUCH OF DEATH
Madison Square Garden is the scene for a martial arts contest to crown a winner for the title vacated by the late Bruce Lee. Contains vintage Bruce Lee films plus doc footage.
Bruce Lee, Fred Williamson, Matthew Mallinson
1980 / 82 min / R / color

FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS
Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
Rossano Brazzi, Robert Oliver
1974 / 89 min / PG / color

GENERAL, THE
A confederate soldier almost wins the war singlehandedly when he goes behind Northern lines to recover his beloved locomotive. Classic Keaton.
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
1927, bw

GO FOR BROKE
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson.
Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, Robert Pirosh
1951 / 91 min / NR / b&w

GO GO BIG BEAT
Frank Gilpin
1965 / 27 min / PG / color

GOOD, BAD & BEAUTIFUL, THE
Kate Wilson
Charles Abrams
1970 / 80 min / PG / color

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (dubbed)
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Classic Pasolini.
Enrique Irazoqui, Pier Paolo Pasolini
1960 / 128 min / PG / b&w

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Animated cartoon based on book by Jonathan Swift about the 17th century traveler.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Jessica Dragonette, Willard Bowsky
1939 / 75 min / G / color

HEARTBEAT
A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
Ginger Rogers, Sam Wood
1946 / 102 min / b&w

HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Comedy about conniving newspaper editor and star reporter.
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Howard Hawks
1940 / 91 min / NR / b&w

HORRIBLE SEXY VAMPIRE
Some kind of sadist, but not human, is murdering people. A doctor is convinced that the killings are the evil workings of a reclusive odd baron who died many years ago.
1973 / 80min / R / color

HORROR OF BLACK WOOD CASTLE
She had seen her father for the last time ten years ago. Now young Jane Wilson (Karin Baal) inherits Blackwood Castle from her father. Jane believes that something is not right with the old, neglected ruins.
Heinz Drache, Alfred Vohrer
1968 / 92 min / PG / color

HOUSE OF THE DAMNED
An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhappily married lawyer and his wife.
Ron Foster, Maury Dexter
1963 / 62 min / PG / b&w

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, THE
Silent with music, classic about hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney, Wallace Worsley
1923 / 133 min / NR / b&w

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
1952 / 78 min / PG / b&w

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL
Tough action drama about ex-con nailed for robbery he didn't commit.
John Payne, Coleen Gray, Phil Karlson
1952 / 99 min / NR / b&w

KING OF THE ZOMBIES
During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm.
Dick Purcell, Jean Yarbrough
1941 / 67 min / PG / b&w

LAST TIME I SAW PARIS
Charles Wills returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Brooks
1954 / 116 min / NR / color

LEGEND OF BIG FOOT, THE
Startling new footage of the elusive creature of the North.
Randolph Rebane, Bill Rebane
1979 / 92 min / PG / color

LIANI, JUNGLE GODDESS
An expedition discovers blonde 16 year-old Liane, venerated by the native tribe in the African jungle.
Marion Michael, Edward Von Borsody
1956 / 88 min / G / color

LIFE OF JESUS, THE
Twelve-part series explores in detail the Life of Jesus, and the events leading to his Crucifixion and Resurrection.
1964, color

LIFE OF ST. PAUL, THE
12-part series about the Apostle St. Paul. Very rare.
1958, color

LITTLE PRINCESS
In Victorian England, little Sara Crewe's widowed father is sent to the Boer War. When he is reported killed, the evil head mistress at her boarding school turns Sara into a servant. She suffers with dignity until her shell-shocked father returns.
Shirley Temple, Walter Lang
1939 / 91 min / G / color

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Classic about nebbish working in a florist shop who develops intelligent plant that demands human meat. Hilarious.
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph
1960, bw

MAD MONSTER
The blood of a wolf is placed in the veins of a man, and creates a monster such as the world has never known.
Johnny Downs, Sam Newfield
1942 / 77 min / NR / b&w

McLINTOCK!
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights his wife, his daughter, and political land-grabbers.
John Wayne, Andrew V. McLaglin
1963 / 95 min / PG / color

MR. SCARFACE
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life, and dreams of one day being rich.
Jack Palance, Fernando Di Leo
1976 / 86 min / NR / color

MR. WONG DETECTIVE
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders.
Boris Karloff, William Nigh
1938 / 69 min / NR / b&w

MYSTERY OF MARIE CELESTE
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Bela Lugosi, Denison Clift
1935 / 80 min / PG / b&w

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
Duane Jones
1968 / 96 min / R / b&w

RATTLERS
A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.
Sam Chew, Jr., Elisabeth Chauvet, John McCauley
1976 / 82 min / PG / color

REAL BRUCE LEE, THE
An early Bruce Lee film found in the Chinese archives, showing the rise of the world's most famous martial artist.
Bruce Lee, Jim Markovic
1979 / 108 min / NR / color

ROCK AND ROLL REVIEW
A jazz and musical review, filmed at Harlem's Apollo Theatre.
Duke Ellington & Nat King Cole
1955 / 75 min / G / b&w

ROCKETSHIP
Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) is off to save the Earth from destruction by the mad Emperor Ming.
Charles B. Middleton, Frederick Stephani
1936 / 75 min / NR / b&w

SANTA AND THE 3 BEARS
Tale of a ranger (Hal Smith) who helps out a mother bear (Jean Vanderpyl) by playing Merry Old Nick to her two cubs. It takes place in Yogi Bear's realm, but "another part of the forest."
Hal Smith, Tony Benedict
1970 / 76 min / G / color

SHERLOCK HOLMES - SECRET WEAPON
Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want to keep from the Nazis.
Basil Rathbone, Roy William Neill
1943 / 68 min / NR / b&w

SKY BANDITS
Through a series of circumstances, a pair of Old West gunfighters end up as fighter pilots in WWI.
Scott McGinnis, Zoran Perisic
1986 / 105 min / PG / color

SMASH UP
Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway.
Susan Haywood
1948 / 70 min / PG / b&w

SON OF MONTE CRISTO
In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France.
Louis Hayward, Rowland V. Lee
1940 / 102 min / NR / b&w

STRANGER, THE
Government agent is assigned to the manhunt of a Nazi war criminal whom he finds in Connecticut.
Edward G Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
1946 / 127 min / NR / b&w

STUNTS
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Mark L. Lester
1977 / 89 min / PG / color

TARGET FOR AN ASSASSIN
An ailing African leader is admitted to a hospital. A male nurse at the hospital kidnaps him, but it turns out that things aren't exactly what they seem to be.
Anthony Quinn, John Phillip Law, Peter Collinson
1976 / 105 min / PG / color

TEENAGE DIVORCEE (JOSIE'S CASTLE)
Teenage divorcee rents a castle with friends and "party" it up. Sexploitation flick starring Star Trekker George Takkei.
Tom Fielding, Laurence E. Mascott
1972 / NR / color

TERROR, THE
Soldier from Napoleon's army is trapped in a castle by a mad baron. Early Nicholson.
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Roger Corman, Frances Ford Coppolla
1963 / 79 min / PG / color

TERROR AT BLACK FALLS
A town is terrorized by a vengeful maddened killer whose only law is kill or be killed.
Peter Mamakos, Richard C. Sarafian
1962 / 70 min / PG / b&w

TERROR BY NIGHT
Sherlock Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother.
Basil Rathbone, Roy William Neill
1946 / 60 min / NR / b&w

TIL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Richard Whorf
1946 / 132 min / NR / color

TOPPER RETURNS
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, a beautiful young woman who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
Roland Young, Roy Del Ruth
1941 / 88 min / NR / b&w

TREASURE OF JAMAICAN REEF
A suspense filled adventure-drama about the search for a treasure-laden Spanish Galleon that sank over 200 years ago.
Virginia L. Stone, Stephen Boyd
1976 / 96 min / PG / color

WETBACKS
An American on the run from the law must fight to clear his name in a small Mexican port.
Lloyd Bridges, Hank McCune
1956 / 89 min / NR / color

WOMEN IN GREEN
Sherlock Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect.
Basil Rathbone, Roy William Neill
1945 / 67 min / NR / b&w