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The Fearless Vampire Killers
Some movies just don't get the respect they deserve, which cues pushy reviewers to sing their praises. Forget everything you've read and…
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Ida Lupino Filmmaker Collection
More than a movie star: America's one female Hollywood director working in the 1950s receives a four-title boxed set well worth the…
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Holocaust
This four part, eight hour miniseries turns the fate of a family of German Jews into a sprawling drama that covers all…
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The Letter
It's the formidable Bette Davis once again, in yet another superior William Wyler picture. The Somerset Maugham play is a classy vehicle…
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Sesame Street 50 Years and Counting
An American institution turns fifty, and the disc release to mark the event is a very long (almost six hours) compendium of…
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My Favorite Year
Nat King Cole’s shimmering version of Stardust, Rockefeller Plaza surrounded by wide-brimmed hats and two-toned Buicks – the first three minutes of…
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Whirlpool (1949)
Otto Preminger and Gene Tierney's return to the noir fold plays better now than it once did -- the performances are impressive…
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The System (The Girl-Getters)
England's swingin' '60s were more than A Hard Day's Night, the Mersey Beat and slapstick in the street with Rita Tushingham. Michael…
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Gremlins 4K Ultra HD
The exclusive 4K Ultra-HD club welcomes a worthy new member, Joe Dante's evergreen horror comedy (and Christmas delight) about a cute furry…
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Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s – Volume 3
E. C. Segar’s Popeye made his newspaper debut in 1929 and his first animated appearance in 1933 with Max Fleischer’s Popeye the Sailor.…
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The Major and the Minor
This can't-lose comedy is ace writer-director Billy Wilder's first solo directing credit; he and writing partner Charles Brackett concoct a side-splitting crowdpleaser…
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The Tall Men
The legendary director Raoul Walsh hits The Big Trail one more time for a CinemaScope & stereophonic 'big star' cattle drive movie,…
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The Mind Benders
This strange picture goes forth in search of a genre, mainly because its theme -- the destruction of the human personality --…
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Local Hero
Beginning with the aptly named That Sinking Feeling in 1979, the Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth has produced comedies whose bittersweet humor barely concealed the hurt.…
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Touchez pas au grisbi
'Hands off the Loot!' Jacques Becker's crackling Paris crime tale is a time machine to an age of Parisian tough guys in…
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Jezebel
Which Bette Davis movies qualify for greatness? Her flawed character in this costume picture doesn't conquer all, and it's historically more…
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Cluny Brown
The last film completed by Ernst Lubitsch before his sudden death in 1947, Cluny Brown is the life-embracing work of a determined…
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Soldier of Fortune
Two-fisted Hong Kong racketeer Clark Gable goes out on a limb to recover Susan Hayward's husband, held prisoner in Red China. In…
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A Bucket of Blood
Roger Corman's 'sick sick sick!' horror comedy is still a delight, and Olive's Signature edition accompanies it with some excellent Elijah Drenner…
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Circus of Horrors
Four out of five psychologists agree that something rotten is alive and well between the sawdust and the high wire in the…
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90° in the Shade
Everyday Noir in Prague: a one-of-a-kind Czech/Brit coproduction teams fine British actors (Anne Heywood, James Booth, Sir Donald Wolfit) with the home-grown…
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Noir Archive 9-Film Collection Volume 3
Mill Creek and Kit Parker have raided the Columbia vault once again in search of Noir Gold from the 'fifties. Their selection…
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Who Saw Her Die?
Giallos run hot and cold, but this one has plenty to recommend it -- a serious outlook, a focus on elements other…
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Fists in the Pocket
The split-personality of world cinema was never more evident than in 1965 when Fists in the Pockets and Repulsion debuted alongside The Sound of Music…
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Dinosaurus!
Were movie folk blind in 1960? We kids were so dino- crazy, ANY movie about dinosaurs would have cleaned up at the…
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Magnificent Obsession
One of the strangest 'uplifting moral tales' of the 1950s was a huge hit, and launched Rock Hudson as a major star.…