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My Brilliant Career
Gill(ian) Armstrong's breakthrough feature does a leapfrog over stories like Little Women, with heroines that prevail even when adhering to the Meek…
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Lilith
There's no movie quite like Robert Rossen's adaptation of the J.R. Salamanca book: mental illness and disturbance is neither simplified nor jammed…
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Three Coins in the Fountain
Ah, yes -- it's a hot day in 1954, so what could be better than a cool movie theater projecting beautiful Italian…
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Red Skelton Whistling Collection
One night in 1950 during an especially frenetic episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour, Jerry Lewis stepped away from Dean Martin to…
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Melvin and Howard
What does the American dream mean to you? Hardworking folk just want the job and the house and the family as promised…
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The Land Unknown
"Behind A Barrier Of Antarctic Ice...A Paradise Of Hidden Terrors!" Universal-International laid out a pretty penny to film this elaborate spin on…
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The Prisoner
Alec Guinness transfers an acting challenge from the stage to the screen, in this account of a Cardinal forced to knuckle under…
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Superman Serials – The Complete 1948 & 1950 Collection
Theseries starred Noel Neill as reporter Lois Lane, Tommy Bond (the smirking bully Butch of the Our Gang comedies) as eager beaver…
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The Heiress
William Wyler and a trio of fantastic actors make indelible movie history from a grim story by Henry James. How much of…
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A Face in the Crowd
Elia Kazan never stopped making great pictures, but much of his output after 1952 was politically defensive in nature. This powerful indictment…
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Tarantula
A plug for commercial exterminators everywhere, William Alland's titanic hairy spider provided plenty of chills for 1950s drive-ins, delivering exactly the naïve…
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The Reckless Moment
One of Max Ophüls' best American movies is this razor-sharp 'domestic film noir' with excellent acting and a premise that was probably…
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Frankenstein 1970
Color TVs, swimming pools and cars (especially cars). American culture of the 50s was fueled by desire for the newest status symbol…
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Bend of the River
The Anthony Mann - James Stewart crowd-pleaser now comes to Region A Blu-ray. With its bright Technicolor hues, it's the wagon train…
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Film Noir 9 Film Collection
Mill Creek and Kit Parker package nine mid-range Columbia features from the 1940s and 1950s, not all of them strictly noir but…
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The Whole Town’s Talking
Overworked, under-appreciated and ever optimistic, Arthur Jones’ humdrum existence takes a turn for the weird when he returns home to find a…
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On the Basis of Sex
With two major movie accolades in one year, Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the real Wonder Woman, bar none. Mimi Leder's…
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Diamonds of the Night
Director Jan Němec made his name during the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, and later saw his career cut short when…
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The Star Witness
Veteran William Wellman directed this pre-Code thriller that puts an average New York family at odds with a pack of ruthless gangsters.…
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The River’s Edge
Is it a film noir? This desert-set crime tale sees a rat (Ray Milland) escaping to Mexico with a bag of cash,…
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Vampyres
Dull vampire pix were once as ubiquitous as zombie pix are now, but when a good one came along we'd certainly take…
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Becky Sharp
Some show had to be the first -- back in 1935, this was the first movie to be produced entirely in full…
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Hope and Crosby – The Road Pictures
Between 1940 and 1962, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in seven “Road” pictures directed by such distinct talents as David Butler,…
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Underground (1928)
It's expressive silent filmmaking at its best -- Anthony Asquith vies with Alfred Hitchcock for most creative direction in silent-era England. Elissa…
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Manhattan goes nuts as thousands of Beatles fans arrive to celebrate the arrival of the Mop Tops from Liverpool. Experts at wringing…
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The Quiller Memorandum
Michael Anderson directs a classy slice of '60s spy-dom. In West Berlin, George Segal's Quiller struggles through a near- existential battle with…