Featured Drama Releases
"Dangerous
Dames" DVD Includes
The
Strange Love Of Martha Ivers Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin A predatory female (Stanwyck) plots to rid herself of a meek husband (Douglas) and silence a former lover (Heflin) who may have witnessed the “untimely” death of her mean-spirited, wealthy stepmother. (1 hr 56 min, B&W)
Too Late For Tears
: Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy Pennies from heaven quickly turn to blood money when a married couple (Scott, Kennedy) mistakenly receives a satchel of stolen cash and the faithless wife schemes to keep the loot for herself! (1 hr 39 min, B&W)
Lady Of Burlesque
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea A striptease artist (Stanwyck) is up to her neck in trouble when two fellow dancers are found strangled by their own g-strings and she becomes the prime suspect! (1 hr 31 min, B&W)
Blonde Ice
Cast: Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige A blonde bombshell (Brooks) rises from humble beginnings to become a successful society columnist by romancing wealthy men who all die under mysterious circumstances. One of the most deadly femme fatales in the history of film noir! (1 hr 13 min, B&W)
A Life At Stake
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes An enterprising businesswoman (Lansbury) has big plans for an out-of-work architect (Andes)—a lucrative job and an illicit love affair. Unfortunately for him, her plans also include murder! (1 hr 18 min, B&W)
Please Murder Me
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr A sultry femme fatale (Lansbury) accused of killing her husband tricks a love-smitten attorney (Burr, B&W) into acquitting her. But when the lawyer learns he’s been duped, he sets an ingenious trap to bring the murderess to justice. (1 hr 18 min, B&W)
"Crime
Busters" DVD Includes
Blood On The Sun
Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney
In pre-WWII Tokyo, an American newspaper
editor (Cagney) and a beautiful spy (Sidney)
uncover a Japanese plot for world domination!
(1 hr 36 min, B&W)
He Walked By Night
Cast: Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady,
Jack Webb, Reed Hadley
A cunning psychopath (Basehart) is the subject
of the greatest manhunt in the history of the
LAPD! This violent crime noir inspired co-star
Jack Webb to create the iconic detective series
Dragnet. (1 hr 19 min, B&W)
Port Of New York
Cast: Yul Brynner, Scott Brady, Richard Rober,
Neville Brand
Two narcotics agents (Brady, Rober) walk a
deadly plank when they infiltrate the crew of a
ruthless gentleman gangster (Brynner) who runs
a yacht club as a front for his heroin smuggling
operation! (1 hr 22 min, B&W)
D.O.A.
Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Beverly Garland,
Neville Brand
In this ultra-noir masterpiece, a vacationing
accountant (O’Brien) desperately retraces the
last 24 hours of his life to discover his own
murderer—who slipped him a deadly slow-acting
poison! (1 hr 23 min, B&W)
The Hitch-Hiker
Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William
Talman
Two buddies (O’Brien, Lovejoy) on a fishing
trip to Mexico take a detour through hell when
a hitchhiker (Talman) turns out to be a coldblooded
serial killer! (1 hr 11 min, B&W)
C-MAN
Cast: Dean Jagger, John Carradine
A US customs agent (Jagger) investigates the
death of his partner and becomes entangled in
a complex maze of jewel smuggling, deceit, and
murder! (1 hr 15 min, B&W)
"Hollywood
Tough Guys" DVD
Includes
They Made Me A Criminal
Cast: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Claude Rains
Framed for murder, a boxer (Garfield) hides out
on a work farm staffed by juvenile delinquents
(The Dead End Kids) and a beautiful country girl.
But his sanctuary is threatened when he enters the
ring for a charity match. (1 hr 32 min, B&W)
Borderline
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor,
Raymond Burr
Two Americans (MacMurray, Trevor) embroiled
in a drug-smuggling ring run by a drug czar (Burr)
each suspect the other—not realizing they are both
undercover agents! (1 hr 28 min, B&W)
Shock
Cast: Vincent Price, Anabel Shaw, Lynn Bari
After witnessing a brutal murder, the fragile wife
(Shaw) of a P.O.W. is committed to a sanitarium
run by the psychiatrist (Price) who just happens
to be the killer! (1 hr 10 min, B&W)
The Man Who Cheated Himself
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt
When a two-timing socialite (Wyatt) shoots her
husband to death, she and her lover, a homicide
Lieutenant (Cobb), conspire to cover up the
crime. The crooked cop is assigned the case, but
so is his younger brother (Dall), an eager detective
out to uncover the truth! (1 hr 21 min, B&W)
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt
When a two-timing socialite (Wyatt) shoots her
husband to death, she and her lover, a homicide
Lieutenant (Cobb), conspire to cover up the
crime. The crooked cop is assigned the case, but
so is his younger brother (Dall), an eager detective
out to uncover the truth! (1 hr 21 min, B&W)
The Second Woman
Cast: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton
An architect (Young) is caught in a labyrinth
of danger after his fiancée dies in a mysterious
car accident the night before their wedding. A
beautiful young woman (Drake) is drawn into
his strange dark world, but fears he may be more
dangerous than he seems! (1 hr 31 min, B&W)
The Great Flamarion
Cast: Erich Von Stroheim, Dan Duryea
An arrogant vaudeville sharpshooter (Stroheim)
falls under the spell of his promiscuous assistant
who tricks him into “accidentally” killing her
husband (Duryea). When the double-dealing vixen
runs off as soon as the dirty deed is done, the
marksman vows to get even! (1 hr 18 min, B&W)