John Carradine
Author
Language
English
Description
John Carradine narrates this documentary on early Salem, Massachusetts, once the most prominent seaport in the New World, it was also home to American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. In exploring Salem and the surrounding culture Hawthorne penned his greatest novel, "The Scarlet Letter." Utilizing archival footage of Salem, Massachusetts this short documentary covers a slice of time.
2) Bluebeard
Author
Language
English
Description
A killer of young women, dubbed Bluebeard, is loose in Paris. Lucille and her friends meet Gaston a puppeteer. played by John Carradine. He invites them to a show the next night; they go. Afterwards, he walks with Lucille; she offers to make costumes for his next show, he accepts, and feelings develop that may lead to love. She suspects he has a tragic past... John Carradine's favorite role.
Series
Studio classic ; 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
6) Stagecoach
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Nine travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 19th century, the illegitimate son of a British aristocrat, Benjamin Blake, is forced into servitude by a wicked uncle. As a rebellious young man, Benjamin falls for a beautiful aristocrat and is beaten as punishment. Fleeing his tyrannical uncle, Benjamin stows away on a ship and lands on an idyllic South Pacific island. There he romances an exotic native beauty and earns a fortune diving for pearls with a fellow shipmate. But Benjamin's...
8) The Mummy
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.
10) Johnny Guitar
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Joan Crawford is a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma (Mercedes Cambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Sterling Hayden is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Crawford and has been offered a job in her saloon.
11) The monster club
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"A writer of horror stories is invited to a 'monster club' by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs. In the end, it's recognized he's the greatest monster of all"--Summary written by Homme A. Pies
12) Shock waves
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers--un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the allied forces--and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived.
13) Blood and sand
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Juan is the naïve son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to see his own happiness and success crumble.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Casablanca express: "It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated. Winston Churchill is kidnapped by Nazi paratroopers. Now Al Cooper must rescue him"--Container.
Cold war killers: "When a plane carrying extremely valuable cargo crashed into a lake, it is still sought after twenty-seven years later. The contents of the plane are not only of interest to Russian Intelligence but of England's defense staff as well....
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
My name is nobody (116 min., 1973): A brash young gunslinger tries to convince a famous, but retired gunfighter to enter a shoot-out. Cain's cutthroats (89 min., 1971): An ex-confederate army captain's family is slain by a gang and he is left for dead. He's nursed back to health by a preacher who then joins Cain in his search for vengeance.
Series
Language
English
Description
To escape the edict that condemed all first-born Hebrew males, Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cheyenne Bodie rides again in more of the straightforward cowboy adventures that made the Cheyenne series. A loner in the lawless West brings a sense of justice to his heroics in these 19 wide-ranging, open-range episodes involving the powerful (President Grant is the target of kidnappers), the weak (an orphaned infant), rustlers, thieves, killers, connivers and Chief Sitting Bull.
