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Jail Bait [VHS]

Jail Bait [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: John Avery (III) , Henry Bederski , Ted Brooks (III) , Conrad Brooks , Regina Claire
"How can a great doctor have such a jerk for a son?" asks Ed Wood in his cheap dime store crime thriller about a sneering delinquent whose mania for handguns leads to murder. "I never thought carrying a gun would lead to this," he burbles to his far-too-understanding father, but it's too late. His cold-hearted partner Timothy Farrell blackmails Daddy (who just happens to be the most gifted plastic surgeon in the world) into giving him a new face, but Dad has a trick up his sleeve. Wood regular Lyle Talbot headlines as the investigating police inspector, former Mr. America and future Hercules Steve Reeves takes his shirt off for no good reason to flex his physique to the camera, and Wood's real-life girlfriend and frequent costar Dolores Fuller wears angora as the doctor's nice-girl daughter. "Cheap? Does this look joint look cheap to you?" demands the crook's gold-digging girlfriend? In a word, yes. There's a pleasing grungy B-movie aesthetic to Wood's nighttime location shooting, giving those moments a film noir flavor, but the rest of the film takes place on bland, generic sets with the flat look of a sitcom. Actually, flat is the operative word for this lethargic thriller...
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Invisible Woman [VHS]

Invisible Woman [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Virginia Bruce , John Barrymore , John Howard , Charles Ruggles , Oskar Homolka
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Claude Rains may have meddled in things that Man must leave alone, but that doesn't mean Woman shouldn't get in on the act. Hence, The Invisible Woman, entry number two in Universal's series of '40s takes on the idea of making people too transparent for their own good. Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce) answers an ad in the paper to be an experimental subject for John Barrymore's dauntingly daffy Professor Gibbs, whose invisibility serum, if successful, promises to replenish the dwindling fortune of his benefactor, Dick Russell (John Howard)--if only he can get a human subject. Kitty's aim, however, is to wreak havoc on the draconian boss of her modeling job, the aptly named Mr. Growley (Charles Lane). Early on, she gazes hopefully into the distance, her face rhapsodized by a fog filter, as if to say: Oh, if only I were invisible! Then I could really kick some backside--which she does, literally. Complicating matters is gangster Blackie Cole (Oskar Homolka), who schemes to steal the professor's formula because he yearns to visit his native land again, where he can't show his face. Bright and entertaining, swift and silly, The Invisible Woman sports a first-class array ...
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Divorcee (1930) [VHS]

Divorcee (1930) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Norma Shearer , Chester Morris , Conrad Nagel , Robert Montgomery , Florence Eldridge
Director: Robert Z. Leonard

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Captured on Film - The True Story of Marion Davies [VHS]

Captured on Film - The True Story of Marion Davies [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Marion Davies , Conrad Nagel , Helen Jerome Eddy , Flora Finch , Margaret Seddon
Director: Hugh Munro Neely , Sidney Franklin
Tennessee Williams once wrote, "Marion Davies makes up for the rest of Hollywood," and this superb documentary demonstrates why the gifted actress was so beloved in high society. Executive produced by Hugh Hefner and narrated by Charlize Theron, Captured on Film corrects the fallacy that obscured Davies's achievements since the release of Citizen Kane in 1941. Orson Welles intended no harm with his masterpiece, but the film's portrayal of a publishing tycoon--loosely based on William Randolph Hearst and his lengthy affair with Davies--painted an unflattering portrait of a talentless, drunken mistress, and Davies was quite the opposite. Among many expert interviewees, film historian Kevin Brownlow observes that Davies was truly the first screwball comedian, and vintage film clips bear him out: watch Davies impersonate such film greats as Lillian Gish and Pola Negri, and you can see her comedic gift in full bloom, undiminished by time. Her 32-year devotion to Hearst (whose wife refused to divorce him) is accurately chronicled as sincere and meaningful, and the 1927 feature Quality Street offers a worthy showcase for Davies's versatile talents. (It was remade in 1...
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Kiss (1929) [VHS]

Kiss (1929) [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Greta Garbo , Conrad Nagel , Holmes Herbert , Anders Randolf , Lew Ayres
Director: Jacques Feyder

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One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Victor Mature , Carole Landis , Lon Chaney Jr. , Conrad Nagel , John Hubbard
Director: Hal Roach , Hal Roach Jr.

Jail Bait (1954) (Dir Sp) [VHS]

Jail Bait (1954) (Dir Sp) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: John Avery (III) , Henry Bederski , Ted Brooks (III) , Conrad Brooks , Regina Claire
"How can a great doctor have such a jerk for a son?" asks Ed Wood in his cheap dime store crime thriller about a sneering delinquent whose mania for handguns leads to murder. "I never thought carrying a gun would lead to this," he burbles to his far-too-understanding father, but it's too late. His cold-hearted partner Timothy Farrell blackmails Daddy (who just happens to be the most gifted plastic surgeon in the world) into giving him a new face, but Dad has a trick up his sleeve. Wood regular Lyle Talbot headlines as the investigating police inspector, former Mr. America and future Hercules Steve Reeves takes his shirt off for no good reason to flex his physique to the camera, and Wood's real-life girlfriend and frequent costar Dolores Fuller wears angora as the doctor's nice-girl daughter. "Cheap? Does this look joint look cheap to you?" demands the crook's gold-digging girlfriend? In a word, yes. There's a pleasing grungy B-movie aesthetic to Wood's nighttime location shooting, giving those moments a film noir flavor, but the rest of the film takes place on bland, generic sets with the flat look of a sitcom. Actually, flat is the operative word for this lethargic thriller...
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Ann Vickers [VHS]

Ann Vickers [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Irene Dunne , Walter Huston , Conrad Nagel , Bruce Cabot , Edna May Oliver
Director: John Cromwell

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Adventures of Rusty [VHS]

Adventures of Rusty [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Ted Donaldson , Margaret Lindsay , Conrad Nagel , Gloria Holden , Robert Williams
Director: Paul Burnford

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All That Heaven Allows [VHS]

All That Heaven Allows [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Jane Wyman , Rock Hudson , Agnes Moorehead , Conrad Nagel , Virginia Grey
Director: Douglas Sirk
Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman were so successful in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession that they reteamed for this, his first melodrama masterpiece. Young hunk Rock is a strapping son of mother nature, a gardener who woos middle-aged, middle class widow Wyman to the snooty disapproval of her conservative social circle and embarrassment of her self-centered children. Wyman discovers a new life with his open-armed friends and back-to-nature lifestyle, but struggles with life-changing decisions in the face of social pressure and vicious gossip. Living the Henry Thoreau dream, Rock inhabits his personal Walden in a rustic country cabin by a bubbling brook, a dream house lit by a giant picture window overlooking an idyllic countryside where deer pose just outside the window. Wyman's elegant but sterile suburban home transforms into a tomb when she sacrifices her love for the "good name" of her children, and the lonely widow sees her future in the pale, colorless reflection of her TV screen. But don't despair just yet: Sirk's heroines are dynamic and resourceful and no Sirk melodrama ends without a heart-tugging, over-the-top twist. German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who cha...
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