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Home- July 17, 2019
Joseph: King of Dreams Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2000 | 75 min | Not rated | Jan 22, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Joseph, his father's favorite son, is sold into slavery by his jealous half-brothers. After years of struggle, Joseph rises to be the Pharaoh's trusted adviser when his gift for interpreting dreams pays dividends.
Animation / Family / Musical
The Parent Trap Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1998 | 128 min | Rated PG | Apr 24, 2018 | Martin Liebman
When Hallie Parker and Annie James meet at summer camp, they think they have nothing in common -- only to discover that they're identical twins. Soon, they're up to their freckles in a scheme to switch places and get their parents back together.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance
Tony Northrup's Beginning Photography Videos: Composition, Lighting, Camera Settings, & Picture Problem Solving Blu-ray Movie
Mason Press | 2013 | 430 min | Not rated | Dec 01, 2013 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Other
Détective Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 95 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
In an old Parisian hotel populated with extraordinary characters, the house detective is still trying to solve a murder from years before.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me Blu-ray Movie
The Ted Bundy Story / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2003 | 90 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2019 | Martin Liebman
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.
Biography / Crime / Drama
- July 16, 2019
The Intruder Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2018 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 30, 2019 | Martin Liebman
A psychological thriller about a young married couple who buys a beautiful Napa Valley house on several acres of land only to find that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Do the Right Thing Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1989 | 120 min | Rated R | Jul 23, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Comedy / Drama
The Tamarind Seed Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1974 | 119 min | Rated PG | Jun 25, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
Drama / Romance
Noir Archive Volume 2: 1954-1956 Blu-ray Movie
9-Film Collection | Cell 2455, Death Row / Rumble on the Docks / The Crooked Web / Footsteps in the Fog / 5 Against the House / The Night Holds Terror / New Orleans Uncensored / Bait / Spin a Dark Web
Kit Parker Films | 1954-1956 | 9 Movies | 907 min | Not rated | Jul 16, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Stalwart "noir" directors and casts highlight nine more hard to find features: "Bait" (1954) dir/Hugo Haas cst/Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar; "The Crooked Web" (1955) dir/Nathan Juran cst/Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning; "The Night Holds Terror" (1955) dir/Andrew Stone cst/Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes, David Cross; "Footsteps in the Fog" (1955) dir/Arthur Lubin cst/Bill Travers, Ronald Squire, Finlay Currie, Belinda Lee; "Cell 2455, Death Row" (1955) dir/Fred F. Sears cst/William Campbell, Robert Campbell, Marian Carr; "5 Against the House" (1955) dir/Phil Karlson cst/Alvy Moore, William Conrad, Kerwin Mathews; "New Orleans Uncensored" (1955) dir/William Castle cst/Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton; "Spin a Dark Web" (1955) dir/Vernon Sewell cst/Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson, Martin Benson; "Rumble on the Docks" (1956) dir/Fred F. Sears cst/Laurie Carrol, James Darren, Michael Granger.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Heist
Bait Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1954 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Middle-aged Marko (Haas) is searching for a lost gold mine for nearly 20 years. To share expenses for a prospecting expedition he teams up with bright young Ray Brighton (Agar). When they find the mine Marko decides he doesn't want to share with his partner and plans to murder him. He figures that after the two of them spend the winter together with Marko's trashy young wife (Moore) in a shack far from civilization, he will sooner or later catch them in adultery, and he can use the "unwritten law" to kill Brighton and thus escape punishment from the law. But the plan backfires.
Drama
The Crooked Web Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Stan, a drive-in owner with a gambling problem, falls for Joanie, a carhop working at his restaurant. When Joanie’s brother, Frank, comes into town, he offers Stan a sweet deal — the chance to get a cut of $200,000 worth of gold hidden in Germany. What Stan doesn’t know is that Joanie and Frank are undercover cops trying to nail him for a murder he may have committed during the war.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Cell 2455, Death Row Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A seriously disturbed misfit, Whit Whittier (William Campbell) begins a life of crime, culminating in sexual assault as the "Lover's Lane Bandit." Condemned to the gas chamber at San Quentin, Whit spends six years fighting his sentence, gradually winning the support and sometimes the respect of various legal experts.
Biography / Crime / Drama
5 Against the House Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Four college students visiting Reno witness a failed casino robbery. As they leave, a cop tells them that there is no way to rob a casino. One of the students decides to prove the cop wrong as a goof, planning to return the money in the end. But another student, a war veteran with a head injury, has other ideas about what to do with the cash.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Heist
The Night Holds Terror Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A tense film noir based on a true story, with Kelly as a middle-class family man returning to his desert home after a business trip into LA. Hitch-hikers hold the man and his family when they discover he has a wealthy father. Police uncover their plan and come to the rescue.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 75 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Footsteps in the Fog Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In early 1900's England, a beautiful maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers he poisoned his wife to death.
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
Spin a Dark Web Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1956 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
British crime melodrama starring Domergue as the sister of a powerful London mobster who slowly seduces her lover, Patterson, into a life of crime. He goes along reluctantly, but when things turn homicidal he tries to back out. She won't let him.
Crime / Drama
Rumble on the Docks Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1956 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Jimmy Smigelski (James Darren) sides off against his own father when one of the local longshoreman’s protection racket’s goons takes him under his wing. Jimmy’s association with the gang brings him into fast company, and soon, Jimmy’s family, friends and girlfriend are afraid that Jimmy will go too far, and even become an accessory to murder.
Crime / Drama
The Erlprince Blu-ray Movie
Królewicz Olch
Altered Innocence | 2016 | 102 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
The tale of an extraordinarily gifted young man and his ambitious and wondrous mother.
Drama / Foreign
The Last American Hero Blu-ray Movie
Der letzte Held Amerikas
Explosive Media | 1973 | 95 min | Rated FSK-16 | Mar 14, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The true-life success story of stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a child in North Carolina, Jackson stays one step ahead of reform school until his father is thrown in prison for moonshining. Seeing the error of his ways, Jackson begins to concentrate his driving skills, hoping to become a professional stock car racer to raise money to get his father released from jail. Jackson rises from the ranks into the highest rung of professional stock car racing, but Jackson finds his independent nature is compromised by the corporate realities of the professional sports world.
Action / Drama / Sport