Set in America during the Great Depression, "Emperor of the North" is the story of a violent battle of wills between a sadistic train guard, Shack, (Ernest Borgnine) who has vowed no vagrant will ride his tram and survive, and a single-minded drifter. Number 1, (Lee Marvin) who is determined to make a lie of the boast. Bound together by their mutual loathing, Shack and Number 1 hurtle together across America aboard the steam train, locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, as each seeks to secure their position in local legend by destroying the other.
When a good cop (Peter Weller) gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "RoboCop". Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, RoboCop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new hardened exterior, RoboCop is tormented by scraps of memories of his former life, and relives vivid nightmares of his own death at the hands of the vicious killers. Now he is out to seek more than justice...he wants revenge!
Ramu (Jon Hall) and his fiancee Tollea (Maria Montez) are due to be married, but before the ceremony can begin Tollea is kidnapped and forced against her will to return to the island of her ancestors. Her evil sister Naja (Maria Montez) rules her subjects with an iron will, helped by the poisonous venom of the ceremonial cobra. Ramu and his friend Kado (Sabu) set out to rescue Tollea and land on the forbidden island where all strangers are killed. As the island's volcano begins to erupt the evil Naja decides to sacrifice some of her subjects and the two strangers in order to placate the angry volcano god. But when Naja learns that her prisoner Ramu is engaged to her hated sister, she decides to have him for herself and eliminate her sister instead...
This film could be called the last gangster movie. Cagney plays Ralph Cotter a violent jail breaker. Luther Adler shines as a crooked lawyer. The elements arc all here in this long lost masterpiece. Seldom seen, this film is the swansong of all the gangster movies that came out of Hollywood. The doomed actress Barbara Pay ton plays Holiday Carlton supported by Hollywood stalwarts Ward Bond, William Frawley, Barton Maclaine and Kenneth Tobey. This film brings together elements of noir and the violence of the criminal and gangster in a unique style and originality. An outstanding performance from Cagney who is the master of this type of film role and he does not disappoint in this rare performance, an absolute classic of it's kind.
Die, Monster, Die! (1965)Colour Out of Space / House at the End of the World / The Monster in the House at the End of the World
When American student Stephen Reinhart (Nick Adams) arrives in the English village of Arkham to visit his fiancé Susan Witley (Suzan Farmer), he has no idea of the horrors awaiting within. Invited by Susan's mysteriously ill mother (Freda Jackson), Stephen is greeted acrimoniously by Susan's father, Nahum (Boris Karloff), who makes it clear this visit is an unwelcome intrusion to the ornately furnished halls of the Witley estate, for Nahum is hiding a dangerous secret. A meteorite has crash landed in the gardens, scorching the earth and emitting a mutating radiation that has transformed the greenhouse plants to pulsating giants, with horrifying and sickening side effects to the residents. Based on H.P Lovecraft's story 'The Colour Out of Space', 'Die, Monster Die!' is a British horror contaminated with mystery, shock and gore.
Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that feat manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, the Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes the Tingler from a deaf mute who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok in a crowded movie theater. Terror is loose, but can it be stopped?
Movie producer Max Poulton (Stewart Granger) is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini (Gianna Maria Canale), the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Gina and Max's current off again status is due to Max vowing to make a go of his marriage to his loving wife, Carol Poulton (Donna Reed), with who he has had a sometimes strained relationship. Gina and Max's relationship moves into another realm when she threatens to tell Carol of the the affair. That's why Max is hesitant to divulge the full nature of his relationship to Gina when she is found murdered. He is certain that the murderer is a man named Carliss (George Sanders), who introduced himself to Max earlier as being with Scotland Yard, he assisting the local French authorities in the investigation into Gina's murder, this before Gina was actually murdered. Carliss seemingly is trying to frame Max for the murder. Max understands more when he learns who Carliss is. Despite the authorities being after him, Max does whatever he can both to clear his name and protect Carol, who he believes is in danger herself.
Jack Terri (John Travolta) is a talented audio technician who makes his living by recording unique sounds for horror movies. But when he accidentally tapes an automobile crash that kills a presidential candidate and injures his young mistress, Sally (Nancy Allen), Jack is hurled into a mystery far more terrifying than any of his films! Soon he and Sally must fight to stay alive as they uncover an explosive political conspiracy that will send shockwaves to the highest levels of government.
San Francisco - Crime novelist Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest) is investigating the mysterious disappearance of beautiful Chinese cabaret actress Crystal Ling (Lydia Lei). Hammett shortly realises that he's not the only one looking for her and that his investigation could compromise local figures linked to pornography traffic.
Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix
The Power of the Whistler (1945)
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
Voice of the Whistler (1945)
The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair (Richard Dix), with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation. Heading for the Great Lakes, he becomes ill in the cab operated by Ernie Sparrow (Rhys Williams) an is taken to a linic where he meets nurse Joan Martin (Lynn Merrick), who is engaged to intern Fred Graham (James Cardwell). Doctors now tell him he has only a few months to live and advise him to go to Maine (where, evidently, it will seem longer). He asks Joan to marry him, promising to leave her his fortune. She, no dummy, accepts but hard-loser Fred doesn't like it even though she says she is doing it for him. After six months of living in a lighthouse with only Joan and Sparrow, whom he has hired as his aide, Sinclaie seemingly regains his health and has really fallen in love with Joan. She tells him she can no longer tolerate the loneliness just as Fred arrives for a visit, and John invites him to stay. In a chess game, John facetiously outlines to Fred how he would murder him if he chose to. Fred, decides to beat him to the punch and enters his bedroom that night and attempts to kill John with a poker. The figure in the bed turns out to be a dummy and John, who has been hiding, clubs Fred to death. He tries to throw the body from the bedroom window but it won't open and, planning to return and force it open later, he carries the body to the rocks and then hits Fred's head with a stone. Returning to the lighthouse, John meets Sparrow and tells him that Fred fell from a window but Sparrow knows all the windows have been nailed shut. And Joan, who saw John carry the body out, has summoned the police.
After shaking the world with his hugely controversial epic 'The Birth of a Nation', pioneer filmmaker D. W. Griffith spared no expense in putting together his next project: a powerful examination of intolerance as it has persisted throughout civilisation, set across four parallel storylines that span 2500 years. There is the Babylonian story, depicting nothing less than the fall of Babylon; the Judean story, which revolves around the crucifixion of Christ; the French story, which presents the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in all its horror; and a modern American story of class struggle, crime, and the plight of life in the early 20th century set within urban slums and the prison system. Starring such luminaries as Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge, and Miriam Cooper, who share screentime with an enormous main cast and some 3,000 extras, Griffith's film - the most expensive motion picture ever produced at the time - went on to become a critical success whose influence has only grown in the decades since.
Leo (Albert Finney), a likeable Irish gangster boss, rules an Eastern city along with Tom (Gabriel Byrne), his trusted lieutenant and counsellor. But just as their authority is challenged by an Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman Leo and Tom also fall for the same woman (Marcia Gay Harden). Tom, caught in the jaws of a gangland power struggle, walks a deadly tightrope as he tries to control and manipulate its violent outcome.
It's the story of Jason (Todd Armstrong), a fearless sailor and explorer, who returns to the kingdom of Thessaly after a 20-year voyage to make his rightful claim to the throne. But to do so, Jason must first find the magical Golden Fleece. He selects a crew and with the help of Hera, Queen of the Gods, sets sail in search of the Fleece - Jason and his crew must overcome incredible obstacles including a 100-foot bronze giant, the venomous Hydra - a huge creature with the heads of seven snakes - and a spectacular battle with an army of skeletons.
In one of his most chilling performances, Richard Widmark stars as Stiles, an up-and-coming crime boss trying to stake his claim in the criminal underworld. The FBI files are filled with lurid crime stories. One case in particular baffles FBI Inspector Briggs. It involves the murders of a housewife and a bank guard. Both were killed by the same gun, yet there isn't any connection between the victims. Determined to get to the bottom of the crime, Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of the notorious Stiles gang. Everything goes according to plan, until an informant inside the police department tips off Stiles. Now the enraged crime boss targets the agent for murder.
Philip Hannon (Van Johnson) is a playwright, newly relocated from New York to London. Drowning his sorrows in a pub one night, Philip is disturbed to overhear a crime being plotted. The police don't believe his story and so, aided by his faithful batman Bob (Cecil Parker) and ex-fiance Jean (Vera Miles), Philip resolves to stop the villains. But it will not be easy: Philip, you see, is blind...
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