Frank Lovejoy
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
Language
English
Description
Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), THE HITCH-HIKER is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip decide to pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a killer. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by psychopathic serial killer.
4) Julie
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Has beautiful Julie Benton married a murderer, an insanely jealous man who killed her first husband in hopes of marrying her? When Julie learns the answer is yes, she escapes him in a desperate attempt to forge a new life, taking a job as a stewardess. But her husband has no intention of letting Julie go, ever.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Winter, 1943. The German army has halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful ..."--IMDb website.
7) House of wax
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the wicked performance that crowned the actor the movie's master of the macabre. A renowned wax sculptor plunged into madness when an arsonist destroys his life's work. Unable to use his flame-scarred hands, he devises a new and murderous way of restocking his House of Wax.
10) The hitch-hiker
Series
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Emmett Myers, a killer on the run from the police, gets picked up by two men on their way to a weekend fishing trip. The depraved hitchhiker Myers is determined to make his victims suffer due to his childhood abuse and begins a cat and mouse game with the duo that turns into a tense hunt for survival in the heat of southern California.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on a play by Arthur Laurents, it recounts the story of a young black soldier who has suffered a nervous breakdown and developed psychosomatic paralysis. Crippled by rage and trauma, his condition was induced by experiences encountered during a reconnaissance mission combined with a lifetime of racial discrimination. He may be able to walk again, but only if he can overcome his anger and frustrations.
12) House of wax
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men begin to fight. The sculptor is knocked out and left to 'perish' amongst the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. However, the opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Videos
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at rekindling any sparks are thwarted by the arrival of another rival for her affections and the showing of her controversial film which could put her former beau's job in jeopardy"--IMDb.
14) Breakthrough
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story of the brave young men whom D-Day will put to the test.
16) Beachhead
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Four marines embark on a hazardous island mission to verify reports about a secret Japanese minefield.
17) The Americano
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
American cowboy Sam Dent travels to South America with a shipment of prize Brahma bulls for a wealthy Brazilian rancher. Dent soon learns the rancher has been killed. He then hires a bandit chaser to guide him to the ranch. After being robbed he is forced to remain in Brazil and learn the ways of the South American ranchero.
Publisher
Critic's Choice
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The hitch-hiker: While on their way to a fishing trip, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer.
Detour: After he is picked up while hitchhiking, Al Roberts' samaritan dies of a heart attack. Afraid of being accused of the murder, he ditches the body, then takes the man's clothes, wallet, and car.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
City of shadows: Big Tim Channing is a small-time racketeer who makes a living supplying old, out-of-date slot machines to businesses. He strikes up a prosperous partnership with newsboy Dan Mason when the precocious kid shows him how to corner the slot-machine racket and, at the same time, put his crooked competitors out of the running. But when Dan grows up and graduates from law school, it thrusts old Tim into a compromising position.
Crashout:...