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Smooth as Silk
A slick lawyer attempts to get away with murder in Smooth as Silk , a fast-paced film noir thriller starring Kent Taylor and Virginia Grey. When Paula Marlowe (Grey) learns boyfriend Mark Fenton (Taylor) represents the nephew of theatrical producer Stephen Elliott, the ambitious actress two-times the attorney and begins seeing his client so she can score a role in his uncle's play. Successfully landing a part, Paula quickly trades up to Stephen (John Litel), who announces their engagement at a...
Ma & Pa Kettle Double Feature (Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair / Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation)
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair The Kettles' eldest daughter Rosie (Lori Nelson) wants to go to college, and Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) are at their wits' end trying to raise the money. They turn their attention to the County Fair where Ma is sure she can win the jam and bread-making contests, while Pa sets his sights on the trotting race. With Rosie's future hanging in the balance, there are plenty of surprises along the way, but things have a ridiculous, though supremely...
Double Crossbones
Donald O’Connor stars as a bumbling shopkeeper’s apprentice who finds his true calling on the South Seas in the comedy adventure Double Crossbones . When Davey Crandall (O’Connor) and his coworker, Tom Botts (Will Geer), are falsely accused of dealing in stolen treasure, they try to find refuge onboard Captain Ben Wickett’s ship. Through a series of hilarious mishaps, Davey soon finds himself the supposed Captain and is embraced by the ruthless pirate community. Can this former man of peace...
The Last Outpost
In The Last Outpost (1935), Cary Grant plays Michael Andrews, a British prisoner of war is who rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson (Claude Rains). As the two men make their way to safety across treacherous mountain terrain, Andrews suspects Stevenson of being an enemy spy and is wounded during a confrontation with him. As he recuperates in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, Andrews falls in love with nurse Rosemary Haydon (Gertrude Michael), not realizing she is the...
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello, as railroad baggage clerks, receive a strange shipment - the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. But this deadly duo is still very much alive. So when the shipment arrives at the House of Horrors, the Monsters are not in their crates but have disappeared to a secret hideaway island. Blamed for the disappearance, Abbott and Costello follow their trail to the island, where not only do they meet up with Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Glenn Strange), but...
Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with four swashbuckling films in the Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection ! Join unforgettable shipmates Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Yvonne DeCarlo and Donald O'Connor as they take to the high seas in search of boundless excitement and glorious treasure. Including the classic favorites Against All Flags, Buccaneer's Girl, Yankee Buccaneer and Double Crossbones , this is one must-own collection that will have you wanting to set sail...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection
Comedy meets horror when the screen's funniest duo, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, encounter Universal's classic monsters in the Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection . In 1948, Universal Pictures paired its most popular comedy team with its hugely successful monsters launching an entirely new genre. These four outrageously funny films find Bud and Lou meeting Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Mummy. Co-starring horror legends Bela...
Ma & Pa Kettle Complete Comedy Collection
Get ready for some good old-fashioned fun with the Kettle family in the Ma & Pa Kettle Complete Comedy Collection featuring all 10 of their classic films. After their scene-stealing roles in The Egg and I , Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) earned their own starring turn and a wildly popular franchise was born. The hillbilly duo have their hands full with a ramshackle farm and a brood of rambunctious children. When the future comes a-callin' in the form of modern houses,...
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 2
By popular demand, the legendary Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are back in eight brand-new-to-DVD comedy classics! Still one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business, their films continue to generate new legions of fans around the world. Now some of their greatest gags and most stellar skits, including the complete version of their signature routine "Who's on First?", are available in this side-splitting collection. It's the boys at their very best and illustrates why Bud and...
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 3
Presenting a whole new collection of eight DVD screen classics starring the most popular comedy team of all time, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Having been stars of vaudeville and radio, the duo set out to dazzle audiences on the silver screen in nearly 40 feature films. In this sensational set, the boys meet up with a merry assortment of famous screen monsters and find themselves heading for hilarious adventures down Mexico way, over freezing tundras and scorching deserts, and even out into...