Dwire, Earl

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - The Complete Saturday Morning Serial

A strange purple dust is killing off the population of Earth, leaving a telltale purple smudge on the foreheads of its victims! Together, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov trace the plague to the planet Mongo and archfiend Ming the Merciless! There's hope for the Earth, though, when the intrepid team discovers Polarite, the antidote to the pandemic, found only in the barren, cold reaches of Frigia. This collection of Flash Gordon serials finds Buster Crabbe teamed up with a different Dale Arden, but facing the usual array of strange creatures and spellbinding thrills. It's worth noting that Mongo looks a lot like Sherwood Forest, with its natives toting bows and arrows and wearing Robin Hood outfits. These installments of the series are unusually inventive, such as the scenes when Flash and company travel to the frozen wastelands of Frigia. The encounters with the Rock People and the "walking bombs" are also rather bizarre, even by today's standards. There's even a topical note to the story line, with a madman bent on genocide; the real-life people of Earth would face just such a threat a few short years later. It's the slam-bang pace and two-fisted action of Flash Gordon's adventures that kept audiences spellbound in the '30s, though, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe certainly gave them their money's worth. --Jerry Renshaw

King of the Pecos

Playboy Presents Rita (Documentary with Trouble in Texas Bonus Disc)

Tarzan and The Green Goddess

Historic feature version of the serial ""The New Adventures of Tarzan"".

Flash Gordon - The Peril from Planet Mongo

A strange purple dust is killing off the population of Earth, leaving a telltale purple smudge on the foreheads of its victims! Together, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov trace the plague to the planet Mongo and archfiend Ming the Merciless! There's hope for the Earth, though, when the intrepid team discovers Polarite, the antidote to the pandemic, found only in the barren, cold reaches of Frigia. This collection of Flash Gordon serials finds Buster Crabbe teamed up with a different Dale Arden, but facing the usual array of strange creatures and spellbinding thrills. It's worth noting that Mongo looks a lot like Sherwood Forest, with its natives toting bows and arrows and wearing Robin Hood outfits. These installments of the series are unusually inventive, such as the scenes when Flash and company travel to the frozen wastelands of Frigia. The encounters with the Rock People and the "walking bombs" are also rather bizarre, even by today's standards. There's even a topical note to the story line, with a madman bent on genocide; the real-life people of Earth would face just such a threat a few short years later. It's the slam-bang pace and two-fisted action of Flash Gordon's adventures that kept audiences spellbound in the '30s, though, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe certainly gave them their money's worth. --Jerry Renshaw

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to Mongo on a special mission at the request of Barin, their friend from Arboria. His kingdom is being threatened by Emperor Ming's heat projectiles. Once on Mongo, Flash is able to extinguish the heat projectiles by using one of Dr. Zarkov's contra-thermal units. But Ming the Merciless has plans far more devastating for Arboria and even threatens to send a rocketship full of explosives to Earth. Soon Flash is faced with trying to save both Arboria and Earth! It looks like it's curtains for all decent humans everywhere. Climb aboard and join Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkov in the struggle to preserve justice and freedom in our universe! This is a feature-length edited version of Chapters 7-12 of the 1940 serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe."

Assassin of Youth

Atlantic Flight

Two pilots push their Lockheed Electra to the limit on a transatlantic mercy flight through crashing lightning and blinding rain. Back in America, their good friend lies dying, the victim of a crash during a sabotaged air race. In their cargo hold is a pr

The Three Mesquiteers: Outlaws of Sonora

The Rogue's Tavern

John Wayne, Set 2: Lawless Frontier/Riders of Destiny

THE LAWLESS FRONTIER & RIDERS OF DESTINY DOUBLE FEATURE The Duke Hits the Trail After a Bogus Bandito John Tobin (John Wayne) hits the trail after Pandro Zanti (Earl Dwire), a half-white, half-Apache Indian outlaw posing as a Mexican, who is wanted for $5,000--dead or alive--for cattle rustling and murder. John rescues Ruby (Sheila Terry, Wayne's co-star in Haunted Gold and `Neath Arizona Skies) and her grizzled grandfather, a prospector named Dusty (George "Gabby" Hayes), from the bogus bandito. But when Sheriff Luke Williams (Jack Rockwell) handcuffs him for a crime he didn't commit, accusing John of being in cahoots with Zanti, the Duke must clear his name by bringing the gang to justice. Written and directed by Robert N. Bradbury (Riders of Destiny, The Star Packer), this action-packed Western features Buffalo Bill, Jr., famed stuntman Yakima Canutt, and a heap of hard-riding heroics. A PAUL MALVERN Production Directed by R.N. BRADBURY Story and Screenplay by R.N. BRADBURY Photography by ARCHIE STOUT Art Director E.R. HICKSON Recorded by RALPH SHUGART Edited by CHARLES R. HUNT Cast JOHN WAYNE SHEILA TERRY * JACK ROCKWELL * GEORGE "GABBY" HAYES BUFFALO BILL, Jr. * YAKIMA CANUTT * BUD WOOD * EARL DWIRE Approximately 51 minutes Black and WhiteRIDERS OF DESTINY See the Duke as a Singing Cowboy In the first of his Lone Star Westerns, ACADEMY AWARD® winner John Wayne (The Shootist) stars as "Singin' Sandy" Saunders, who rides to the rescue of the beleaguered ranchers in the little town of Starbuck. Using his control of the local water rights, James Kincaid (Forrest Taylor) is trying to force the ranchers, including Charlie "Dad" Denton (George "Gabby" Hayes), to sell off their land for a measly dollar an acre. But Kincaid and his owlhoots haven't reckoned with the warbling wrangler, in reality an undercover Secret Service agent who woos Denton's daughter, Fay (Cecilia Parker), and saves the day in an explosive climax. This 1933 film from writer-director Robert N. Bradbury (The Man from Utah, The Trail Beyond) features another famous sidekick, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, as Bert, with legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt as a bad guy. A PAUL MALVERN Production Written and Directed by ROBERT N. BRADBURY Photography by ARCHIE STOUT Technical Director E.R. HICKSON Recorded by JOHN A. STRANSKY, Jr. Edited by CARL PIERSON Cast JOHN WAYNE CECILIA PARKER * FORREST TAYLOR * GEORGE "GABBY" HAYES AL "FUZZY" ST. JOHN * HEINIE CONKLIN * YAKIMA CANUTT EARL DWIRE * LAFE McKEE * ADDIE FOSTER "ACADEMY AWARDS®" is the registered trademark and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Approximately 55 minutes Black and White