Nash, Marilyn

Strange Tales 20 Movie Pack (4 DVD)

''Strange tales indeed in this creepy blend of sci-fi and horror in amazing features like Frozen Alive, The Return of Dr. Mabuse, The Manster, Night of the Blood Beast, Unknown World and many more.

Includes:

1. Alien Species

A fleet of UFOs is circling the Earth and a top scientist races to discover their true intentions for the planet. When the UFOs begin an attack on Earth, the scientist finds himself thrown in with a sheriff and his deputies transporting some prisoners to jail. The unlikely group is forced to seek shelter from the attack in a nearby cave, not knowing how significant the location is to the alien's plans.  Runtime: 1:32

2. Amazing Transparent Man, The

Crazed ex-military officer Paul Krenner has dreams of world domination when he forces unwilling scientist Peter Ulof to do his bidding. Ulof must develop a process to induce invisibility though atomic radiation. With this in his armory, Krenner plans to create an invisible military force and sell it to the highest bidder. They break safecracker Joey Faust out of jail and make him invisible so that he can steal more radium. Then events take an unexpected turn.  Runtime: 57 minutes

3. Counterblast

A Nazi scientist escapes Germany prior to its surrender at the end of World War II and sets up a lab in England using the identity of an Austrian scientist he murdered. Hoping to complete his germ-warfare experiment, in the hopes of its use by Nazis in a future war, the scientist's agenda becomes complicated when he falls in love with his lab assistant.  Runtime:  1:30

4. Doomsday Machine, The

An upcoming space mission to Venus becomes even more vital after a startling secret is revealed. Foreign agents have revealed a secret plot by the Chinese where they have manufactured the ultimate weapon, capable of destroying everything on the surface of the planet. The mission to our sister planet now becomes a f

Monsieur Verdoux

This blistering little black comedy was well ahead of its time when released in 1947. Originally, Orson Welles had wanted Chaplin to star in his drama about a French mass murderer named Landru, but Chaplin was hesitant to act for another director, and used the idea himself. He plays a dapper gent named Henri Verdoux (who assumes a number of identities), a civilized monster who marries wealthy women, then murders them (as we meet him, he's gathering roses as an incinerator ominously bellows smoke in the background) and collects their money to support his real family. The Little Tramp is now a distant memory, though this was the first film not to feature Chaplin's beloved creation. Verdoux is largely viciously clever until it gets too heavy-handed, as evidenced when a woman he spares returns years later as the mistress of a munitions manufacturer. Ultimately, Chaplin breaks character (much as he did in The Great Dictator) to preach to the masses, declaring that against the machines of war that grip the planet, humble killer Verdoux is "an amateur by comparison." --David Kronke

Charles Chaplin turns his traditionally sunny sensibilities inside out with this sublime black comedy about a family man who secretly uses murder to support his beloved invalid wife and child. There's little of the immortal Tramp in Verdoux yet the fastidious dandy is not lacking in comic graces. Most hilarious of all are the always-foiled attempts to dispatch the raucous Annabella (Martha Raye). When this most atypical Chaplin film opened the world was not ready to look death in the face and walk away smiling. Today Monsieur Verdoux ranks among Chaplin's best works. It is killer comedy.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085393765224

Tales from the Future 9 Movie Pack

Alien Invasion 4 Movie Pack

Day the Sky Exploded The A spaceship from earth crashes into the sun sending a swarm of meteors toward earth. Tidal waves and climatic changes across the globe may spell doom for the human race unless the major world powers can be convinced to combine their atomic arsenals to destroy the meteors. BONUS: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Chapter 5Runtime: 82 minutes Unknown WorldDirector: #N/A Cast: #N/A Copyright: 2004 BCI Year: 1951 Col/BW: B&W Rating: NR (Mild Violence)Synopsis: Convinced that humanity is going to destroy itself Dr. Jeremiah Morley launches an expedition to find a subterranean haven for mankind. Morley's team faces all manner of perils as they set out in a drilling vehicle for the center of the earth. BONUS: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Chapter 6Runtime: 73 minutes Phantom from Space An alien space craft cash lands near a remote California observatory. The lone passenger under pursuit by government agents discards his spacesuit revealing that he is completely invisible.Runtime: 72 minutesCrash of the Moons This feature-length film is culled from three episodes of the classic science fiction TV series Rocky Jones Space Ranger. Two planets are headed for collision and Rocky Jones and his team race to prevent the catastrophe.Runtime: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 787364533596 Manufacturer No: 45335-9

Unknown World (B&W)

Living under the threat of an atomic holocaust, a group of scientists build the Cyclotram, a vehicle capable of drilling to the center of the earth. Dr. Jeremiah Morley and his team enter the earth through a volcano in search of an inhabitable new world 1,500 miles below the planet's surface. Their mission is threatened by disaster as their water supply is contaminated and two members of the team are killed by toxic gas. They find an underground cavern, which may be the new world they seek, but when they begin their testing, the scientists discover an unexpected surprise. New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns provides the set for many of the inner-earth scenes and director Terry Morse (Godzilla, King of the Monsters) delivers otherworldly scenery and outstanding special effects. This sci-fi odyssey touches on the nuclear paranoia of the Cold War era with chilling effect. Starring : Bruce Kellogg Produced by : J.R. Rabin I. A. Block Music by : Ernest Gold Directed by : Terry O. Morse Screenplay by: Millard Kaufman DVD Details : Run Time: 64 minutes Number of Discs: 1 Originally Released in 1951 Black White No region encoding; For global distribution.

Charles Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux

This blistering little black comedy was well ahead of its time when released in 1947. Originally, Orson Welles had wanted Chaplin to star in his drama about a French mass murderer named Landru, but Chaplin was hesitant to act for another director, and used the idea himself. He plays a dapper gent named Henri Verdoux (who assumes a number of identities), a civilized monster who marries wealthy women, then murders them (as we meet him, he's gathering roses as an incinerator ominously bellows smoke in the background) and collects their money to support his real family. The Little Tramp is now a distant memory, though this was the first film not to feature Chaplin's beloved creation. Verdoux is largely viciously clever until it gets too heavy-handed, as evidenced when a woman he spares returns years later as the mistress of a munitions manufacturer. Ultimately, Chaplin breaks character (much as he did in The Great Dictator) to preach to the masses, declaring that against the machines of war that grip the planet, humble killer Verdoux is "an amateur by comparison." --David Kronke

On one level, "Monsieur Verdoux" is the story of a fired French bank clerk who goes into business for himself marrying and murdering women for their money. On another level, the film is an indictment of war, in which, according to Verdoux, mass murder is legalized, celebrated and paraded. "Killing is the enterprise by which your system prospers," Verdoux says. "As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison." This evaluation was particularly apt in the case of the wife, played by the irrepressible Martha Raye. As Annabella, Raye is one spouse who simply refuses to be murdered, comically evading the deadly traps that Verdoux sets for her. A complete change of pace for Chaplin, "Monsieur Verdoux" was a critical and box office failure upon its release in 1947 as the public was not ready for a cynical antihero from the man who brought the world The Little Tramp. However, its re-release in 1964 set box office records as a new audience attuned to the pleasures of black comedy by "Dr. Strangelove" gave the film the reception it richly deserved.

Unkown World (1951)