A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food. An Americanization of the film, The Seven Samurai

A ruling class sociopath kills a working class girl in a hit and run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine their fate - Charlie Casanova is the critically acclaimed, highly controversial film from writer/director Terry McMahon. It's the story of an upper-class genius-level sociopath, Charlie Barnum. Charlie is an educated, fast-talking egotist, who refuses to be bound by the restrictions of morality, law, or even reality. When he kills a girl in a hit-and-run, he determines his fate with a deck of cards.

When a nice old man, employed as a department store Santa Claus, is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning's lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane (Barrymore), the ivory trader who crippled him, a Limehouse magician named Phroso (Chaney) vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the debauched young woman to his jungle lair, Phroso plans to reunite the girl with her long-lost father, after which he'll order the natives to kill the trader and burn Crane's daughter alive!

Lon Chaney hunts the most dangerous game in director Tod Browning's seamy tale of lust and revenge, costarring Lupe Velez and Estelle Taylor. When Tiger Haynes (Chaney) learns his beloved daughter Toyo (Lupe Velez) intends to marry Bobby Bailey (Lloyd Hughes), the son of an American circus owner, the Indochina-based animal trapper is skeptical at first, but soon gives his blessing. But when Bobby joins Tiger for a boat ride down the river, the young man soon falls under the seductive spell of fellow passenger Madame de Sylva (Estelle Taylor), Toyo's estranged mother and Haynes' vengeful ex-wife. So when she attempts to even the score by stealing Bobby away from their daughter, Haynes decides to take care of de Sylva by declawing the cougar once and for all.

"Lon Chaney is superb" (Leonard Maltin) as the hard-boiled sergeant with a heart of gold in this two-fisted tale of Marine Corps life, costarring William Haines and Eleanor Boardman. When Skeet Burns (Haines) joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O'Hara (Chaney), the toughest leatherneck in the Corps., and both men fall for Navy nurse Norma Dale (Boardman). When they're stationed in the Philippines, Skeet's dalliance with a native girl (Carmel Myers) tips the scale in O'Hara's favor. Reassigned to China, the two must put their differences aside when they're ordered to Hangchow to rescue Norma and the nurses from a bandit leader (Warner Oland), whose gang has invaded the city. The first film made with the full cooperation of the Corps, Tell It to the Marines was Chaney's highest-grossing picture at MGM. His performance earned him the title of Honorary Marine, the first actor to receive it.

One of the first Hollywood films to explore bigotry follows the story of three World War II soldiers who become suspects in the murder of a Jewish hotel guest.

With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise -her soul. No matter what the cost, The Barefoot Contessa will dance to no one's music but her own.

Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan star in this 1943 Best Picture Oscar® Nominee about justice -- and injustice -- on the wild frontier. Two men (Fonda and Morgan) who ride into a town plagued by cattle rustling are recruited into a posse that aims to lynch three potentially innocent men accused of the crimes. It's soon clear that vengeance could prevail as rationality faces off against mob mentality.

An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944. Routine was heroics chiefly remembered (if at all) for a crap game sequence.

The House On Telegraph Hill is an intriguing cliffhanger set in a spooky Victorian mansion below Coit Tower in San Francisco. Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to America. Now she should be blissfully happy with her devoted husband (Richard Basehart) in their mansion overlooking the San Francisco Bay, but Victoria is not who she seems. Her child belongs to someone else, and her husband and housekeeper are frightening her half to death.

Shirley Temple stars in this entertaining musical|co-staring tap dancing George Murphy and the legendary Jimmy Durante. Shirley stars as Betsy|an orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager (Edward Ellis) who rents rooms out to down-on-their-luck entertainers. When the owner of the hotel (Edna Mae Oliver) complains about the noise her show biz tenants make and the back rent they owe her|she threatens to have the hotel closed and Betsy sent back to the orphanage.

The film is highlighted by Shirley's delightful ""We should Be Together"" song and tap dance routine with George Murphy|and the upbeat ""Be Optimistic.""

The true story of a most extraordinary prisoner--Robert F. Stroud--a two-time killer who spent 43 years in solitary at Alcatraz...a prison which was reserved to house the worst of the worst. While in confinement, Stroud educated himself and became a world-renowned ornithologist, developing cures for ill birds. Based on the novel by Thomas E. Gaddis.

An all-star cast that includes Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Johnnie Ray and Mitzi Gaynor sparks this tuneful Irving Berlin musical that depicts the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. Molly (Merman) and Terry (Dailey) Donahue start out as a duo and keep adding kids to the act until they finally become The 5 Donahues. Their busy, sometimes tumultuous lives aren't always easy, but the Donahues have plenty of love to get them through the hard times and more than enough talent to keep them on top. Highlighted by one classic Irving Berlin song after another and an array of dazzling production numbers, this upbeat, utterly delightful tale of life on the stage proves, beyond and doubt, that There's No Business Like Show Business!

This incredibly rare concert has only ever been released in Japan, making this collection a must-have for Sinatra fans. Entering his 70th year, Ol' Blue Eyes never sounded better. He commands the stage with the energy of a man half his age, delivering bravura performances of "The Lady Is A Tramp," "Strangers In The Night" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine."

Widow, seductress, model wife or passionate lover, Shirley MacLaine stars in the seven roles of a woman's life in seven sketches - a tour de force performance that earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical/Comedy.