The Thief of Bagdad (1934) + 9 (TA) DVD NEW

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Treasure of Jamaica Reef (Evil in the Deep) (1975, 92 min)

Rips your nerves to shreds!

A suspense filled adventure-drama about the search for a treasure-laden Spanish Galleon that sank over 200 years ago.

Director: Virginia L. Stone
Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Boyd


Dangerous Passage (1944, 60 min)

While living in Central America, Joe Beck receives word that his grandfather has passed away and left him $200,000. Beck prepares to travel to Galveston, Texas to claim his inheritance, with the important papers that he will need. When he is assaulted soon afterward, he changes plans and takes a ship leaving that night. Also on board is Nita, who herself seems to be in a hurry to leave port. Beck receives a number of veiled threats and warnings, and then is almost killed by an accident on deck. Beck soon realizes that he is facing two serious problems: an attempt to defraud him of his inheritance, and another plan to stop him from finding out what the ship's crew is up to.

Director: William A. Berke
Starring: Robert Lowery


Fantastic Planet (1973, 71 min)

A sublime trip to a fine new world.

Set in a far distant world human beings or "Oms"have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them.

Director: René Laloux
Starring: Jennifer Drake


The Giants of Thessaly (1961, 88 min)

In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen.

Director: Riccardo Freda
Starring: Roland Carey


Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932, 69 min)

While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various Rube Goldberg type contraptions constructed from local materials. Meanwhile, on a nearby island, a young maiden flees her arranged wedding. She canoes to Steve's island for safety, whereupon she is dubbed "Saturday". Soon they are attacked by vengeful tribesmen from the neighboring island. Will Steve and Saturday survive?

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks


Nabonga (1944, 71 min)

A white girl rules the jungle... her strength of power was NABONGA!

In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father's bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful 'white witch' Doreen, daughter of the now long-dead embezzler. Gorman finds his goal difficult to accomplish as not only does Doreen, guarded by a huge, ferocious gorilla, not want to give up the money, but greedy guide Carl Hurst has followed Gorman's trail, intent on getting the money himself by any means necessary.

Director: Sam Newfield
Starring: Buster Crabbe


Haunted Ranch (1943, 54 min)

Both the Range Buster and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden, Rance has his man imitating ghosts. The gold is in a steel cased organ but a certain combination of organ stops need to be pulled to obtain the gold.

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey
Starring: John 'Dusty' King


The Beloved Rogue (1927, 98 min)

In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent patriot, and a notorious carouser who is not above criminal acts. During the revels of All Fools Day, he insults Duke Charles of Burgundy, for which King Louis XI, who is afraid of Charles, banishes Villon from Paris. In exile outside the city walls, François looks for ways to protect France from Burgundy's plots.

Director: Alan Crosland
Starring: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt


The Thief of Bagdad (1924, 123 min)

A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad's daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks


The Gaucho (1927, 96 min)

A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.

Director: F. Richard Jones
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks