The Torch (Bandit General) + 9 (GD) DVD NEW

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The Torch (Bandit General) (1950, 75 min)

A revolutionary and his band take over a small Mexican town. The townspeople begin to take sides over whether to fight him, join forces with him or just try to get along with him.

Director: Emilio Fernández
Starring: Paulette Goddard


Winterset (1936, 77 min)

Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.

Director: Alfred Santell
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Margo, John Carradine


The Last Mile (1932, 69 min)

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.

Director: Samuel Bischoff
Starring: Preston Foster


Carnival Story (1954, 93 min)

The story of a woman's shame!

In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Then high diver Frank recruits Willie as his assistant. When Frank falls for her and proposes marriage, Joe takes the opportunity to brush her off. After the marriage, Joe figures he can still exercise his sexual hold over Willie; but tragedy intervenes.

Director: Kurt Neumann
Starring: Anne BaxterR


And God Created Woman (1956, 91 min)

... but the devil invented Brigitte Bardot!

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp. While Antoine's away, his younger brother Michel, who worships Juliette, proposes to her; out of liking rather than love, she accepts, and their marriage becomes happy. But what will happen when Antoine returns?

Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Brigitte Bardot


The Mark of the Hawk (1957, 85 min)

Against voodoo fury... the flame of faith!

The man called Obam (Sidney Poitier) struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda (Clifton Macklin). With the help of his wife Renee (Eartha Kitt) and missionary Bruce Craig (John McIntire), will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs?

Director: Michael Audley
Starring: Sidney Poitier


A Stranger in Town (1943, 67 min)

You'll give a heart welcome to... A STRANGER IN TOWN.

In the small town of Crown Port local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

Director: Roy Rowland
Starring: Frank Morgan


Blood and Sand (1922, 60 min)

Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Dona Sol, and finds himself in the awkward position of being in love with two women, which threatens the stability of his family and his position in society. He finds interesting parallels in the life of the infamous bandit Plumitas when they eventually meet by chance.

Director: Fred Niblo
Starring: Rudolph Valentino


The Entertainer (1960, 103 min)

As the applause grew fainter... As the spotlight grew dimmer... His women were younger!

Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical jokes about sex and politics and humiliates his lamenting, gin-soaked wife. Archie lures his father, Billy Rice, out of retirement for a benefit performance which will ultimately bring financial aid to Archie and his impractical investments.

Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Laurence Olivier


God's Little Acre (1959, 106 min)

Love! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, riotous in the heat of a southern sun!

A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter's hand in marriage.

Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: Jack Lord