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The "First Lady of Films" is featured in this issue of The Blackhawk Catalog. Look on page six for legendary screen performances worth treasuring for years to come!

INSIOl: • Special Collectors Packages featuring the films of , and Fred Astaire at special prices available only through The Blackhawk Catalog ...jus t turn the page!

• Three, newly re-released movie serials: catch Mysterious Dr. Satan, and The Fighting Devil Dogs on pages 30 and 31!

• Hard to find and Little Rascals video classics, starting on page 16.

• Landmarks In Entertainment, page 2. Wayne In The West COUICIORS PACKAGIS

Three of the best Western films ever made, RIO GRANDE, THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN, The Blackhawk Catalog is pleased to offer classic videos and DARK COMMAND (with Roy Rogers). at affordable prices, exclusively for customers of The Blackhawk Catalog. Each Special Collectors Package features VRPJ2 Special Collection Price $39.95 one of the legends of Hollywood. Now, for a limited time, you can purchase a set of three films featuring ]oh'11i Wayne, Cary Grant or Fred Astaire at a tremendous cost savings Cary Grant Special Collectors Set to you! From our archives of classic Western movies, we present the WAYNE IN THE WEST COLLECTION. This trio of John Waynes finest Western films includes the classic cavalry saga, RIO GRANDE. THE CARY GRANT ~ECIAL COLLECTORS SET includes three of Cary Grant's finest films .. .landmarks of Hollywood's golden era including THE PHILADELPHIA STORY with Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart. FRED ASTAIRE'S SPECIAL COLLECTQRS SET consists of three, toe-tapping features: SHALL WE DANCE, TOP HAT and DAMSEL IN DISTRESS. Should each title in these sets be purchased separately, your cost would be $60.00 per set. Through this exclusive off~r from The Blackhawk Catalog, your price drops to under $14.00 per cassette with the purchase of an entire collection. Three classics from Hollywood's golden era, OPERATION PETTICOAT, MY FAVORITE SPECIAL EDITOR'S NOTE: For more of Hollywood's leading men, tum to page 22 in lhis edition of The Blackhawk Catalog, or look for each WIFE, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (with one of our featured artists: Cary Grant, pages 12 & 13; john Wa.rne, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart). pages 24 & 25; Fred Astaire, page 21. VRP21 Special Collection Price $39.95 We ship all of our cassettes as soon as we receive your order, although some of the cassettes may take up to six Fred Astaire Special Collectors Set weeks for delivery. To assure quality delivery, all orders are sent out UPS ground. (Orders to P.O. boxes are sent via parcel post.) By using these shipping methods, we are able to process your order more effectively than ever before. Our customer service number is there to serve you. Should you have any questions about your order, please call (213) 888-2229. No collect calls, please. To make your cassette ordering easier, The Blackhawk Catalog has a 24-hour answering service to assist you. Use a credit card and give us a call to place an order. Our number is 1-800-826-2295.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Landmarks ...... 2 Comedy's Golden Age .. .. 15 Travel Tips ...... 23 Bette Davis ...... 5 Laurel and Hardy ...... 16 John Wayne ...... 24 Humphrey Bogart...... 6 The Little Rascals...... 17 Western Roundup ...... 26 : 007 ...... 6 Leading Ladies ...... 18 Best of the West ...... 27 Drama...... 7 Musicals ...... 19 Theater of War ...... 28 Great Books On Tape ...... 8 Marilyr Monroe...... 20 Spring Clearance Sale..... 29 Science Fiction/Horror.... 11 Fred A:itaire ...... 21 Movie Serials ...... 30 The Silent Era ...... 12 Leading Men...... 22 Cliffhanger Theater...... 30 Cary Grant...... 12 The Tliin Man...... 22 Blackhawk's Back Shelf.... 32 Charlie Chaplin ...... 14 Classic Collectables ...... 23 The Wizard of Oz (1939) Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, , Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin, Clara Blandick Eternally entertaining, critic Leonard Maltin described this MGM classic as being "just as good the fifteenth time as 1t is the first." Never has a truer state· ment been made. Sporting an Oscar-winning score and con­ sistently stellar performers (several of whom, curiously, were not among the studio's starting line-up), The Wizard Of Oz literal· Lady and the Tramp (1955) ly pulses with Hollywood magic Directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronomi, Willred Jackson - an example of the MGM mus­ music by Oliver Wallace ' icals at their grandest. This is one ?f Disney's great. animated_ classics - an extravaganza of It is widely known, of course, color and music featurmg a pedigree sparuel who angers two Siamese cats that Shirley Temple (as Dorothy) enroute to romance with the likable mongrel who champions her cause. and W.C. Fields (as t he Wizard) Released in 1955, Tramp was the first animated feature from Disney were first slated to headline Oz. to make use of Cinemascope. The film is also noteworthy for its refresh­ Now, in retrospect, such casting seems incomprehensible. ingly realistic subject matter. Indeed, prior to 1955, films coming out lndeed, as we quickly approach the 50th anniversary of Oz's premier, of the Disney Studio had focused almost exclusively on fantastical locales one can't help but be struck by the film's artful simplicity and unaffected - -~ it Dumbo ·s _circu~ or Pe~r Pan ·'s London. Tramp, on the other hand, ~holesomeness. Rarely has a single movie produced so many memorable utilizes an American city for its backdrop. This makes the film far more Imes and hummable tunes. Certainly, songwriters E.Y. Harbur~ and informal and familiar. Its success helped set the stylistic tone for many Harold Arlen deserve a lot of the credit. Responsible for songs like ' Over future productions. The Rainbow" and "If I Only Had A Brain," the .pairing made truly Like many of Disney's great animated films, Tramp appears in theaters beautiful music under Victor Fleming's solid direct10n. Hence, to own very rarely. It is, however, a home video hit of immense magnitude. Now, Oz is to possess one of t he truly monumental musicals of all time. 102 Blackhawk customers can own this cartoon classic at unprecendented min. B&W and Color. VHS Only savings. 76 min. Color. VHS Only VMG600001 Reg. 55-9:% Sale Price S29.95 VWD582 S29.95 Laurel and Hardy Comedy Classics Collection - Volumes 1-9 ~ith_the recent _discovery of missing volumes four and seven, the complete Laurel and Hardy Comedy Colle­ t10n !S now available to Blackhawk customers at a special discount price. Included are many of the pair's earliest talkv shorts ("Men O'War," "Berth Marks"), along with various productions catching Stan and Ollie on the brink of feature stardom ("Tit For Tat," "Thicker Than Water''). _Also included is th~ m1_1ch-~~aise~ "To~~d In A _Hole" shor~ (with Laurel and Hardy as entrepreneurial fishermen) and the hilarious Music Box (featunng the duo s memorable efforts to move a player piano into a ho~e atop a stee.p hl!ll- Featuring 36 shorts (m rune volumes), the Laurel and Hardy Comedy Classics Collection is a must for fans of Hollywood's most successful comedy team. Volume 1: , , Countv Hospital and . 93 min. B&W VNO4301 S19.95 • Volume 2: Blotto, , Towed in A Hole and Hog Wild. 90 min. B&W .,.,,...c.m_.,• VNO4302 S19.95 ,a\lill!llllllla Volume 3: Oliver the 8th, , and Dirty Work. 90 min. B&W ,~W_.._ VNO4303 $19.95 Volume 4: , , Come Clean and Any Old Port. 90 min. B&W VNO4304 S19.95 Volwµe 5: Be Big, Night Owls, The Perfect Day and . 89 min. B&W VNO4305 $19.95 Volibe 6: , , , and Tit for Tat. 90 min. B&W ANO4306 $19.95 _,.__._ Volume 7: Below Zero, Thicker Than Water, Midnight Patrol and Me and My Pal. 80 min. B&W VNO4307 S19.95 Volume 8: Men O'War, Scram, Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and One Good Turn. 90 min. B& W VNO4308 S19.95 Volume 9: , , Going Bye Bye and Berth Marks. 108 min. B& W VNO4309 S19.95 Complete L,,urel and rl8.l'dy Comedy Qas.,ics - Voib. l - IX N'NOXl RPr ~ Sale Price $159.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

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High Noon (1952) ShaU We Dance (1937) Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Thomas Mitchell. Fred A staire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney, Henry Morgan, Harriet Hoctor, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian, Ann Shoemaker, directed by Fred Zinnemann directed by Mark Sandrich Arguably the best Western of all time, High Noon is tautly structured Much of the crew that brought us the wonderful Top Hat (and nine and creatively conceived to inject suspense and subtext into a genre too­ other Astaire-Rogers films before and after), reunited here to deliver yet often reserved for overly simple allegories of good and evil. Credit for another winning musical. Once a~ain, Mark Sandrich ably directs the film"s success must be shared at least three ways: Gary Cooper for America's finest dancing duo - amid charming Gershwin melodies like his Oscar-winning performance, Fred Zinnemann for slick direction and the Oscar-nominated "You Can't Take That Away From Me," "Let's Call author Carl Foreman for a narrative so hauntingly innovative that, after The Whole Thin~ Off" and "They All Laughed.'' surviving it, you will never look at a ticking clock the same way again. Happily, Astrure and Rogers don't disappoint. After all, by 1937, Nominated for a total of six Academy Awards (including best picture, America had come to expect perfection from its premier movie dancers. screenplay and director), High Noon chronicles the final hours prior to And while the premise in Shall We Dance is far from complicated, the Cooper's lone confrontation with a gang of vengeful killers. The townsfolk choreography and romance are first-rate. Box-office response was he's sworn to protect have abandoned him. Even stunning new-bride awesome. Grace Kelly threatens to leave if Cooper insists on defending his gutless Beautiful to look at, and highlighted by great tunes, Shall We Dance constituents. Thus, the stage is set for a truly nerve-wracking countdown is as enjoyable as any of the best Astaire-Rogers dance spectaculars. It's - as director Zinnemann cross-cuts rapidly between the local rails, a tick­ a great film in a great series - highlighted by Astaire's pioneering techni­ ing clock and lawman Cooper's quietly resigned visage. que and easy-going wit. Watching Shall We Dance, one can easily see Unequalled in the annals of Western classics, High Noon combines how Astaire singlehandedly restyled song-and-dance movies. Eternally lasting watchabilily with unparalleled, edge-of-the-seat suspense. The graceful. he is a joy to behold. 116 min. B&W result is deeply entertaining and eminently collectible. 85 min. B&W VRP7730 S19.95 VRP1800 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 Editor's Note: For more toe-tapping entertainment from Fred Astaire, turn to page 21 . Roy Rogers Matinee Double Features Numbers 1-4 By 1942, Roy Rogers had quietly succeeded as the undisputed . A big part of Rogers' appeal were Republic ,Productions like Sons of the Pioneers and Romance on the Range. Now, these two films (along with six others) are available to Blackhawk customers as part of the Roy Rogers Matinee Double Feature Collection. Included is (Dale Evans' comeback film after her marriage to Rogers in 1947) and King of the Cowboys (the only Rogers' Western detailing the singing cowboy's contribution to the war effort,). Also included, of course, is a wealth of great western tunes (sung by Rogers himself) - plus a good mix of exciting adventures i11 both color and black and white. Roy Rogers Matinee For over a decade, Rogers was a staple of Saturday matinees nationwide. Now, through The Blackhawk Catalog, all can share a part of Rogers' cinematic legacy. Double Features Package Double Feature No. 1 Double Feature No. 3 Four for the price of three! The Golden Stallion (19491 (Color) (1950) (Color) VRP33 Reg. S'19-:% Sale Price $59.95 King of the Cowboys (1943) (B&W) Romance on the Range (1942) (B&WJ VRP7703 Reg. sa9:% Sale Price $19.95 VRP7705 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 Double Feature No. 2 Double Feature No. 4 Editor's Note: Gene Autry and Roy Rogers ride onto the small screen Trigger Jr. (19501 (Color) Susanna Pass (1949) (Color) (1948) (B& W) Sons of the Pioneers (1942) (B&WJ starting on page 26. VRP7704 Reg. sa9:% Sale J'rice $19.95 VRP7706 Reg. 6a9-:% Sale Price Sl9.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Ji'ree 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

3 Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloan, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, George Colouris, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Chatterton, directed by Orson Welles If there is any film that typifies landmark status, it must be Citizen Kane - consistently named tbe greatest American movie of all time by critics and audiences alike. And yet, few realize that Kane was a finan­ cial bomb in its first release. Disappointed executives at RKO responded by stripping a young Orson Welles of all creative freedom on his subse­ quent projects. The result was a sad number of forgettable follow-ups, many of which were ruined by inept editing behind Welles' back. Of course, Kane, itself, remains a cinematic masterpiece. Looking back, it's clearly the triumphant debut of a filmmaker with great vision, l)Ower and scope. That Hollywood never learned to appreciate the genius of Orson Welles is truly unfortunate. On its own merits, Citizen Kane has influenced countless directors by example - through novel construction and an innovative a_pproach to cinematography and sound. The script is bold and uncomprising in its treatment of a newspaper magnate's life. As to whether the Kane character is, as rumored, based upon the life of William Randolph Hearst, that's hardly important. What is important is that Citizen Kane represents an undisputed pinnacle in American movie-making. It is, undoubtedly, the most collectible film ever made. 119 min. B&W. VHS Only VNO8002 $19.95 Back To The Future (1985) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispm Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claude Wells Inevitably, one's first reaction to Steven Spielberg's Back To The Future is the compulsive desire to see it again. The film is so chock full of comic genius and relentless pacing that every false ending leaves you praying for another. Hence. when the curtain finally falls, there is a com­ bined sense of exhilaration and regret. How could two hours have passed so quickly? The answer, to a large degree, is the deliciously on-target performance of Michael J. Fox. As a present-day teen whose trip through time lands him in the 1955 orbit of his pre-wed parents, Fox is right-on all the time. From pratfalls and double-takes to elaborate set-pieces and barbed one­ liners, there is never a moment when we, as an audience, aren't completely enthralled. Backing our elfin hero is a supremely well-crafted screenplay by director Robert Zemeckis (Romancing the Stone) and co-writer Bob Gale - not to mention a top-notch supporting cast, incredible special effects and a slick soundtrack featuring tunes by Chuck Berry and Huey Lewis and the News. A giant hit at the box-office, Back To The Future is home enter­ tainment personified. Stereo. Rated PG. 116 min. VMC80196 Reg. $79.95 Sale Price $29.95 Now, Voyager (1942) Bett.e Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper, John Loder, Bonita Granville, Ilka Chase, Lee Patrick, Charles Drake, Franklin Pangborn, directed by Irving Rapper A you~i Bette Davis received her sixth Oscar nomination for her role as a fragile Bostonian heiress who overcomes a neglected childhood, the demise of her cruel mother and unrequited love to blossom under the care of psychiatrist Claude Rains. One of the most romantic films of its decade, Now, Voyager is further buoyed b_y Max Steiner's Oscar-winning score and a number of memorable scenes. Chief among these is Davis' parting line to lover .i;>aul Henreid "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars", plus Henreid's simul· taneous lighting of two cigarettes for himself and Davis. The story is courtesy of Olive Prouty's novel. It focuses on Davis' transformation from a wounded S,{linster to a confident, giving woman. Indeed, it is Davis' acquired ability to give that furnishes our heroes with the only recourse for their forbidden love. A joyous tearjerker in the classic sense, Now, Voyager is quintessen· tial movie romance. Deeply touching and undeniably effective, the film also garnered an Oscar nomination for Gladys Cooper as Davis' cold­ hearted mother. 117 min. B&W. VHS Only VMG1316 $24.95 Editor's Not.e: Bett.e Davis is featured on page 5. I Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

4 The Old Maid (1939) Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Jane Bryan, Donald Crisp, Louise Fazenda Successfully cast against type, Bette Davis plays a sacrificial mother who must regretfully surrender her dau~hter to a married cousin. This, because the infant s unwed father has died in the r Civil War. Davis must then watch, helplessly, as her only child is raised to scorn the "spinster aunt" who is in reality, her natural mother, A prefect heart-breaker, The Old Maid is sure to bring tears to all but the hopelessly hard-hearted. DARK VICTORY 95 min. B&W. VHS Only VMG1311 $24.95 Dark Victory (1939) Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, The Letter (1940) Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, The cast of Dark Victory reads like a Who's James Stephenson. Sen Yung, Frieda lnescort, Who of Hollywood mythos. Supporting Davis Gale Sondergaard in her ultimately bittersweet portrayal of a dy­ Bette Davis couldn't have hoped for a better ing playgirl are three s tars who, in 1939, were vehicle to mark her 10th anniversary in Holly­ all on the verge of huge successes: Humphrey wood. The Letter, based on Somerset Bogart (pre-Maltese Falcon), Ronald Reagan Maugham's hit play, gives Davis the role of a (pre-politics) and Geraldine Fitz~erald (pre­ lifetime. She plays the coldly irreproachable wife Wuthering Heights). As for Davts, she was of a slain plantation owner in Singapore. And nominated as best actress herein. Victory, itself, while the courts (ultimately) clear her of any was a best picture contender. The film is an emo­ wrongdoing, a telling Jetter may indicate other­ tional rollercoaster - with Davis finally finding wise. Said to be based on a real incident, The Let­ redemption only via her unselfish love for ler was nominated for six Oscars (including best suitor/doctor George Brent. 93 min. B&W. picture) on the strength of its relentless drama Hush-Hush Sweet VHS Only and suspense. 95 min. B&W. VHS Only VMG1312 S24.95 VMG 1315 $24.95 Charlotte (1964) Bette Da vis, Olivia de Havilland, The Corn Is Green (1945) Joseph Cotton, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Mary Astor, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan William Marshall As a spinster schoolteacher in 19th century Flushed with the success of Whatever Happen­ Wales, Ms. Davis grapples with the potential ed lo Baby Jane?. Bette Davis reteamed with tragedy of a genius miner who appears destined director Robert Aldrich to make another sus­ to waste himself in the back-breaking pursuit of penseful gothic. In Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, earthen bounty. Happily, our heroine's efforts she portrays a lonely Southern belle who is to inspire pupil John Dall garnered the debut tormented by nightmarish memories of her actor an Academy Award nomination. Dall's film fiance's grisly murder. Considered for four persona, of course, had to settle for Oxford. Oscars (including a best supporting actress nom­ Deeply satisfying, Corn is based on an Emlyn ination for co-star Agnes Moorehead). Hush Williams play. 118 min. B&W. VHS Only Hush also features The Maltese Falcon's Mary VMG1308 S24.95 Astor in what became her final film performance. 133 min. B&W. VHS Only All About Eve (1950) VKV1245 $24.95 Bette Davis, George Sanders. Anne Baxter, Mr. Skeffington (1944) Celeste Holme, Thelma Ritter, Gary Merrill Belte Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, In 1950, All About Eve all but swept the Richard Waring, George Coulouris, Jezebel (1938) Oscars by nabbing six awards - including best John Alexander, Jerome Cowan Bette Davis, George Brent, Henry Fonda, picture, best director, best screenplay and best Spanning several decades in the life of Eociety Fay Bainter supporting actor. New Yorker movie critic maven Davis, Mr. Skeffington chronicles how, When Bette Davis Jost Gone With The Wind Pauline Kael described the film as "one of the under the right circumstances, a marriage of con­ to Vivien Leigh, her bosses at Warner Bros. most enjoyable·· ever made. Ms. Davis literally venience can occasionally blossom into true love. fashioned Jezebel by way of compensation. shines as a beloved Broadway star who battles Davis initially weds s tockbroker Claude Rains Davis made the most of it - turning the film upstart secretary Anne Baxter over control of for his money only. However, our heroine later into a huge success. Not only did Jezebel beat the New York stage (and the heart of Davis beau finds that when youth and beauty have long Wind to the screen, it gathered Davis her second Gary Merrill). Typifying the film 's wit, J oseph since flown, it's loyalty and companionship that Academy A ward in as many nominations. The Mankiewicz' hard.:edged screenplay includes the are a truer test of character. Amusing at first, story casts Davis in the role of a willful Southern often quoted line, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's go­ later touching and insightful, Mr. Skeffington debutante who just about ruins her life by scoff­ ing to be a bumpy night." Look for Marilyn is a winning soap opera that goes right for the ing at binding Confederate tradition. Our star Monroe in a bit part. 138 min. B&W. VHS Only human heart. 127 min. B&W. VHS Onlv later atones via her heroic behavior in the after­ VKV1076 S19.95 VMG 1310 S24.95 math of a devastating plague. 104 min. B&W. VHS Only Now, Voyager (1942) VMG 1313 S24.95 Bette Da vis, Claude Rains. Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Grimville Marked Woman (1937) Bette Davis received an astounding sixth Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Jane Bryan, Oscar nomination for her fine portrayal of a Eduardo Giannelli, Isabel Jewell, Allen Jenkins fragile Bostonian heiress who overcomes a Based on the real-life exploits of gangster neglected childhood, the demise of her cruel Lucky Luciano, Marked Woman features Bette mother and unrequited love to blossom uncler the Davis as a nighclub girl who turns police in­ care of wise psychiatrist Claude Rains. Now, former. She is savagely "marked" as a result . Voyager also features an Oscar-winning score by Eduardo Cianelli plays the Luciano role opposite Max Steiner. Chief among the film's many Humphrey Bogart's do-gooding Thomas E. memorable scenes is Davis' parting line to lover Dewey. This is classic melodrama - with Davis Paul Henreid ("Don't let's ask for the moon, we providing ample pyrotechnics. 96 min. B&W. ALL ABOUT E VE have the stars'l 117 min. B&W. VHS Only VHS Only VMG 1316 824.95 VMG1309 $24.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

5 Casablanca (1943) Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman A wonderful classic about a night club owner in war-tom Casablanca. Painful memories are stirred as an old flame suddenly shows up. Does she leave with him. or help her husband lead the underpound? Bogie holds all the answers. It won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director (Michael Curtiz). A movie you'll play again and again, Sam. 102 min. B&W. VHS Only VTW4614 Reg. $'r9:% Sale Price $29.95 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Humphrey Bogart, Walter Hust,on, Tim Holt Bruce Bennett, directed by John Huston Greed and suspicion surround three pros­ pectors in their search for gold. Academy Awards '48: Best Supporting Actor (Huston); Best Director (Hustonl; Best Screenplay TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Huston) 126 min. B&W. VHS Only VKV 4639 Reg. &59:% Sale Price S29.95 To Have and Have Not The African Queen (1951) CASABLANCA Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, (1945) Robert Morley, Theodore Bike], Peter Bull Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Director John Huston wisely teamed Hum­ Midnight (1934) Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, phrey Bogart with Katharine Hepburn to draw Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox Delores Moran, Sheldon Leonard, a thrilling adventure film out of C.S. Forester's The jury foreman in a murder trial tips the Dan Seymour, directed by Howard Hawks classic novel. Subtly combining comedy, scales m favor of guilty, but is haunted when his A Martinique charter boat operator gets mixed romance and wartime action, The African Queen own daughter kills her lover. up with a foxy lady and French resistance garnered four Oscar nominations. Bogart, as the "It's pretty stong stuff and will hold audiences fighters during World War II. William Faulkner gin-soaked riverboat captain enroute to a naval adapted the Ernest Hemingway story. 100 min. once they're in." - Variety showdown with the Nazis, easil)' nabbed Best 80 min. B&W. VHS Only B&W. VHS Only Actor honors. 103 min. Color. VHS Only 30-0815 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 VMG600747 Reg.~ Sale Price $24.95 VTW2025 Re . %9.98 Sale Price $29.95

DJAIVIES eoNc: 0071------, Live and Let Die (1973) Catch 007 at his best , Jane Seymour, Clifton James, in these other adventures: This, the eighth 007 adventure, finds our hero, Bond, on a mission to save the world from the Never Say Never Again (1983) worst villain yet, who, with the aid of voodoo and VWA11337 Reg. S69:-95- Sale Price $19.95 hard drugs, is turning peo_ple into zombies. 121 For Your Eyes Only (1981) min. Rated PG. VHS Only VTW 4568 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 VTW4633 Reg. ffi:9& Sale Price $19.95 You Only Live Twice (1967) Goldfinger (1964) VTW4526 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman 007 is on the case and as cool and determined From Russia with Love (1963) as ever. This time he has to stop a diabolical VTW4566 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 smuggler from robbing Fort Knox. 112 min. Rated PG. VHS Only Diamonds Are Forever (1971) VTW4595 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 VTW4605 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 The Man With The Golden On Her Majesty's Gun (1974) Secret Service (1969) Ro~r Moore, , Maud Adams, VTW4604 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 Britt Ekland, Herve Villechaize 007 is smashing in his ninth sophisticated, Thunderball (1965) action-packed, amorous adventure. The villain VTW4611 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 is as villainous as ever, the girls are as lovely as The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ever the humor is as tonE1,1e-in-cheek as ever. 125 min.' Rated PG. VHS Only VTW 4638 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 VTW 4606 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 Octopussy (1983) Dr. No (1962) VTW4715 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.96 Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, A View to a Kill (1985) This is the first, the one that launched the VTW4730 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 movie legend of James Bond. In it, he fmds himself in the clutches of the diabolical Dr. No, Moonraker (1979) a madman seeking to control the world, or VTW4636 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 destroy it. 111 min. Rated PG. VHS Only VTW4525 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.96 Note: All titles are VHS only. Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

6 ~------,iii l)l~~\L\ Lost Horizon (1937) Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Thomas Mitchell, John Howard, Margo, Edward Everett Horton, H.B. W8rner, Sam Jaffe To escape an uprising, an ill-asso1 ted group of passengers board a plane and flee from China. They are transported away from the everyday world, with its conflicts and fears into the wonderful land of Shangri-La, hidden away in the vastness of Tibet. A dream-like film which will keep you enthralled to the very end. 132 min. B&W. VHS Only VCO60763 S29.95

THE COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL

The Court Martial of Billy WUTHERING HEIGHTS Mitchell (1955) GRAND HOTEL Gary Cooper, Rod Steiger, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Montgomery, 9 Fred Clark, Darren McGavin, James Daly Grand Hotel (1932) ~1:ntl1~fl~~!!~fr~n~iatt i~t In the early twenties, an American general of John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, the Army Air Service is court-martialled for ac­ Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone Leo G. Carroll, directed by William Wyler cusing the war department of criminal negli­ Indeed, with a cast that reads like a Who's Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, this adap­ gence. 100 min. Color Who of Hollywood myth, it's easy to see how tation of Emily Bronte's classic piece of Vic­ VRP0770 S24.95 Grand Hotel nabbed Best Picture honors in 1932 torian literature is a classic tale of romance. The with its soap-operish study of a day-in-the-life story revolves around a hypnotic relationship of a post Berlin hostelry. The ensemble of stars between a young, middle-class Yorkshire girl OUR GUARANTEE here, with sensual Garbo at the forefront, set (Merle Oberonl and the gypsy boy (Lawrence Goulding's/roduction vibrating in a way that Olivieri who works in her father's stable. If not completely satisfied with any item. transcendc social lines to creat e a popular A classic Hollywood tale, and a perfect addi­ return it and we will allow credit for the full blockbuster - as foreceful in its impact today tion to your Olivier collection! purchase price, replace it, or make a refund. as ever. 115 min. B&W. VHS Only VBA3079 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 . VMG400564 S24.95 I

~ ------6~6 FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S FINEff The Godfather (1972) Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, directed by Francis Ford Coppola Based on the novel by Mario Puzo, this is the epic portrayal of the Corleone family's rise to the top of the criminal world. Academy Awards '72: Best Picture; Best Actor (Brando); Best Screen· play (Puzo and Coppola). 175 min. Color VPA8049 Reg.~ Sale Price S29.95 The Complete Godfather Epic 1902-1959 (1981) Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton, Robert DeNiro, John Cazale, , Talia Shire, directed by Francis Ford Coppola The complete Godfather saga, Francis Ford Coppola's epic work concerning the lives of a New York crime family. Both original "God­ father" films have been reedited into a , ~--- chronological framework of the Corleone family history, with much previously discarded footage restored. Special 3 cassette set. 387 min. Color VPA8480 $179.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

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~~DRA.i\~~------~ The Great McGinty (1940) That Cold Day in the Park Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus (1969) This irresistible tale of poBtical corruption not Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns only won the 1940 Oscar for Best Screenplay but A middle aged spinsrer silently seduces a marked the directorial debut of its scenarist, twenty year old boy as an expression of freedom Preston Sturges. And what a debut! Filled with and fantasy. She uses seduction, a prostiture, typical Sturges' flourishes. the no-kickbacks­ and wild passion to secure their dream-like rela­ barred fable of grafting politicians stars Donlevy tionship forever. 91 min. Color as a down-and-out hart.ender in South America VRP4102 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 who rells the story of his rise to political power as the two-fisred crony of party leader Akim Tamiroff, the kind of guy who could give Boss Force of Evil (1949) Tweed bribe-taking lessons. When Donlevy, now John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, the major and a shoe-in (courresy of Tamiroff's Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor, directed by machine) for governor finally sees the light, the Abraham Polonsky cynical Sturges manages a minor Tinsel Town An involved, atmospheric melodrama about a miracle by remaining true to his story and his racket.eer's lawyer who finds that his boss has characters. Aft.er all, how could you not like a killed his brother. Moodily and brilliantly NINOTCHKA picture that explains politics this way: "You got photographed in the streets of New York City. to pay somebody to prot.ect you from human "It credits an audience with intelligence in its 8!eed." 82 min. B&W. ears as well as its eyes."-Dilys Powell Ninotchka (1939) VMC80595 $29.95 VRP1362 Reg. &89:95- Sale Price 519.95 Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Sig Ruman Alexander Granach, Felix Bressart, Ina Claire Morning Glory (1933) and Bela Lugosi, directed by Ernest Lubitsch Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Nominated for Four Academy Awards, Adolph Menjou NINOTCHKA is the story of a Paris playboy Hepburn is stage stuck and determined to con­ who falls for a communist emissary sent to sell quer Broadway when she brashly enrers a ma­ some crown jewels. jor producer's office and is thrown out. Menjou "High caliber enrertainment for adult au­ and Fairbanks, think she is striking and get her diences, and a top attraction for the key de­ a job as the star's understudy. Openin~ night luxers. "-Variety the star makes unbelievable demands, 1s fired "The Lubitsch style ... has disappeared. In­ and with minures to go Kare gets the g_o-ahead stead we have a hard, brightly lit, cynical and becomes an overnight sensation. Hepburn comedy with the wisecrack complet.ely in con­ won the Oscar for best actress. 75 min. B&W. trol." -John Baxter, 1968. VHS Only VRP7423 Reg. $&+:-95 Sale Price $19.95 VMG400115 $24.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

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Dial "M" for Murder (1954) Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) Ray Milland, John Williams Grace Kelly, , Barbara Payton, Ward Bond Robert Cummings, directed by Alfred Hitchcock Jimmy Cagney is a tough hoodlum with a passion for crime and a penchant for killing. Forg­ An aging tennis champion tries to arrange the ing his way into the ranks of the mob chieftains, he muscles in on a gang of small-time thieves death of his wife so that he will inherit a fortune, and begins a series of big-time robberies . .. until a couple of crooked detectives strong-arm but his complex plan goes wrong. The Hitchcock his henchmen and make off with their cash. But not even the police are safe from Cagney's touch is at work in this film as the master of ruthless tactics as he takes whatever he wants . .. and kills anyone who gets in his way. 102 suspense uses his skills to craft a thoroughly min. B&W entertaining film. VRP2205 $24.95 VWA11156 Reg. 569-:% Sale Price $24.95 Cloak and Dagger (1946) The Lost Moment (1947) Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, "The moment he fell in love was his moment Agnes Moorehead of greatest danger!" Gary Gooper stars as a A publisher (Robert Cummings), seeking love physics professor who joins the secret service letters written by a long-dead great poet, goes and is parachuted into Germany to interview a to Italy to interview a very old lady and her kidnapped scientist. 106 min. B&W niece. The old lady is spooky, the niece neurotic, VRP0694 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 the film fascinating. Those who know Cummings only from his TV series will be pleasantly sur­ High School Confidential prised. 88 min. B& W (1958) VRP2448 Reg. $B-9:% Sale Price 529.95 Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren, The Dark Mirror (1946) Jerry Lee Lewis Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, The smart aleck leader of the high school hot Thomas Mitchell, Garry Owen rod set strays into contact with a syndicate, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT A psychologist and a detective must determine while a very glamorous school teacher devoted · which twin sister murdered a prominent physi­ to guelling teen delinquency involves herself, cian. 85 min. B&W with a surprise outcome. 85 min. B&W In The Heat of The Night VRP0888 Reg. $B-9:% Sale Price $19.95 VRP1808 Reg.~ Sale Price 519.95 (1967) Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates Winner of 4 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), this is the compelling story of a redneck police chief forced to ally with a black cop to solve a murder case. The barriers of color are soon broken, as life and death struggles become the means to true brotherhood. Directed by Nor­ man Jewison, one of the finest and most touching dramas of this era. 109 min. VHS Only VTW4612 Reg. $59:98 Sale Price S19.95 Blowing Wild (1953) Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman, Ward Bond A Mexican oil driller becomes involved with the psychotic wife of an old friend, the triangle leads to murder and retribution. The result is a pot-boiling star vehicle with adequat e melodramatic interest. full of reminiscences of other movies, with a wicked lady to end them t!Plllll llllllfl l lll 11111 all. 88 min. B& W VRP0346 Reg. sa9:% Sale Price 519.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

9 D L1GHTS,CAMERA... 1a10N! ~------, Beau Geste (1939) Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston This is the kind of sweeping action tale they just don't make anymore and that's no jest. Director William Wellman's spectacular version of the adventure classic stars Cooper Milland and Preston as the most famous brothers ever to join the Foreign Legion. Unlike most Legionaires, Cooper and siblings join to be forgotten rather than forget when each "con· fesses" to stealing a rare gem owned by Susan Hayward's noble guardian, Lady Brandon. Once in the legion, the brothers three might have wish­ FROM HERE TO ETERNITY ed they let the Lady take the rap as they must constantly battle rampaging nations and the From Here to Eternity meanest, nastiest sergeant in the whole Sahara, Brian Donlevy, to stay alive long enough to clear (1953) the family name. Overflowing with such classic Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, character actors as J . Carrol Naish, Albert Dek­ SILVER STREAK Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, ker and Broderick Crawford, Beau Geste Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine represents everything that is noble and good Silver Streak (1934) Academy Award winning film which is con­ about man and Hollywood's golden age. 114 min. sidered a milestone in motion picture history. Set Sally Blane, Charles Starrett in Pearl Harbor in the months prior to and B&W Adventure abounds in this action packed, ex­ VMC80547 $29.95 culminating with the sneak attack, it is the com­ citing film. An enterprising young train designer pelling study of the professional soldier and the creates a super fast diesel train. The son of a rival system under which he lived. Six top stars in one The Thief of Bagdad (1924) train builder develops paralysis while working of the most unforgettable pictures of all time. Douglas Fairbanks, Julianne Johnson, on the Boulder Dam project. His only hope of The outdoor sequences were filmed on actual Sojin and Snitz Edwards survival is to live in an iron lung. The super train location in . Winner of eight Academy In THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, Douglas Fair­ races the lung to the dam sight. With many close Awards. VHS Only banks departed from the swashbuckler roles that calls, a murder attempt, a run away engme, an VC060762 $29.95 he had portrayed in THE MARK OF ZORRO, open bridge span, a cowardly back-up engineer THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and ROBIN and a frightened crew, the train arrives in time. HOOD to play that of a pure scamp, a purse 72 min. B&W. VHS only snatcher and a pickpocket. Or~an score. per· VBH9654 Reg. &1-9:-96 Sale Price S17.95 formed by Gaylord Carter. 143 mm. B&W. VHS only Lost Patrol (1934) 53-2171 Reg. 1549.98 Sale Price $29.95 Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J . M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Alan Hale The Thief of Ba~ad is the story of a native When the leader of the patrol is killed, the boy (Sahu) who, with the aid of a genie, helps a Sergeant (McLaglen), takes command of the deposed king outsmart an evil magician. Along eleven ragged survivors. This is Karloff in one the way, Sahu runs into strange characters and of his best roles as the religious fanatic who exciting adventures that can only be found in the quotes the Bible like a prophet of destruction, streets of Bagdad. The Thief of Bagdad won his eyes afire. Reginald Denny aptly plays the Academy A wards for the remarkable examples perfect British gentleman and J.M. Kerrigan an of trick photography (magic carpets, a flying angry pessimist. McLaglen sees his men perish horse and a murderous dancing doll) and best one by one and perseveres by keeping his head sound effects. 106 min. and folliwing his military training. VBA3108 :Reg. $49.95 Sale Price $19.95 VRP7340 Reg. $3.+:% Sale Price $19.95 THE FOUR FEATHERS

The Four Feathers (1939) John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, direct,ed by Zoltan Korda A "stay-at-home" receives four white feathers as a symbol of cowardice during the Sudan Cam­ paign of the 1890's. But he goes undercover, becomes a hero and rescues his best friend. A triumph of early technicolor, this film's battle scenes keep popping up in "B" movies all over. 99 min. Color "It cannot fail to be one of the best films of GUNGA DIN the year . . . " - Graham Greene. Gunga Din (1939) VBA3091 Reg. $39.95 Sale Price $19.95 Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine Director George Stevena's elaboration of Rudyard Kipling's poem is still one of the most OUR GUARANTEE endearing and en~· adventure films ever made. M · ntly s and vividly shot bat­ If not completely satisfied with any item, tle scene=een the ritish Lancers and the return it and we will allow credit for the full Indian Thugs add color to an already strong purchase price, replace it, or make a refund. story line and top-notch cast. Gunga Din has seen at least three remakes but none has surpass· ed this classic. 117 min. B&W. VHS Only THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) VN08016 $19.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

10 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum Good anthology horror entertainment about a fortune-teller (Peter Cushing) who has some frightening revelations for his clients. A top­ flight example of British genre movie-making. 98 min. Color VRP1067 Reg. SW:-% Sale Price $17.95 Frankenstein, The Restored Version (1931) Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, directed by James Whales For the first time in fift;v years, this classic adaptation of Mary Shell:y s novel can be seen the way its director originally intended it. Universal Pictures has restored previously edited footage to create a definitive Frankenstein movie. Most notably, this new version includes a recent unearthed section detailing the exact cir­ cumstances involving Boris Karloff's fatal en· counter with the little girl by the lake (played by Marilyn Harris). Frankenstein is a timeless journey into the realm of Hollywood's great gothic horror films. A must addition for any video collector's library. 72 min. B&W VMC55004 S39.95 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) The Invisible Man (1933) King Kong (1933) William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, William Harrigan. Dudley Digges. This is the original monster movie, and it still Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols Una O'Connor holds up today in all its drama, pathos and ex· It's the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien In The Invisible Man, what you don't see is citement. When the giant ape climbs the Empire power is threatening Earth by evaporating the what you get. This remarkable 1933 movie State Building to fight off the biplanes, you'll oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In their marked the screen debut of Claude Rains as a be pulling for him all the way. 103 min. B&W frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his scientist who discovers how to make himself in­ VNO8001 S19.95 crew must time-travel back to 1986 San Fran· visible but can't reverse the process. Slowly he cisco where they discover a world of punk. realizes with terror that he's become a prisoner pizza and exact-change busses that are as alien of his unseen self, an unbearable state that drives as anything they've ever encountered in the far him to madness and murder. Although he is in­ Son of Kon2: (1933) reaches of the galaxy. 119 min. Color visible, his clothes are not, so we witness t he Robert Armstrong, 'ffelen Mack VPAl 797 $29.95 bizarre sight of seemingly empty trousers bound· This sequel to King Kong has Armstrong and ing along, his hat suspended in space, or a Mack searching Skull Island for some long lost floating fork feeding a space with no face. Rains jewels. Along the way they run into prehistoric is unforgettable as he grasps his character. which creatures, one of which is King Kong's child. is more than the local constables can do when RKO. 70 min. B&W they try to catch him. This spectral spectacle, VNO8028 $19.95 based on H.G. Wells' famous novel, is a motion picture classic - gripping and haunting. 1 hr. 11 min. B&W. VHS/Beta Hi-Fi. VMC80398 $29.95 The Wolf Man (1941) Lon Chaney. Jr.. Claude Rains. Bela Lugosi Lock your doors and windows when Lon Chaney, Jr. turns in a howling performance as the cursed Larry Talbot, who must wander the countryside in search of maidens when "the autumn moon is bright." 70 min. B& W VMC80031 $29.95

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter. Carolyn Jones, King Donovan, directed by Don Siegel The classic about the invasion of Southern by seeds of giant plant pods which ex­ ude blank human forms that drain the emotional life of people and threaten to destroy the world. 80 min. B&W VRP2018 Reg. iM!-9-:96 Sale Price $19.95 I.'NASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please

11 Sylvia Scarlett In Name Only (1935) (1939) Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant Cary Grant, Carole Lombard directed by George Cukor directed by John Cromwell Sylvia Scarlett (Hepburnl helps Maida Walker desperately her father esca{X! criminal punish­ clings to her loveless marriage to ment by fleeing the country. Alec (Grant), in spite of his love After their escape, they hook up for another woman, Julie Eden with a fellow con-artist, Jimmy (Lombardi. Maida's sinister Monkley (Grantl, and together schemes to foil divorce attempts become partners in crime. 94 min. are ruthless, greedy and painful B&W to Alec and Julie. 94 min. B&W VRP7800 $19.95 VRP7274 $19.95 Once Upon A Honeymoon (1942) Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers directed by Leo McCarey An American reporter, (Grantl predicts Hitler's movements by trailing Baron Von Luber, a Nazi Gestapo agent throughout Europe. The baron's innocent wife has married the German in spite of repeated romantic over­ tures by Grant. Together, they plot to outwit the Germans. 116 min. B&W VRP7480 $19.95

D THESILENTERAe------~ Siegfried (1924) Wings (1927) Paul Richter, Margareta Schoen Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, In 1922 the German Studios, Ufa, decided to Richard Arlen film this gigantic two-part version of the The dramatic story of two men who go to war Nibelungenlied, the German epic that had been and the girl they leave behind. Fantastic aerial written at the close of the twelfth century. Organ battle sequences. This is the first film to win an score performed by Gaylord Carter. 100 min. Academy Award for best picture. Cameo ap­ B&W. VHS format only. pearance by Gary Cooper. 139 min. Stereo. VHS VBH9694 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 only VPA2851 Reg. &-49:95 Sale Price S19.95 Kriemhilde' s Revenge Tempest (1927) (1924) John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Paul Richter, Margareta Schoen Louis Wolheim, George Fawcett, directed by KRIEMHILDE'S REVENGE is the second Sam Taylor and concluding part of Fritz Lang's ~gantic ver­ John Barrymore plays Markov, a peasant sion of the Nibelun~enlied. Kriemhilde quickly THE BLACKSMITH soldier, who becomes an officer in the Im~rial realized that if justice is to be had, it must be Russian Guard. He loved Princess Tamara (Cam· realized through her own powers. Organ score The Blacksmith/Cops (1922) ilia Horn), who scorns him for his common performed by Gaylord Carter. 96 min. B&W. The Blacksmith (19221 origins and has him stripped of rank and thrown VHS format only. Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox into prison. When revofution comes, Markov, VBH9432 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 iBuster Keaton's superb comic talent comes now an important Red official, is able to save alive again in this burlesque based on the time­ Tamara from execution. He kills his Bolshevik Orphans of the Storm (1921) honored ,;>?8m "The Village Blacksmith". Of leader, and together, as husband and wife, they Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish course, it s a loose base and doesn't work out make their escape to new lands. The story tells of two orphans who become quite as Longfellow wrote it, but with Buster at One of the best of John Barrymore's "Great separated by the turbulent events that preceded the lead what can _you expect? Lovers" films and his next-to-the-last silent, the French Revolution. After living through Cops (19221 Tempest was designed by the great William some terrifying adventures, one orphan is re­ Buster Keaton, Vir~a Fox Cameron Menzies and photographed by Charles leased from the Bastille and seeks to find her Buster's girl wont marry him until he's suc­ Rosher, and is the most handsome of all Barry­ sister in the chaos that is the new Paris. VHS cessful - a dandy motivation for his new more's photoplays. In addition to Taylor, Frank only business enterpr:ise. But, unwittingly, he tangles Lloyd, Lewis Milestone and Slav Tourjansky Blackhawk's special abridged version: with the police when the junk w~on he is driv· worked on the direction; the original screenplay 34-0647 Reg. &29:-96 Sale Price S19.95 ing becomes the target of a bombrng. It results (much-modified in its adaption by Ince stalwart Feature length version: in one of the grandest chase scenes ever filmed, C. Gardner Sullivanl was by Erich von Stroheim. 34-0820 Reg. $-49:95 Sale Price S29.95 with hilarious mishaps. VHS only VHS only 18-0613 Reg. &f9:% Sale Price $19.95 30--0596 Reg. $f9:% Sale Price $19.95 Credit Card Sates - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 12 f The Philadelphia That Touch of Operation My Favorite Wife Story (1940) Mink (1962) Petticoat (1959) (1940) Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Cary Grant, Doris Day Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Irene Dunne, Cary Grant James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, In New York City, a young Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Nick Arden remarries Bianca Roland Young, naive girl finds herself involved Gene Evans, Arthur O'Connell after declarin~ his wife Ellen (who directed by George Cukor with a business tycoon. On a trip Determined to get his sub back has been nussing for several A strong-willed Philadelphia to Bermuda, both parties get an in action, a commander bypasses years) dead. Ellen s uddenly girl finds the plans for her second education as they play their game regulations and uses "enterpris­ shows up at the honeymoon, and marriage going awry when her of "cat and mouse." 99 min. Col- ing" methods to procure supplies. sparks begin to fly. Nick is first husband turns up. Based on or. 120 min. Color jealous of the man who was on the play by Philip Barry. Acad­ VRP4115 Reg.~ VRP3082 Reg. &B9:% the island with Ellen, Ellen is try­ emy Awards '40: Best Actor Sale Price $19.95 Sale Price $19.95 ing to convince Nick that the man (Stewart); Best Screenplay is older than he reallr is, and (Donald Ogden Stewart). 112 min. The Bachelor and Bianca is trying to figure out B&W. VHS Only Every Girl Should what's going on. B&W. VMG500059 Reg. ~ the Bobby Soxer VRP7428 Reg.~ Sale Price $24.95 Be Married (1948) (1947) Sale Price $17.95 The Bishop's Wife Cary Grant, Franchot Tone, directed by Don Hartman Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, North By Hilarity fills the screen when Shirley Temple (1948) Dick, a practical artist, lectures Northwest (1959) Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Betsy Drake and Franchot Tone figure out who to an art class at a high school Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, David Niven, Monty Wooley, when Susan (a teenager) falls in James Mason, Martin Landau, Elsa Lanchester loves whom and why! Madison Brown (Grant) is a handsome, love with him. Susan crashes directed by Alfred Hitchcock directed by Henry Koster Dick's apartment and is dis­ Considered by many be David Niven is an ambitious eligible doctor. A salesclerk to Anabel Adams (Drake), thinks covered there with him. Dick is Alfred Hitchcock's most enter­ bishop who has temporarily lost guilty enough to get 20 years, but taining thrillers, North by North­ sight of the more spiritual aspects that he's perfect marriage material. Every Girl Should Be the judge arranges for Dick to go west will leave you breathless. of his job. Cary Grant is the unprosecuted on the promise that Cary Grant, the victim in a case debonair angel sent to help Niven Married is a fun-filled romance that will warm the heart. 84 min. he will pretend to be Susan's boy­ of mistaken identity, is forced to find his way again. 108 min. friend until she recovers from her race around the country in a bid B&W. VHS Only B&W. VRP7190 S19.95 infatuation. B&W. to clear his name. 136 min. Color VBA3030 Reg. &39:% VRP7043 $19.95 VHS Only Sale Price $19.95 VMG600104 $19.95 She Done Him The Grass Is Wrong (1933) Cary Grant, Mae West, Greener (1961) Owen Moore, Noah Beery Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, That platinum bomb-shell, Mae Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum West, shines as a tough-as-nails An American millionaire in­ barroom matron with a heart of vades part of an impoverished gold. That is, when she isn't dally­ Earl's mansion and falls in love ing with Grant, ex-lovers, ex-cons with the lady of the house. The and ex-patriates... or belting out Earl is willing to go to any tunes like "Frankie And lengths to keep his wife, even a Johnny" . 65 min. B&W. due1 with pistols. 105 min. Color. VMC80597 $29.95 VRP1586 Reg.~ Topper (1937) Sale Price $19.95 Cary Grant, Roland Young, Indiscreet (1958) Father Goose Suspicion (1941) Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel directed by Norman Z. McLeod Phy/Jis Calvert, directed by (1964) Cary Grant , Leslie Caron, Bruce, Leo G. Carroll, Based on the Thorne Smith Stanley Donen directed by Alfred Hitchccck novel, this is the story of Marion An American diplomat in Lon­ Trevor Howard During World War II, a plane­ ls he or isn't he planning to and George Kirby who, after a car don falls in love with an actress murder his wife? Hitchcock keeps accident, do not wish to be dead but protects himself by saying he spotter stationed on a remote Pacific isle finds himself stuck you guessing until the last and become ghosts instead. They is married. Taken from the Nor· minute! Grant excels as a charm­ get involved in many ghostly man Krasna play "Kind Sir". with a group of French refugee schoo!girls and their teacher. 116 ing villain who arouses the suspi­ escapades. 97 min. B&W. (Look for a remake of this film cions of wife Fontaine, in her VN04005 S19.95 starring Robert Wagner to be min. Color. 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& CHARLtt: CHAPl.IN 1------Charlie Chaplin - The Early Years, Charlie Chaplin - The Early Years, Collector's Set Volume W The Blackhawk Catalog gives you all four editions of The Early Years at one special price. Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell VRPXl Reg. $%;96 Sale Price $69.95 The Cure (1917) A sobering experience for Charlie! As an oft-inebriated sophis­ Charlie Chaplin - The Early Years ticate, he goes to the "springs" for a cure. Only his trunk of Volume I liquor finds its way there. Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance The Floorwalker (1916) The Immigrant (1917) Charlie is floored! He becomes involved with Charlie drops anchor! He befriends a ( a 1 a store det.ective on the escalator in a series of girl aboard a ship heading for America, wacky Keystone-like escapades. then becomes infatuated. The Vagabond (1916) The Count (1916) Travels with Charlie! As a wandering violinist, Count on Charlie! When he catches his boss impersonating Charlie rescues a young girl who has been kidnapped a count, the results are fast action. by_gypsies. B&W Easy Street (1917) VRP7120 $19.95 Charlie becomes top banana! A down and out Charlie is rescued at a neighoorhood mission, only to return Chaplin - The Early later as the patrolman who shrewdly masters the street. Years, 62 min. B&W Volume IV VRP7118 S19.95 Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell Charlie Chaplin Behind the Screen (1916) The Early Years, Charlie takes a swipe! In this Volume II funny satire on Keystone slapstick, Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance Charlie is an overworked movie The Pawnshop (1916) stagehand who destroys a movie Janitor and clerk, Charlie, causes studio. pandemonium with the staff and customers. The Fireman (1916) The Adventurer (1917) Charlie is burning! Fireman Charlie gets in­ He's an escaped convict mistaken for society's volved in an arson plot. darling and swept into a dizzying social whirl The Rink (1916) One A.M. (1916) Charlie skates through life! Charlie leaves Charlie att.empts sleep after a big night on the town. waiter life behind for the grace of the skating 61 min. B&W rink. B&W VRP7119 $19.95 VRP7121 $19.95

Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, directed by Charlie Chaplin In his last , Chaplin plays a factory workman who goes crazy from his repetitious job on an assembly line. 87 min. B&W. VHS Only VPY3007 $29.95 City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill The story is of a tramp (Chaplin) who, by a series of lucky accidents, is able to restore the sight of a blind flowergirl. 86 min. B&W. VHS only THE GREAT DICTATOR VPY3006 $29.95 The Great Dictator (1940) Chaplin Essanay Book I Charlie Chaplin, Paulett,e Goddard, Jack Oalde, The Tt;amp (1915) , Reginald Gardner, Henry Daniell The story about a tramp who saves a young Chaplin's first dialogue film turned to political girl from three thieves. Classic Chaplin. satire. His rantings as Adenoid Hynkel brought The Champion (1915) the newsreels and radio speeches of Hitler into Before starting work as a sparring partner, their perspective. 126 min. B&W. Satire. VHS Charlie picks up a horseshoe and stuffs it into only his boxing glove. Chaplin delivers a "knockout" VPY3008 529.95 punch. 51 min. B&W. VHS only The Kid/The Idle Class VBH9136 Reg. H-9-:95 Sale Price $17.95 (1921) Tillie's Punctured Romance Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, (1914) Edna Purviance, directed by Charlie Chaplin The Little Tramp adopts a homeless orphan Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler in "THE KID," Chaplin's first feature-length Charlie persuades country girl Tillie to steal film. This tape also includes "THE IDLE her father s money and run to the city with him. CLASS" a rare Chaplin short. 85 min. B&W. Piano score by William Perry. 71 min. Color VHS only Tinted. VHS Only VPY3002 $29.95 04-0626 Reg. $½9:95- Sale Price $17.95

Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (218) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 14 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT It Happened One Night Sorrowful Jones (1949) It's in the Bag (1945) (1934) Bob Hope, Lucille Ball Fred Allen, Jack Benny, William Bendix Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Roscoe Karns, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball star in this winning Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley, directed Walter Connolly, directed by Frank Capra comedy based on the charming Damon Runyon by Richard Wallace A runaway heiress falls in love with a tale about a penny-pinching Broadway book­ A shiftless flea circus owner sells chairs he has newspaperman on a cross country bus trip. maker (Hope) who "inherits" a five-year-old girl inherited, not knowing that a fortune is hidden Academy Awards '34: Best Picture; Best Actor when her father puts t he moppet up as collateral in one of t hem. 87 m.in. B&W (Gable); Best Actress (Colbert); Best Director for a bet and never comes back. Easing Hope's VRP2070 Reg. H9:% Sale Price $17.95 (Capra) 105 min. B&W. VHS Only entry into reluctant fatherhood is old flame Lucy, VCO60382 Reg. 6-59:% Sale Price $19.95 a nightclub singer who just happens to be the personal property of gangster Bruce Cabot, The Senator Was Good Sam (1948) who'll do anything to make sure his horse wins Indiscreet (1947) Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan a big race. A rare showcase for Hope's con­ Despite the efforts of his exasperated wife, an siderable dramatic talents, Sorrowful Jones is a William Powell, Ella Raines A senator, seeking the Presidential nomina­ over-generous husband does good deeds until he pack-leading thoroughbred from beginning to has given away the family fortune. B&W. 120 end. 88 min. B&W. tion, tours the country making ridiculous and contradictory campaign promises. 81 min. B&W min. VMC80598 S29.95 VRP3624 S19.95 VRP1578 Reg. 524:-% Sale Price $19.95 Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) William Powell, Ann Blythe A middle-aged husband hooks a beautiful mer­ maid while fishing in the Caribbean and with time, falls in love with her. 89 min. B&W VRP2820 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 Donovan's Reef (1963) John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Dorothy Lamour Two ex-Navy buddies are enjoying life on a South Pacific island, where they spend most of their time in the local saloon until the arrival of a straight-laced Boston woman in search of her father. 109 min. Color. Romance. VP A6220 Reg &49,96 Sale Price $19.95 SORROWFUL JONES

GOOD SAM Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 15 B LAUREL Ano HARDY!------~ Laurel and Hardy Comedy Swiss Miss (1938) Classics Vol. I - IX , , Walter Woolf King, The collection is finally complete! With the Della Lind, Eric Blore recent release of the long lost volumes 4 and Stan alld Ollie are mousetrap salesmen who 7, you can now collect all nine editions of this visit Switzerland and become involved with an conpendium of Laurel and Hardy classics. egotistical songwriter and his wife. 72 min. B&W VNO4004 Reg. 5-2--t:-95 Sale Price $19.95 Volume 1-The Music Box, The Live Ghost, County Hospital and Twice Two. 93 min. B&W (1935) VNO4301 $19.95 Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Daphne Pollard, William Janney, June Lange, Volume 2-Blotto, Brats, Towed in A Hole and directed by James Horne Hog Wild. 90 min. B&W Stan and Ollie are at it again with this send VNO4302 $19.95 up of the 1935 Gary Cooper film, Lives of a Bengal Lancer. In this adventure, Stan and Pardon Us (1931) Volume 3-Oliver the 8th, Their First Mistake, Oliver venture off to Scotland to collect on an Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Busy Bodies and Dirty Work. 90 min. B&W inheritance, but somehow end up in a Scottish Wlldred Lucas VNO4303 $19.95 military regiment stationed in India. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are sent to VMG300857 $24.95 prison for selling home-brewed beer. They en­ Volume 4-Another Fine Mess, Laughing counter all the usual prison sterotypical Gravy, Come Clean and Any Old Port. 90 min. Way Out West (1937) characters and play off them to delightful com· B&W Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne, edy effect. Durmg an escape, they put on black VNO4304 $19.95 James Finlayson, Rosina Lawrence faces and pick cotton along with blacks and Ollie The boys travel westward to deliver a mine sings "Lazy Moon." 56 min. B&W Volume 5-Be Big, Night Owls, The Perfect deed to the daughter of a recently departed VNO4007 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 Day and Helpmates. 89 min. B&W friend. A crooked saloonkeeper tries to swindle VNO4305 $19.95 them. 65 min. B&W (1933) VNO4003 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 Volume 6-The Fixer Uppers, Our Wife, Them Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, , Now you can buy this B&W aassic in full. Charley Chase Thar Hills, and Tit for Tat. 90 min. B&W color. Colorized by . VHS Sons of the Desert, Stan and Ollie's misadven· VNO4306 $19.96 Onl__y tures stem from their half-baked scheme to at­ HHR9610 Reg. &B4-:% Sale Price $19.95 tend a Chicago convention without their wives' Volume 7-Below Zero, Thicker Than Water, permission. An elaborate ruse is constructed, Midnight Patrol, Me and My Pal. 80 min. B&W which centers around a fictitious trip to Hawaii. VNO4307 $19.95 Critics uniformly count Sons of the Desert among Stan and Ollie's slickest comedies. Filmed Volume 8-Men O'War, Scram, Laurel and in 1933, this production is one of many made Hardy Murder Case and One Good Turn. 90 under the tutelage of long-time Laurel & Hardy min. B&W producer, Hal Roach. 69 min. B&W VNO4308 $19.95 VNO4001 $19.95 Volume 9-Beau Hunks, Chickens Come (1936) Home, Going Bye Bye, Berth Marks. 108 min. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, B&W directed by Harry Lachman VNO4309 $19.95 This polished, fast-paced Laurel and Hardy Complete Laurel and Hardy Comedy Classics classic has our hapless heroes entangled Vols. I· IX in a hilarious series of mistaken VNOXl Reg. &¥ffi:9& Sale Price S159.95 identities when they meet up with their long-lost twin brothers! 94 min. B&W Block-Heads VNO4002 Reg. ~ (1938) Sale Price $19.95 Twenty years after World War I, Stan is still The Bohemian guarding a trench because Girl (1936) nobody told him to stop. Stan Laurel, Oliver Ollie takes him home to Hardy, Mae Busch meet the wife with disas The last of Laurel and trous consequences. Hardy's comic operettas "Old-fashioned slap­ finds them as guardians of stick and hoke." a young orphan, whom no - Variety. onerealizes is actually a kid­ VNO4009 $19.95 napped princess. 7 4 min. The Flying B&W Comedy VNO4008 Reg. ~ Deuces (1939) Sale Price $19.95 Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Stan and Oliver join the Foreign Legion to help forget his troubled ro­ mantic past. 65 min. B&W VRP1349 Sale Price S17.95

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16 ~------mTHE LITTLE RASCALS The Little Rascals Vol. 1 Boxing Gloves (1929) Joe and Chubby (under the management of Harry and Farina) take their heated rivalry over flirty into the boxing ring. It's a hybrid silent and early talkie; some scenes were shot silent. The Kid from Borneo (1933) Spanky's ne'er-do-well uncle, who has evi­ dently seen King Kong, comes to the Rascal's hometown to show a wild man from Borneo. The kids mistake the attraction for the impresario. Roamin' Holiday (1936) Spanky and Alfalfa decide that babysitting isn't fitting work. With Buckwheat, Porky, and ANNIVERSARY TROUBLE their dog, Pete, they pack their knapsacks and THREE SMART BOYS leave home. 50 min. B&W VRP7347 $19.95 The Best of the The Little Rascals Little Rascals on Parade Six crazy episodes collected here to make you Giggles abound in these 6 famous Rascal riots. roar with laughter. The Gang's all here in DOGS , ARBOR DAY, MALE AND IS DOGS, ANNIVERSARY TROUBLE, FEMALE, HOOK AND LADDER, THE THREE MEN IN A TUB, HELPING GRAND­ LUCKY CORNER and FEED 'EM AND MA, and BEAR FACTS. 101 WEEP. 92 min. B& W min. B&W VRP7344 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95 VRP7054 Reg. $39:% Sole Price S19.95 The Little Rascals The Little Rascals Two Reelers Blackhawk Collection Hal Roach's mischief-makers delight audiences Note: All titles available in VHS only! of all ages with their ability to turn the most nor­ BOOK IX: mal situations into near disaster-time after time Little Daddy (1931) after time. These six "Rascals" volumes are the original theatrical versions, in brilliantly clear Spooky Hooky (1936) ~ Hide and Shriek (1938) THE KID FROM BORNEO black and white. VHS only You'll see why THE LITTLE RASCALS is VBH50576 Reg. $29:98 Sale Price S17.95 the most popular film series ever when you let BOOK XI: The Little Rascals Vol. 2 this special gang into your heart. Pay As You Exit (19361 Tht: Fir,;t Seven Years (1930) Order all six volumes TODAY! Available in Three Smart Boys (1937) This comedy explores the age old situation of VHS format only. Follies of 1938 two boys, Jackie and Speck, seeking the affec­ VHS only tion of one girl, Mary Ann. Little Rascals Two Reelers Vol. 1: VBH50574 Reg. ~ Sale Price $17.95 Bored of Education (1936) Lazy Days BOOK XIV: Facing a new school year and a new teacher, Spooky Hooky Small Talk (1929) Spanky and Alfalfa contrive to skip class by rig­ VRP7013 Reg.~ Sale Price $14.95 (1935) ging a phony, bulging toothache, with a balloon. Little Rascals Two Reelers Vol. 2: Hearts Are Thumps (1937) Winner of the Academy A ward: Best Short Sub· Bedtime Worries VHS only ject of 1936. Glove Taps VBH50571 Reg.~ Sale Price S17.95 Rushin' Ballet (1937) VRP7014 Reg. 6i-½9,% Sale Price S14.95 BOOK XV: Protectors of the weak, champions of the Litt.le Rascals Two Reelers Vol. 3: When the Wind Blows (1930) downtrodden, Spanky and Alfalfa have organ· Second Childhood For Pete's Sake (1934) ized the Secret Revengers Club. Challenged by Hide & Shriek Glove Taps (1937) a clear cut case of oppression, they pull out their VRP7015 Reg. &¥.):-9& Sale Price $14.95 VHS only Sherlock Holmes hats and bravely set forth to Little Rascals Two Reelers Vol. 4: VBH50570 Reg. ~ Sale Price $17.95 avenge the two helpless victims, Porky and When the Wind Blows BOOK XVI: Buckwheat. 50 min. 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17 LFADINGIADIFS Double Indemnity (1944) The Maverick Queen (1955) Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, &ott Brady, Edward G. Robinson Mary Mwphy, Wallace Ford, directed by Joseph When an insurance man with commission on Kane his mind meets a suburban blond with murder Sparks erupt when a Pinkerton detective in her heart, it's lust at first sight. Barbara Stan­ works undercover at a Wyoming gambling hotel wyck and Fred MacMurray conspire to trick her that is a hangout for an outlaw gang. Barbara husband into signing a policy ttiat pays double Stanwyck is cast aptly as the beauty who owns for accidental death-then push him from a train the hotel and is caught between her jealous lover without leaving tracks. It's a perfect crime until and her love for the lawman. their claim goes to Edward G. Robinson, an in­ VRP2690 Reg. $39:95 Sale Price $19.95 surance investigator who puts a premium on not being swindled. Double Indemnity is a movie so Gilda (1946) malicious, so satisying, that it has become one Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready of Hollywood's all-time best suspense thrillers. A South American gambling casino owner 1 hr. 47 min. B&W. VHS HiFi hires a young American as his trusted aide, VMC80174 $29.95 unaware of his wife's love for the man. Hayworth sings "Put the Blame on Me." 110 min. B&W. Stage Door (1937) VHS Only Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, VC0194 Reg. $59:-96 Sale Price S29.95 Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Andrea Leeds, directed by Gregory La Cava Salome (1953) Based on Edna Ferber's play set in a theatrical Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, boarding house, this movie follows the ambitions Charles Laughton, Dame Judith Anderson, and escapades of young, aspiring actresses. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Sydney "One of the flashiest, most entertaining com· Beautiful Princess Salome is sent to live with edies of the 30's, even with its tremolos and has her stepfather King Herod (Charles Laughton), touches of heartbreak." - Pauline Kael. and has a traitorous love affair with Claudius One Touch of Venus (1948) 92 min. B&W (Stewart Granger), a disciple of John the Bap­ Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Eve Arden, VRP7714 Reg. ffl:% Sale Price $17.95 tist. When the King proclaims that John be Dick Haymes, Ol!fa San Juan, Tom Conway beheaded, Salome performs an erotic "Dance of A young man impulsively kisses a marble Alice Adams (1935) the Seven Veils" to save John's life. 103 min. statue of the goddess Venus, which comes to life. Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray Color. VHS Only Based on the Broadway musical, with songs by In a small mid-western town, in the heat of VC0862 $29.95 Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash, including "Speak summer, a would-be socialite, Alice, falls in love Low." 82 min. B&W with a man from an upper level of society. In this The Devil and Miss Jones VRP3060 Reg. $59:-96 Sale Price $19.95 melodrama, she tries to make a few party invita­ (1941) tions into a place in the debutante circle. With Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Heidi (1937) fantasies and daydreams, Alice tries to make her Robert Cummings, William Demarest, Shirlel' Temple, Jean Hersholt, unhappy family into a happy one. The moment of truth comes when Alice must face life as it directed by Sam Wood Marcia Mae Jones, Mary Nash, Combining the best of the 30's and 40's com­ directed by Allan Dwan really is and not as she wished it would be. Honesty proves to be the best policy. 99 min. edies, this entertaining film sees a millionaire Shirley Temple's last commercial blockbuster, masquerade as a clerk in his own department Heidi is one of her best films. Jean Hersholt also B&W ffl:% store to investi~ate worker complaints. Charles infuses his stock performance with a knowing VRP7008 Reg. Sale Price $17.95 Coburn and wnter Norman Krasna were both wink, which makes his big scenes all the nominated for Academy Awards for their ef­ stronger. Lush production values and a satisfy­ forts. 90 min. B& W ing conclusion make Heidi a pleasant viewing ex­ VRP1015 Reg. &59:% Sale Price $19.95 perience. 88 min. B&W. VHS only VPY1066 $19.95 --~

HEIDI Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 18 LA TRAVlATA La Traviata (1982) Placido Domingo, one of today's finest opera stars, Teresa Stratas and Cornell MacNeil star in this 19th century romantic tragedy. VMC80048 $29.95 Carmen (1984) Julia Migenes-Johnson, Placido Domingo, Faith Esham, directed by Francesco Rosi This is the Bizet opera about a gypsy tobacco worker who has torrid affairs with a lieutenant and a toreador. Available in VHS Dolby HiFi Stereo with English subtitles. 151 min. Color. OQera. Rated PG. VHS Only J azzball (1958) Black and Tan/ VCO60487 Reg. ~ Sale Price S29.95 Featuring the legends of jazz Dozens of legendary jazz greats are featured St. Louis Blues (1930) in this special program of rare screen perfor­ Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith Going My Way (1944) mances. Included are Duke Ellington, Artie Duke E llin~ton's first screen appearance was Shaw, Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols. Cab this extraordinary and deeply moving film pro· , Barry Fitzgerald Calloway, Gene Krupa, Peggy Lee, Buddy Rich duced in the second year of sound by Dudley In Going My Way, Bing is an unconventional and many more! 60 min. B&W Murphy. 20 min. B&W singing priest attempting to save a poor parish presided over by gruff, but lovable, Fitzgerald. VRP2106 Reg. ~ Sale Price Sl9.95 Bessie Smith sings the blues, set in a smoke­ filled speakeasy of the late Twenties. Her only Winner of seven Academy Awards, including film. 16 min. B&W. VHS only Best Picture, the heartwarrnin~ tale introduced VBH9096 Reg. $¼9:-9& Sale Price $17.95 the title tune "Going My Way', as well as the standards "Too-re-Loo-re-Loo-ra" and "Swing­ ing on a Star." Singin' In The Rain (1952) VMC55038 S19.95 An exhilarating and sprightly comedy, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, is a gentle parody of If You Knew Susie (1948) Hollywood's frantic transition to the "talkies" Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, Allyn Joslyn, during the late twenties. With stars Kelly, Deb­ Charles Dingle bie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor at their live­ Eddie and Joan are two retired vaudeville ac­ liest. SIN GIN' IN THE RAIN has "just about tors living in a New England town. They are not everything you could ask of a musical" {Satur­ accepted socially; that is, until a letter from day Review). It remains one of the finest and George W ashin&t?n establishes them as descen­ most beloved musicals ever to come out of dents of a colorual patriot. 90 min. B&W. VHS H ollywood. 1 hr. 43 min. Color. VHS only Only VMG600185 S29.95 88-0737 Reg. sa+.-9& Sale Price S24.95 THE FRENCH LINE Young at Heart (1954) The French Line (1952) Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland Robert Keith, Elizabeth Fraser, Alan Hale Sr. The French Line is a musical about a girl who's Fanny Hurst's lighthearted tale of a cynical too rich. It seems that all the men are after her hard-luck musician who finds happiness when he money, so she decides to go on a voyage to sort falls for a small-town girl. A remake of the 1938 things out. On the liner, there he is! No matter "Four Daughters." Songs include the title tune, how his bank account is. Ah, but he has spies "You. My Love" and "Just One of Those out because he is a very rich Parisian traveling Things." 117 min. Color incognito and is wary of fortune hunters. 102 VRP4706 Reg. $;W:-95 Sale Price S19.95 min. VHS Only 68-0749 Reg. 839:-9& Sale Price $29.95 IF YOU KNEW SUSIE Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 19 The Seven Year Itch (1955) Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell Marilyn is the definitive dumb blonde in this hilarious Billy Wilder comedy about a married man who gets into trouble fantasizing about a woman who moves into his apartment building while his wife is away on vacation. Includes the famous skirt scene. 105 min. VHS Only VTW1043 Reg. &&9-:9& Sale Price $19.95 Love Happy (1950) Marilyn Monroe, The Marx Brothers t:,. group o~ impoverished a~tors accidentally gam possession of valuable diamonds. 85 min. B&W VRP2467 Reg. ff+.% Sale Price $19.95 __..... GENTLEMENT PREFER BLONDES Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Howard Hawks directs Marilyn and Jane Russell in this very entertaining musical com­ edy about a couple of American show girls seek­ ing fame and fortune in Paris. Includes the HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE number "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend." 91 min. VHS Only How to Marry a Millionaire VTW1019 Reg. %9,-98 Sale Price $19.95 (1953) The Misfits (1961) Let's Make Love (1960) Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, George Cukor directed this witty comedy Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable join Marilyn Montgomery_ Clift. Eli Wallach about Yves Montand as a millionaire out to as women conniving to land wealthy husbands Marilyn Monroe's last movie - as well as squelch a show that makes sport of him - until in Manhattan. Together, the three .Prove that the Clark Gable's - this is a John Huston adapta­ he meets cast member Monroe. If you can't beat road to the altar can be paved with laughs. 95 tion of the Arthur Miller drama about a troubled them, join them, he decides, so he hires Milton min. VHS Only divo~cee and her cowboy friends and beau. 124 Berle, Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby_ to teach him VTW1023 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 min. VHS only the performing arts. ll8 min. VHS Only Some Like It Hot (1959) VTW4584 $19.95 VTWll41 $19.95 Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Niagara (1952) George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien This may well be the most hilarious movie of Marilyn exhibits an unexpectedly its generation. Curtis and Lemmon disguise dark side of the beautiful, seem­ themselves as girls to escape from gangsters and ingly naive blonde in this suspen­ join up with Monroe's band. Now, how do they seful thriller as she plots to kill tell her they love her? Hysterical Billy Wilder newlywed husband, Joseph direction. B&W. 120 min. VHS Only Cotton, while honeymooning VTW4577 Reg. &29-:98 Sale Price $19.95 at Niagara Falls. 89 min. VH~ Only Bus Stop (1956) VTW5138 $19.95 Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Hope Lange The first movie to win Marilyn critical ac­ River of No colades as well as laughs, this screen adaptation of the William Inge drama is the story of a one­ Return (1954) sided romance between a cowboy and a small­ Marilyn, a saloon singer in town singer. Includes the number "That Old the days of the '49ers, falls Black Magic." 96 min. VHS Only into Robert Mitchum's cap­ VTW1031 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 able arms after having been cruelly abandoned by Rory Cal- houQ.. 91 min. VHS Only ' VTW5139 $19.95 Monkey Business l (1952) ___ Cary Grant is a researcher who -..--. t.... discovers a compound that restores • youth. Ginger Rogers co-stars as Grant's wife. Marilyn Monroe stands out as a secretary whose charms more than make up for a lack of ty-ping skills. 81 min. VHS Only VTW5140 $19.95

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20 ~------8~6Jf l~J[Jl)A\~lrA\IIJ~ J[ The Gay Divorcee (1934) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Alice Brady, Erik Rhodes, Betty Grable Fred pursues Ginger to an English seaside resort, where she mistakes him for her hired cor­ respondent. Songs include "Night and Day," "Don't Let It Bother You·· and "Needle in a Haystack." Academy Awards '34: Best Song (The Continental; Con Conrad and Herb Magid­ son). 107 min. B&W VNO8015 Reg. 5+9:% Sale Price $17.95 Flying Down To Rio (1933) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers First Astaire-Rogers musical, featurin~ Vin­ cent Youmans· score, including "The Canoca." 89 min. B&W VJ:\O8003 Reg. 5+9:% Sale Price $17.95

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Swing Time (1936) Follow The Fleet (1936) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Fred is a fleet-footed gambler whose luck sud­ Harriet Hilliard, Betty Grable denly changes when Ginger waltzes into his life! A see-worthy delight! Sailors Astaire and Includes the Oscar-winning tune, "The Way You Scott romance dance hall hostesses Rogers and Look Tonight"! 105 min. B&W. VHS Only Hilliard while swinging to such great Irving VN08031 $19.95 Berlin songs as "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and "Let Yourself Go." 110 Min. B&W Shall We Dance (1937) VNO8013 S19.95 Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore, Top Hat (1935) Edward Everetl Horton, Ann Shoemaker, directed by Mark Sandrich Fred Asti:ire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Posing as man and wife to bring their dance Horton, Eric Blore. Helen Broderick, team success, Fred and Gin!fer do wonderful directed by Mark Sandrich thin~s to a top-notch Gershwm score including TOP HAT is the most delightful and endur­ "Let s Call the Whole Thing Off" and Oscar­ ing of the Astaire and Rogers musicals of the nominated "They Can't Take That Away From 1930's. This movie has an ag-reeable wisp of a Me." 116 min. B&W plot and amusing comedy dialogue. VRP7730 $19.95 VNO8035 $19.95 The Story Of Vernon & Irene Castle (1939) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields Fred and Ginger are in top form as the legen­ dary husband-and-wife dance team who rocketed to fame in the years just before World War I! The last of their series of RKO classics. 93 min. B&W VNO8029 S19.95 Carefree (1938) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, ' Madcap Ginger seeks help from psychiatrist Fred in this dazzling screwball comedy. Includ­ ed are such outstanding Irving Berlin numbers as the Oscar-nominated "Change Partners." 83 min. B&W VNO8022

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21 To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, Phillip Afford, Mary Badham, John Megna To Kill a Mockingbird is a leisurely paced, flavorful filming of Harper Lee's best-selling novel. Gregory Peck earned an Oscar as a small town southem lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape. Mary Badham, Philip Alford, and John Megna are superb as Peck's children and a visiting friend who are trying to under· stand life in a small town. Academy Awards '62: Best Actor (Peck). 129 min. B&W TYCOON VMC55032 Reg. &39:-95 Sale Price S24.95 Tycoon (1947) A Streetcar Named Desire John Wayne, Laraine Day, Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1951) Before launching John Ford's memorable Marlon Brando, Vivian Lei_g_h, Kim Hunter, cavalry trilogy with Fort Apache, John Wayne Karl Malden, directed by Elia Kazan made a novel cinematic departure by portraying Brando blazed to stage and screen stardom in a determined railroad builder in Richard Tennessee Williams' electrifying Pulitzer Prize GIANT Wallace's Tycoon. Industrialist Cedric Hard· winner depicting the sexually-charged duel of wicke challenges the Duke to excavate an im­ wits between a fragile Southern belle and her possible tunnel through the Andes - even as he brutish brother-in-law. Leigh and supporting ac­ tries to disrupt Wayne's romance with daughter tors Hunter and Malden won three of the film's Giant (1956) Lorraine Day. Well-acted and backed by the con­ four Academy Awards. 122 min. HiFi Mono Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor.James Dean siderable resources of RKO, Tycoon is an epic VWA34019 Reg. $59:-95 Sale Price $29.95 A Texas cattleman (Hudson), his society· narrative springing from a monumental task. guilded wife (Taylor) and a ranch-hand-turned· 120 min. tycoon (Dean in his final role) love, swagger, con· VRP7877 Reg. U9,% Sale Price $17.95 Dive and clash in this monumental movie from Edna Ferber's epic best-seller about Lone Star Rebel Without a Cause State ranchers vs. oilmen that won director (1955) Georg__e Stevens his second Academy Award. 201 James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, min. Reprocessed for HiFi Stereo. Jim Backus, direct:ed by Nicholas Ray VWA11414 Reg. S69:96 Sale Price $29.95 James Dean's most remembered screen ap­ pearance, as a troubled teenager trying to find The Red Pony (1949) himself as his family settles in a new town. 105 Robert Mitchum, Myrna Loy, Peter Miles, min. Color I ) Louis Calhern, Margaret Hamilton, VWAl0ll Reg. $39'98 Sale Price S24.95 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Beau Bridges, directed by Louis Milestone A young boy loses faith in his father when his pet pony dies. Based on a story by John Stein­ beck, with musical score by Aaron Copland. 86 min. Color VRP3406 $19.95 On The Waterfront (1954) Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson " I coulda been somebody. I coulda been a con· tender." With these simple complaints, Brando mumbles his way to cinema immortality in this unforgettable epic about union corru1;>tion and mob exploitation of workers. A study m human dignity in the face of overwhelming odds, the film featuring a Leonard Bernstein score, won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Ac­ tor, Best Supporting Actress (Saint), Best Direc­ tor (Elia Kazan) and Best Original Screenplay (Budd Schulberg). 108 min. B&W. VHS Only VCO10458 Reg. S59:% Sale Price S29.95 Champion (1949) Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Max.well, Ruth Roman This boxing drama made a star of Kirk Douglas. He plays a young man from an impov­ erished background who punches his way to the top, losing his soul in the bargain. Producer The Quiet Man (1952) Stanley Kramer manages to take the low budget John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond, and make it work in his favor, producing a Mildred Natwick, directed by John Ford ,, realistic portrait of inner-city life. A superior An archetypal John For~ comedy, an Irish. village versi~n of "Tamin~ of the Shrew, the forerunner to such fifties boxmg exposes as Re­ tamer being an ex-boxer retired to the land of his fatl::iers, and m need of a wife. Academy Awards quiem for a Heavyweight and The Harder They '52: Best Director (Ford); Best Color Cinematography (Winton Hoch, Archie Stout). 129 ~ Color. Fall. 99 min. B&W VRP3363 Reg. $W:% Sale Pnce $19.95 VRP0617 Reg. $29:95 Sale Price S24.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 22 .------~111:1 ;~ r n1IN f\/J\1 J Americans loved the exploits of Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) during the 30's and 40's. Now you can purchase all six, delightful mysteries from The Blackhawk Catalog. The Thin Man (1934) William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Cesar Romero The sparkling original that broke the rules and started the trend. VHS only VMG608 $24.95 After The Thin Man (1936) William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Joseph Ca/leia, Elissa Landi, Sam Levene, George Zucco A missing husband ... and a double surprise ending. VHS only VMG820 $24.95 Another Thin Man (1939) William Powell. Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith, Otto Kruger, Nat Pendleton, Virginia Rey, Marjorie Main A holiday weekend with some high·class killers. VHS only "' . 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~ __. gr,g CLASSICS f-.------m LAURA McKENZIE'S TRAVEL TIPS Journey to Far A way Places More than just a scenic tour, Travel Tips are perfect for planning your upcoming vacation or business trip. Explore spectacular attractions around the world, and get in on where to go and what to do. All Travel Tips are Regularly $24.95 but for a limited time, they are available through The Blackhawk Catalog fo r $19.95. Austria From Vienna·s Lippizan Stallions through Salzburg - "The City of Mozart," to Inns· bruck's Olympic village, ski resorts and Other Travel Tips explore: famous castles. You'll see them all! VRP7351 Reg. &£4:96 Sale Price $19.95 ALASKA ...... VRP7348 ARIZONA ...... VRP7349 Munich and Bavaria ATHENS ...... VRP7350 An introduction to King Ludwig's Castle, BOSTON ...... VRP7353 the salt mines of Berchres garden. Bavarian EGYPT...... VRP7355 beer halls, medieval towns and more! HAWAII ...... VRP7357 VRP7366 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 HONG KONG ...... VRP7358 IRELAND ...... VRP7359 New Orleans LAS VEGAS...... VRP7361 Explore the French Quarter.Jazz it up on LONDON ...... VRP7362 Bourbon Street. Dine on creole cuisine. Ride ...... VRP7363 Mississippi River Ferries and visit planta­ MEXICAN BEACHES...... VRP7364 tions. All before you go! MOROCCO ...... VRP7365 A Double Life (1948) VRP7368 Reg. &*:% Sale Price $19.95 NEW YORK...... VRP7367 Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso PARIS ...... VRP7369 Colman plays an actor so obsessed with his art ROME ...... VRP737 1 Venice SAN FRANCISCO ...... VRP7375 that he can no longer distinguish it from real life. Visit and learn all about St. Marks's When he agrees to play Othello, the story turns Square, the Doges Palace, the famed canals SPAIN...... VRP7377 to murder. Academy Award Winner-Best Ac· SWITZERLAND ...... VRP7378 and gondolas, venetian glass-works, plus WASHINGTON D.C ...... VRP7379 tor. 103 min. B&W other popular attractions! VRP1092 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 VRP7380 Reg. &2+-95 Sale Price Sl9.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 23 John Wayne Matinee Double Features Here's a round-up of some early western classics starring John Wayne. These are "B" movie double features, offered this time for a reduced price. If the double-features listed below interest you, pick up the phone and call The Blackhawk Catalog to place your order. John Wayne Matinee Double Feature Number 1 (111 min.) Frontier Horizon Lawless Nineties VRP7301 Reg. &a9=% Sale Price $19.95 John Wayne Matinee Double Feature Number 2 (112 min.) Three Texas Steers VRP7302 Reg. $89:9& Sale Price $19.95 John Wayne Matinee 1 Double Feature Number 3 (110 min.) Pals of the Saddle The Night Riders VRP7299 Reg. $89:9& Sale Price $19.95 John Wayne Matinee Double Feature Wheel of Fortune (1942) Number 4 (110 min.) John Wayne, Frances Dee Sante Fe Stampede A shrewd young country lawyer is forced to The New Frontier expose a girls father as a crooked gambler, vice VRP7300 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 lord, and shady politician. 85 min. B&W VRP4501 Reg. $99:% Sale Price S19.95 Rooster Cogburn (1975) John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, True Grit (1969) Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, John McIntire John Wayne was given an Oscar for his per· A Bible-thumping schoolmarm joins up with formance as the drunken, uncouth, one-eyed U.S. a hard-drinking, hard-fighting marshal in order marshal, Rooster Cogburn, in this extraordinary to capture a gang of incompetent outlaws who Western. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild killed her father. 107 min. Color. Rated PG action as this odd threesome form a reluctant VMC55042 Reg. $o9:-9& Sale Price $19.95 bond. 128 min. Color. Rated G VPA6833 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) John Wayne Wayne is an iron-willed Cavalry Captain bat­ tling a Cheyenne uprising. An epic film that won an Academy Award for its breathtaking cinematography. 93 min. Color VNO8026 $19.95 Lady From Louisiana (1941) John Wayne, Ray Middleton Lovers seperate in a heated argument and hatreds rage because he is out to rid New Orleans of lotteries, and her father is a big time gambler. 85 min. B&W VRP2248 Reg. $99:95 Sale Price $19.95 TRUE GRIT

Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 24 Lady for a Night (1942) The Cowboys (1972) John Wayne, Joan Blondell John Wayne Memphis society rebels against t he election of When a gold strike drains all the grown men J enny Blake (Joan Blondell), as Queen of the an­ from the area. Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is nual Carnival Ball. Jack Morgan (J ohn Wayne), forced to hire 11 young boys to help him get his a gambler, has rigged the election. Jenny, 1200 cattle from his Double-O Ranch to the however, realizes that t he whole affair is a farce railhead at Belle Fourch, 400 miles away. 128 and this makes her more determined than eve; min. Color to break into Memphis society. 88 min. B&W " ... the best role of his career. Old Dusty Brit­ VRP2233 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 ches can act.'" Rex Reed, N. Y. Daily News Dark Command (1940) VWA11213 $19.95 John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Roy Rogers Kansas school teacher becomes t he famed Big Jake (1971) guerilla, Quantrell, and fights a courageous John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Boone sheriff durin~ Civil War raids in the Kansas ter­ Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum ' ritory. 95 mm. B&W Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn C~rbett VRP0881 Re? fH-9:-% Sale Price $17.95 John Doucette ' DARK COMMAND With its smoking gunfights, stunning backdrops, gritty dialogue and superb perfor­ mances from the entire cast, BIG JAKE is from Dakota (1945) start to finish, big western entertainment. 110 John Wayne, Walter Brennan, min. Color. Rated PG. VHS Only Vera Ralston and Hugo Haas VKV7149 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 John Devlin (John Wayne) elopes with the daughter of railroad tycoon Marko Poli (Hugo Haas). Sandy (Vera Ralston), the new Fort Apache (1948) bride, decides that they should settle John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, down in North Dakota instead of Cal­ Ward Bond, John Agar, George O'Briend ifornia. War then develops between directed by John Ford speculators and wheat farmers after The first entry in director John Ford's cele­ a S20,000.00 theft. 82 min. B&W brated cavalry trilogy (which also includes She VRP0830 Sale Price $19.95 Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande), this western stars Henry Fonda as a post comman­ dant _who decide~ to make a name for himself by Rio Grande (1950) s~artmg a war w1~h the Apaches, against the ad­ John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, vice of an experienced soldier (John Wayne). Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr., Great film. 127 min. B&W directed by John Ford VNO8014 $19.95 The final film in John Ford's cavalry trilogy, Rio Grande, teams John Wayne and Maureen War of the Wildcats (1943) O'Hara as an estranged husband John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker and wife divided over the fate of Cathy Allen, an attractive and independent their grown child (well-played by schoolteacher, is forced to move to Sapulpa, young Claude Jarman Jr.) Oklahoma. 'fhere she meets Jim Gardener, a Wayne, understand, is a cavalry prosperou~ oil operator, and Dan Somes (Wayne), leader with the unenviable task of an attractive cowboy. Because of their mutual ordering his own son into battle interest in Cathy and in the fate of the crude oil against fierce Apaches O'Hara, found on Indian territory, there is a lot of hos­ who hasn't seen Wayne in 16 tility between the two men that threatens to years, tries to intervene on Jar­ destroy both of them. 102 min. man's behalf. In this way, dir­ VRP4447 Reg. St9:-% Sale Price S17.95 ector Ford creates a two-pron­ ged conflict for The Duke: Winds of the Wasteland One between Wayne and the Indiaris, another be­ (1936) tween Wayne and his wife. John Wayne, Further highlighted by As the Pony Express fades into history, John vibrant photography Blair (Wayne) and his sidekick Smoky (Canutt) and an authentic west­ find themselves out of a job. They purchase a ern soundtrack, critic stagE:Coach route f_rom Cal Drake, only to find Leonard Maltin calls that 1t connects with a nearly abandoned min­ Rio Grande ''the ing town. 54 min. B& W most underrated" of VRP4580 S19.95 Ford's cavalry films. Set in the late 1800s, it is also a fascinating study of the cav­ alry's post-Civil War days. Col­ or, B&W 105 min. VRP34 57 Reg. ~ Sale Price S19.95

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Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 25 tlii'1a lAT "£' (! 'JI"£' l) 'lT l) on 'lT n - luT D ~ u .1.1 aJ J. .1.1 u .n .nu u .n JJ .c South of the Border (1939) Gene Autry, , Gene Autry Matinee Lupita Tovar, Mary Lee Gene and Frog are sent to help investigate a Double Feature No. 1 threat to the Latin American country of "Paler­ Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Smiley Burnette mo". Arriving, he and his trusty troubadours (1952) agree to help a prosperous Mexican put down the Mysterious killings occur on a dude ranch rebellion. 70 min. B&W. VHS Only. and wildlife preserve and Gene hunts down VBH9670 Reg. $29'98 Sale Price Sl9.95 the murderers. 58 min. B&W Last of the Pony Riders (1953) The Big Sombrero (1949) Gene uncovers a crooked mail scheme dur­ ing the Pony Express' final days. 59 min. Gene Autry, Elena Verdugo, B&W Stephen Dunne, George Lewis, directed by VRP7224 Reg. $89:95 Sale Price $19.95 Frank McDonald An impoverished Gene Autry comes to the aid of Elena Verdugo and saves her from land (1941) Gene Autry Matinee swindlers, as well as a money-grubbing fiance in Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Double Feature No. 2 this south-of-the-border tale. Filmed in Cinecolor Fay McKenzie, Duncan Renaldo, Champion Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette with a largely Mexican cast, this is more of a Gene and Frog take off for Mexico trailing two musical than a horse opera. This was Autry's se­ Melody Trail (1935) swindlers who, posing as motion picture pro­ A broke rodeo star takes a ranch job where cond color film and the only Autry in color on ducers, have sold fake stock in a movie and then video tape. rustlers have hit, and rescues a kidnapped left Sage City with the people's hard earned baby. 60 min. B&W VRP7068 Reg. $&9:95 Sale Price $19.95 money. Arriving there, Gene meets and con­ Winning of the West (1953) vinces lovely Maria Elena Alvardo, who thinks A territorial ranger and a crusading news­ Ridin' On A Rainbow (1941) she is about to "star" in a film by these same paper publisher discover that outlaws are us­ Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee bad men, that they are a fraud and he needs her ing "Indian raids" as a cover-up. 57 min. Matt Evans, employed as a performer on a help to bring them to justice. Songs incl "Down B&W . showboat is persuaded to join in a bank robbery, Mexico Way", "South of the Border", "Beer VRP7225 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 believing that with his ill-gotten money he may Barrel Polka" and more. 78 min. B&W. VHS buy a new start for his young daughter and only Gene Autry Matinee himself. Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse come VBH9208 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 aboard the boat to keep an eye on the ~l. hop­ Double Feature No. 3 ing she'll lead them to the money, which Gene Saginaw Trail (1953) Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette persuaded his rancher-friends to put in the bank Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Prairie Moon (1938) Just prior to the robbery. 79 min. B& W Connie Marshall, Champion and Little Champ A dead gangster's kids learn a lesson when VRP7695 $19.95 The year is 1827 in Michigan's Saginaw Valley Gene takes them along on a cattle rustler where Gene, a captain in Hamilton's Rang~rs roundup. 58 min. B&W Melody Ranch (1940) and his assistant Smiley have been sent to m· On Top of Old Smokey (1953) Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, vestigate_ murders of settle!s. Jules Brissac ~as Gene assists a young woman when her 25¢ George "Gabby" Hayes, Ann Miller, Champion built a wilderness fur empLI'e and does not like toll road charge enrages local townspeople. Studio executives and the creative forces at settlers, so his henchman, disguised as an Indian 59 min. B&W Republic Studios in 1940, decided to team Gene leads renegade Delawares against the en­ VRP7226 Reg. $89:95 Sale Price $19.95 Autry with Jimmy Durante. Venerable heavy croaching settlers. Smiley, posing as a trapper Barton MacLane provides the menace as a local gets a job in Brissac's trading post to 'get the gangster intent on running honorary sheriff goods' on this wiley Frenchman. 56 min. B&W. Gene Autry out of town. 80 min. B&W. VHS VHS only Only. VBH9614 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 VBH9468 Reg. $29-:-98 Sale Price $19.95 Susanna Pass (1949) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger Roy searches for two escaped convicts, one in cahoots with a newspaper owner scheming after an oil-rich lake. 67 min. Color. VRP4040 Reg. &2+.95 Sale Price $19.95 (1950) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Grant Withers Grant Withers heads an evil gang of foreign agents out to smuggle uranium to unfriendly powers. Roy Rogers plays a modem-day heroic msurance agent. This story is full of fast riding and action that carries it safely through any critical assaults. Color adds a lot to these later Rogers films. 67 min. Color VRP0250 Reg. ~ Sale Price $19.95 (1950) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez Roy Rogers and his sweetheart, Dale Evans, are weighed down by Estelita Rodriguez and moronic comedy relief Pat Brady in this story about state parole officer, Roy and his two-fisted battles with a group of counterfeiters. 67 min. Color VRP4331 Reg.~ Sale Price $19.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 26 ~ ------n CLASSIC COLLECTIBLES The Best of Vol. 1 The Best of Bonanza Vol. 3 The Best of Bonanza Vol. 4 Hoss and the Leprechauns To Own The World A Rose for Lotta Trouble starts when Hoss stumbles across a Telly Savalas guest stars as a multi-millionaire Pilot Episode "leprechaun"' burying a cache of gold on the who decides t hat he's going to buy the The first BONANZA episode ever! A sultry Ponderosa. After that, "leprechauns" invade the Ponderosa even if he has to destroy the Cart­ saloon siren lures Lit tle Joe to Virginia City, ranch and the Cartwrights are led on a merry wrights to get it. When Ben refuses to sell, he where silver tycoons take him hostage. The ran­ chase. An itinerate Irish showman complicates sets out to prove that money has the power to som: The Ponderosa Ranch. things for all concerned. overcome the Cartwrights' objections - and to buy off or frighten all of their friends. The Underdog The Truckee Strip The Cartwrights give refuge to Harry Starr, A scheming silver baron and his ranch foreman The Boss a half-breed Indian played by CHARLES promote a feud between neighbors over "The Tom Slayden squeezes Virginia City mer· BRONSON, and entrust him with a job to help Truckee Strip." The Bishops and the Cart· chants by driving off all competition to his restore his self-confidence. Unfortunately, Harry wrights both claim the land is rightfully theirs. freight line, then hiking rates to impossible has sinister plans for his well-meaning hosts. To further complicate matters, Little Joe has levels. 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SHANE Shane (1953) Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, BULLWHIP Brandon de Wilde. Jack Palance, directed by The Plainsman (1937) George Stevens A retired gunfighter, now drifter, comes to the Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison James Griffith, assistance of a homestead family terrorized by Cecil B. DeMille's epic wild, wild Western stars !!~lla'Zs~}~h!!d~~~Lg, Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok, Arthur as Calamity Peter Adams a hired gunman. A classic of the Western film A man falsely accused of murder saves himself genre. Academy A wards '53: Best Cinema­ Jane and Ellison as Buffalo Bill. There's just enough Indian fights, gun duels, stampedes and from the hangman's noose by agreeing to a tography, Color. 117 min. Color shotgun wedding. 80 min. Color VPA6522 $19.95 romantic action - even for a DeMille classic. 113 min. B&W VRP0464 Reg. ss-9:-95 Sale Price $19.95 VMC80548 S29.95 Credit Card Sales - Call Toll Free 1-800-826-2295 Customer Service (213) 888-2229 No collect calls, please 27 j Flying Leathernecks (1951) The Fighting Seabees (1944) John Wayne, Robert Ryan John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne), head of a William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey, J. J. Kerrigan Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific is Wedge (Wayne) tries to get his civilian con­ disliked by his men and his executive officer. struction workers armed during World War II Kirby is a strict disciplinarian and the men feel when some of his men are killed during a he is too hard on them. But the men learn that Japanese attack. Wedge's gang, fully prepared in the crucible of war, discipline is what stands and armed, are sent to a Pacific island to con­ between death and a chance to survive. The struct an airfield and oil depot. D~ an attack, World War II battle for Guadalcanal becomes Wedge leads his men into the interior to clean the setting of the final leadership tug-of-war be­ out the snipers. The Fighting Seabees is a tween fighter squadron leaders Wayne and dramatic, action filled feature. 100 min. B&W Ryan. 102 min. Color VRP1307 Reg. $29:% Sale Price S19.95 VN08004 $19.95

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