Actor Bela Lugosi born in Lugos Hungary on October 20th 1882 was the screen's most notorious personification of evil. At the peak of his career in the early '30s he helped usher in an era of new popularity for the horror genre.
In 1945 during the final death throes of the Third Reich a crack division of SS Shock Troops went down aboard their ship. They had supposedly drowned beneath several fathoms of ocean. Yet there was one thing about them the world didn't know: they couldn't die as they had never been alive in the first place. Genetically engineered and adaptable to battle conditions anywhere (even under water) these were the Gestapo outfits known as the Death Corps pathological murderers and criminals with an innate desire for violence...
The law is black white and blonde! The Mod Squad is a police drama which features three young hip crime fighters - Captain Adam Greer (Tige Andrews) Julie Barns (Peggy Lipton) and Pete Cochran (Michael Cole)! The youthful trio are offered work fighting crime as an alternative to being incarcerated themselves. they use their youthful hippie personas as a guise to get close to the criminals they investigate.
His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson--the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com
The Atlanta Murders focuses on one reporters relentless investigation of the mysterious death of a well respected doctor. Certain that race plays a role this cop turned reporter uncovers medical evidence of a horrible connection between the doctor and murders of 29 young black men. When a possible witness turns up dead he begins to realise that the murders may not be about black but blue. He calls some old friends for back-up and battle ready they confront the dark genius behind t
In middle America a grieving father swears revenge after his young daughter is killed by armed robber Stone during his getaway. Now a hired assassin is pursuing Stone and it's about to get worse when the chase continues across the Atlantic to London. Based on one of the 'Parker' novels written by Richard Stark.
Oscar nominees Laurence Fishburne Tim Roth and Andy Garcia set the screen ablaze in this riveting crime thriller exploding with spectacular gun battles and brutal action. In 1930s New York Bumpy Johnson rules the Harlem numbers racket with a rare combination of honour dignity and strength. But when savage gangster Dutch Schultz threatens his reign with a series of bloody attacks Bumpy knows that the only way to win is to play Dutch's deadly game. As a vicious war spins madly out of control so does Bumpy's personal life and soon the mobster realizes that his only way out is to instigate a dangerous plan involving one of the most feared and powerful gangsters in history... Mob chieftain Lucky Luciano.
This acclaimed Silent-Era classic is Chaplin's first drama (a genre he visted again in Limelight) Directing with keen-eyed finesse and appearing in only a small role Chaplin jabs at French high society while telling a tale of tragic love.
A living legend of America music Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown grew up in rural Louisiana and Texas and this early geographic environment was instrumental in the development of his unique style as a musician. A first-class guitarist and a gifted singer Gatemouth makes music that defies the usual stylistic categories successfully mixing elements from the Texas blues and the R & B from New Orleans Cajun music from the Louisiana swamps and hard-rocking jazz from the Lone Star state plus country and bluegrass licks that come straight from Nashville. A colorful personality (he worked as a deputy sheriff in New Mexico when he temporarily retired from music from in the late Sixties) Clarence Brown has traveled the world over making extensive tours across Europe Africa Asia and South America in the course of a highly successful career that stretches over half a century.Recorded live in 1984 at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans this hour-long video features the irrepressible Gatemouth in splendid artistic form armed with his characteristic leather-coated Gibson Firebird guitar and resorting to a healthy combination of down-home ingredients through a repertoire mostly consisting of original numbers plus the occasional welcome surprise such as Albert Collins's 'Frosty' Cecil Gant's 'I Wonder' or the traditional 'Up Jumped The Devil'.1. I Feel Alright Again2. I Wonder3. Gate Walks To Board4. Sunrise Cajun Style5. Song For Rene6. Six Levels Below Plant Life7. Frosty8. One More Mile9. Pressure Cooker10. Catfish11. Up Jumped The Devil
Recorded at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans - February 4th 1984The New Orleans club performance featured on this DVD highlights many facets of Gate's work and demonstrates his abilities both as the bluesiest fiddle player on the block and as a sharp-toned guitar master from the T-Bone Walker school. His percussive skin-on-guitar strings approach, together with the capo he clamps across the neck of his leather coated Gibson Firebird, speaks volumes about the influence Brown exercised over the younger Texan Albert Collins and perhaps explains why the seemingly made to measure instrumental Frosty is so easily accommodated here. Among the others who have paid homage to Gate are such important names as Guitar Slim, Otis Rush and Lonnie Brooks.
Clarence ""Gatemoth"" Brown is a maestro of the Texas guitar blues - an explosive mixture of Blues R&B Country Jazz und Cajun. ""Gate"" who draws full sounds from his electric guitar and is also a full-fledged violinist can look back on over 50 years of stage experience. Watching him in action is proof of his prolific career. The tracklist features 'Bits And Pieces' 'There You Are' 'Early In The Morning' 'Take The A-Team' 'Long Way Home' 'Honky Tonk' 'C Jam Blues' 'Stop Time'
A blaxploitation film with a heavy dose of Voodoo Zombies! When her boyfriend is brutally murdered Sugar Hill (Marki Bey) refuses to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket and decides not to get mad but bad! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi the Lord of the Dead for help in gaining a gruesome revenge...
Considered one of the premier saxophonists of the post-Coltrane era Billy Harper's unique soulful approach to Jazz is on full display in this full-length concert live from Szczecin Poland. Performing at the Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral of St. Jacob known for its acoustic splendor and gothic brilliance Harper showcases everything from Jazz with his symphonic flair to the mystical reach of Gospel Music. While constantly evolving from the influential sound of previous Jazz generations Harper has been careful to carve out his own sound rather than retrace that of music's past and in the process has consciously and continuously pushed the bounds and momentum of music forward.
Western Swing violinist Bob Wills performs his unique blend of country blues Big Band and country western music in this biographical documentary featuring appearances by Mel Tillis Eldin Shamblin Clarence Cagle and others. Performances include: Sittin' On Top Of The World Home In San Antone Lone Star Rag Goodbye Liza Jane Time Changes Everything San Antonio Rose and more...
Clarence Gatemouth Brown: In Concert - Ohne Filter
The Blues of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown.Recorded at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans February 4 1984.01. I Feel Airtight Again02. I Wonder03. Gate Walks To Board04. Sunrise Cajun Style05. Song For Rene06. Six Levels Below Plant Life07. Frosty08. One More Mile09. Pressure Cooker10. Catfish11. Up Jumped The Devil
His Girl Friday (Dir. Howard Hawks 1940): Perhaps the funniest comedy ever made. This inspired adaptation adds an extra dimension of exploitation by turning Hildy Johnson into Walter Burns ex-wife. A classic unrelenting hilarious war-between-the-sexes comedy in which a reporter and her ex-husband editor helps a condemned man escape the law - while at the same time furthering their own ends as they try to get the big scoop on political corruption in the town. One of Howards H
The Dead Walk Among Us! For you my friend they are the angels of death. Thus replies Murder Legendre (Bela Lugosi) to John Harron when he inquires about the zombies he encounters on the island of Haiti the locale of this horror classic. When Harron arrives on the isle with his lovely fianc''e Madeline (Madge Bellamy) a wealthy fellow traveler Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer) offers his lush plantation home for their nuptials. Unfortunately Beaumont has become smitten with Madeline and enters into an unholy alliance with zombie master Legendre to win possession of her-alive or undead. They arrange for Madeline to fall ill and die and then be resurrected as a zombie-and Charles' love slave. Who will ultimately possess the beautiful bride is decided in the film's final deadly struggle. The tale is set in a smouldering descimated post World War II world in the town of Meridian which has the Halperin brothers made White Zombie in just 11 days back in 1932 with 000 and sets left behind from Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein. Keeping dialogue to a minimum they wisely let the cameraman cut loose on this odd fairy tale avoiding the stagey static feel that pervades most early makes. White Zombie doesn't tell us a story when it can show us one. One of the most visually interesting terror films ever made.
Blue Hill Avenue: Four friends, Tristan (Allen Payne), Simon (Michael Taliferro), E-Bone (William L. Johnson) and Money (Aaron D. Spears), are street smart kids growing up in the tough Mattapan section of Boston in the 1980s. Starting out as small-time dope dealers on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square, they eventually go to work for Benny (Clarence Williams III), a major player in the Boston crime scene. As the four friends grow up and become the biggest dealers in the city, things become.
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