 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) - Van Johnson stars as a blind mystery writer from the U.S. who overhears what he thinks is a kidnapping plot while in London, but can't get anybody to believe him except his ex-fiance, played by Vera Miles, and his assistant (Cecil Parker).
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 13 West Street (1962) - An aging Alan Ladd in his second-to-last film plays a man seeking revenge against teenage thugs led by Michael Callan, predating Death Wish by a dozen years. Rod Steiger is the cop who tries to stop him while at the same time tracking down the bad guys.
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 Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) - Abbott & Costello completists will want this comic homage to the pirate films of the era, but others may be put off by the bad color (Cinecolor, a cheap alternative to Technicolor), lack of plot, and somewhat odd performance by the great Charles Laughton, though some wish he had done more like this (it is not Mutiny on the Bounty).
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 Above and Beyond (1952) - Robert Taylor stars in the personal story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Taylor's love interest at the time, Eleanor Parker, plays his wife, and James Whitmore is excellent (as usual) in a supporting role as his friend. Regardless of your feelings regarding the use of atomic weapons, the film appears to be a sincere attempt to capture the story of the man who faced the task of carrying out his orders.
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 Aces High (1976) - Malcolm McDowell is an alcoholic WW I air ace, and Christopher Plummer is his commanding officer, in this anti-war film, a remake of 1930's Journey's End.
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 Advance to the Rear (1964) - Directed by George Marshall and starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens, this overlooked gem of early 60s comedy tells the story of a group of Civil War soldiers -- "a company of cowards," as the song by the New Christy Minstrels explains -- who are just trying to make it through the war alive. Lots of familiar faces show up in this one, including Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus, Joan Blondell, Alan Hale, Jr., and many more.
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 The Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) - Errol Flynn completists will want this one, but it's not one of his best. Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead are very good, and must carry the action until Flynn appears in the last 40 minutes!
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 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) - Mickey Rooney turns in one of his best performances in this 1939 box office hit based on the novel by Mark Twain. Though it takes liberties with both the plot and the tone of the novel in order to avoid antagonizing Southern audiences of the day, it is quite entertaining when viewed with that in mind.
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 The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) - Despite some historical innacuracies, the movie is very entertaining, and Fredric March is in top form as the legendary title character. The music is great, and most of Twain's most famous adventures and statements are woven into the plot.
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 The Adventures of Tartu (1943) - Originally released in the UK as Sabotage Agent, this World War II espionage film stars Robert Donat as Captain Terence Stevenson, a British undercover agent who becomes Jan Tartu, a member of the Rumanian Iron Guard, in order to sabotage a German gas factory. Valerie Hobson and Glynis Johns co-star.
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 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) - Why this definitive version of the Mark Twain story has not been released yet on Region 1 DVD is a mystery. Produced by David O. Selznick, directed by Norman Taurog, and photographed by James Wong Howe, with Oscar-nominated art direction by Lyle Wheeler (Gone With the Wind), this one is a gem, relatively free of the racism of other films of this era.
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 The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) - Before it was a hit TV comedy, "Dobie Gillis" was a movie starring Bobby Van as Dobie and Debbie Reynolds as his love interest who isn't interested in love. Screenplay by Max Shulman, who wrote the book from which the movie and the TV series were taken. Perhaps the best reason to check out this film is to watch Bob Fosse dance in one of only a half-dozen screen performances before he became one of the great Broadway and Hollywood choreographers.
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 The African Queen (1951) - It is unclear why this great classic is not currently available on Region 1 DVD, but we've had so many requests for it that we're making it available on this site now. Oscar nominations for Bogart, Hepburn and Huston, with a win for Bogie. Should have been nominated for Best Picture in 1952, but it got lost in the glut of other great films that year.
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 Against the Wind (1948) - A group of British men and women parachute into Nazi-held Belgium on a rescue and sabotage mission. Robert Beatty is a priest and Simone Signoret a Belgian partisan who falls in love with one of the soldiers. A classic WWII film from Ealing Studios.
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 Ain't Misbehavin' (1982) - Nell Carter and André De Shields star in (and won Emmys for) this legendary TV version of the Broadway hit show featuring more than two dozen songs by "Fats" Waller. Never officially released on home video. The cost for this one is $2 higher than the others ($11.25), as a donation will be made to a youth theatre group in Australia (from whence this DVD originated).
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 100 Men and a Girl (1937) - A multiple Oscar nominee (including Best Picture, when there were 10 nominees), and Oscar winner for Best Music Score, this picture seems more than a little dated today, but was just the ticket during the Depression, telling the story of a girl (Deanna Durbin) who gets the famed Leopold Stokowski to conduct an orchesta made up of her unemployed musician father (Adolphe Menjou) and dozens of his friends. A good introduction to Durbin for those who don't know what a big star she was in the 30s.
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 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) - Lavish costume drama starring Maria Montez (the Queen of Technicolor), Jon Hall, Andy Devine, and Turhan Bey in what is basically a remake of Arabian Nights, made a year earlier. Bears little resemblance to the story referred to in the title. (The credits are a bit shaky and there is some minor tracking noise, but the color and sound are fine.)
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 Alibi Ike (1935) - A great Joe E. Brown vehicle, featuring the big-mouthed comic as a ballplayer who has excuses for all his failings. With William Frawley, plus Olivia de Havilland in her first screen role. (Very nice picture, but the sound track is slightly out of sync.)
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 Alive and Kicking (1959) - British acting legends Sybil Thorndyke, Kathleen Harrison and Estelle Winwood are residents of a retirement home who take a powder to avoid being separated and end up an island off coast of Ireland, aided by another legend, Stanley Holloway. A forgotten comedy gem.
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 All Mine to Give (1957) - Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell in a melodrama about a Scottish immigrant family in Wisconsin during the middle of the 19th century. The UK title is The Day They Gave Babies Away, which gives you some idea of the heartbreaking nature of the tragedy which befalls them. Keep the tissues handy.
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 All My Sons (1948) - Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson star in the first filmed Arthur Miller play (coming three years before Death of a Salesman) about a man who has done a terrible thing to help his family and the son who finds out about it. Mady Christians turns in a fine performance as the mother.
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 Aloma of the South Seas (1941) - Oscar-nominated for special effects and cinematography, this film's best asset is still Dorothy Lamour in a sarong! Not a perfect copy, but for those who remember the movie fondly, it's definitely watchable.
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 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) - Edward G. Robinson is a doctor who decides to study the criminal mind by becoming one himself, then hooks up with Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart and their gang tobecome a criminal mastermind. It's a lot of fun, despite the fact that Bogart reportedly hated doing the film!
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 The Ambassador's Daughter (1956) - This slight romantic comedy is transformed from fair to good as a result of the performances of Olivia de Havilland, Myrna Loy, John Forsythe, Adolph Menjou and Edward Arnold.
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 America, America (1963) - An almost forgotten masterpiece, never released on DVD, from director Elia Kazan, about his uncle's struggle to come to America, this film goes a long way toward explaining why Kazan turned his back on his fellow radicals during the blacklisting era. It's also a powerful story about the promise of America for immigrants like Kazan's uncle.
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 Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) - This entry in the series starring Mickey Rooney as Andy and Lewis Stone as his saintly but befuddled father has Andy getting ready to leave for college but having a crisis of the heart choosing between old flame Polly (Ann Rutherford) and new acquaintance Sheila, played by a 20-year-old Esther Williams - until he meets Sue, played by the beautiful but tragic Susan Peters. Also includes short "Andy Hardy's Dilemma," a promo for the Community Chest.
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 Angel in My Pocket (1969) - Andy Griffiths is a newly-minted minister trying to make his way in a small town in Kansas dominated by two fueding families. Begins as a comedy but finds some dramatic notes along the way. From the same writing team responsible for the Andy Griffith Show. Never released on home video as far as we know.
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 Another Man's Poison (1952) - This filmed version of the stage play features Bette Davis in full flower of nastiness, emoting with her then-husband Gary Merrill in a mystery about a writer involved in murder, adultery, manipulation and betrayal.
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 Anthony Adverse (1936) - This long, sweeping historical drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy won multiple Academy Awards, including a Supporting Actress Oscar for Gale Sondergaard (her only win, in her first film), and was nominated for Best Picture. Fredric March is great, as usual, in the title role opposite Olivia de Havilland. Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Akim Tamiroff, and Henry O'Neill also appear.
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 Around the World Under the Sea (1961) - Fans of Sea Hunt or Flipper will love this one, which stars the former's Lloyd Bridges and the latter's Brian Kelly, along with The Man From Uncle's David McCallum as scientists on a submarine travelling around the world to place earthquake sensors and instead running into malevolent sea creatures and getting buried by rockslides, along with the token female crew member, Shirley Eaton, and Keenan Wynn as the Dr. Smith character. A guilty pleasure.
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 Arsene Lupin (1932) - John and Lionel Barrymore play, respectively, a charming thief and a scheming policeman (their first appearance together on film) in this amusing thriller which includes a plot to steal a work of art currently in vogue in the entertainment world, the Mona Lisa.
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