Vengeance in the West. Captain Apache (Lee Van Cleef) is a full-blooded Indian assigned by Army Intelligence to investigate the mysterious ambush-murder of Indian Commissioner Collier. All Apache has to go on are the dying man's last words: "April morning." As Apache follows his clues, he encounters a diverse group of characters who are crucial pieces in the puzzle; Griffith (Stuart Whitman), a gun-runner and soldier of fortune, and his brutal henchmen Snake and Moon; a beautiful, willing adventuress (Carroll Baker) whose lover witnessed Collier's death; "General" Sanchez, a Mexican bandit with a small, well-equipped army behind him; a flamboyant pair of identical twin gunmen; and two Army officers with plenty to hide. Apache ultimately discovers the truth about Collier's murder - which is tied to an incredible plot to assassinate the President of the United States!
Rated PG.
Adventures Off Vancouver Island.
"Full of facts, fishing tips and tricks which show you how to catch 'em, this video will give you many pleasant hours of armchair fishing enjoyment and result in more productive and rewarding fishing trips. An absolute 'must' for any serious fisherman who wishes to improve his catch." Jim Gilbert, Member, Sport Fishing Advisory Board, Member, Fisheries & Oceans Research Advisory Council.
Not Rated.
In Pursuit of Salmon - The Hakai Experience
Hakai Experience tells it like it is. "Beautiful scenery, rugged wilderness, the world's finest salmon fishing, and all the important tips on how to catch the big ones. Relive the experience year 'round. A "must" in any fisherman's library!" - Bob Wright, Member, Canadian Sports Fishery Advisory Council, Member, Minister's Advisory Council. "This video is great. It not only shows pictures of the huge chinook salmon of British Columbia's wilderness Hakai Pass, it also tells in detail how to catch these exciting 50 pound and heavier world-class trophy fish with cut plug herring on the lightest of sport fishing tackle." - Alex Merriman, Outdoors Columnist Victoria B.C. Times-Colonist.
Not Rated.
Starring Dennis Quaid, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert and Kate Capshaw. Are our dreams any less real than our waking life? If someone kills you in a dream, do you die in reality? What if your worst nightmare were coming true, and you couldn't wake up? Close your eyes and the adventure begins. Alex, a young psychic, is taught by Dr. Paul Novotny to actually enter other people's dreams and even to participate in them. But someone besides Alex has learned the secret of entering the world of dreams, and that person is pure evil. Before Alex's odyssey is done, he will be plunged into a fantastic duel where literally anything can happen. This science fiction, adventure-thriller will transport you into the world of other people's dreams. Explore the mysterious wonder of the nocturnal world and live the adventure. Dreamscape - the ultimate psychic adventure. "Entertaining! May turn out to be the sleeper of the season." - N.Y. Daily News.
Rated PG-13.
"4 Stars. A pure delight. Terrific entertainment." - Roger Ebert's Video Companion. The planet Kryton is doomed. Only one man, the scientist Jor-El, know it, and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-El's son grows to manhood, he learns he possesses super-powers he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. And so, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for the Metropolis Daily Planet... Directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, The Goonies), Superman: The Movie makes you believe in the legend all over again. It takes a big movie to contain the talents of Marlon Brando (as Jor-El), Gene Hackman (Lex Luthor), Margot Kidder (Lois Lane), Glenn Ford (Jonathan Kent) and a dozen more distinguished players. Superman: The Movie, a 1978 Academy Award winner for Special Achievement in Visual Effects, is more than big enough. And at it heart (just as in its three sequels) is Christopher Reeve's warm, witty portrayal of the Man of Steel and his alter ego Kent. Watching Superman: The Movie isn't just like being a kid again. It's better.
Rated PG.
Warning- At Boston Memorial Hospital you could wind up in a coma! Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas star in an exciting, contemporary thriller - the film version of the best-sellling Robin Cook novel where every split second can mean the difference between life and living death. Few stories have caused the sensation that Coma has, with its deep, probing questions into the medical mysteries of our time. Now the movie, directed by Michael Crichton, throws open the doors to the secret research going on inside the private labs. Brilliant co-stars Richard Widmark, Elizabeth Ashley and Rip Torn bring to the screen all the suspense of the novel. Genevieve Bujold, as Dr. Susan Wheeler, suspects that someone is purposely murdering patients at the hospital. Healthy young people, undergoing routine operations, are slipping into irreversible comas. There is no pattern to the incidents. Yet, she becomes obsessed with proving that the hospital is responsible, event when it puts her own life in danger. Michael Douglas, the talented actor and producer, plays her lover - a young doctor who is never sure whether his friend is on to something or cracking up. The tension builds throughout the entire film, until the final climactic stroke of the scalpel in a pulse-popping finish.
Rated PG.
Meet the world's silliest sleuth on the funniest case of his career! An outrageous comedy of errors takes off when a bumbling New York cop is put on the trail of Inspector Clouseau. In the seventh and zaniest movie of the classic Pink Panther series, three-time Academy Award winning writer-director Blake Edwards brings back the wild antics of a hilarious cast. Clouseau is missing. His arch-nemesis, Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), sends the world's most inept policeman, Clifton Sleigh, on his trail. In this whacky, globe-trotting adventure, fumbling Sleigh meets up with the debonair Pink Panther (David Niven), the luscious Lady Litton (Capucine), and their roguish nephew (Robert Wagner). Stalked by gangsters who want him dead, Sleigh is chased in the craziest car sequence ever filmed, narrowly escaping with the aid of the black-belted and sexy Dishy (Leslie Ash). And the question is, can Sleigh, a combination of Clark Kent and Charlie Chaplin, make it through this zany adventure alive? Curse of the Pink Panther features an unforgettable cast and a very hummable score by Henry Mancini. It's an off-beat, on target comedy that brings new meaning to the word hilarious!
Rated PG.
Mel Gibson of Road Warrior, Year of Living Dangerously fame in an action-packed, laugh-filled salute to the early sixties when a good time meant hanging ten, rocking around the clock, cruising in your old Chevy and a never-ending search for Girls, Girls, Girls! This is the era of Summer City, as four young men take off for a last-fling summer weekend in search of thrills, surf and sex. Great music, lots of action and plenty of laughs make this undiscovered gem from 'down under' a real delight! A definite 'must' fo all Mel Gibson fans!
Not Rated.
Starring Robert Foxworth and Bo Svenson. "As you might already know, Frankenstein was written back, a few years ago by some guy named Shelley - I never did catch his last name, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Shelley Berman. The movie stars Robert Foxworth as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Susan Strasberg plays Victor's main squeeze - oops, you never want to say "squeeze" around Bo Svenson, who plays the monster. It's a sympathetic portrayal. The monster has the heart of a small child. He's also got the brain of a certain Professor Lichman, the spleen of a lady from Pacoima, the liver of...Hey - enjoy the movie!" Hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Not Rated.
The remarkable performances of William Hurt and Marlee Matlin helped make Children of a Lesser God one of the most critically acclaimed films of 1986. It's a wonderful love story based of the hit Broadway play about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon, their teacher/student relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart.
Rated R.
A place where Ruth Ellison, a headstrong young woman, struggles with multiple-sclerosis. When her Grandmother passes away Ruth is involuntarily placed into Lewellyn Care Center, where she will come face to face with the biggest challenges of her life. There's Lenny, the blind momma's boy; Eleanore, the brain-damaged jazz singer; Cal, a romantic quadriplegic; and Cass, Ruth's endearing roommate. Together they help Ruth come to grips with her illness as she inspires them to live every day on their own terms.
Not Rated.
When Melba May finds out her trailer-trash husband Flint has been cheating on her, she kisses their 15-year marriage goodbye and goes out on the town to celebrate her freedom. A telephone psychic has warned her to look out for three kings, and when she spots three handsome young men from L.A. at the local bar, it must be fate! Trent, Joel and Brad just want to get to Vegas so they can win some rent money, but what they don't realize is , Melba just may be their Lady Luck. Sparkler is a wild, swinging comedy from hip filmmaker Darren Stein (Jawbreaker), with winning performances from a talented cast including Park Overall (TV's Empty Nest), Veronica Cartwright (The Witches of Eastwick), Jamie Kennedy (Bowfinger), Steven Petrarca (The Lesser Evil), Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That), and Don Harvey (The Thin Red Line). "One of the year's most unexpected joys!" - Flaunt Magazine.
An epic of discovery - and a landmark in TV history. For eight consecutive nights in the winter of 1977, an estimated one hundred and thirty million people shared an unforgettable experience: the search by a black American for his family roots - and the courage and cowardice, the triumph and tragedy his investigations revealed. Roots is nothing less than a landmark in television history. Two years in the making, winner of nine Emmy Awards and more than 135 other honors, with a spectacular cast of star performers in a rich and vivid production both theatrically compelling and historically authentic, roots kept the nation spellbound. Now, Warner Home Video brings you this superb drama in its complete, uninterupted form, to let you recapture the panorama of Roots in all its glorious drama and detail. The Roots saga begins with an African boy kidnapped from his homeland by slave traders and carried over the Atlantic into a captivity that can break his body but not his will. Grown to adulthood, Kunta Kinte marries - and gives up his last chance at escape when his daughter, Kizzy, is born. But Kizzy will be sold away to another plantation...and her son, Chicken George, will in his turn be sent back across the Atlantic, to England, to pay off his owner's debt. Through hardship and heartbreak, over a hundred-year span of American history from the Old South through the Civil War to the era of Reconstruction, the descendants of Kunta Kinte struggle to survive. At the center of their struggle is a fierce dignity that sustains them from generation to generation - and drives them towards their distant goal of freedom. For viewers young and old, of every race and creed, Roots is a modern classic - and a reminder of our common American heritage. Part I of a six-part series.
Not Rated.
Mama gives her little girls everything - including a life of crime. Paradise, Texas, 1932 - the Dust Bowl years. Wilma McClatchie, a voluptuous young widow played by Angie Dickinson, busts up the wedding of her younger daughter, 16-year-old Polly, and sets off on a spree with Polly and elder daughter Billy Jean. It begins with bootlegging and moves through a series of bizarre escapades as Wilma sets her sights higher and higher: bank robberies, gate crashing a society ball and finally, the kidnapping of a young heiress. In the meantime, the McClatchies pick up a pair of charming rogues, Fred Diller (Tom Skerritt) and William J. Baxter, a Kentucky conman portrayed by William Shatner. Wilma beds first one, then the other; when she leaves Diller, the girls take over - together. As the action escalates, so do the consequences. Polly is pregnant, the Feds are hot on the trail, and when the kidnapping turns sour, Diller and Baxter are left dead, with Dickinson mortally wounded. Filmed on location in the American Southwest, Big Bad Mama captures the look and feel of the Dust Bowl era with the raw energy which is producer Roger Corman's trademark. Using rare vintage automobiles, the film features a number of breakneck chases and getaways, and more than a few smoldering love scenes. The music, both the original score written by David Grisman and performed by the Great American Music Band, and vintage Dust Bowl ballad recordings by Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger and Johnny Wittwer, adds to the film's period flavor. In its use of erotic undercurrents which elaborate on the violence and despair of Depression America, Big Bad Mama evokes memories of Bonnie and Clyde and They Shoot Horses Don't They. It's a look at a period of American innocence which has never been recaptured.
Rated R.
Baby Love - it's no kiddy matter! Move over Porky's. When the nerds take revenge in and out of their animal house, summer fun gets a little too hot under the collar in Baby Love, a racy romp in the fab fifties when cool cats and curvy chicks really knew the meaning of a "heavy date." Featuring everybody's favorite top-ten tunes of the period including "Rhythm of the Falling Rain" by the Cascades, Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen," The Chiffons doing "He's So Fine," "Locomotion" sung by Little Eva, the immortal Sam Cooke with "What A Wonderful World It Would Be," this stroll down memory lane has a score that is also highlighted with performances by Little Richard, Bobby Vee, Fabian, The Platters, Dion and the Belmonts, Curtis Lee, Bobby Darin, Skeeter Davis, and Paul Anka. Benji, Huey and Bobby aim to spend the summer riding their motorcycles and making out. Everyone's rockin' and rollin' and they've all got one thing on their minds! But when Benji gets the hots for Bobby's younger sister, the sparks begin to fly - in more ways than one! With the classic slapstick humor of the Three Stooges, the not-so-innocent fun of a beach blanket romance, and girls, girls, girls, Baby Love is a grown-upp treat!
Not Rated.
"Take it off - take it all off" - that's just what sixteen of England's most fetching young birds do in the Great British Striptease. Under the comic direction of Bernard Manning this beauty pageant is a jolly good show.
Not Rated.
If you thought his reign of terror had ended...think again. The incredible talents of horror master Vincent Price electrify this chilling tale of the mad Dr. Phibes' search for the elixir of life. The diabolical Dr. Phibes rises from hibernation to complete a mission of "grave" importance; to bring his late wife, Victoria, back to life. His only hope lies buried in an Egyptian tomb. But Dr. Phibes is faced with an opponent in this search, the invincible Biederbeck. Perfectly matched in brains, cunning and villany, the two quickly engage in a ferocious battle. With frightening precision Phibes meticulously destroys each member of Biederbeck's expedition, until only Biederbeck remains. Both are driven by bizarre motives, but only one will live to find the magic elixir...who will it be?
Rated PG.
"...a stylish presentation of a classic in children's literature." - Los Angeles Times. Prepare to be enchanted. This magical tale has charmed readers for nearly a century and continues to delight today's audiences as an award-winning Broadway production. Frances Hodgson Burnett's timeless classic, The Secret Garden, now comes to life in a lavish motion picture, filmed on location at Highclere Castle in England by the Hallmark Hall of Fame. After the sudden death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent from their home in India to the English estate of a distant family friend. Sad and lonely, her only interest lies in a secret engaging local boy, and Colin, her guardian's invalid son, Mary's spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life. Together, they transform the barren earth into a world of splendor, discovering its magic, unlocking its mysteries... and revealing the secret of happiness to them all. With its charming characters, breathtaking locations and captivating story, this unique tale of courage and compassion is both rich and rewarding...a genuine family classic.
Rated PG.
She was taken to another time and place without ever leaving the present. Academy Award-winning Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) rules a bevy of Middle-Eastern beauties, including international box-office sensation Nastassja Kinski in the romantic adventure Harem. The ancient tradition of the east clash head-on with the modern west as a beautiful American goes back in time without ever leaving the present. Nastassja Kinski is Diane, a successful cosmopolitan New York stock broker who lives her days in the business world and her nights in the single world. Ben Kingsley is Selim, an OPEC oil-minister who, while in New York on business, becomes enraptured by Diane's beauty, charm and grace. He must have her, and ruthlessly kidnaps Diane, making her one of thirty in his subservient Harem. Diane is suddenly amidst a palace of pampered beauties. Powerless, without the control she is used to, to serve Selim's whims in this lush marble-walled empire. But this strong-willed modern woman refuses to become one of Selim's submissive objects, and instead confronts him with all her wiles. Captivated still by her independent nature, Selim ultimately wins her favor in an explosive and passionate conclusion.
Not Rated.
A spirit-stirring story revolving around an all-American college athlete Danny Stetson (Michael O'Keefe) who is innocently lured into Homeland, a youth-oriented cult by a compellingly beautiful girl Rebecca (Karen Allen). Here he is programmed by the charismatic leader Neil Kirklander (Peter Fonda) to believe that his new life now has the true meaning that it previously lacked. Anguished by their son's disappearance, the Stetsons hire a modern-day bounty hunter Charles Pratt (James Woods) to abduct Danny and exorcise his brainwashed mind, deprogramming him to return him to his family and friends. Special effects and photography are used to convey the horror and elation of Danny's harrowing transition from cult mentality to acceptable behavior. A truly intense psychological drama.
Not Rated.
The hottest talent in any format - Billy Ray Cyrus! With the success of his debut single, "Achy Breaky Heart," his career has taken off like a rocket. Playing to sold-out crowds across the country and consistently staying at the top of the charts, Billy Ray is a true phenomenon. "Billy Ray Cyrus" features a mix of behind-the-scenes profile footage and video clips that showcase the many sides of Billy Ray and his music. Video tracks include: Achy Breaky Heart could've been me. All videos produced by Kitty Moon and directed by Marc Ball for Scene Three Productions. Approx. running time: 25 minutes.
Not Rated.
Some things just go together. Love and roses. Families and laughter. Barry Levinson and Baltimore. The Academy Award-winning director of Rain Man and Emmy Award-winning co-creator of the landmark series Homicide: Life on the Street returns to his hometown, the setting of his Diner, Avalon, Tin Men and Homicide. The wonderful result is Liberty Heights, a warmly funny, semi-autobiographical tale told with an uncompromising eye for period detail and an eye-filling scale that includes 4,000 extras. The year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family, the Kurtzmans (Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth). Friendship, romance, rock 'n' roll, courage, racism, Cadillacs, Halloween (Should a nice Jewish boy dress up as Hitler?): the times are indeed changing. The Kurtzmans - and America - will never be the same.
Rated R.
"Smart, funny and loaded with eye-popping action." NY-1. Including all-new featurette with 10 minutes of never-before-seen footage, interviews with Bryan Singer and animated storyboards. Witness the evolution of spectacular action and excitement in this dazzling "feast of fantasy" (San Francisco Chronicle) unlike anything you've ever seen before. Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers - the result of unique genetic mutations. Cyclops unleashes bolts of energy from his eyes. Storm can manipulate the weather at will. Rogue absorbs the life force of anyone she touches. But under the tutelage of Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind. Now they must protect those who fear them as the nefarious Magneto (Ian McKellen), who believes humans and mutants can never co-exist, unveils his sinister plan for the future! Pulsing with state-of-the-art visual effects and unforgettable characters, X - Men "delivers it all!"(ABC-TV)
Rated PG-13.
"Wow! What a great film!" - Larry King, USA Today. Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson delivers electifying performances in this "tense, superbly-directed and top-drawer drama" about what happens when the rules that command a soldier become the rules that condemn him. Colonel Terry Childers (Jackson) is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes terribly wrong, he finds himself facing a court martial. Accused of breaking the rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians, Childers' only hope of vindication rests with comrades-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military lawyer of questionable abilities. Directed by Oscar-winning director William Friedkin and co-starring Guy Pearce, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer and Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, Rules of Engagement is "a magnificent movie you must see." - Jeffrey Lyons, NBC - TV
Rated R.
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