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Hunted
(1952) [M]

After accidentally setting fire to his foster parents’ house, Robbie, a six-year-old boy, runs away. He searches for a hiding place and runs into a riverside warehouse. Clattering down the steps, he runs into the arms of a man, Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde). Robbie sees a body lying nearby....  More

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition)
(1980) [M]

The extended version of director Sam Fuller's epic war film The Big Red One. Working with 70,000 feet of vault materials and Fuller's shooting script, critic/filmmaker Richard Schickel headed a reconstruction that adds over 40 minutes and transforms a truncated but admired war film into an epic...  More

An Autumn Afternoon (2 Disc Set)
(1962) [PG]

Alarmed by the pathetic state of his old teacher's daughter—the young woman has sacrificed herself to take care of her father and now passed the age of marriage—the aging salaryman Hirayama realises that he must find his daughter Michiko a husband. His son Koichi understands that Michiko is...  More

The Farmer's Wife
(1928) [PG]

This first film version of Eden Philpotts' play The Farmer's Wife was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story involves a roughhewn widowed farmer (Samuel Sweetland) in search of a new bride. Every candidate for the "title" proves insufficient, either because they fail to meet the farmer's...  More

Jamaica Inn
(1939) [PG]

Jamaica Inn was Hitchcock's first adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier novel (he later made Rebecca and The Birds from her stories). The film is a tense and atmospheric tale of thieves and cut-throats set on the rugged Cornish coast. Mary (Maureen O'Hara), an orphan girl, goes to live with her Uncle...  More

Easy Virtue
(1927) [PG]

After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring a newly recorded score. Based on a play by Noel Coward. Cast members include Isabel Jeans,...  More

The Ring
(1927) [PG]

Alfred Hitchcock's silent The Ring is a traditional prizefighting melodrama, elevated by the richness of the characterizations and the stylish, Germanic use of the camera. Carl Brisson plays "Round One," a cocky young boxer who matriculates from sideshow bouts to the big time. Round One's...  More

High and Low
(1963) [PG]

yle thriller. A ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo's young son, takes the chauffeur's boy by mistake – but still demands the ransom. Gondo is left with an agonising choice, since paying the ransom will ruin him. Meanwhile the tenacious Inspector Tokuro is...  More

Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1950) [PG]

Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else....  More

Ivan The Terrible: Part 1 (New digital restoration) (2 disc set)
(1944) [PG]

Sergei Eisenstein's operatic saga of the 16th-century Russian hero Czar Ivan IV is given a charismatic performance by Nikolai Cherkasov and a brilliant score by Sergei Prokofiev. Part One deals with Czar Ivan's beginnings as the ruler of Russia, Ivan's coronation, and his marriage to Anastasia...  More