Tully Marshall

A band of hardy pioneers makes its perilous way along the Oregon Trail, braving bison, treacherous river crossings, blizzards and Indian attacks.

A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.

"From the first moment wisecracking Vantine takes refuge on the plantation run by Carson, he sizes her up as an easy target for his virile charm. But when a research engineer and his elegant wife appear on the scene, Carson falls hard for the beautiful Barbara, discarding Vantine as nothing more than a 'cute little trick.' The steamy rivalry between the women soon boils into a jealous rage with violent consequences"--Container.

The potential heirs to a large fortune gather at their benefactor's mansion twenty years after his death, but the reading of his will is interrupted by a series of disturbing events.

Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale.

Set during the reign of Louis XI. Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. When he sets Quasimodo out to kidnap Esmeralda, Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, rescues her and captures Quasimodo. Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda....

The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption presents three films from the 1910s. Heavy both on moralizing and melodrama, each confronts a hot-button social issue of the day with a bluntness one might not expect from the era. Mastered in HD from Library of Congress archival 35mm elements, the films are preserved reasonably well here, offering an invaluable link to some of the popular progressive cinema of the past.

The Devil's needle: In one of the most notorious films of the silent era a morphine-addicted model sends a neurotic painter down a path of moral deterioration. The inside of the white slave traffic: A 1913 dramatization of the methods in which young women are abducted or otherwise procured for prostitution. Children of Eve: Attacking child labor and living conditions in the tenements, this film culminates in a detailed reenactment of the tragic...

The fourth and final program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.