Edgar G Ulmer
1) Detour
Series
Criterion collection volume 966
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run.
2) Hannibal
Author
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"The brilliant Carthaginian general, Hannibal (Victor Mature) despises Rome. Fueled by vengeance, he drives his army of elephants through the treacherous, frozen Alps into Italy, crushing anyone who dared to oppose him. As a strategy to break the morale of his enemies, Hannibal captures the beautiful Sylvia of Rome (Rita Gam) so she may see the might of his army and spread the news of impending doom to her people. However, a love grows between the...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Honeymooners Joan and Peter Allison are stranded and forced to spend the night at the home of the sinister Hjalmar Poelzig. They soon learn they are being held captive in the mausoleum and that Poelzig is the high priest at Black Mass. He has chosen Joan to be the devil's bride. David races to save his wife from Poelzig's unspeakable treachery.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Bela Lugosi collection: Five films starring actor Bela Lugosi. Four of the five films also star actor Boris Karloff.
Murders in the Rue Morgue: A mad scientist attempts to find a mate for his talking gorilla.
The black cat: Two honeymooners find themselves stranded at the house of a Satanist.
The raven: A retired surgeon conspires with an escaped murderer to wreck vengeance on a prominent family.
The invisible ray: A group of scientists discover...
5) Ruthless
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Multi-millionaire Horace Woodruff Vendig shows himself to the world as an ambitious philanthropist, but that's far from the case. Even as a young man he starts to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.
6) Detour
Series
Language
English
Description
Hitchhiking nightclub performer runs into trouble with a mysterious death and a blackmailing woman.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Moon over Harlem: A Harlem widow marries a shady gambler who is after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue. Sue is in love with Bob, an idealist who decides to organize the community against local racketeers and does not realize that his would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them.
Swing!: Ted Gregory is trying to become the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway but his star singer is getting in the way. When the singer breaks...
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An effervescent, sunlit silent film about a handful of city dwellers enjoying a weekend outing that offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin. A unique hybrid of documentary and fictional storytelling, the film was both an experiment and a mainstream hit that would influence generations of film artists around the world. People On Sunday represents an astonishing confluence of talent, an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would...
9) Detour
Publisher
Film Chest
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman.
10) Bluebeard (1944)
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Carradine is masterful as the dastardly Gaston, an artist and puppeteer in 19th-century Paris with a ghastly penchant for strangling lovely young models and surreptitiously slipping their bodies into the Seine. Gaston₂s latest model, Lucille, learns of his shocking secret and bravely vows to bring him to justice.
Publisher
Critic's Choice
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The hitch-hiker: While on their way to a fishing trip, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer.
Detour: After he is picked up while hitchhiking, Al Roberts' samaritan dies of a heart attack. Afraid of being accused of the murder, he ditches the body, then takes the man's clothes, wallet, and car.
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend, the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson...
Publisher
Roan Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Bluebeard: A pathological strangler falls in love with a smart young woman who begins to suspect that he is hiding a terrible secret.
Black Dragons: Following the outbreak of World War II, Japanese spies known as "Black Dragons" ingeniously transformed by plastic surgery into doubles of prominet American business leaders, use their disguises to cause sabotage, labor unrest, and other measures to destroy the U.S. economy. The Nazi doctor who has performed...
Series
Publisher
UrbanWorks Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Moon over Harlem: A story of the life, love and struggles of a Harlem family.
Juke joint: Two con-men end up in a small Midwestern town and pose as Hollywood big shots.
Song of freedom: A British citizen years to learn about his African roots.
Big fella: A man helps the police find a missing boy.
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four horror classics starring the titans of terror!
Black Cat: A wealthy but embittered matriarch makes a deathbed recovery only to be murdered by someone in the greedy clan gathered for the reading of her will. When the family learns that nobody receives a penny until the very last of the old lady's multitude of beloved cats perish, both cats and people start turning up dead.
The Raven: A retired surgeon conspires with an escaped murderer to wreck...
Series
Jewish soul volume disc 2
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Yiddish
Description
American matchmaker: Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and...
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2003, c2002]
Language
English
Description
"D.O.A." is the story of Frank Bigelow, who while on vacation in San Francisco, is poisoned by a deadly slow-acting poison. Can he find his murderer before time runs out?
"Detour" is the story of a man's pursuit of the woman he loves, that is blocked by fate and another woman.
"Impact" is the story of Walter Williams, a wealthy industrialist whose vicious, two-timing wife, Irene, and her lover, Jim Torrance, plot his death in an "Accidental" car...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
The Black cat (1 hr. 6 mins.): Two honeymooners find themselves stranded at the house of a Satanist.
The Raven (1 Hr., 2 mins.): A retired surgeon conspires with an escaped murderer to wreck vengeance on a prominent family.
The Invisible ray (1 Hr. 20 mins.): A group of scientists discover the remains of a meteorite that exhibits extremely strange properties.
Black Friday (1 Hr. 11 mins.): A doctor gives an injured friend a partial brain transplant,...