Rare-classic-movies

It is 1942 and the Sultan of Turkey controls overland trade from the Far East to Europe. Christopher Columbus, looking to make his fortune, persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance an expedition to find a new sea route to India. In the best tradition of the original Carry on series, this historical farce features the cream of the comedic crop... Starring Jim Dale, Maureen Lipman, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Alexie Sayle, Julian Clary and a host of others it's sure to be a well crewed voyag...

Eddie Harrington (Bud Abbott) and Albert Mansfield (Lou Costello) are plumbers who receive a call about a leak in the private bathroom of Mr. Van Cleve (Thurston Hall), a wealthy businessman. The grumpy man, though his costume is ready, does not attend the ball but goes to bed instead. The leak is keeping him awake, but the costume ball that his wife (Nella Walker) is throwing downstairs is not. Eddie and Albert enlist the aid of a friend, Elsie Hammerdingle (Marion Hutton), a taxi driver, to ta...

Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort. This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release. MOD (DVD-R) All movies are transferred directly to DVD-R disc on a demand basis from original film negative releases, . Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these re-released MOD discs While all films listed have been remastered to play on high definition equipment, please expect imperfections due to age...

In CARRY ON TEACHER, chaos rules at school. When an exhausted headmaster attempts to leave, the students decide to tarnish his reputation. The perennially funny cast includes Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, and Charles Hawtrey.This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release.  MOD (DVD-R)  All movies are transferred directly to DVD-R disc on a demand basis from original film negative releases, . Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print...

img{max-width:100%}Burt Reynolds stars in and directs Stick, a fast-paced thriller co-starring Candice Bergen, George Segal and Charles Durning. Ernest "Stick" Stickley is an ex-con who's trying to stay clean on the streets of Miami. When his former cellmate is murdered during an illicit payoff, Stick finds himself at the center of a high-class criminal circle whose members include a nervous drug kingpin, a shady film producer, and a stock market whiz with his own gorgeous financial advisor. E...

It is 1789 and France's revolution is taking many to the guillotine. Two daring British gentlemen (Sidney James & Jim Dale) carry out dangerous rescue missions, but this greatly displeases the leader of the Revolution. He instructs his Chief of Police, Citizen Camembert (Kenneth Williams), that the head of the Royalists must on no account be rescued. When he is, the French chase the culprits over the Channel, determined to discover their identity.This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release.  ...

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else. This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release. MOD (DVD-R) All movies are transferred directly to DVD-R disc on a demand basis from original film negative releases, . Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and...

Bud Jones (Bud Abbott) and Lou Hotchkiss (Lou Costello) are wrestling promoters. Their star, Abdullah (Wee Willie Davis), no longer wishes to follow the script for their crooked matches, especially since he is supposed to lose his next match. Abdullah leaves America to return to his homeland, Algeria. The promoters' financiers, a syndicate that has lent them $5,000 to bring Abdullah to the States, are now requiring them to return the money or face the consequences. The two men follow Abdullah to...

Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia (Nancy Kelly). The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey (Peggy Moran), and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe (William Frawley), who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure ...

img{max-width:100%}While searching for his missing wife in the Australian outback, a man finds himself pitted against a vicious killer. Region FreeFormat DVD (Mod) This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release. MOD (DVD-R) All movies are transferred directly to DVD-R disc on a demand basis from original film negative releases, . Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these re-released MOD discs While all films listed have been ...

img{max-width:100%}1940s western loosely based on the life of Belle Starr, a notorious outlaw who lived in America in the 1800s. Following the Civil War, Belle (Gene Tierney)'s land is taken by Yankee soldiers, and, determined to seek revenge, she joins forces with Southern confederate Captain Sam Starr (Randolph Scott), whom she later marries. Backed by a group of rebels, the two carry out a series of raids, which soon earns Belle an infamous reputation. When Sam makes some questionable decis...

img{max-width:100%}When Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne) and wife Lily (Yvonne De Carlo) discover that they have inherited a grand property known as Munster Hall in Shroudshire, England there is nothing to it but take the family on a cruise liner half-way across the world to investigate. But with Grandpa (Al Lewis) accidentally turning into a wolf along the way it is no mean feat that they manage to clear customs at all. Arriving in England and ready to conquer Europe with their particular kooky c...

Famous radio-crooner Russ Raymond is tired of it all and enlists in the Navy under his true-name, Tommy Halstead, and boards an airplane for San Diego. There he is tentatively identified as the missing-singer by Dorothy Roberts, newspaper camerawoman. To get past the sentries, Dorothy escorts the Andrews Sisters, booked for an appearance at the San Diego Naval Training Station, and takes up Raymond's trail. She runs into Smoky Adams, an electrician's mate, Pomeroy Watson, a pastry cook, and "Dyn...

A rash of murders (by an unknown "monster") is plaguing London, and police are baffled. A newspaper reporter, Bruce Adams (Craig Stevens), finds one of the murder victims while coming home from a bar at night and calls the police. The next day, two American policemen, Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello), who are working for the London Police Force, respond to a mob fight at a Women's Suffrage Rally in Hyde Park. Reporter Adams, young suffragette Vicky Edwards (Helen Westcott), Slim, and T...

Two Americans, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, happen to overhear Dr. Gustav Zoomer (Kurt Katch) discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Apparently the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treasure of Princess Ara can be found. The followers of Klaris, led by Semu (Richard Deacon), overhear the conversation along with Madame Rontru (Marie Windsor), a businesswoman interested in stealing the treasure of Princess Ara. Abbot...

Harry Pierce (Bud Abbott) and his friend, Willie Piper (Lou Costello), invest $5,000 in a motion picture studio. They are sold a deed to the Edison Studio by a con man, Joe Gorman (Fred Clark), who immediately leaves town with his girlfriend, Leota Van Cleef (Lynn Bari). The couple heads to Hollywood where he poses as a European director, Sergei Toumanoff, who plans to make a film starring Leota. Meanwhile, Harry and Willie pursue Gorman across the country in hopes of getting their money back af...

img{max-width:100%}A prince turned warrior named He-Man battles against the dark lord Skeletor on the planet Eternia. He-Man and his comrades arrive on Earth and discover two teenage lovers to find the magical Cosmic Key.Region FreeFormat DVD (Mod) This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release. MOD (DVD-R) All movies are transferred directly to DVD-R disc on a demand basis from original film negative releases, . Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are...

img{max-width:100%}Julian Sands stars as a nasty little Warlock who calls upon the powers of darkness to free from the group of witch hunters in 1691, Boston. Warlock escapes and is hurled 300 years into the future. Now in L.A., the Warlick begins to the task of reuniting three portions of the Devil's Book that will reveal the secret name of God. If spoken, all creation will be destroyed. The Witch Hunter Redferne, who is also transported enlists the aid of a lanky girl named Kassandra. Togeth...

img{max-width:100%}Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster.Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.Region FreeFormat DVD (Mod) This item is a Manufactured-On-Demand release. MOD (DVD-R) All movies are transferred directly to DVD-R disc on a demand basis from original film negative releases, . Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are ...

img{max-width:100%}If Violence is your addiction He'll kick you like a bad habit. Set against the steamy and bizarre Los Angeles inner city back streets is the brutal world of illegal kickboxing, known as "human cockfights." Miles Keane (Lorenzo Lamas) is one fight away from financial freedom on his quest to buy a respectable nightclub and repay the loan to his promoter, Lynch (Anthony Geary). But Lynch, who is heavily in debt to a Korean gangster consortium, reneges on his promise after Miles...