Ultraman (TV Pilot & 3 Episodes)

While in flight, Science Patrol member Hayata intercepts a blue globe of light from outer space over Ryuh-ga-Mori. His Mini-VTOL collides with a red ball of light, and Hayata dies. His body rises from the wreckage and is sucked into the red ball. Ultraman, a giant red and silver alien, stands before Hayata. Ultraman explains that monster Bemular escaped while being escorted to the Monster Graveyard... the ensuing chase brought them to Earth, where Ultraman inadvertently crashed into poor Hayata. Feeling remorse for the tragedy, Ultraman decides to merge with Hayata, and vows to fight for peace on Earth. He gives Hayata. the Beta Capsule. By using this Hayata can become Ultraman when needed.The Science Patrol is shocked to find out that Hayata miraculously survived. They go after Bemular, who has decided to take residence in a Ryuh-ga-Mori lake. Hayata uses the Beta Capsule to transform into Ultraman and defeats Bemular with his Specium Beam. Also included are 3 more episodes:”Shoot the Invader”, “Go Science Patrol”, “Five Seconds Until Apocalypse”.

Under Pressure
    Starring: Mare Winningham, Charlie Sheen, Dawnn Lewis
                   & John Ratzenberg

A decorated firefighter (Charlie Sheen) has his wife and son leave him because of his violent tendencies, including playing a game of Russian Roulette with his wife. Only trouble is he believes that the loving neighbor couple (Mare Winningham, David Andrews) and their two children (Noah Fleiss, Chelsea Russo) are to blame for them leaving by filling his wife's head with nonsense. He then sets out to discipline the family for their failings. But when the couple reports him to the police, the police will not believe the couple because of the fireman's status in the community. Things escalate until he kills a repairman (Keone Young), then the police (John Ratzenbereger, Dawnn Lewis) and finally launches a totally terroristic attack on the family including again playing Russian Roulette with them.

The Undying Monster
    Starring: James Ellison & Heather Angel

A rarely seen movie about a werewolf who prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.

The Unfaithful
    Starring: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres & Zachary Scott

Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

The Unguarded Hour
    Starring: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Roland Young
                  & Lewis Stone

A woman tries to save her husband, a prosecutor, from a man who is threatening to blackmail him using letters he has written to an ex-mistress.

Unholy Partners
    Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold & Laraine Day

Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. For want of other financing, he takes on as silent partner Merrill Lambert, gangland gambling kingpin. Thus is born the New York Mercury. Though its standards are not of the cleanest, Corey does fight to keep his paper's voice independent of Lambert. The two men's clash reaches a climax just as unsuspecting young reporter Tommy becomes Lambert's rival for lovely Gail Fenton.

The Unknown
    Starring: Lon Chaney & Joan Crawford

Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). Estrellita allows herself to fall in love with Alonzo (she fears men's arms), so he goes to a hospital and has his amputated. Meantime Malabar cures Estrellita of her fear of men's arms, so Alonzo tries to have him killed during a circus act.

Untamed
    Starring: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead,
                  Richard Egan & Rita Moreno

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience. To complicate matters, Katie meets up with the love of her life, Paul van Riebeck. Will there be betrayal on the Veldt?

Until They Sail
   Starring: Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Sandra Dee, Paul Newman,
                 Piper Laurie & Alan Napier

This courtroom drama set in New Zealand during WWII centers on four sisters involved in murder and ill-fated love.

Up In Arms
    Starring: Dana Andrews, Danny Kaye & Dinah Shore

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.

U.S. War Department:
        World War II Propaganda Films Triple Feature of Shorts
                Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Lloyd Bridges
                              & Robert Preston

This cassette features 3 of the US Government’s most popular & successful propaganda and recruitment films made in cooperation with Hollywood during WWII.

Winning Your Wings -  "Young America, your future is in the sky; your wings are waiting!" Lieutenant James Stewart (who eventually attained the rank of brigadier general) tells viewers of this classic USAF recruitment film. Stewart also offers more subtle motivations, as when he tells his prospects:"Consider the effect these shining wings have on the gals: it's phenomenal." This outstanding example of a Hollywood-Government co-production made by the Army Air Force and Warner Brothers became one of the most successful recruiting films of the war.

Thunderbolt - Supervised by Lieutenant Colonel William Wyler. James Stewart introduces and Lloyd Bridges narrates this motion picture on the activities of the 57th Fighter Group during "Operation Strangle", which destroyed vital supply routes deep behind German lines. This operation seriously crippled Nazi fighting ability, hastening the sweep of the Allied forces into Rome. Color cameras mounted at various points on the P-47 fighter-bombers make us participants as the planes swoop and dive, raining bombs and bullets onto targets far below. These sequences are easily some of the most spectacular ever filmed of war from the air.

Wings Up - This Army Air Force officer-candidate recruiting film, narrated by Clark Gable, shows how intense discipline and conditioning techniques at the officer-training school in Miami help to distinguish those who can lead from those who can't. Footage of famous men at this school includes Mayor Glen Cove of Long Island, Elmer Meadows, Robert Preston, Gilbert Roland and Gable himself. This informative and entertaining film was also used by the Army under the title Sustineo Alas.

USO Christmas Show for the US Troops Stationed Overseas - 1957
    Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, George Burns,
                  Milton Berle, Dinah Shore & Many More

With a personal introduction by President Eisenhower, the first of the joint USO/US Government/Hollywood, annual Christmas shows for the troops gets underway. A great number of Hollywood’s biggest names putting on skits, standup, & musical numbers in an effort to say thanks to all the forces stationed overseas in 1957. As Eisenhower states in the opening, this was shown only to these troops and no one else would see this. 1 reel was made for each overseas base. This is a TRUE COLLECTOR’s ITEM!!! Hope & Berle give two hilarious stand up routines, Stewart, Burns & Benny perform a comical musical rendition of MOTHER, Bing sings White Christmas, and many other gems!!
( Please note that there is a 3 second jump in the tape during Bing’s number, this is due to the age of the original print)

Valley of The Kings
    Starring: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker & Carlos Thompson

Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.

Vanity 6  Only $15.95

As part of the Prince Stable of the 80’s music scene, Prince grouped his girlfriend, former girlfriend & wardrobe mistress to form The Hookers. That name would later be scrapped in favor of Vanity 6. The group went on to record this one & only album, before personal differences broke the group up. However, on this album, Vanity and her colleagues are insanely fun. Prince's stamp is all over this 1982 release, which finds Vanity, Brenda, and Susan backed by the Time. The raunchy lyrics reflect Prince's obsession with all things sexual, and like Prince, Vanity 6 manages to bridge the gap between funk/R&B and rock/pop/new wave. Even if the sexually exploitive lyrics become predictable after awhile, this LP is quite diverse and unpredictable musically. Prince even guest vocals on ‘If a Woman Answers, Don’t Hang Up’ as the jealous girlfriend. There are 2 Bonus cuts on this disc: The Ultra-Rare ‘Vibrator’ that Warner Bros simply refused to release because of it’s extreme explicitness, and the original demo for ‘Sex Shooter’ originally done by Vanity 6 here, it was later done by Apollonia 6 ( what became of Vanity 6 after Vanity quit to go solo and was replaced by Apollonia Katero ) in the movie Purple Rain.

Track Listing:
Nasty Girl / Wet Dream / Drive Me Wild / He’s So Dull
If A Girl Answers, Don’t Hang Up / Make-Up
Bite The Beat / 3 x 2 = 6 / Vibrator / Sex Shooter

Vanity – Skin on Skin   Only $15.95
The 2^nd & final solo effort from former Prince protégé, Vanity, is full of great and danceable music, complete with suggestive lyrics and Vanity’s signature sound. Available here on CD, and a must have for any Vanity fan! Also note, 3 bonus tracks are included that were not available on the original album.

Track Listing:

Under the Influence / Manhunt / Romantic Voyage / Confidential
Animals / Skin on Skin / Gun Shy / Ouch / In The Jungle

Bonus Tracks:

Vanity – Wild Animal   Only $15.95

After a highly publicized breakup with her lover and svengali, Prince, Vanity left behind Vanity 6 and set out on her own. She signed with Motown Records and recorded 2 albums that showed promise, but failed to deliver any hits. Thinking that this meant her success depended totally on Prince, Motown dropped her from their label and her albums faded into obscurity. This is her solo debut album now available on CD. Complete with Vanity’s trademark suggestive lyrics.

Track Listing:

Vault of Horror
    Starring: Curd Jurgens, Glynnis Johns, Michael Craig,
                   Daniel Massey & Tom Baker

Below the Crypt lies Death's waiting room - The Vault of Horror. Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.

The Velvet Touch
    Starring: Rosalind Russell, Sydney Greenstreet & Lex Barker

Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect. Or is suave police Captain Danbury just playing cat and mouse with her? Nicely catty dialogue.

The Vigilante (15 Chapter Serial)
    Starring: Ralph Byrd & Ramsey Ames

"Based on the Vigilante adventure feature appearing in Action Comics magazine." The serial is subtitled "Fighting hero of the West".Greg Saunders, the "Prairie Troubadour" of the screen, was shooting some scenes of a movie at George Pierce's ranch. Prince Hamil of Aravania arrived, presenting Greg, Pierce, Betty Winslow, Capt. Reilly and Tex Collier each with a fine Aravanian horse. Greg's alter-ego, the Vigilante, is called into action as a gang of thugs led by the mysterious and unseen X-1 strive to steal the horses from their owners. The reason for that nefarious activity was that each horse was shod with shoes containing 20 "tears of blood", rare blood red pearls of which only 100 exist in the world, and upon which there is said to be a 1000-year-old curse. The Vigilante and his sidekick Stuff must discover the identity of the evil X-1 and end the dreaded curse before all is lost.

The Vikings
    Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine & Janet Leigh
    Narrated by: Orson Welles

Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana, however.

Villa!
    Starring: Brian Keith, Cesar Romero & Margia Dean

This historical adventure recounts the many exploits of the notorious Mexican bandit Poncho Villa as he evolves from a womanizing thief to a passionate leader of the Mexican revolution.

Villa Rides
    Starring: Robert Mitchum, Yul Bryner & Charles Bronson

Lee Arnold , an American pilot and gun-running mercenary, comes into the picture when he asks Luis Gonzalez, a blacksmith in a little Mexican village, to repair his plane . During Arnold's stay at the home of Gonzalez, the village is attacked by soldiers, known as "Colorados", who, hang by the neck, those fighting back. In the chaos, Arnold is captured, but Pancho Villa and his revolutionaries arrive on the scene to avenge the town by slaughtering the Colorados, and take Arnold prisoner. Upon being mistaken as a mercenary for the Colorados, Arnold persuades Villa not to put him to death when he pledges to fly his plane for Villa. Together, Villa and Arnold work and fly for "the Cause”.

The Violent Men
    Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson & Brian Keith

An ex-confederate officer plans to sell up to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiance, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bully-boy tactics make him think again. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilising his war experience. All is anyway not well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who anyway has a Mexican moll in town.

Violent Saturday
    Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Victor Mature & Richard Egan

A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son's eyes, a timid clerk who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to re-win his wife's love, an Amish farmer faced with viciousness, and a proper older woman turned thief, all find themselves entangled with the bank robbers as a peaceful weekend turns violent.

The Virginian
    Starring: Joel McCrea & Brian Donlevy

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

The Visit
    Starring: Anthony Quinn & Ingrid Bergman

Visit to a Small Planet
    Starring: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman, Gale Gordon
                  & Fred Clark

Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in U.F.O's and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.

Vivacious Lady
    Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Ginger Rogers & Jack Carson

On a quick trip to the city, young university professor Peter Morgan falls in love with nightclub performer Francey Brent and marries her after a whirlwind romance. But when he goes back home, he can't bring himself to tell his conservative, ultra-respected family about it.

The Voice of the Turtle
    Starring: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker & Eve Arden

(Also released as “ One for the Book “ ) Budding actress Sally Middleton agrees to a date with Bill Page, a soldier on a weekend pass, after he's stood up by her worldly friend, Olive. When Bill has a problem getting a hotel room, he ends up spending the weekend with Sally at her apartment. Both have to fight temptation as they become attracted to one another.

Vultures
    Starring: Yvonne DeCarlo, Stuart Whitman & Aldo Ray

A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon  summons his relatives to his bedside, setting the tone for intriguing suspense when a bizarre set of murders occurs. The terror begins with the arrival of the old man's sister and her lover. Blood and gore are a regular state of affairs. The first suspect is Carl  who, despite his protests of his innocence, is hounded by the local detective. But the morbid killings continue...so is he the murderer, or isn't he?