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1) Criss cross
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dracula's daughter: Dr. Von Helsing, thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Just when Von Helsing's fate seems sealed, the bodies suddenly disappear. Soon several people are found mysteriously killed, their bodies drained of all blood.
Son of Dracula: Lon Chaney, Jr. portrays Count Alucard, Dracula's son, in this story of a Southern heiress who winds up under the evil spell of the Count.
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Non-actors play versions of themselves in loosely outlined scenarios. The sense of what an ordinary day might have been like in Weimar-era Germany is enchantingly captured in this bit of cinematic amber.
4) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...