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Ed Wood rounds up the usual suspects for this craptastic shocker. Lt. Moore is hot on the trail of shyster medium Dr. Acula (Uh huh, Dracula… I get it) who sets up his show in the good old Dr. Vornoff's (Bela Lugosi's lair in 'Bride of the Gorilla' (1955)) old lair to bilk little old ladies hard earned social security by channeling their love ones with floating sheets and phantom trumpet players who couldn't hold a tune even if they had pockets. This guy couldn't talk to the dead with a two cans connected by string. This movie is badly acted with horrible dialogue and some of the cheesiest effects in all his films. I had a great time with this one. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film as half of Ed Wood Double Feature at https://www.newtsproducts.com/edwooddouble.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

While it thoroughly deserves its reputation as a film only worth seeing so that you can enjoy its remarkably amateurish production, on the other hand it seems a bit unfair to label it as the worst film ever made. Most of it is quite watchable, it's not at all offensive, and the story - utterly ridiculous as it is - moves fairly quickly, and gives you some reasons to stick around to the end. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film as half of Ed Wood Double Feature at https://www.newtsproducts.com/edwooddouble.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

In a New York City bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman (Dan O'Herlihy) is sitting and drinking from a very large brandy glass. He gets into discussions with a cross-section of affluent Americans at the bar, including local television newscaster Vince Potter (Gerald Mohr), beautiful young New York society woman Carla Sanford (Peggie Castle), a California industrialist, a rancher from Arizona, and a Congressman. International news is bad, but these Americans do not want to hear it. While they all dislike Communism and appreciate the material wealth they enjoy, they also want lower taxes and don't see the need for industrial support of government. As he swishes the brandy around his snifter, Ohman tells the others that many Americans want safety and security, but do not want to make any sacrifices for it. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film as part of the Is This Our Future? Double Feature at https://www.newtsproducts.com/future.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

This film, Freedom and You was also known as Red Nightmare. Jerry Donavon (Jack Kelly) takes his freedom for granted. So, Jack Webb shows up and casts a magic spell, which causes Jerry to have a dream about what it would be like to live in a communist society. In fact, you could even say that Jack Webb gives Jerry a red nightmare! So, there’s two ways to review this film. We can either debate the film’s politics and get into a big discussion about economics and policy. Or, we can simply enjoy it for what it is, a histrionic but sincere time capsule of what was going on in the psyche of 1962 America. Though made for the Department of Defense, it was shown on American television on Jack Webb's GE True in 1962 and as an educational film to American schools under the Red Nightmare title. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film as part of the Is This Our Future? Double Feature at https://www.newtsproducts.com/future.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

The Dark Mirror is a 1946 American film noir psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Olivia de Havilland as twins and Lew Ayres as their psychiatrist. Dr. Frank Peralta is stabbed to death in his apartment one night. The detective on the case, Lt. Stevenson (Thomas Mitchell), quickly finds multiple witnesses putting Peralta's lover, Terry Collins (Olivia de Havilland), at the scene. However, when Stevenson finds Terry and questions her, she has an iron-clad alibi with multiple witnesses. It is revealed that Terry has an identical twin sister, Ruth , and the pair share the same job and routinely switch places for their own benefit. Stevenson and the district attorney are unable to prosecute, since the twins refuse to confirm which one of them has the alibi. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/darkmirror.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

Song of the South was ahead of the times when Disney released it in 1946; an Oscar was even awarded to James Baskett. Baskett was the first black person to receive the honor. The film has some subtle racism, but nothing like the racism in films like Gone with the Wind or even Blazing Saddles. Song of the South was a product of the time, and sterotyping was frequent and prevalent, especially in animation. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/songsouth.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

When perennial college students Danny O'Neill (Fred Astaire) and Hank Taylor (Burgess Meredith) are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard). Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/2ndchorus.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

This film was originally released in 1943 as In Old Oklahoma and then reissued as War of the Wildcats in 1947. It is action adventure in the oil fields and it's very entertaining and fun. Wayne is Cowboy Dan Somers and he competes with oilman Jim Gardner (Albert Dekker) for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the attentions of schoolteacher turned scandalous book author Cathy Allen (Marsha Hunt). It has a good supporting cast including George "Gabby" Hayes. You will never see the Duke quite like this in any other role. If you're a fan of the Duke, you will love this film. Also Catch the pre-Roy Rogers Dale Evans bringing down the house with a charming stage number. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/warwildcats.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

Three generations of police chiefs struggle with changing times, racial issues, and a vicious serial killer in the fictional southern town of Delano, spanning 40 years. The growing community's first official chief, Will Henry Lee, a failed farmer played by Wayne Rogers, is hired by town patriarch Hugh Holmes (Charlton Heston) in the 1920s much to the chagrin of veteran redneck county sheriff Skeeter Willis (Paul Sorvino), who along with Heston's character has a role in each of the pivotal lawmen's lives. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/chiefs.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

The story of a doomed bomber pilot who is missed by his heavenly conductor in the English fog during the second world war, and his subsequent brushes with the celestial authorities (or is it in his head) is played with panache by David Niven and Kim Hunter and is incredibly touching - especially in the opening scenes when the doomed pilot (Niven) describes his plight to the ground radio operator (Hunter). Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/life+death.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

The story involved two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents who go undercover in Detroit and then Los Angeles in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring. The agents try to join the gang by posing as counterfeiters from out of town. They eventually join the gang but the stakes are set even higher when one of the agents is killed by the gang while the other undercover T-man watches in horror. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/Tmen.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Richard Boone (TVs Have Gun, Will Travel) best known as a star of Westerns (The Tall T (1957), Rio Conchos (1964), Hombre (1967) is solid as a businessman who is obligated to serve on the committee of a local cemetery, and inadvertently discovers that by using the map of the graves available he has the power of life and death. Boone is supported by Theodore Bikel in an eccentric turn as an ageing Scots grounds keeper. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/buryliving.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.classicfilmsondvd.com

At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage her, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled and the countryside is combed for the loose creature. But Kiki and her manager begin to wonder if maybe the leopard is not responsible for the killings. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/leopardman.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Entertaining entry in RKO's series has The Falcon (Tom Conway) on vacation in Hollywood when a famous actor is murdered. The finger points to various people in the production so The Falcon must sort it all out. This is perhaps the best that I've seen from the series due in large part to a very good supporting cast and a nice little mystery that remains interesting throughout the film. Most of the action takes place on the backlot of a studio so we get all sorts of nice scenes, which work themselves well into the mystery. A lot of Hollywood props are used as gags or evidence and this too adds to the fun. But chiefly, this film is remarkable for the pairing of Tom Conway with a female sidekick, a cabbie named Billie, played to superb comic effect by Veda Ann Borg. The two have a wonderful magic together. RKO studios doubled for the fictional Sunset Studio in The Falcon in Hollywood. Also co-starring Sheldon Leonard and Barbara Hale (Della Street on TV Perry Mason). Purchase a good quality DVD of this film in th two disc set Tom Conway Double Feature at https://www.newtsproducts.com/tomconwaydouble.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

The film begins with Tom Conway, in an excellent performance, looking at a sign noting an intersection of two streets. He doesn't know where there are, where he is. Or, even, who he is. Amnesia, yes indeed. Now the comedy: Ann Rutherford, a female cab driver, happens by and helps him out. She calls her taxi Harry and, later, people get confused and think Harry might be the name of a suspect. Though this has its light moments, it is a dark little movie. (And little it is, at just a bit longer than an hour.) We have a comic newspaperman and a semi-comic police officer. But we have some genuine bad guys too, and some women who are right out of the noir canon as well. Among these is Jane Greer in a very early appearance (billed here as Bettejane Greer). Though her role is small, she grabs out attention. The camera loves her, almost in the way it was to love a very different sort of performer: Marilyn Monroe. Though Greer doesn't have a lot to do or a whole lot of screen time, when she's around, we can't take our eyes off her. Now, there was real (and sadly underused) star! Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/tomconwaydouble.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

One of the reasons the film is considered among the most celebrated screwball comedies of all time is that underneath the humor it incorporates sharply cynical themes of corruption and dishonesty. This film, along with Ben Hecht's The Front Page (1931) and its 1940 remake His Girl Friday with Cary Grant, caricatures the chicanery to which some newspapers resorted in order to get a "hot" story. This knee-slapping comedy is directed by William A. Wellman and its a crime not to watch. The first screwball comedy filmed in color, Nothing Sacred also represents the first use in a color film of process effects, montage and rear screen projection. Backgrounds for the rear projection were filmed on the streets of New York. Paramount Pictures and other studios refined this technique in their subsequent color features Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/nothingsacred.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

In June 1941 Ukrainian villagers are living in peace. As the school year ends, a group of friends decide to travel to Kiev for a holiday. To their horror, they find themselves attacked by German aircraft, part of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Eventually their village itself is occupied by the Nazis. Meanwhile, men and women take to the hills to form partisan militias. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/northstar.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Sherlock Holmes helps a scientist escape the clutches of the Gestapo in Switzerland and gets him to England. The man has invented a revolutionary new bombsight that will significantly aid Britain's war effort. Now that he's in England he should be safe, right? Purchase a good quality DVD of this film in the Sherlock Holmes Double Feature Volume One at https://www.newtsproducts.com/SHvol1.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamorous woman. The fiendish Professor Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is suspected of being involved. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film in the Sherlock Holmes Double Feature Volume One at https://www.newtsproducts.com/SHvol1.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Max Thursday (Zachary Scott) is an alcoholic former cop living in a rundown hotel owned by his friend Smitty. He gets a visit from his ex-wife Georgia. Her brother Fred Mace and their son Jeff are missing. Apparently, Jeff has been kidnapped and Fred is somehow involved. In this harsh pulpy noir Zachary Scott is acting with all his chops. It has the brutality and hard-talk for the standard noir B-movie. I like many of the New York City exteriors. They're low rent and outside the normal glamor locations. It's a gritty film noir crime B-movie. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/bystander.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

This movie has several big things going for it: its short, fast-moving and just plain entertaining. How much more do you want? Also, Lawrence Tierney was made for gangster/film noir movies. He looks the part, acts the part, and was a thug in real life, too. Who better than to portray famous criminal John Dillinger as a cold-blooded killer? This was Tierney's starring debut and it was a good vehicle for him. I also enjoyed Edmund Lowe as the gang boss prior to Tierney taking over. I enjoyed the supporting cast, too: Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr., Eduardo Cianelli and Marc Lawrence. All of them add to this film. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/dillinger.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific, US Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help. There have been two attempts on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). Purchase a good quality DVD of this film in the Charlie Chan Double Feature 2 DVD set at https://www.newtsproducts.com/CCdouble.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Set in Hanky Park, part of Salford, England, at the height of the Great Depression pre-World War II, Sally (Deborah Kerr), a mill girl during the Depression, is in love with Larry (Clifford Evans), a militant factory worker who loses his job and refuses to marry Sally on dole money. Leading a demonstration against pay, conditions and unemployment, Larry is wounded in a scuffle with police and later dies. Sally, faced with the moral dilemma of poverty or loveless marriage, gives herself to rich old bookie 'Honest' Sam Grundy (Frank Cellier) in the desperate hope that he will give work to her father and brother. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/lovedole.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

Charming, little British musical much superior to those glossy MGM musicals of the same period. Although David Niven is top billed, this is Vera-Ellen's film all the way. She is dazzling in several dance numbers that range from ballet, tap & modern dance - a very versatile dancer!! DVD quality is good - crystal print, lush & brilliant color, and nice sets - check out that gorgeous stain glass door!! This is my favorite Vera Ellen film - she was never lovelier. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/happygolovely.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com

John and Susan elope on a train to begin a new life together, leaving behind their current spouses. Whilst on the train, John changes his mind at the 11th hour, pulls the emergency cord and jumps off the train to go back to his wife before she suspects anything. However, once home, the train, which he stopped near their house is involved in a crash that claims many lives, including that of Susan. The hunt is on for the person who pulled the emergency cord and Inspector Waterson is suspicious of John. There is a good helping of suspense and there are some twists in the story along the way. Purchase a good quality DVD of this film at https://www.newtsproducts.com/interrupted.html and visit Newt's Classic Movie Store at https://www.newtsproducts.com