MADE IN NEW JERSEY: FILMS FROM FORT LEE (1909-1935) - 14-Film Blu-ray Collection

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Product Description: Fort Lee was already a favorite location for New York filmmakers when Mark Dintenfass arrived in 1910 and established Champion as the first of many studios in that sleepy town. Biograph, Éclair, Kalem, Fox and Universal soon followed making Fort Lee and New Jersey the birthplace of the American motion picture industry. Curated by Richard Koszarski, author of Fort Lee, The Film Town and the enclosed 20-page booklet, this special edition 2-disc Blu-ray set gathers 14 wonderful and historically significant films and 2 documentaries from archives around the world. Featuring two restored Biograph chase films by D.W. Griffith (The Curtain Pole and The Cord of Life), the legendary The Vampire (1913), which popularized the character of the “vamp” or “femme fatale,” the earliest surviving film version of Robin Hood, and a new 4K restoration of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Ukrainian operetta Cossacks in Exile (1939) famously shot at Little Flower Monastery in Newton, Made in New Jersey: Films From Fort Lee is a landmark release for cinema history and simply a joy to watch.

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New on Blu-ray: BLUEBEARD (1944) Starring John Carradine - 80th Anniversary Edition

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Product Description: Scream great John Carradine (The Black Sleep, House of the Long Shadows) stars in this eerie film noir version of the oft-told Bluebeard legend. 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. Gaston’s latest model, Lucille (Jean Parker, Black Tuesday), learns of his shocking secret and bravely vows to bring him to justice. Directed by the master of the strange and the spellbinding, Edgar G. Ulmer (The Black Cat, The Man from Planet X), who sustains a steady level of suspense throughout this most sinister of love stories. A dread-soaked dream for connoisseurs of classic horror and noir! Co-starring “the male Garbo” Nils Asther (By Candlelight).

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New on Blu-ray: EDGAR G. ULMER SCI-FI COLLECTION (The Man from Planet X / Beyond the Time Barrier / The Amazing Transparent Man)

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Product Description: This collection features three sci-fi shockers directed by the sensational Edgar G. Ulmer (The Black Cat, Detour).

THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1950) – On the coast of Scotland, where there’s enough fog to hide an alien landing, an astronomer discovers that one has actually occurred. But it’s soon realized that the creature, the “Man from Planet X,” has definite plans—not for friendship, but for domination—unleashing “out-of-this-world” havoc on the villagers!

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960) – In 1960, U.S. Air Force Major William Allison pilots the X80 jet, which is capable of speeds up to 5,000 miles an hour and reaching heights of more than 100 miles above Earth. Upon nearly reaching outer space, Allison is unaware that the X80’s tremendous velocity has propelled him through a time barrier and into the post-apocalyptic year of 2024. He soon finds himself held captive in an underground city known as the Citadel, whose inhabitants have been menaced by mutants and a deadly virus. Now Allison must find a way to return to the past and warn humanity of impending disaster.

THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1960) – In this pulse-pounding sci-fi classic, safecracker Joey Faust is snatched out of prison and made invisible with an atomic ray gun, apparently—and transparently—for the sole purpose of stealing nuclear fuel for a villain named Krenner and his beautiful moll Laura. But when Faust realizes his radiation-generated new look is slowly poisoning him, the tables are quickly turned, and his simple heist could now become the decade’s most horrifying nuclear nightmare of vengeance!

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New on Blu-ray: DAMAGED LIVES (1933) / DAMAGED GOODS (1937) - Exploitation Films Double Feature

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Product Description: Eugène Brieux’s play Les Avaries endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel Damaged Goods, the story became the backbone of countless sex hygiene films, in which a young couple’s happiness is overshadowed by the specter of disease. Made just before his influential horror film The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer’s unauthorized rendition of the story (Damaged Lives) is grimly poetic, and deserves a place among the director’s finest work. Often overlooked in the exploitation cycle, Damaged Goods demonstrates how unexpectedly compelling these disreputable little films could be.

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DVD & Blu-ray: DETOUR (1945) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage’s snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hard-boiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration.

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