Lady in Question [VHS] by A&E Home Video $19.95
8 Million Ways to Die [VHS] by Charles Mulvehill $19.98
Jeff Bridges stars as Matthew Scudder, the flawed hero of Lawrence Block's novel. He's an ex-cop, now a private eye, who constantly battles his own alcoholism. His struggle isn't helped when he becomes involved with a hooker and, in trying to aid her, winds up at the center of a struggle involving pimps and drug dealers. Bridges, who played a similar role in The Morning After, seems to have a...
Charlie Chan: Scarlet Clue [VHS] by William A. Sickner $12.98
Abbott & Costello: Meet the Killer Boris Karloff [VHS] by Universal Studios $14.98
Kiss Me Deadly [VHS] by Ernest Laszlo $14.95
Kiss Me Deadly starts off with a bang--a young woman (Cloris Leachman) in bare feet and a trench coat runs along a highway, frantically trying to flag down help. In desperation, she finally throws herself into traffic, and the car she stops belongs to detective Mike Hammer. The pace never lets up--we're not even 15 minutes into the movie and there's already been a murder, a mysterious letter, an...
Twilight [VHS] by Robert Benton $14.95
If it hadn't been released in 1998 with a veteran cast of Hollywood's finest, you could swear that Twilight was a movie from the 1940s--the kind of intelligent mystery that would've made Humphrey Bogart feel right at home. To be sure, that was exactly the intention of director and co-writer Robert Benton (in collaboration with Nobody's Fool writer Richard Russo), but the film's blessing is also...
Ghostwriter: Into the Comics [VHS] by Ghostwriter $14.98
Frenzy [VHS] by Gilbert Taylor $14.98
Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, written by Anthony Shaffer (who also wrote Sleuth), this delightfully grisly little tale features an all-British cast minus star wattage, which may have accounted for its relatively slim showing in the States. Jon Finch plays a down-on-his-luck Londoner who is offered some help by an old pal (Barry Foster). In fact, Foster is a serial killer the police have...