rare films on dvd
L'avventuriero dell'amore DVD (1952)
Also known as: Elle et moi DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Guy Lefranc
Cast: François Périer, Dany Robin, Jacqueline Gauthier, Suzanne Courtal, Suzanne Guémard, Denise Kerny, Geneviève Morel, Paul Barge, Paul Faivre, Louis de Funès, Lud Germain, Jean Carmet, Noël Roquevert
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'avventuriero della Luisiana DVD (1953)
Also known as: The Mississippi Gambler DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Romance, Drama
Director: Rudolph Maté
Cast: Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Paul Cavanagh, John Baer, Ron Randell, Ralph Dumke, Robert Warwick, William Reynolds, Guy Williams
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
L'avventuriero della Malesia DVD (1952)
Also known as: Outcast of the Islands DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Kerima, George Coulouris, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Frederick Valk, Betty Ann Davies, Dharma Emmanuel, Peter Illing, A.V. Bramble, Annabel Morley, James Kenney, Marne Maitland
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'avventuriero di Burma DVD (1955)
Also known as: Escape to Burma DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Lisa Montell, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Robert Cabal, Peter Coe, Alex Montoya, Anthony Numkena, John Mansfield, Gavin Muir, Wag Bessing, Joe Ferrante
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A local prince in British Burma has been killed, apparently by his prospecting partner Jim Brecan. The bereaved father wants Brecan's head, no questions asked, but Captain Cardigan of the colonial police hopes to find him first for a fair trial. Meanwhile, Brecan finds refuge on the teak plantation of wealthy colonial Gwen Moore, where mutual attraction soon makes him indispensable...
L'avventuriero di Hong Kong DVD (1955)
Also known as: Soldier of Fortune DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry, Alexander D'Arcy, Tom Tully, Anna Sten, Russell Collins, Leo Gordon, Richard Loo, Soo Yong, Frank Tang, Jack Kruschen, Mel Welles
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'avventuriero di Macao DVD (1952)
Also known as: Macao DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, Film-Noir
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame, Brad Dexter, Edward Ashley, Philip Ahn, Vladimir Sokoloff, Everett Glass
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an American expatriate who runs the biggest casino in Macao and has a thriving business in converting hot jewels into cash. Her new boss thinks one of her traveling companions is a cop. One is -- but not the one the boss suspects.
L'avventuriero di New Orleans DVD (1951)
Also known as: Adventures of Captain Fabian DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Drama
Director: William Marshall
Cast: Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Francen, Jim Gérald, Héléna Manson, Howard Vernon, Roger Blin, Valentine Camax, Georges Flateau, Zanie Campan, Reggie Nalder, Marcel Journet, Gilles Quéant
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'avventuriero di re Artù DVD (1963)
Also known as: Siege of the Saxons DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, History
Director: Nathan Juran
Cast: Janette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Ronald Howard, John Laurie, Mark Dignam, Jerome Willis, Francis De Wolff, Charles Lloyd Pack, Peter Mason
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
L'avventuriero di Venezia DVD (1941)
Also known as: Volpone DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, Jean Témerson, Fernand Ledoux, Jacqueline Delubac, Marion Dorian, Alexandre Rignault, Louis Frémont, Robert Seller, Jean Lambert, Pierre Gianotti, Colette Régis
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
L'avventurosa fuga DVD (1979)
Also known as: Gli ultimi angeli DVD (alternative title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Family
Director: Enzo Doria
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Nathalie Delon, Philippe Leroy, Alessandro Doria, Flavio Colombaioni, Fausta Avelli, Leda Negroni, Fabrizio Forte, Giovanna Petrucci, Attilio Cucari, Daniela Morelli, Vincenzo Ferro
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Elisabeth and Massimo have been separated for two years and decide to affirm their independence with a divorce. The person who suffers the most from the situation is their son Marco, who normally lives with his father in a beautiful, but lonely country house. Marco's only satisfaction comes from riding his horse Socrates around the countryside, but Massimo sends the horse to his father-in-law in Sicily when, tired of solitude, he decides to sell everything and move into town. At this point, Marco, who has by chance witnessed the kidnapping and release of Gilberto, decides to flee and pretend he has been kidnapped to gain his parents' attention. His journey to Sicily, where his maternal grandfather lives near Ragusa, is crammed full of adventures, but the child makes it in the end, thanks to Rocco, a Neapolitan street urchin, who befriends him. Rocco ends up under a car, and this accident along with the vicissitudes of Marco's flight, bring the horrified parents together: they rush to ...
L'avvertimento DVD (1980)
Also known as: Die Warnung DVD (German title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Damiano Damiani
Cast: Giuliano Gemma, Martin Balsam, Laura Trotter, Giancarlo Zanetti, Guido Leontini, Franco Odoardi, Deddi Savagnone, John Karlsen, Julian Jenkins, Andrea Scazzola, Marcello Mandò, Ennio Antonelli, Geoffrey Copleston, Giordano Falzoni, Giulia Fossà
Medium: DVD R/RW
Avvocati criminali DVD (1951)
Also known as: Criminal Lawyer DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime, Romance, Mystery
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid, Mary Castle, Robert Shayne, Mike Mazurki, Jerome Cowan, Marvin Kaplan, Douglas Fowley, Mickey Knox, Louis Jean Heydt
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: James Ragan, a brilliant criminal lawyer is fed up with his lucrative practice and longs to retire to a quiet judgeship, but his reputation for legal, if not always ethical, courtroom tricks sidetracks his desire and he continues with his chosen profession. Afrer several exciting (and episodic) cases, requiring all his talents, including defending his personal bodyguard, "Moose" Hendrcks on a murder charge,he eventually get an appointment and becomes known as Judge Ragan.
L'avvocato della mala DVD (1977)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Alberto Marras
Cast: Ray Lovelock, Mel Ferrer, Lilli Carati, John Steiner, Gabriele Tinti, Umberto Orsini, Orazio Orlando, Rosario Borelli, Romano Puppo, Gino Pagnani, Salvatore Puntillo, Dante Cleri, Alfredo Adami, Pino Salviani, Bruno Di Luia
Medium: DVD R/RW
Gli avvoltoi della metropoli DVD (1962)
Also known as: Dossier 1413 DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Alfred Rode
Cast: Claudine Dupuis, Jean Danet, Dora Doll, Henri Vilbert, Rita Cadillac, Jacques Dumesnil, Albert Dinan, Johnny Hallyday, Pierre-Louis, Marc Johannes, Pierre Larquey, François Nocher, Dominique Baillet, Eddie Barclay, André Bari
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'avvoltoio DVD (1967)
Also known as: The vulture DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Cast: Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford, Diane Clare, Philip Friend, Patrick Holt, Annette Carell, Edward Caddick, Gordon Sterne, Keith McConnell, Margaret Robertson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A mad scientist turns himself into a half-man, half-bird monster to avenge the death of his ancestor.
Azione di controspionaggio DVD (1952)
Also known as: Escape Route DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: George Raft, Sally Gray, Frederick Piper, Reginald Tate, Clifford Evans, Patricia Laffan, June Ashley, John Warwick, Roddy Hughes
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Azione esecutiva DVD (1973)
Also known as: Executive Action DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, History
Director: David Miller
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson, Paul Carr, Colby Chester, Ed Lauter, Walter Brooke, John Brascia, Richard Bull, Sidney Clute, Deanna Darrin, Lee Delano, Lloyd Gough
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: French
Plot: This fictionalized speculation posits that a covert group of rogue intelligence agents, ultra-conservative politicians, unscrupulously greedy business interests, and free-lance assassins become increasingly alarmed at President Kennedy's policies, including his views on race relations, winding down the Viet Nam War, and ending the oil depletion allowance. They decide to terminate him through an "executive action" utilizing two teams of well-trained snipers during JFK's visit to Dallas and place the blame on supposed CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin.
Azione immediata DVD (1957)
Also known as: Action immédiate DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Maurice Labro
Cast: Henri Vidal, Barbara Laage, Jacques Dacqmine, Nicole Maurey, Lino Ventura, Margaret Rung, Jess Hahn, Harald Wolff, Louis Arbessier, Raoul Billerey, Corrado Guarducci, Lanciers, Leritz, Jacques Mancier, Sylvain
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Secret documents and a lump of experimental alloy have been stolen fromthe French government, and special agent Coplan isdispatched to Zurich to recover them at all costs.
Azione superporno DVD (1977)
Also known as: The Jade Pussycat DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adult
Director: Bob Chinn
Cast: John Holmes, Georgina Spelvin, Linda Wong, Steve Balint, Paula Wain, Bonnie Holiday, Jessica Temple-Smith, Jon Martin, Yvonne Green, Jimi Lee, Mark Ross, Bob Chinn, Jay Gamble, Elliot Lewis
Medium: DVD R/RW
