CULT CLASSICS - 20 MOVIE PACK

Includes the following movies:

1. Chained for Life

The Hamilton Sisters, Dorothy and Vivian, are Siamese twins living life as best as they can. Working as a novelty singing act for a vaudeville show, the twins are exploited by their unscrupulous manager both financially and emotionally. When one of the sisters is charged with murder, it falls upon the court to figure out how to punish the one sister, if convicted, while sparing the other sister. Runtime:  1:21

2. Child Bride

Set in the Ozarks, the story centers upon the rural tradition of older men marrying younger adolescent girls during times when women of marrying age are scarce. A woman is blackmailed by her husband's rival to allow him to marry her adolescent daughter. Meanwhile, the local schoolteacher and her assistant D.A. boyfriend lead efforts to stop this practice of exploiting under-aged girls. Runtime: 1:02

3. Cocaine Fiends

A young woman gets mixed-up with a smalltime drug pusher, who gets her hooked on cocaine and has her stop waitressing in her mother's caf? and move to the city with him. Her addiction to the drug has brought her to hanging out in a nightclub, living a life of despair. The girl's hoodlum boyfriend ends up getting her younger brother and his girlfriend hooked on the drug too, which leads them into a lifestyle of crime and prostitution. Several incidents lead to a shocking end of events that affect the lives of everyone involved.  Runtime: 1:08

4. Delinquent Daughters

After a local high school girl commits suicide, the authorities begin to investigate the circumstances leading to her death. A police officer begins interviewing the local teens and discovers some hidden secrets behind the activities of some of the local youth. As the officer digs deeper into the case, the more shocking details come to light about some of the good kids at school. Runtime: 1:12

5. Escort Girl

A couple of sleazy nightclub owners have partnered up to run an escort service, exploiting the women in their employ for the benefit of their clients. One woman trapped in this racket finds her life becoming more complicated when her daughter returns home from a boarding school located out of state. The mother must try to hide her activities from her daughter, whose boyfriend works in the District Attorney's office and is investigating the escort service. Runtime:  1:08

6. Gambling with Souls

A young housewife longs for the finer things in life, things she thinks her husband cannot or will not provide her. Looking for some excitement and a way to get the things she wants, the housewife turns to frequenting shady bars and gambling. When the crooked gambling operator cheats the woman into a large debt, he forces her into prostitution to pay off her losses.  Runtime: 1:10

7. Joyless Street

The fortunes of some Viennese neighbors are intertwined in this story set during the post-World War I depression in Austria. Some of the neighbors are forced to consider theft, prostitution or murder in order to survive on the unforgiving streets of the Austrian capital. This classic film features a performance by a young Greta Garbo trying to help her family make it by any means necessary. Runtime: 1:01

8. Mad Youth

A divorced mother and her teenaged daughter lead equally wild lifestyles. The mother hires gigolos to escort her around town and the daughter hosts drinking and stripping parties while mother is away. Complications come up for mother and daughter when they both find themselves seeing the same man and the daughter ends up falling into a prostitution ring while trying to visit her friend. Runtime: 1:16

9. Marihuana

This 1930's cautionary film about the dangers of marijuana smoking is similar to "Reefer Madness" with its exaggerated and sometimes humorous portrayals. In this story, a young teenage girl and her group of friends end up partaking in marijuana smoking and alcohol at a beach party, which results in her becoming pregnant and her best friend drowning. Our heroine and her boyfriend fall into the realms of drug dealing and further drug addiction due to their dependency on marijuana.  Runtime: 57 minutes

10. Marijuana Menace, The

A group of small-town high school students has taken up the bad habit of smoking marijuana, leading them down a path of hedonistic activities. Their crazed lifestyle has ensnared one vulnerable girl into living a life of destructive behavior. An undercover reporter, disguised as a soda jerk, attempts to befriend the girl and free her from the clutches of the gang.  Runtime: 1:20

11. Omoo-Omoo, The Shark God

Based upon the novel written by Herman Melville, a pair of sacred black pearls taken from an island shrine brings with them a curse. When a sea captain removes the pearls, he unleashes a curse that falls upon anyone who encounters them. As the pearls move from one person to the next, each owner suffers horribly while they search for a way to lift the curse.  Runtime: 58 minutes:

12. Reefer Madness

This propaganda-style film was produced in the 1930's under the pretext of educating the youth of America about the dangers of smoking marijuana. The story presented to the audience concerns a typical all-American high school couple who are introduced to evils of smoking pot and shows the consequences they suffer because of it. While appearing humorous and dated by today's standard, it is interesting for the viewer to see the prevailing thoughts and attitudes towards marijuana during that period of time. Runtime: 1:09

13. Road to Ruin, The

A young woman and her girlfriend start down the wrong path after they start hanging out with the wrong crowd. After they start dating two boys, they begin drinking, smoking and carrying on at wild parties. Both girls face some major problems due to their new lifestyle, with the consequences dire for one on the girls.  Runtime:  1:02

14. Sex Madness

A small-town beauty queen with hopes to make it in the big city faces a serious problem when she is diagnosed with a venereal disease. Forced to work burlesque shows instead of on the Broadway stage, the young woman is told to abstain in order to try and help defeat her illness. Unfortunately, she doesn't follow the doctor's advice, listens to an unreliable doctor and then suffers the disastrous results.  Runtime: 57 minutes

15. She Shoulda' Said "No"!

A chorus girl loses a lot in her life when she meets a pusher, who introduces her to marijuana. As she tries the drug, it overwhelms her life causing her to lose her job and driving her brother to suicide. After a stay in prison, our heroine must face a new life for herself, struggling to get back to where she was prior to her addiction to the "devil's weed".  Runtime: 1:10

16. Slaves in Bondage

A crooked businessman and his female partner use her beauty salon as a recruitment center for girls to work as prostitutes at his roadhouse. The younger sister of one of the beauticians falls under the unwanted gaze of the lecherous businessman. Meanwhile, the girl's newspaper reporter boyfriend investigating the prostitution ring is set up for a fall, with the police, by the crooked businessman who hopes to make the girl his own.   Runtime: 1:10

17. Ten Nights in a Barroom

A tea-totaling family man descends into a life of despair and horror when he is introduced to the demon rum in this classic film. As the man succumbs to the sins of alcohol, you are shown how he becomes a shell of his former self and how his family suffers for it. It will take a major intervention for the man to face up to the imagined evil of the drink and the literal representation of it, in the form of the loathsome bartender Slade.  Runtime:  1:12

18. Terror of Tiny Town, The

A marauding bandit has arrived in the western village of Tiny Town and sets his sights upon the ranch of a beautiful girl. The only thing that stands in the way of this outlaw and his gang is a daring young cowboy, who hopes to organize the townspeople into fighting back against the gang. This seemingly ordinary western is made extraordinary by the fact that the entire cast of this film is composed of midgets, many of them part of the Singer's Midget's troupe that went on to appear as the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz" the following year.  Runtime: 1:02

19. Test Tube Babies

A married couple has been trying for years to have a child but find themselves at the end of their patience. A visit to their doctor confirms their worst fears; the husband is sterile and is incapable of fathering a child. The doctor tells the heart-broken couple about a new, radical procedure called artificial insemination that may give them a chance at having a child.  Runtime: 1:23

20. Wild and The Wicked, The

A young girl heads to Hollywood to visit her older sister, with the hopes she can break into the movies. Once arriving, her sister tries to explain the difficulty in making a career in show business, but the younger sister insists she will try it. What ends up happening is the young girl becomes involved in a prostitution ring run by mobsters, which is what her older sister has be doing and tried to keep her sister from finding out.  Runtime: 1:30

Specifications:

• 4 DVD's, NTSC, Region 1