THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL! DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 84 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Gunnar Hellstrom
description: Hawaii Five-O's Jack Lord stars in this odd little thriller directed by Gunnar Hellstrom. Lord plays a Hungarian man named Lipa who meets the beautiful Mickey (Susan Strasberg) while wandering the highways of Arizona. Mickey runs a gas station in the desert with her mother (T.C. Jones) and two sisters and invites Lipa to stay with them. He does, not knowing that the entire family is stark-raving mad. The usual psychological games ensue, with Lipa being attacked by a rattlesnake, seduced by the psychotic sisters, and run over with a car before figuring out the predictable truth -- that "Mom" is really a man. Gorgeous photography by Vilmos Zsigmond and some amusingly sadistic set-pieces accent this enjoyably trashy thriller.

NUMBER ONE DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 105 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Tom Gries
description: Ron Catlin (Charleton Heston) is a pro-football player who realizes his playing skills have eroded. His actions on the field have slowed to the point where retirement looms. His wife Julie (Jessica Walter) has her own fashion-designing business and his former teammate Richie (Bruce Dern) has parlayed his football heroics into a successful auto-leasing company. As "The Cat" loses his legendary quickness, he finds himself ill-suited to join the real world after his pampered isolation in the NFL. He takes to the bottle and to the lure of an illicit affair with Ann (Diana Muldaur).

OTLEY DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 91 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Dick Clement
description: Gerald Otley (Tom Courtenay), a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds that he wanted by the police for murder. And that is only the beginning. While being pursued for a crime he did not commit, he is kidnapped by a group of criminals who suspect him of being involved with double agents. Otley manages to escape, but cannot avoid getting into one near-fatal crisis after another, as police and foreign agents chase after him. Murder, blackmail and auto chases dominate the action as the femme fatale Imogen (Romy Schneider) first has Otley beaten up by her thugs before combining forces to go after the real villains, it is a wild week of misadventures which Otley will never forget!

PAPER LION DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 107 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Alex March
description: Paper Lion is taken from the actual experiences of journalist George Plimpton. George (Alan Alda) dons helmet and pads to play quarterback against the Detroit Lions. His experience is less-than-successful as he is mercilessly tackled by the Lion's defense, including Alex Karras. Roger Aaron Brown tackles George and carries the ball and the player over the line for a touchdown. Flashbacks include the reporter's three-round bout with "Sugar Ray" Robinson. Football legends Frank Gifford and coach Vince Lombardi also appear. The final scene is the actual pre-season game against the St. Louis Cardinals football team. After his retirement from the Lions, Alex Karras made a successful transition into acting in films and on television, joining Jim Brown who preceded and Bubba Smith and others who followed.

PARANOIA DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 91 mins. Italy. Color.
directed by: Umberto Lenzi
description: A.K.A. "ORGASMO" Katherine West (Carroll Baker) is a wealthy alcoholic who travels to her late husband's Italian villa from New York. Soon, a slimy conman named Peter (Lou Castel) and his girlfriend Eva (Colette Descombes) move in on Katherine, taking advantage of her confused state with sex, drugs, and blackmail. With an amazing psychedelic score composed by Piero Umiliani.

THE PENTHOUSE DVD (1967) $14.99
run time: 96 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Richard Correll
description: A man and woman with a shameful secret are confronted by a pair of sadistic thugs in this unsettling drama. Bruce Victor (Terence Morgan) is a not-so-happily married real estate agent having an affair with Barbara Willason (Suzy Kendall), an overly credulous young woman. Bruce has access to a furnished flat which he and Barbara use for their liaisons. One morning, while they're at the penthouse, Tom (Tony Beckley) and Dick (Norman Rodway) appear at the door, claiming to be meter readers. Barbara lets them in; they soon tie Bruce to a chair, and after dulling Barbara's senses with alcohol and drugs, they repeatedly violate her. When Tom and Dick finally leave, a seriously distraught Bruce and Barbara wonder if there's any way that they can tell their story to the police without revealing their adultery.

PRUDENCE AND THE PILL DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Fielder Cook & Ronald Neame
description: Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill. David Niven substitutes aspirin for his wife's (Deborah Kerr) birth control medicine, hoping that she will become pregnant by her lover (Keith Mitchell) -- thereby freeing him to dally with his mistress (Irina Demich). Meanwhile, Niven's niece (Judy Geeson) does a switch job on her parents' pills, hoping that once her mom is pregnant, Geeson will be left alone to pursue her own love life.

SEBASTIAN DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: David Greene
description: A British mathematician (Dirk Bogarde), working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter (Susannah York). An extremely stylish, sophisticated romp that was slyly coy at the time, and simply faboulous when viewed today. Jerry Goldsmith provides noticeable musical accompaniment... and keep an eye out for Canadian actor Donald Sutherland in a bit as an American. WATCH CLIP

SEASIDE SWINGERS DVD (1965) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: James Hill
description: When teenagers arrive at a seaside resort to begin their summer jobs, they don't know what a swinging time they are in for - and neither does the manager when he announces that the highlight of the season will be a televised talent contest. Hilarious antics, first love and popular music all come together to make a potpourri of tender romance and summer fun. Starring Mike Sarne, John Leyton, and Freedie & the Dreamers.

SECRET WORLD DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. France. Color.
directed by: Robert Freeman
description: Directed by Beatle photographer Robert Freeman, Secret World looks great and consistently poses his characters in complimentary settings. Jacqueline Bisset plays a young Englishwoman hired by a French patrician to care for his son, a mournful sort who potters around in a holy old brown pullover for the entire film as he falls in love with the new 'older woman' in his life. She's trying to maintain a relationship with a dashing young Frenchman with a sexy sportscar.

SKIDOO DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 97 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Otto Preminger
description: Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Channing) and isn't sure what to make of his daughter Darlene (Alexandra Hay), especially since she started dating a hippie named Stash (John Phillip Law). Two of Tony's superiors, Angie (Frankie Avalon) and Hechy (Cesar Romero), order him to get arrested, go to prison and once behind bars whack "Blue Chips" Packard (Mickey Rooney). Though he's not pleased with the idea, Tony grudgingly goes along, but once inside, he's accidentally dosed with LSD by counterculture activist the Professor (Austin Pendleton). His consciousness expanded by his trip, Tony leaves his violent lifestyle behind him and with the Professor's help plans an escape after turning the entire prison population on to acid. Certainly your only opportunity to see Groucho Marx play a character named "God," not to mention a supporting cast that includes Slim Pickens, Peter Lawford, George Raft, Frank Gorshin and Arnold Stang, Skidoo is also remembered as the film in which Harry Nilsson sang all the credits.

SKY WEST AND CROOKED DVD (1966) $14.99
run time: 105 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: John Mills
description: A.K.A. "Gypsy Girl" With this production, John Mills became a one-time film director, guiding his daughter Hayley through a screenplay written by Mills' wife Mary Hayley Bell. Radically cast against type, Hayley plays a mentally traumatized young lady living in a remote North Country rural community. She falls in love with a handsome gypsy (Ian McShane), which stirs up the prejudices of her family and neighbors. In the end, it is the gypsy boy who rescues Hayley from being institutionalized. Less grim than one might expect, Gypsy Girl takes its time telling its story, though the acting makes up for any lulls.

SOME LIKE IT SEXY DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 76 mins. UK. Color. Uncut.
directed by: Donovan Winter
description: This rare classic swinging 60's British sexploitation film stars Christopher Matthews and Playboy Twins Mary and Madeline Collinson. Peter, a good looking young man, cruises around Chelsea in his white "E" type Jaguar. The Kings Road, notorious for its parade of beautiful young chicks provides a well- stocked hunting ground. This guy makes it with all the ladies including twins!

SO SWEET... SO PERVERSE DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 88 mins. Italy. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Umberto Lenzi
description: Second part of a trilogy also including Orgasmo (1969) and Paranoia (1970). Rich socialites Jean (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Danielle (Erika Blanc) are experiencing marital problems. Jean hears a woman being assaulted in the apartment above and investigates. He encounters Nicole (Carroll Baker), a seemingly frightened woman who is under the control of her domineering boyfriend Klaus (Horst Frank), and is drawn into a relationship. However it emerges that Nicole was used as bait in a trap set by Klaus, who was apparently paid $20,000 to kill Jean. In the meantime, Nicole claims to have actually fallen in love with their victim, but Klaus kills Jean and burns the body to make it look like he died in a car accident.

THE SPLIT DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 95 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Gordon Flemyng
description: The Split runs like any fast, conventional mob-holdup picture, except that it stars Jim Brown (of the Cleveland Browns and "The Dirty Dozen") and Diahann Carroll. Extremely well directed, by Gordon Flemyng, with fine chases on the order of "Bullitt" and meaningful uses of the split screen when the credits are on. The acting by supporting characters Gene Hackman, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Oates, James Whitmore and particularly Donald Sutherland—is solid and lean; and Mr. Sutherland delivers one of a few perfect lines ("The last man I killed for $5,000. For $85,000 I'd kill you 17 times.") This film was the very first theatrical release to receive an R rating from the then-new MPAA's film rating system.

STAIRCASE DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. FRANCE/UK/USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Stanley Donen
description: Charles Dyer (Rex Harrison) and Harry Leeds (Richard Burton) are a homosexual couple that have been living together for nearly 20 years. Both earn a living as hairdressers in the West End of London and both care deeply for their mothers, but not each other as time apart takes its toll on their relationship when Harry has to care for his invalid mother who snips at him every chance she gets. *Speacial bonus: Interview with film historian Richard Barrios, author of the book "Screened Out: Playing Gay In Hollywood."

THE STERILE CUCKOO DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 107 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Alan J. Pakula
description: Liza Minnelli is Pookie Adams, a relentlessly kooky coed in The Sterile Cuckoo. The film's focus, however, is on Wendell Burton (likewise making his first screen appearance) as reserved young college student Jerry. He is actively pursued by the unpredictable Pookie, who helps him to survive his first months in school. Gradually, however, it is obvious that Jerry is outgrowing Pookie. Both, however, have benefited from the relationship (he has gained self-confidence, she is now able to come to grips with her unhappy home life) and their parting is a tender one. Not unlike his stars, Alan J. Pakula was making his directorial bow with The Sterile Cuckoo, which earned an Oscar nomination for its theme song "Come Saturday Morning." WATCH CLIP

STILETTO DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 98 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
description: Cesare (Alex Cord) is the foreign car dealer who caters to the jet set. A previous favor by a mobster who saved his life has him indebted to the mafia to repay the kindness. With a stiletto, he kills three enemies of the organization, but is hung out to dry when the gang refuse to acknowledge his actions or even admit they know him. As the police close in on the auto dealer, he is caught between the law and the mob with no protection from either side. Britt Ekland and Barbara McNair are the main female leads. Roy Scheider has a small part in this violent and erotic crime drama.

THE SWEET RIDE DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 110 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Derek Ford
description: Denny McGuire (Michael Sarrazin) is a Malibu beach bum without ambition. His roommate Collie Ransom (Tony Franciosa) is a professional tennis player who soaks up the admiration of other beach dwellers. Denny is attracted to Vickie Cartwright (Jacqueline Bisset), a mostly-out-of-work actress. Denny pulls himself together and decides to become a more responsible adult by taking a job at a hardware store where he meets Choo-Choo Burns (Bob Denver), an off-the-wall jazz pianist. Pop music is provided by the San Francisco psychedelic band Moby Grape and the British balladeer Dusty Springfield.

THE THIRTEEN CHAIRS A.K.A. 12 + 1 DVD (1969) $14.99 new transfer!
run time: 93 mins. France / Italy. Color.
directed by: Nicolas Gessner
description: The tragic Sharon Tate plays a crucial role (her last-ever appearance before the cameras) in 12 Plus 1 (aka The Thirteen Chairs). If the plot sounds familiar, it is because it's based on a popular Russian novel, also filmed in 1945 as It's In the Bag and in 1971 as Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs. Vittorio Gassman inherits a fortune, only to find that the money is hidden in one of thirteen antique chairs. Trouble is, he's auctioned off the chairs to pay for his transportation costs to and from his late aunt's mansion. The bulk of the film concerns Gassman's fevered scrambled throughout Europe to track down the Twelve-Plus-One chairs. Orson Welles and Vittorio De Sica turn up in cameos.

THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER! DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 79 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Derek Ford
description: Three part 'trilogy of comedy'. In 'This' Susan Stress, a fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer only to make a fool of herself in a case of mistaken identity. In 'That' George (Victor Spinetti) is a depressed middle aged loner whose suicide attempt is interrupted by the arrival of a child-like hippy girl (Vanessa Howard) who proceeds to turn his life on its head. While in 'The Other' Harold (John Bird) an avid sex film fan and taxi driver, crashes his cab after being distracted by the leggy charms of his latest passenger (Yutte Stensgaard). Suffering a thump on the head, Harold has bizarre hallucinations and ends up being chased around a forest by shapely girls. WATCH CLIP

THREE DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 104 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: James Salter
description: Bert (Robie Porter) and Taylor (Sam Waterston) are two Americans who set out for a tour of France and Italy by auto. They soon find themselves rivals for the attentions of a pretty female hitchhiker named Marty (Charlotte Rampling). Along the way, however, the two boys meet and hitch up with a number of other girls, one of these is Gillian Hills (Blowup, Beat Girl). Based on a story by Irwin Shaw, the film also boasts a pleasant score by Laurence Rosenthal.

THREE IN THE ATTIC DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Richard Wilson
description: A modern Don Juan pays the price when he "two-times" three different women. Paxton Quigley (Christopher Jones) is the campus Casanova who sleeps with Caucasian coed Tobey (Yvette Mimieux), the black beauty Eulice (Judy Pace) and the Jewish hippie girl Jane (Maggie Thrett). The three women discover the extra curricular activities of the man, and they seek revenge by locking Paxton in a attic where they feed him steak and try to kill him with sex. Soon Paxton goes on a hunger strike as the viewer is left to wonder whether or not a man's ultimate sexual fantasy can lead to his downfall -- or even death. What a way to go. Chad and Jeremy provide the music, which includes the title track in this feature plagued by lines like "Is it possible for a woman to be Jewish and psychedelic at the same time?" WATCH CLIP

THREE INTO TWO WON'T GO DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 92 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Peter Hall
description: American actor Rod Steiger adopts a British accent to keep apace with his co-stars in Three into Two Won't Go. Steiger plays a prosperous salesman, married to Claire Bloom (Steiger's real-life wife at the time). While on a business trip, the salesman falls for a sexy 19-year-old hitchhiker (Judy Geeson). He thinks he's in control of his philanderous situation -- until the teenager insists upon moving in with him and his wife. Dame Peggy Ashcroft also stars as Claire Bloom's mother, whose neurotic interference only makes things messier. WATCH CLIP

THE TOUCHABLES DVD (1968) $14.99 new transfer!
run time: 90 mins. UK. Color. Uncut.
directed by: Robert Freeman
description: Absolutely the rarest (and wildest) of Mod Artifacts, THE TOUCHABLES stars Judy Huxtable, Esther Anderson, Marilyn Rickard and Kathy Simmonds as a quartet of Pop-Art princesses who kidnap rock-star Christian (David Anthony) and imprison him in their plastic, see-through Bubble House. Gay wrestler Ricki Starr gets jealous, and tries to (literally) muscle his way into the action. Directed by Beatles-photographer Robert Freeman (who shot the cover for Rubber Soul), and featuring music by long-lost British flower-pop group Nirvana. WATCH CLIP

TWO GENTLEMEN SHARING DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 108 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Ted Kotcheff
description: A black Jamaican lawyer shares an apartment with a liberal white man in Two Gentlemen Sharing. Andrew (Hal Frederick), the lawyer, longs to become part of London's middle class while Roddy (Robin Phillips) is the waspish advertising executive who wishes to escape the problems caused by his middle-class upbringing. Andrew has a difficult time fitting in to the conservative traditions of a prejudiced London, and Roddy finds out his girlfriend (Judy Geeson) has a black stepfather. Roddy is disillusioned when he is not accepted by the black world, and Andrew comes to the realization that he will never be welcomed in the still-racist business community of London.

WHERE IT'S AT DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 104 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Garson Kanin
description: A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad (David Janssen) runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son (Robert Drivas) is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash in their efforts to understand one another. Molly (Brenda Vaccaro) is dad's worldly secretary who watches the office, and Don Rickles has a small role as a crooked blackjack dealer who is caught with his fingers in the pie.

WORK IS A 4-LETTER WORD DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 93 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Peter Hall
description: Set in a futuristic world where man and machines compete, this comical fantasy centers upon a rather eccentric man who prefers raising his special giant, euphoria-producing mushrooms to working and spending time with his fiancee. He means well, for he believes that his funny fungus will help combat the increasing dehumanization of society.

YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW DVD (1966) $14.99
run time: 96 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
description: This cult favorite began as Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA thesis, ending up with a professional cast and nationwide release. Teen Peter Kastner undergoes his coming-of-age rites when, urged on by dad Rip Torn, he strikes out on own and moves to NYC. Every person Kastner meets is an eccentric's eccentric, from landlady Julie Harris to cop Dolph Sweet. Kastner's new friend Tony Bill, who works at the New York Public Library and accumulates pornography on side, introduces the boy to sex and drugs. Our hero truly matriculates to manhood after his heart is broken by disco dancer Elizabeth Hartman; he settles instead a girl named Amy (Karen Black). Big Boy is afflicted with usual youthful film-class fervor, crammed full of showoffish cinematic tricks that Coppola would eventually outgrow. But one can't deny that this seminal production is both heartfelt and energetic. To improve the film's saleability, distributors Seven Arts tacked on a music score by the Lovin' Spoonful.