Home Drama

Quality Ratings: A: Top notch picture and sound, clean as a whistle. B: Strong image, some loss. C: Somewhat fuzzy picture; watchable and adequate for collectors. D: Many generations from source, hard to see; for fanatics only. Click on logo for terms and ordering info!


THE BLACK KLANSMAN (1966), Ted Mikels race drama that's still tense and relevant; Richard Gilden (LOST, LONELY AND VICIOUS) is a light-skinned black musician who goes back home to Alabama to get revenge on the Klan who killed his child; with Max Julien in an amazing performance as a slick Harlem gangster brought down to cause trouble, Gary Kent, Tex Armstrong, Byrd Holland, Whitman Mayo; includes vintage commercials, trailers, and music. (feature: 1:26, B)


DRIVE, HE SAID (1971), Jack Nicholson's directorial debut, a moody study on college basketball and campus revolt, with Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Henry Jaglom, Robert Towne; one of the post-EASY RIDER fallouts; with vintage commercials, previews, and trailers. (feature: 1:30, B)


LAST SUMMER (1969), downbeat adolescent drama from director Frank Perry (MOMMIE DEAREST), with Richard Thomas and Bruce Davison as two horny kids who hook up with mysterious Barbara Hershey during summer break and pick on naïve Catherine Burns (who was Oscar-nominated); excellent performances all around; includes vintage commercials, trailers, and clips. (feature: 1:41, C)


MULHOLLAND DRIVE PILOT (1999), the original TV pilot version of Lynch's creepy hit is an excellent mystery without the metaphysical elements of the theatrical version; features different scenes and takes. (1:27, C)


THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL! (1968), Jack Lord is a Hungarian drifter (?) who gets sucked into the weird dynamic of a family of women in the desert; with Susan Strasberg, Tisha Sterling, Collin Wilcox Paxton, T.C. Jones, Mort Mills; music by Stu Phillips, shot by Vilmos Zsigmond, dir. by Gunnar Hellström; comes with vintage commercials and clips. (feature: 1:23, C, slightly jumpy print)


THE STRANGE VENGEANCE OF ROSALIE (1972), obscure, minimalistic story of mind-games with Ken Howard, Bonnie Bedilia, and the great Anthony Zerbe; dir. by Jack Starrett. (1:35, C; good pic but low sound)


SURVIVAL OF DANA (1979), Melissa Sue Anderson under peer pressure in this teen TV movie dir. by J. Starrett, with Robert Carradine, Barbara Babcock, Talia Balsam, Michael Pataki, Judge Reinhold, Marion Ross. (1:34, B)


THADDEUS ROSE AND EDDIE (1978), strong TV drama dir. by Jack Starrett, starring Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, and Bo Hopkins; with vintage commercials, trailers, and music clips. (feature: 1:31, B)


THUMB TRIPPING (1970), Meg Foster and Michael Burns star in this wannabe EASY RIDER of hitchhiking, with psycho Bruce Dern, Marianna Hill, Joyce Van Patten, Donald Elson. (1:34, C)


TILT (1979), dumbo story of rock star wannabe Ken Marshall, who uses pinball wizard Brooke Shields to challenge champ Charles Durning (from Highland Falls, NY); with Geoffrey Lewis, a very young Don Stark, Fred Ward, Lorenzo Lamas; co-written by Donald Cammell (!); includes some trailers. (feature: 1:51, C)


WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS (1973), post-Nam drama with Joe Don Baker, Paul Koslo, Alan Vint, and Elliott Street as Green Berets wandering the countryside and getting into trouble, with an explosive climax; also with Jennifer Billingsley, Billy Green Bush, Geoffrey Lewis, Ted Markland, and Francine York; directed by Richard Compton; comes with vintage clips and trailers. (1:30, C, with Japanese subtitles)


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