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Manufacturer: Warner Archive Brand: Warner Manufacturing Model: 883316369357

Stranded when her truck breaks down, 17-year-old Doris Mae (Linda Blair) accepts a ride from Leonard Hatch (Martin Sheen), unaware he's an escaped mental patient. Held against her will, Doris Mae is taken to Leonard's ramshackle hideout, a cabin nestled deep within the woods. Frightened at first, she soon finds her captor to be a kind and caring soul. So with time running out and the police closing in, Doris Mae must make a decision: return to her safe existence or run off with a misunderstood man. A 1976 Golden Globe(r) nominee as Best Television Movie, Sweet Hostage is an unforgettable tale of passion and fate, adapted from Nathaniel Benchley's acclaimed novel Welcome to Xanadu. It's also an invigorating showcase for the blazing talents of Blair (fresh off The Exorcist) and Sheen (soon after Badlands).When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Manufacturer: Mill Creek Entertainment Brand: Mill Creek Entertainment

Richard Dean Anderson(TV's MacGyver) steps into the irresistible and charming role of Ernest Pratt, a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in the Old West. Co-starring John de Lancie (TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Janos Bartok a brilliant scientist, the duo teams up to fight for justice using Legend's celebrity and Bartok's outlandish inventions to make a real legend. Created by Michael Piller (TV's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager) and set in the late 19th century, LEGEND combines historic characters, setting, and special effects for a lighthearted, fun, and action-packed series that is part western and part science fiction. Starring: Richard Dean Anderson (TV's MacGyver, Stargate SG-1) John de Lancie (TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation) Guest Stars: Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) Stephen Baldwin (The Usual Suspects) G.W. Bailey (TV's The Closer) John Vernon (Animal House) Lara Flynn-Boyle (Men in Black II) James Hong (Blade Runner) Tim Thomerson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) Contents: Episode 1: Birth of a Legend - April 18, 1995Episode 2: Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan - April 25, 1995 Episode 3: Legend on His President's Secret Service - May 2, 1995Episode 4: Custer's Next to Last Stand - May 9, 1995Episode 5: The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickock - May 16, 1995Episode 6: Knee-High Noon - May 23, 1995 Episode 7: The Gospel According to Legend - June 12, 1995Episode 8: Bone of Contention - June 20, 1995 Episode 9: Revenge of the Herd - July 4, 1995Episode 10: Fall of a Legend - July 18, 1995Episode 11: Clueless in San Francisco - July 25, 1995Episode 12: Skeletons in the Closet - August 8, 1995

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: Warner Manufacturing

In 1984, at the tender age of nine, I just couldn't convince the cinema staff I was old enough to see Gremlins, so I had to be content with whatever merchandise I could lay my hands on-and that was a lot. I had the Marvel Comics adaptation, the official read-along book and cassette, the unofficial read-along book and cassette, the full set of miniature plastic figures, Gizmo and Stripe 'candy' dispensers and yes, even a pair of pyjamas. Suffice to say, I was a Gremlins fanatic, without actually having seen the picture. Thanks to home video and some questionable parenting I finally got to see the film around age ten, and went on to rent the thing every weekend for weeks just to get my fill or the furry little Mogwai and his scaly progeny. Of course Gremlins was one of the first titles I purchased for my shiny new DVD player back in the early days, but as was the case with all Warner catalogue titles of the time, the disc was a barren affair. You can imagine my delight, then, when I heard of the region one release of a Special Edition of not only the first film, but the pseudo-sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. For one reason or another I never actually got around to ordering the titles for myself (too many films, so little time), but I was recently able to get my hands on these sweet slices of my childhood courtesy of some flagrant abuse of my position as region two editor. Go me!

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Brand: Columbia Tri Star

Episodes 26 - 50 of the greatest Vampire Anime ever made.

Manufacturer: MGM Brand: Warner Manufacturing

Who has The Power? The Power to control minds, move objects, and murder by telekinesis? That's what scientists at a space lab want to know when they realize they are targeted by one of their own - someone who possesses a superhuman power and a terrifying secret agenda. Producer George Pal brings the imagination and craft that turned his The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine into sci fi-classics to this eerie tale heightened by a suspenseful Miklos Rozsa score. The fine cast, led by George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette, includes two talents forever emblematic of paranoid post-war sci-fi/creature features: Michael Rennie (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon).When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Manufacturer: Paramount / Warner Archive Brand: Warner Manufacturing

A non-conformist seagull sees the world. Based on the Richard Bach novel. Music by Neil Diamond.

Manufacturer: Lions Gate Brand: LIONSGATE FILMS

The complete fourth season of the TV series The Dead Zone. The fourth season may fall a little short of the three that preceded it, but The Dead Zone remains one of the smartest, most intriguing series on television. As its adherents well know by now, the show, based on Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, was adapted for TV by Michael and Shawn Piller, with actor Anthony Michael Hall (who's also one of the producers) starring as Johnny Smith, who recovered from a horrific car accident and resulting six-year coma to find that his fiancee (Nicole deBoer) is now married to the town sheriff (Chris Bruno), who's helping raise her and Johnny's son. What's more, Johnny is now possessed of some remarkable and unsettling powers: simply by touching another person, or objects touched by others, Smith experiences visions that illuminate events that have happened, will happen, or are simultaneously taking place elsewhere. It must be handy to know which elevator button to push when you're looking for someone who's in trouble, or to realize that it's okay to jump off a hundred-foot bridge because you've seen yourself surviving the fall, but Smith's visions are rarely comforting and not always reliable, leading to moments of genuine suspense and intrigue. With eleven episodes (plus a "bonus episode" from December, 2005) spread out over three discs, The Dead Zone is at its best when dealing with the series' one ongoing storyline: i.e., the machinations of Congressman Greg Stillson (Sean Patrick Flanery), the dumb, arrogant puppet of sinister forces who aim to put him in the White House, where, by accident or design, he may preside over Armageddon, according to Smith's visions. Unfortunately, only three Season Four episodes address that story, and they fail to advance it much further; indeed, Episode 11, "Saved," serves mainly as a cliffhanger for subsequent seasons. The remaining stories, in which Johnny helps the cops pursue various psychopaths, perverts, missing persons (including a Lennon-esque rock star presumed dea...