California - BLU-RAY

The Mexican territory of California struggles under the iron fist of martial law imposed by barbaric General Miguel Torena. After leading an army of thugs and criminals on a bloody rampage through Los Angeles, he is pressing northward to the capital of Monterey. The only hope for the terrified landowners is a growing insurgency led by unlikely hero, Don Michael O'Casey. His traitorous uncle, Don Francisco, plans to gain a governorship b

John Wayne plays Tom Craig, an ambitious pharmacist who moves into a brawling frontier town in the gold-rush days of California. He soon locks horns with the local crime lord, Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker), who has become wealthy from forced tributes levied on the townspeople. Irate and incensed, Tom trades his pestle for a pistol and leads the settlers in a revolt against the corrupt gunmen and their unfair taxes. The stellar cast includes Binnie Barnes, Helen Parrish, Patsy Kelly and Edgar Kennedy. Directed by William C. McGann (Illegal).

WHORES' GLORY, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following MEGACITIES and WORKINGMAN'S DEATH), is an explicit and unflinching expose of global prostitution. In Bangkok, Thailand, women punch a clock and wait for clients in a brightly lit glass box; in the red-light district of Faridpur, Bangladesh, a madam haggles over the price of a teenage girl; and in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, crack-addicted women pray to a deity named Lady Death. Winner of the Orizzonti Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, human behavior and the effects of capital and religion on both women and men from starkly different cultures.