Dr. Gillespie Film Collection - DVD

Bring It On: Fight to the Finish [Blu-r

Although not the first actor to don the scrubs of Max Brand's Dr. Kildare, Lew Ayres soon became synonymous with the young intern, playing the unconventional doctor in nine films for MGM from 1938 until 1942. Lionel Barrymore starred opposite as the curmudgeonly mentor Dr. Gillespie while lovely Laraine Day played love interest nurse Mary Lamont.

Six-disc set includes Dr. Cyclops (1940)A team of scientists made a treacherous journey through the Peruvian jungle after an invitation to the compound of the myopic and misanthropic researcher Alexander Thorkel (Albert Dekker). It seems that the doctor's made good on his claims of using radiation to shrink living tissue... and he proves it by reducing his hapless houseguests to the size of dolls! Effects-filled Technicolor scare staple from InchKing KongInch co-director Ernest Schoedsack co-stars Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Victor Kilian. 78 min. C/Rtg NR Cult Of The Cobra (1955)A group of American G.I.s in the Far East stumbles upon the secret rituals of a native cult called the Lamians, who worship women and can transform into serpents. Once they're discovered, the cult's head priestess (Faith Domergue) follows the men back to the States, and, transforming into a cobra, begins killing them one by one. Slithery shocker from Universal co-stars Richard Long, David Janssen, Marshall Thompson; look for Edward Platt as a cult priest. 80 min. BW/Rtg NR Tarantula (1955)The researchers who thought that the Arizona desert would give them sufficient isolation for their experiments with growth hormones have a second think coming, when their travails turn a simple arachnid into a hundred-foot-tall monstrosity. Memorable sci-fi staple of the '50s stars John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Caroll, Nestor Paiva; yes, that's a young Clint Eastwood behind that pilot's oxygen mask. 80 min. BW/Rtg NR The Mole People (1956)Intrepid archeologists Roger Bentley (John Agar) and Jud Bellamin (Hugh Beaumont) explore caves in the mountains of Asia, only to discover an underground-dwelling race of Sumerian albinos who keep as their slaves the hunchbacked, clawed, and bug-eyed Mole People. Can our heroes escape with their lives? Only if their flashlight batteries hold out! Cynthia Patrick, Alan