Hollywood Story - DVD

Directed by William Castle (House on Haunted Hill), this gritty film noir stars Gene Barry (TV's "Burke's Law") as Frank Duncan, a crooked driller looking to steal oil from a Houston field. Duncan enlists mobster Paul Atlas (Edward Arnold, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) to help him pull off the scam. Duncan finds himself involved with double-crosses, dirty deals and violent criminals, all to try to collect his bounty -- five million doll

The city of Miami finds itself overrun with gambling, vice and murder, and the main man behind it is Tony Brill (Luther Adler, Absence of Malice), a notorious crime boss who rules Miami with an iron fist. Five civic leaders come up with the idea of bringing in Mick Flagg (Barry Sullivan, TV's "The Tall Man"), an ex-gangster who was framed by Brill for murder. Flagg comes into town and starts his own syndicate to intimidate Brill, and to

Gary Busey gives an electrifying, Oscar(r) nominated performance (Best Actor-1978) as Buddy Holly, the musical genius from Lubbock, Texas, who changed the tune of rock n' roll history. With a groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm and blues, Buddy Holly and the Crickets (Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith) catapulted to national stardom in just three short years with such hits as "That'll Be the Day," "It's So Easy," and "