House of Secrets - DVD

When an American archaeologist plunders an ancient treasure from the wilds of the Orient, an angry Hindu priest curses anyone connected to the expedition - past, present or future. Twenty years later, a group of investors gather to claim their inheritance under one condition: they must stay in the archaeologist's mansion for one week in order to thwart the dreaded curse before the treasure is distributed. This simple plan turns bloody w

Phones ring without being answered, cigarettes smolder in ashtrays and rays of light clandestinely spill out from underneath locked doors in Open Secret , an excellent independently-produced film noir social issue melodrama from the late 1940s. Paul and Nancy Lester (John Ireland and Jane Randolph) are newlyweds back in the old neighborhood to visit a good friend who has disappeared. Investigation leads them to the enter of a violent ha

Don Phillips (Onslow Stevens) and Ralph Nelson (James Bush) are the best of buddies, the kind that would die for each other. When Ralph discovers that his father has passed away under mysterious circumstances, he decides to return home to California from his business in the South Seas to investigate. Caught in a freak storm and shipwrecked, Ralph is seriously injured and the two friends decide that Don should take his place back home. A