Houston Story, The - DVD

Best remembered as the director and creative promoted of such campy horror films as The House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Tingler (1959), William Castle was a multi-talented director, producer, screenwriter and actor who helmed many competent small-budget films for Columbia Pictures, including four titles in The Whistler franchise. HOLLYWOOD STORY (1951) stars Richard Conte as a stage producer with dreams of being in the movie busine

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 "