Tall tales, cuss 'cause it's cool and band together when the going gets tough. When they encounter the town's knife-wielding hoods who are also after the body, the boys discover a strength they never knew they had. STAND BY ME is a rare and special film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up. Filled with humor and suspense, STAND BY ME is based on the novella THE BODY by Stephen King.

Director/co-writer/producer/star Orson Welles' landmark debut film, a sweeping chronicle of the rise and fall of an ambitious and ruthless newspaper tycoon named Charles Foster Kane, and the mystery surrounding his dying word, is recognized as one of the greatest and most innovative movies of all time. Welles' "Mercury Players" cast includes Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ages Moorehead, Ray Collins, and Ruth Warrick. 119 min. Standard; Soundtrack English Uncompressed PCM mono; Subtitles English (SDH); audio commentary; documentaries; interviews; featurette; video essay; theatrical trailer; bonus short "The Hearts of Age" (1934); radio plays; essay; more. Four-disc set.

Three-disc set includes El Mariachi (1993)Made for a paltry $7,000 for the Hispanic home video market and eventually raking in worldwide nearly 300x that, writer/director Robert Rodriguez's much-acclaimed action-comedy tells the tale of a Mariachi singer (Carlos Gallardo) who finds himself in the middle of a gang rivalry when he's mistaken for a gun-toting killer. Hip, funny, and explosively violent, the indie classic co-stars Consuelo Gomez, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martínez. 81 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. C/Rtg R Desperado (1995)Robert Rodriguez's remake of his made-on-pennies sensation "El Mariachi" is an explosive actioner starring Antonio Banderas as the swaggering guitar-playing loner who takes on a series of hombres in a Mexican town ruled by a druglord (Joaquim de Almeida) with whom he has a score to settle. Salma Hayek is his fetching romantic interest; cameos are turned in by Quentin Tarantino, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo. 103 min. C/Rtg R Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)In the third and final entry in Robert Rodriguez's series, Antonio Banderas' gunslinger, El Mariachi, is out for vengeance after his wife (Salma Hayek) and their young daughter are killed by drug kingpin Barillo (Willem Dafoe), who is about to have the president of Mexico assassinated. Before he can bring down Barillo, however, Mariachi must deal with a rogue CIA agent (Johnny Depp), an ex-agency operative (Ruben Blades), and a Barillo associate (Mickey Rourke). With Eva Mendes. 102 min. C/Rtg R