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- Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes gets her big break on Broadway.
- When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
- New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
- A streetwalker desperately seeks love and acceptance against the backdrop of NYC's Times Square.
- A theatre critic (Dave O'Brien) teams up with a cop (Jack Mulhall) to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
- Filmed for NHK TV, a young chorus girl from Allentown dreams of making it big in an up-coming musical extravaganza from the famed director Julian Marsh.
- The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip.
- Amazing compilation of vintage grindhouse movie trailers from around the world; horror, sexploitation, blaxploitation, mondo, roadshow, Euro sleaze.
- The story of Manhattan Plaza, the renowned experiment in subsidized housing catering to people in the arts. Numerous celebrities pay homage to the impact the building had on their lives and careers.
- Over 80 trailers and over three hours from the first two DVDs and some new trailers are contained in this edition covering the gamut of violence, motorcycles, revenge, and learning some secrets to living.
- A collection of the most outrageous cinematic gems from several golden ages of sleaze cinema shown at the Alamo Drafthouse is presented.
- A celebration of exploitation films from the 60's, 70's and early 80's. 40 crazy film trailers remastered directly from the original prints.
- Get ready for the fourth volume of classic exploitation, horror and just plain cool trailers in Synapse Films' best-selling compilation series. This time we've got alien horrors, schizoid psychos, ridiculous comedies vengeful action...and maybe a naked woman or two.
- Synapse Films presents another volume in their best-selling series of classic exploitation trailers. Another collection from the bygone days of New York City's classic 42nd Street theatres.
- This amazing follow-up to Synapse Films' best-selling 2005 compilation features even more classic theatrical trailers full of nudity, sex, violence, monsters and mayhem.
- The Don of 42nd Street is mob comedy about Tony, a mob boss, who has a stroke, and his "artsy" twin brother, J.B., who is forced to take his place. However well intentioned, J.B.'s unconventional methods raises suspicion amongst the other mob bosses.
- This short documents the send-off of Warner Bros. publicity campaign for 42nd Street (1933), a cross-country trip on a 7-car train dubbed "The 42nd. Street Special" ending in Washington, D.C. at the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Shots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25cent porn arcades. In between shots of the street are silly acts of violence such as a man being repeatedly stabbed in the eye with a skewer. This certain act is silly because the man has ground beef sitting on his eye and the skewer doesn't even touch that.
- A fond look back at the 42nd Street Movie Center (Known as the "Deuce"), from the mid 1960's through the mid 1980's. A magical, bizarre and seedy entertainment center, stretching from 42nd Street into Times Square.
- 42nd STREET: RIVER TO RIVER is an impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City, the street has ranged from the glamorous to the derelict, housing everything from peep shows to such international institutions as the United Nations. The documentary is an exploration of the street's expansion from the farmland where Washington bivouacked his troops to the flashy, commercial center that it is today. With historical information, musical performances and personal narratives, the film traces the rise, subsequent dilapidation, and eventual resurgence of a street that has come to represent a place where, notoriously, anything may and has happened.
- David Hartmann and Barry Lewis take a tour through 42nd Street as part of the Walking Tour Series.