Alpha Video
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Alpha Video (also known as Alpha Home Entertainment) is an entertainment company, based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of classic movies and TV shows on DVD.
Alpha Video releases over 25 new DVD titles monthly and has over 1,000 DVDs in their active catalog, including hundreds of lost films and TV treasures from Hollywood's nostalgic past.
With 244+ DVDs worth of TV shows in active distribution, industry publication DVD Release Report (Number 524, 3/28/2007) ranked Alpha Video #3 in the "Top 25 Sources for TV Series on DVD Through the Period Ending March 31, 2007", behind Warner Home Video (471 releases) and Paramount Home Video (376 releases). With over 1,044 releases available, the same publication ranked Alpha Video #1 in the "Top 25 Sources for Theatrical Catalog on DVD."
The company is privately-held, and owned by Collectables Records founder Jerry Greene.
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[edit] Alpha New Cinema
In 2004, Alpha Video introduced Alpha New Cinema, an imprint "whose goal is to present eclectic, interesting and unusual contemporary motion pictures and television productions." Notables releases from Alpha New Cinema include the Charlie Gracie documentary, Fabulous! An Intimate Portrait of a Rock Pioneer, Mark Redfield's The Death of Poe, Terror in the Tropics with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and several films by Ed Wood veteran, Conrad Brooks.
[edit] Release of Ted V. Mikels' Catalog on DVD
In 2007, Alpha Video announced that they would be releasing the catalog of filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, many of which had previously been available from Image Entertainment, under the Alpha New Cinema imprint. Titles being released include 10 Violent Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders and The Corpse Grinders II (all released March, 2007). Titles releasing in April, 2007 include Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of the She Devils.
[edit] Notable releases
[edit] The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time
In 2006, Alpha Video partnered with Merv Griffin to release a 3-DVD box set of interviews from The Merv Griffin Show entitled The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time. This set contained one DVD of "Hollywood Legend" interviews, including Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Roy Rogers, Grace Kelly and John Wayne. The second DVD contained interviews with comedians, including Jack Benny, Don Rickles, Jerry Seinfeld, Carl Reiner, Richard Pryor, George Burns, Jay Leno and George Carlin. The final DVD in the set contained interviews with "Extraordinary Guests" such as Walter Cronkite, Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
[edit] Feature films
- The Chase (1946)
- Hercules Unchained
- The Kennel Murder Case
- Last Woman on Earth
- The Moonstone
- Scarlet Street
- A Walk in the Sun
[edit] Exploitation films
- Assassin of Youth
- Chained for Life
- Child Bride
- The Cocaine Fiends
- Marihuana
- Reefer Madness
- Sex Madness
[edit] Movie serials
- Ace Drummond
- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
- Junior G-Men
- The Phantom Empire
- Radar Men from the Moon
- Undersea Kingdom
[edit] Silent films
- Broken Blossoms
- Intolerance (film)
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
- Orphans of the Storm
- The Bat (1926 film)
- The Birth of a Nation
- The General (1927 film)
- The Golem (film)
- The Lost World (1925 film)
- The Squaw Man
- The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
[edit] Television shows
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
- Diver Dan
- Dragnet (series)
- Fury (TV series)
- I Married Joan
- The Lone Ranger
- Mr. and Mrs. North
- One Step Beyond (TV series)
- Sky King
- The Veil
- Wagon Train
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