Alpha Video

Type	Private
Headquarters	West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA
Industry	Motion picture video production
Products	DVDs
Website	http://www.oldies.com

Alpha Video (also known as Alpha Home Entertainment) is an entertainment company, based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of public domain movies and TV shows on DVD. Alpha Video releases over 25 new DVD titles monthly and has over 2,100 DVDs in their active catalog, including hundreds of rare films and TV shows from Hollywood's past.

With 375+ DVDs of TV shows in active distribution, industry publication DVD Release Report ranked Alpha Video #3 in their ranking of the "Top 25 Sources for TV Series on DVD Through the Period Ending May 22, 2009," behind Warner Home Video (664 releases) and Paramount Home Entertainment (593 releases).^[1] With over 1,343 theatrical releases available, the same publication ranked Alpha Video #2 in the "Top 25 Sources for Theatrical Catalog on DVD," just behind Warner Home Video (1,396 releases).^[2]

The company is privately-held, and owned by Collectables Records founder Jerry Greene. Alpha Video is one of a group of companies, including Collectables Records, Gotham Distributing Corporation and the e-commerce website OLDIES.com, owned and operated by Jerry Greene and the Greene family.

Contents 1 Alpha New Cinema 1.1 Release of Ted V. Mikels' Catalog on DVD 2 Notable releases 2.1 The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time 2.2 Feature films 2.3 Exploitation films 2.4 Movie serials 2.5 Silent films 2.6 Television shows 3 References 4 External links

[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 released the catalog of filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, many titles of which had previously been available from Image Entertainment, under the Alpha New Cinema imprint. Titles released include 10 Violent Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders, The Corpse Grinders II, Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of the She Devils. Later that year, Alpha released the Ted V. Mikel's Signature Collection, a 6-DVD boxset which contains those six titles and is autographed by Mikels. In 2008, the company released Mark of the Astro-Zombies, the sequel to Mikels' The Astro-Zombies, on DVD.

[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.

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[edit] Feature films

• Below the Deadline
• The Chase (1946)
• Flesh and the Spur
• The Girl From Chicago
• High Voltage
• Hercules Unchained
• The Kennel Murder Case
• La Cucaracha (1934 film)
• Last Woman on Earth
• "Manos" The Hands of Fate
• The Moonstone
• Scarlet Street
• Second Chance
• The Singing Cowgirl
• Something to Sing About (1937 film)
• A Walk in the Sun
• Yellowneck

[edit] Exploitation films

• Assassin of Youth
• Chained for Life
• Child Bride
• The Cocaine Fiends
• Marihuana
• Reefer Madness
• Sex Madness

[edit] Movie serials

• Ace Drummond
• The Devil Horse
• Fighting with Kit Carson
• The Fighting Marines
• Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
• Holt of the Secret Service
• Junior G-Men
• King of the Wild
• The Phantom Empire
• Radar Men from the Moon
• Sky Raiders
• Undersea Kingdom
• Zorro's Fighting Legion

[edit] Silent films

• Broken Blossoms
• Intolerance (film)
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
• Oliver Twist (1922 film)
• Orphans of the Storm
• The Bat (1926 film)
• The Birth of a Nation
• The General (1927 film)
• The Golem (1920 film)
• The Lost World (1925 film)
• The Mechanical Man
• The Squaw Man
• The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
• Tumbleweeds (1925 film)

[edit] Television shows

• The Adventures of Champion
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
• The Adventures of Long John Silver
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
• The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
• Annie Oakley (TV series)
• The Betty Hutton Show
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• Captain Video and His Video Rangers
• Diver Dan
• Dusty's Trail
• Dragnet (series)
• Eerie, Indiana
• Fury (TV series)
• I Married Joan
• The Lone Ranger
• The Lucy Show
• Mack and Myer for Hire
• Martin Kane, Private Eye
• Meet Corliss Archer
• Mr. and Mrs. North
• One Step Beyond (TV series)
• Rocky King, Inside Detective
• Sky King
• The Veil
• Wagon Train
• What's My Line?
• You Asked For It
• You Bet Your Life

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Alpha Video's website
• Alpha New Cinema series official site
• Alpha Video at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Blog of Alpha Video