Unlike the current Tim Burton film, this 1933 adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic - the first live-action sound version of the oft-told tale - was not a box-office hit. At the time, it left kids puzzled and parents perplexed, but in retrospect it's a fascinating bit of (admittedly oddball) nostalgia.

Co-writer/director Rupert Wyatts debut feature is a throwback to the gritty, gutsy jailbreak yarns of yesteryear, anchored by a top-flight cast headed by Brian Cox (also an executive producer) as the mastermind.

The King lives in this epic 1979 bio-pic from executive producer Dick Clark, which marked the first collaboration between director John Carpenter and leading man Kurt Russell, whos got all the right moves as Elvis Presley (Ronnie McDowell provides the singing).

THE DAMNED UNITED (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): Actor Michael Sheens third teaming with screenwriter Peter Morgan (after The Queen and Frost/Nixon)

With the long-awaited, big-budget remake currently tearing up theaters, Universal has (again) reached back into its vaults to unleash a digitally remastered two-disc special edition of its original 1941 classic.

All the ingredients are here: The college co-ed (Jocelin Donahue) who takes a babysitting job to earn some extra cash. The sassy but expendable best friend (Greta Gerwig). The lonely house on an old country road (on the evening of a lunar eclipse, no less).

STREAMERS (Shout! Factory): During the 1980s, filmmaker Robert Altman enjoyed a lengthy association with the stage and with stage-to-screen adaptations (including Secret Honor, Fool for Love and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean).

GIVE 'EM HELL MALONE (National Entertainment Media): There's plenty of action and attitude in this hip, flip, modern-day film noir that pays homage to the genre even while sending it up. With his ever-present fedora and five o'clock shadow, Thomas Jane is ideally cast as hard-boiled ex-private eye Malone, who finds himself up to his neck in trouble when he comes into possession of a metal suitcase that contains "the meaning of love."

A series of mysterious animal deaths in a small Arizona town piques the curiosity of veterinarian Rack Hansen (the one, the only William Shatner) and entomologist Diane Ashley (Tiffany Bolling), who deduce that tarantulas have become enraged (and have organized!) because pesticides have eradicated their natural insect prey.

A PERFECT GETAWAY (Universal Studios Home Entertainment): There are plenty of twists and turns in writer/director David Twohy's taut, fastmoving suspense thriller, in which "paradise lost" becomes "purgatory found" for a group of tourists. Hawaii has long been a haven for honeymooners, but lately an inordinate number of couples have been turning up murdered on the islands.