Sony Home EntertainmentBroderick Crawford stars as Willie Stark in "All the King's Men." He won an Oscar for his performance. (Columbia, 1949, not rated, $19.94). Broderick Crawford won the best-actor Oscar for his bravura performance as Willie Stark in this adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning book - and the film also won for best picture and best supporting actress (Mercedes McCambridge).

And not-so-coincidentally, a new remake starring Sean Penn - and highly touted on this DVD - opens in a couple of weeks. Too bad there aren't any extras about this film, or Crawford.

(Toho/Classic Media, 1954/1956, not rated, b/w, $21.98, two discs). If you're a monster-movie fan, you've probably read over the years that the original "Gojira" is much better than the re-edited English-language "Godzilla, King of the Monsters." And, like me, you may have wished it would be released in this country so we could find out firsthand, without having to resort to bootleg copies on eBay.

Well, now's your chance. This double-disc set has the original "Gojira," along with illuminating audio commentary and some enjoyable featurettes. And it also has a second disc with "Godzilla, King of the Monsters," which features pre-"Perry Mason" Raymond Burr edited in so that he seems to be interacting with the Japanese performers - and another, equally interesting audio commentary.

Toho Co. Ltd.Godzilla stomps through Tokyo in the 1954 film. New DVD set features "Gojira" and the re-edited "Godzilla, King of the Monsters." The bottom line? "Gojira" is indeed far superior, a very good monster movie in its own right, and miles better than any of the myriad sequels that followed. The acting is first-rate, allusions are more specific to the atom bombs that were dropped only a few years earlier, and much of the film is quite affecting.

It should be noted that neither print here is perfect - apparently no existing prints of either film are without flecks, specks and other visual flaws. But it's much better than many I've seen of "King of the Monsters."

(Sony, 2006, not rated, $28.98, two discs). Robert Duvall is brilliant in this made-for-cable Western about a couple of cowpunchers (the other being Thomas Hayden Church) who pick up and bond with a group of Chinese women bound for indentured servitude. As a two-part, three-hour show it's a little long, but the film has power, and it might prompt you to have another look at "Lonesome Dove." This one isn't quite that good, but it's a fine picture in its own right.

(Fox, 1968; R for violence, sex, brief partial nudity; $14.98). Anthony Perkins is a strange arsonist on parole who is given to fantasies. When he convinces a high school senior (Tuesday Weld) that he's an undercover CIA agent, she proves to be even more unhinged than Perkins. Weld is great - a femme fatale in the extreme. The film is less successful, quite uneven in its approach, but it does manage to be a bit unnerving.

(Fox, 1981, PG, $19.98). This TV/media goof is a sequel of sorts to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," of all things, as Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper) are forced to participate in a series of bizarre TV shows. (But nothing as bizarre as what is actually shown on TV in the 21st century.) The result is blase satire with forgettable songs. Several cast members of "Rocky Horror" show up, albeit as different characters.

Extras: Widescreen, audio commentary, featurettes, trailers, language options (English, Spanish), subtitle options (English, Spanish, French), chapters.

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