This just hasn’t been the Philadelphia Phillies’ season, much to this fan’s chagrin, but this DVD boxed set revives some electrifying memories from better days.

This 1979 sleeper gave big career boosts to first-time star Bill Murray and first-time director Ivan Reitman, and remains a quintessential summer-camp comedy, detailing the happy hijinks at Camp North Star.

That was clearly the case in the action-packed ABC crime drama based on real-life treasury agent Eliot Ness, which ran four full seasons before finding eternal appreciation in syndication. (New York’s WOR-TV aired late-night reruns, where yours truly caught up with it.

This was one of the better films made during Hammer’s downward slide, offering glimmers of Gothic greatness. Steeped in atmosphere and directed with zest by John Hough, there are such familiar trappings as torch-wielding villagers, brandished crucifixes, bared fangs and some bared bosoms.

Kevin Corrigan gives an appropriately quirky yet sympathetic performance as Ken Boyd, a small-town misfit recently released from a mental institution after attempting suicide.

Richard Todd plays John Cummings, a struggling salesman who career and life come undone when his car is stolen. A bit of amateur sleuthing leads Cummings to Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers, in a startling dramatic turn), the owner of a local garage who masterminds an auto-theft ring on the side.

In the beginning, there were vaudeville veterans Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Moe’s brother Curly, who found screen stardom in a series of slap-happy slapstick comedy shorts from Columbia Pictures. The lovable trio was instantly popular with audiences, particularly children.

Andy Griffith, John Houseman, Stefanie Powers, Lois Nettleton, Harold Gould, Tony Bill, Barry Nelson, Meg Foster, Nicholas Pryor, George Gaynes, Alan Oppenheimer, John Randolph, Frances Lee McCain, John Kerr, and a trio of “Dark Shadows” alumni: David Selby, Lara Parker and Thayer David (as a fussy FBI director unmistakably modeled on J.

They play Alex, David and Julia, best friends and flatmates whose relationship inexorably comes undone after their new roommate, Hugo (Keith Allen), promptly overdoses and dies, leaving behind a stash of cash.

Set in Depression-era Chicago, the story follows con artists Henry Gondorff (Newman) and Johnny Hooker (Redford) as they pull an elaborate scam on nasty crime boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) — all of it set to Marvin Hamlisch’s immortal, Oscar-winning score, which spurred new interest in Scott Joplin’s ragtime music.

The timelessness of William Shakespeare is fully evident in this forceful, fiery, award-winning rendition, which marks a first-rate directorial debut for leading man Ralph Fiennes and a first-rate effort by screenwriter John Logan to streamline the narrative without losing any resonance.

Having scored with John Boorman’s Point Blank the year before, MGM rolled the dice a second time with this 1968 adaptation of a novel by the same author, Richard Stark (AKA Donald Westlake), and even imported another director from the UK (Gordon Flemyng).

Weissman, who come to San Francisco in 1976, witnessed first-hand the effects of the epidemic as it slowly, inexorably began ravaging the gay community. The film focuses on five individuals whose lives were forever changed by the disease, and their stories are both heartbreaking and heroic.

This award-winning, inspirational 1956 biographical drama tells the story of Douglas Bader, a real-life pilot who lost both his legs in a flying accident, then triumphed over adversity by learning not only to walk again, but to fly again — and with great distinction during World War II.

Two young women have been brutally slain in New York City, and a massive manhunt yields but one suspect: Lewis Humes (Gene Woodbury), a black teenager whose “confession� was clearly the result of police coercion. An open and shut case? Kojak knows better, and puts his career in jeopardy to both prove Lewis’ innocence and track down the actual killer.

A rich and robust example of historical fiction, this 1976 BBC miniseries adaptation of Robert Graves’ best-seller dramatizes the internal intrigue of ancient Rome in highly theatrical fashion, with wit, style and dollops of black comedy and sly camp.

It wasn’t the first. It wasn’t the biggest. But this award-winning 1958 docudrama may well be the best depiction of the story of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912 with more than 1,500 lives lost.

Lean and Coward co-directed the 1942 World War II drama In Which We Serve, which Coward also produced, scripted and starred.

Corman’s place in Hollywood history would be assured as much for his classic films (including Masque of the Red Death, Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder and the original Little Shop of Horrors, to name a few) as for the legion of talent he fostered...

The great Burt Lancaster, in an autumnal performance that prefigures Atlantic City (1981), plays a retired antiquarian, known as “The Professor,� who sublets an upstairs apartment to a wealthy harridan (Silvana Mangano), her spoiled children...