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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,688 Views)
MovieMan
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I got another one more this week, one that I really wanted to see, I signed up to a new site that sold old movies and television series. The choice - Hotel Sahara, with the gorgeous Yvonne DeCarlo!
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George Kaplan
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Picked up the Frank Capra set at Costco for $18.99 and the Budd Boetticher set for maybe a buck more. Shelf space at my Costco is devoted more to TV series than to movies now, so I was a bit surprised to see these sets lurking about.

In the recent mail: the Criterion release of The Hit, The John Barrymore Collection, Bardelys the Magnificent, Edison: The Invention of the Movies, Becoming Charley Chase, and both Green Hornets.
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Today's purchase is a reminder of the danger of grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. Picked up Race to Witch Mountain for no good reason I can think of.
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MovieMan
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Three this week:

Body of Lies (Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe).
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood).
War (Jet Li, Jason Statham).
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marlin lee
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Picked up The Dirty Dozen at Wal-Mart. it isn't my favorite WWII film. But still worth purchasing from the $5 bargain bin.
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MovieMan
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I just brought series three of The Shield.
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MovieMan
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A few more just popped into my hands - The Tudors series one and two, The Haunting in Connecticut and Young Victoria.
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Action Heroes of the Forties came. I'm not thrilled with it. All three films are just like earlier releases except that G-Men vs. the Black Dragon, the one I care about, is darker than the VHS tape, which hurts in the day for night stuff. For serial newbies, highly recommended; for old-timers, no better than what you have. It's certainly not something I needed. I also finally got More Treasures from American Film Archives, parts of which Mr. G showed me a few years ago, because it was on sale at Amazon. I'm thrilled to finally have Gus Visser and his singing duck.
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Arrived today - Beany & Cecil Special Edition Vol. 2, and VCI'S Radio Patrol serial. Picked up the other day: The Paper Chase, Season 1.
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MovieMan
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One this week: Legend of the Lost starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi.
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The Laurel and Hardy set came. I dislike the way they package the films that use the same material together on the same discs. I'm going to have to figure out some way of programming them that avoids all the repetition, and that's tiresome. The colorization is terrible, too -- it's like a first grader did it. Obviously when Mr. G said the German set was better, he was right. Oh well; it's a pretty box.

It's interesting, though, that Laurel re-used the same stuff. No other major screen comic talent did that, but then again, nobody else in that league had as long a career.
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Zodiac
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Stopped at Costco and the had 4 multi film sets from TCM for only 8.99 each - I picked up two

Horror- Freaks, Jekyll and Hyde (Spencer Tracy), the Haunting and House of Wax

Murder Mysteries- Postman always rings twice, Big sleep, Maltese Falcon and Dial M for murder
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cinemalover
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My local Costco had the nice Capra 5 film set at $18.99, which was too good to pass up. With it I picked up the Cary Grant Boxed Set ( His Girl Friday, The Awful Trurh, etc...) at a very reasonable $18.99. Additionally they had both volumes of Icons of Screwball Comedy at $13.99 each. I resisted buying them....so far.
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Keep resisting. You may love cinema, but you won't love those things.
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I received the 17-film Region 2 W.C. Fields Collection. Joy.
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