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Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,682 Views)
CliffClaven
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Nov 13 2009, 12:29 AM
-- Sting of Death: 1955 TV anthology show, starring Boris Karloff as a "Mr. Mycroft" who suspects a beekeeping neighbor of foul play. Not deep by any means -- Just four characters, small sets and barely enough plot for a half hour cartoon, much less an hour drama. Still, it's fairly clever and you get Karloff doing a cheerful sendup of Holmes -- although the script is rather cagy about his identity, never explicitly mentioning the great detective or offering any solid clues. Sly writing or copyright issues?
This is the era when August Derleth had to call his detective "Solar Pons" as the great man and his heirs would not let him use the Holmes name. This leads me to suspect copyright issues, but I know no more than you.
There's been a certain amount of legal screwiness surrounding Holmes for decades. Copyrights on the original stories expired at different times, and length of copyright differed in the US and Britain. As recently as a few years ago I understand the producer of an early, presumably approved TV version made some headway in claiming ownership of Holmes before European courts.

Somewhere along the line all of Holmes appeared to be up for grabs. Public domain book publishers began putting out the complete canon, pastiches and movies began to appear without an acknowledgment of the Doyle estate. I think it was sometime after the Jeremy Brett series began, as they had issues going in about which stories were legally available.

Compare to Tarzan -- He's been pirated and parodied, but the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate managed to keep a tight legal rein. Disney dutifully placed the Burroughs legal notices next to their own on all their Tarzan stuff.
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Today I picked up Up.
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Hmmmm... Need I point out that I described this set in-depth weeks ago at www.inthebalcony.com or need I not? Is this a good space to remind people of that fabulous website?

I got the six new Tarzan releases from Warner Archives, and the Three Stooges set, and The Third Man and The General on blu-ray.
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Warner says the Gordon Scott Tarzans are from the "best quality video master(s) currently available." How do they look?
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Well, they're in dark blue boxes with pictures on the front and words on the back. I'll take better looks later!
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Let me put it another way. Is Gordon Scott's pompadour in Tarzan's Greatest Adventure more colorful than Vince Edwards's similar mop in Murder By Contract?
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I got my Universal Horror and a real surprise.

The MPI complete Granda Sherlock Holmes ( Jeremy Brett) series- MPI wanted $223, Amazon $185 - found it as Costco for $99- not too bad
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The B&N 50% off Criterion sale netted me Eclipse Series 18 "Dusan Makavejev Free Radical" trio of films ($25) and The 400 Blows on Blu-ray ($20). Or was it The 400 Blues on Blow-ray? I forget now.
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Costco had a new packaging of the Charlie Chan films that included 18 films on 18 discs for $49.99. The titles include all the films from the Charlie Chan Collections #1-4 plus Murder Over New York and Murder Cruise from Collection #5. The discs are contained in three fold out files (tri-folds) that each house six discs. The packaging is nice, the exterior looks like a shipping trunk with interior graphics looking like tickets, passports and what not. The plus is that the entire set will only take up 2 inches of shelf space, the potential downside is the discs are slipped into cardboard pockets that will require a bit of care not to scratch them when pulling them in or out.
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Picked up Star Trek
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Zodiac
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I saw those Chan at Costco too- I just purchased the first release of 5 sets at $19.99 each. Looks like a good deal so long as there are no compression problems.

I have been hoping for a Costco Chantology deal- the Monogram's i have are in good shape, but there are a few that are weak
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Picked up Too Late the Hero and The Redhead From Wyoming at Big Lots.
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The fourth volume of daily and Sunday Popeye strips just came out & arrived today. These are beautiful books of the greatest strip ever.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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VCI sent over Buck Rogers and A Walk in the Sun, and for $3 I scored the 1939 version of "The Women" at Big Lots! Way!
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Got the Bourne trilogy from Costco and the Batman serial on sale at B&N
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