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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,767 Views)
The Batman
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panzer the great & terrible
Jun 7 2007, 09:03 PM
LOL!!!!!!

You guys kill me!

Say, where in O, Canada do you live, Bat? I should remember but I don't.

I don't want to do that, I need the audience. No really, I do, I'm that attention-starved. I do wear a large bat-suit, for god's sake.

Mr. P, the Batcave North is located in Brampton, Ontario. Of course, now that I have told you, I will have to kill you.
Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman!
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marlin lee
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Picked up The Bridge at Remagen and The Devil's Brigaden as a 2 pack from CostCo. Unfortunately they aren't anamorphic but they are widescreen. At $9.95 that doesn't really bother me.
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Yesterday I received a 4-disc set of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life which is a BBC production about underwater life. It's supposed to have soe pretty impressive stuff in it.
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Just received The Serial Squadron release of The Lone Ranger Rides Again.
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With my current employment status at a temporary stand-still, I've been trying to be good and not fill my shopping cart with as many discs as I have in the past. So last week's hauls consisted mostly of stuff I already had on pre-order.

A bunch of public domain TV collections from Alpha, including Racket Squad, The Roy Rogers Show, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Fury and Lights Out...

For the Britcoms archives, the sixth and final series of Man About the House (the inspiration for the American sitcom Three's Company), the complete run of Doctor at Large (part of several "doctor" sitcoms inspired by the book Doctor in the House) and the first series of another medical sitcom, Surgical Spirit...

On the American side of the cathode ray tube, the sixth and final season of Hogan's Heroes, the second season of Mission: Impossible and the eighth season of Seinfeld...

And finally, my pick for DVD of the month: The Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis Collection Volume 2. Incidentally, these last four were purchased at Deep Discount.com which is currently running its bi-annual sale. You can save an additional 20% just by entering "SUPERSALE" in the promo code at checkout. (I'm not shilling for DD, you understand--I just thought some of you who have been holding off on buying certain discs might want to capitalize on the low prices,) Sale ends 06-16-07.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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I'm planning on taking advantage of the Deep Discount sale on Friday, once I get paid. DEADWOOD SEASON 3 is at the top of my list. I may splurge and also pick up the Preston Sturges box set or the Chaplin Mutuals 90th Anniversary box (with recently discovered additional footage).
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marlin lee
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Picked up 2 movies in the horror and hopefully not the horrible genre. Blood and Chocolate and Primeval.
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panzer the great & terrible
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The Ozu Box came today. I'm going to eat up all five in a row. Anybody who wants a free copy of Equinox Flower, pm me. It's one of his best movies.
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Always been a big Bob Dylan fan.
As an anniversary gift, Mrs. Mantan gave me the newly released box set of D.A. Pennebaker's digitally restored & remastered DON'T LOOK BACK.
Comes with a second disc of outtakes that runs a little over an hour and consists of footage I'd never even heard about before. Various live takes of songs, in between show patter, mugging, and Dylan visiting a tailor on Carnaby street and leaving bedecked in Mod attire.

It's especially nice to view this film and the outtakes with the additional commentary by Pennebaker and Bob Neuwirth.
Box set also comes with a facsimile reissue of the original movie script as published in paperback by Bantam or Signet back in the sixties.

I also picked up over a dozen laser discs last week for fifty cents apiece. Some good stuff but mostly garbage: KARATE KID III ; JAWS; WATERWORLD, DEEP STAR SIX -get the picture? Not much to crow about but I could not walk away from them at that price.
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John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection

This is a 3-disc set including these 5 movies...

Reap the Wild Wind
The Spoilers
The War Wagon
Hellfighters
Rooster Cogburn

The five movies are on 3 discs. Reap The Wild Wind is on one disc and The Spoilers and The War Wagon are on another. Those two discs are one-sided. The third disc, featuring Rooster Cogburn and Hellfighters, is a double-sided disc. Two discs overlap in the fold out case that fits inside a slipcase. There doesn't seem to be any extras...at least the case doesn't list any.
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Also picked up John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection. I already have The War Wagon on DVD. I had several times almost bought Hellfighters. But for one reason or another put it off.
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Some additions to the dusty Thrilling Days of Yesteryear archives (yes, I have been spending money like a drunken sailor):

Purchased quite a few Britcoms from Amazon.co.uk and Sendit.com over the past two weeks since there were a few titles on sale. They include The League of Gentlemen (Warner Brothers only released the first series of this so I bought the second and third on Region 2 to round out the collection), Early Doors (first and second series of a funny comedy set in a Northern pub), The Smoking Room (another gem set in the designated smoking area of a large corporation--first and second series), and The Worst Week of My Life, a sitcom not unlike the film Meet the Parents (first and second series). American-wise, I also bought season 4 of Daniel Boone and a Mill Creek Entertainment compilation entitled Best of TV Detectives, which features a bunch of classic crime dramas like Dragnet, Richard Diamond, etc.

I also snapped up Caged! (1950) and the Criterion disc of if....(1969). And the Impulse Buy of this Week was Volume 2 of Mr. Moto--Deep Discount.com had the collection containing the final four Moto flicks on sale for $29.99.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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I just scored Georges Franju's JUDEX on EBay. The guy selling it features it as "JUDEX with magician Channing Pollock." (who I've never heard of -- talk about the hard sell!) He has some more copies if anybody's interested. Franju is the excellent director who made the horror classic EYES WITHOUT A FACE. JUDEX has the same story as the silent French serial but the photography is more poetic and the costumes are cooler (in every sense -- particularly what the bad gal wears, 'nuff said).
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The DVD shelf in the Batcave got a little more crowded this week, with the addition of The Tyrone Power Collection (two more Welles films in the book), Deadwood: Season 3, the Criterion version of Spartacus (which I have wanted for a while, and finally got a good deal on), and three serials: Raiders of Ghost City, Royal Mounted Rides Again and Jesse James Rides Again (I didn't know all these people had stopped riding in the first place).
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Saddle sores.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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