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| KIRGO | Sep 15 2007, 12:22 AM Post #526 |
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I forgot to mention some real bargains I've found recently. For $7.99 at The Andersons, I picked up a copy of the TCM Archives Lon Chaney, Sr. double disc set. In the find of the year, I bought the first 4 Shout! Factory volumes of SCTV at Dollar General at a cool $10 per set...plus..."Night of the Lepus" for two bucks. I'll wait until Easter 2008 to watch it. |
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| igsjr | Sep 15 2007, 06:20 AM Post #527 |
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Nice deals, Mr. K! Particularly the Lon Chaney set. It was a big week for me also. Gravy has stated in several posts how he did what any sensible, red-blooded male would do and purchased The Complete Avengers Emma Peel Megaset with the change he found in his couch cushions. I already had the complete Mrs. Peel, so I supplemented that with purchases of Avengers '68: Sets 1-5 (the Tara King years) by shopping around at both Deep Discount.com (a.k.a. "The House That Ivan Built") and DVD Planet.com., where they had been marked down. Other classic television goodies that arrived at Rancho Yesteryear were McHale's Navy: Season Two, I Dream of Jeannie: Season Four, and Picket Fences: Season One (Amazon had this on sale for one day only and I got wind of it at TVShowsOnDVD.com). Also, from our good friends on the other side of the pond, Morecambe & Wise: The Complete Third Series. Rounding out the arrivals were the Criterion version of The 39 Steps (all this Criterion talk made me decide to get it--you people are a bad influence*), a Region 2 disc of Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear (1944) and a film I didn't know was on DVD, the 1977 horror sleeper Haunts. Oh, and those shorts starring Snub Pollard, Ben Turpin and "Poodles" Hannaford finally arrived, too--in glorious Weiss-o-Rama! (*I even went and preordered the new Criterion version of The Lady Vanishes as a result...) |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 15 2007, 11:07 AM Post #528 |
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Okay, a big couple of days (again). Arrived from VCI (thanks, guys), the new "Deadly Dames" film noir collection with The Naked Kiss, Slightly Scarlet, and Blonde Ice -- review up soon. A trip to Fry's netted me a whole bunch o' stuff... Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and Taste the Blood of Dracula, a couple of new Midnite Movies I hadn't gotten yet, The House on Skull Mountain/The Mephisto Waltz and Chosen Survivors/The Earth Dies Screaming, the Special Edition of Richard Gordon's Devil Doll, a new silent picture based on H.P. Lovecraft's script, The Call of Cthulhu, and the Ed Wood Collection from Passport, which for $6.99 gives me Plan 9, Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, Jail Bait, Night of the Ghouls, and The Violent Years. Oh, yeah, and the Criterion Night and the City. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 15 2007, 08:35 PM Post #529 |
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I also picked up a cheap PD Three Stooges disc for $3; it includes the Shemp Howard solo Vitaphone shorts I Scream (1934) with Gus Shy, Serves You Right (1935), His First Flame (1935) with Daphne Pollard, and Why Pay Rent? (1935) with Roscoe Ates. And I picked up the original 3:10 to Yuma. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 17 2007, 07:44 PM Post #530 |
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My Emma Peel arrived today! *swoons* A quick stop at the used place (it's just down the street from my grocery store) netted me Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell and Flaming Star ($6.99 each) and the new Witchfinder General ($9.99), which I'm assured is an upgrade from my old British DVD of this title. |
| "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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| The Batman | Sep 17 2007, 08:16 PM Post #531 |
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A nice haul was taken back to the Batcave today: Rome - Season 2 Robinson Crusoe on Mars The Fly Collection Superman/Doomsday The Big Combo Devils of Darkness/Witchcraft (Midnite Movies two-fer) |
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| igsjr | Sep 17 2007, 08:24 PM Post #532 |
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And to think you could have bought a brand-new copy of Star for less than 6.99... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...:MESE:IT&ih=014 Not that I'm pressuring you or anything. |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 18 2007, 12:49 PM Post #533 |
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Also picked up today (besides those two Criterions I tell you about elsewhere)... Alligator, Godzilla: Final Wars, Death Proof, and another $12 3-pick of Fox classics from Costco, Gentleman's Agreement, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and The Keys of the Kingdom. Not three films I particularly wanted, but at that price... |
| "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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| JazzGuyy | Sep 18 2007, 01:15 PM Post #534 |
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Just got the 6th season of Smallville and have begun our annual marathon of watching the whole season over about a week to 10-day time frame. Also got the new Superman cartoon for later viewing and Robinson Crusoe on Mars and Threepenny Opera should arrive in the next day or two. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 18 2007, 02:16 PM Post #535 |
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Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot one: the Universal Pirates of the Golden Age collection, with Against All Flags (Errol Flynn/Maureen O'Hara), Buccaneer's Girl (Yvonne De Carlo), Yankee Buccaneer (Jeff Chandler), and Double Crossbones (Donald O'Connor). |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Sep 18 2007, 02:20 PM Post #536 |
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I had to pick up the extended version of DEATH PROOF to see what I missed at the Grindhouse. |
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| marlin lee | Sep 21 2007, 06:28 PM Post #537 |
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Today was the longest. As in while looking through the bargain bins at Wal-Mart I picked up The Longest Yard Lockdown Edition and The Longest Day. |
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| igsjr | Sep 22 2007, 06:59 AM Post #538 |
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Boy, for someone who was supposed to be downsizing his collection I'm not setting a very good example for the younger folks in the Balcony audience. The Thrilling Days of Yesteryear coffers were filled this week with a goodly number of TV-related DVD's: The Addams Family: Volume 3, The Streets of San Francisco: Season 1, Volume 2 and The Untouchables: Season 1, Volume 2 (which has an interesting bonus extra, an episode of The Lucy Show). I also, in what can only be described as an attack of nostalgia, purchased Bozo: The World's Famous Clown, Volume 1. ("Whooooooaaaa nellie!") On the classic movies front, a Region 2 disc of Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, and two Image Entertainment offerings: Tomorrow, the World! and a double feature of The Sin of Nora Moran/Prison Train. I also bought two DVDs that will hopefully see a review sometime today on the ol' blog, The Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy and Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy. But the big haul came from Five Minutes to Live, a website that specializes in hard-to-find cult films and kitsch; they have a number of noirs and other knick-knacks that I've had my eye on for some time now. So I let loose my inner spendthrift and bought Appointment with Danger, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Killer is Loose, Ladybug Ladybug, The Lineup, Shack Out on 101, The Turning Point and Violent Saturday. |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| SuperRog | Sep 22 2007, 07:51 AM Post #539 |
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I hadn't gotten any in awhile but received two this week, Full House: The Complete Seventh Season (no snickering, please) and the 1964 sci-fi classic Robinson Crusoe on Mars which is a Criterion Collection disc. |
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| KIRGO | Sep 22 2007, 02:36 PM Post #540 |
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To "igsjr"... I'd be interested in reading your reaction to "The Lineup". It's one of my favorites...I saw it as part of a triple feature at a local drive-in. The other 2 films were "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" and "The Tall T". All that for a couple bucks!!! |
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