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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,739 Views)
Inspector Carr
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Blade Runner......5 disc set...in it's own attache case combined with the Man from Uncle set....in it's own attache case it becomes somewhat of a DVD luggage set...
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Inspector Carr
Dec 29 2007, 01:58 AM
Blade Runner......5 disc set...in it's own attache case combined with the Man from Uncle set....in it's own attache case it becomes somewhat of a DVD luggage set...

I think that's the one thing keeping me from buying The Man From U.N.C.L.E. right now...I'm not a fan of the packaging (I have a limited amount of space to begin with).

Anyhoo, this week's acquisitions at Rancho Yesteryear include Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (1956; purchased on sale at Columbia House for 7.95) and a boxset that I wish I hadn't spent so much money on, My Favorite Martian: The Complete Third Season. Martian was being released in season sets by Rhino, but the third season kept getting shuffled and pushed back to the point where it was pretty obvious it would not see the light of day in this country so Chertok Television made arrangements with an Australian outfit, Umbrella Entertainment, to release the elusive season number 3. I'm a fan of the show, and the completist in me forced me to get it but the price tag is pretty hefty (one of the Chertok flacks over at HTF said it was worth it, but the jury's still out as far as I'm concerned). The Chertok people are also working on a release of the long-thought-lost sitcom My Living Doll, rereleases of the first two seasons of Martian, and a possible season-by-season release of the old Ann Sothern sitcom, Private Secretary.

Also received some vintage television on disc this week: full runs of M Squad and Thriller (both of which I'm almost positive were purloined from the Bowcock Collection, since the quality is so good), and episodes of December Bride, another neglected sitcom from the past.
"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 ambled out to the mailbox to find Buck Jones' White Eagle serial, plus Region 2 DVD releases of Peter Gunn: Season 2 and The Invaders: Season 1.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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Thriller almost certainly came from us, as I believe that we dug those up in the first place. I didn't know of anyone having them before we did. Ya crazy firecracker! You shoulda e-mailed me! I'm sure we coulda worked something out!
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A visit to a local used DVD shop netted me the following cheapies... two Criterions, #409 (Terence Malick's Days of Heaven, newly recognized by the Library of Congress) and #89, Sisters (which I've heard is a good Brian De Palma film, which would make it, er, the ONLY good Brian De Palma film). From VCI, the 100th Anniversary Special Edition of The Great Train Robbery, which also includes Tom Mix in The Heart of Texas Ryan (1916), Tumbleweeds (1925), and D.W. Griffith's Battle of Elderbush Gulch.

Oh, yeah, and my impulse buy of the day: the complete first season of Jonny Quest!
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Received my copy of Galactica 1980 today. Since I was ordering turkeys I also ordered Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
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Oooh, and look what the postman brought. Criterion Eclipse Series 6, with Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy -- Blood Wedding (1981), Carmen (1983), and El Amor Brujo (1986).
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Through the kindness of a good friend, the haul to the Batcave this week included: THE LONE RANGER (1956 movie), THE LONE RANGER AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD (follow-up movie), STEVE CANYON: Special Edition, and the first 3 eps of the Swamp Fox series from Disney.
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Picked up the Disney Treasures Donald and Oswald sets, and finally got the new 2-disc Three Stooges set. Great stuff!
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Chandu's mailbox produced Chan 3 and the MGM That's Entertainment! Trilogy set, but it's a late arriving Christmas gift for someone else. That's the bad news. :( The good news is that my own copy is on it's way as well! :P
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It is a happy day around the Batcave, as my 13-serial order has finally arrived from VCI. As it was shipped at the start of the month, the X-mas crush must have played a major role in the delay.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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Dec 31 2007, 06:04 PM
It is a happy day around the Batcave, as my 13-serial order has finally arrived from VCI. As it was shipped at the start of the month, the X-mas crush must have played a major role in the delay.

Ya don't think 1 Batcave Rd... Gotham City had anything to do with the delay?
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Dec 31 2007, 06:16 PM
The Batman
Dec 31 2007, 06:04 PM
It is a happy day around the Batcave, as my 13-serial order has finally arrived from VCI.  As it was shipped at the start of the month, the X-mas crush must have played a major role in the delay.

Ya don't think 1 Batcave Rd... Gotham City had anything to do with the delay?

.....or that address actually being in Canada, when they expected to find it in America? :D
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Dec 31 2007, 10:16 PM
The Batman
Dec 31 2007, 06:04 PM
It is a happy day around the Batcave, as my 13-serial order has finally arrived from VCI.  As it was shipped at the start of the month, the X-mas crush must have played a major role in the delay.

Ya don't think 1 Batcave Rd... Gotham City had anything to do with the delay?

I had my address clearly marked as "the third bush to the left of the ROAD CLOSED construction sign, on Belfry Lane, off Route 3, Gotham City". :blink:

Don't see what the problem was. My cable bill always seems to make its way there every month. <_<
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So we had 3 year old Delaney overnight on New Year's Eve. When they dropped her off, my son asked if we had "Sound of Music-she's really into that lately for some reason."

Naturally since I didn't have it, it meant a trip to the used DVD store-not that she's spoiled or anything.

So this week's haul-
Sound of Music
Popeye (the Robin Williams movie)
Disney's Fun & Fancy Free

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