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This Week's Dvds
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,698 Views)
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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panzer the great & terrible
Feb 23 2009, 10:20 AM
I hope you guys will watch Who's Guilty and report.
Consider it done.
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I've just picked up Tequila Sunrise, with Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Picked up Tora! Tora! Tora! 2 disc addition at CostCo.
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Big day for the mailbox at Schloss Panzer. Frenzied negotiations over the last few weeks coupled with a totally botched Pay Pal transaction made me buy more than I meant to and come one DVD short of a freebie, but Rodney seems to have rewarded me according to the number of DVDs I bought rather than the number of titles. Or not. I'm very confused about the whole thing, but happy as a lark because I now have:

The Mystery of the Double Cross -- a Pathé serial from 1917, when serials were serials, by golly, and from the studio and the director that gave us The Perils of Pauline

The Phantom of the Air -- the last of the four Tom Tyler Universal serials, and Walter Brennan is in it. I can't wait!

Pirate Treasure -- a 1934 Universal I've never heard a word about. The label says *it has good stunts. Hey, somebody has to investigate this junk.

Perils of the Royal Mounted -- Horne's last movie. Rumor is he was sick when he made it. My theory is he was always sick so it won't make much difference. (Ha Ha, Mr. G.! Just a hilarious joke!)

Ghost of Zorro -- a 1949 Republic because there is a monster in my belly that keeps saying: "Stock footage! I need more stock footage!"

Cody of the Pony Express -- a 1950 Columbia, the first serial I saw. I must have liked it because I still watch 'em. I was 7, so it'll be fun to see if I remember anything about it. My dog Lily remembers where she saw a squirrel two years ago, and always goes to check if it's still there, so I might.

But that's not all, folks! I got some shorts too.

Thelma Todd*! Oh yeah! No less than 12 of the legendary hottie's Hal Roach shorts on 3 DVDs.

An American Toothache (1936)
Sing, Sister, Sing (1935)
Opened By Mistake (1934)
The Old Bull (1932)
Alum and Eve (1932)
Strictly Unreliable (1932)

Disc 2
The Soilers (1932)
Beauty and the Bus (1932)
The Tin Man (1935)
Done in Oil (1934)
Red Noses, aka Ladies in a Turkish Bath (1932)
One Track Minds (1933)

fyi, Zazu left in 33

Disc 3
Bum Voyage -- Patsy
Sealskins -- Zazu
On the Loose -- Zazu
War Mamas -- Zazu
Catch-As Catch-Can -- Zazu
Hot Money -- Patsy

Then last but not least 11 Charley Chase shorts on two discs. Am I fortunate or what?

It Happened One Day (1934)
Arabian Tights (1933)
Hasty Marriage (1931)
Luncheon At Twelve (1933)
The Count Takes the Count (1936)
All Teed Up (1930)

Disc Two
The Sap Takes a Wrap (1934)
Rough Seas (1931) Thelma Todd
High C's (1930) Thelma Todd
The Pip From Pittsburg (1931) Thelma Todd
The Wrong Miss Wright (1937)

Great score for very little money. This will keep me busy for about a year.



Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Feb 25 2009, 10:18 PM.
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The Pip from Pittsburg is Charley's best talkie.

As for Pirate Treasure, I've written about it here... It is one of my all-time favorite serials. Breathtakingly wonderful. Alas, no really good print seems to exist.
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Richard Talmadge in Pirate Treasure is one of the all-time great stuntmen. He was part of an acrobatic troupe with Ringling Brothers and later went to Hollywood to become a stunt ace. Rumored to be the man behind many of the more risky Doug Fairbanks Sr. stunts in several movies.
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panzer the great & terrible
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Well, I don't get it. How come there's been so little noise about Pirate T?
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panzer the great & terrible
Feb 25 2009, 09:39 PM
Cody of the Pony Express -- a 1950 Columbia, the first serial I saw. I must have liked it because I still watch 'em. I was 7, so it'll be fun to see if I remember anything about it.
I, too, saw (some of) this one at age seven or so. Indeed, I am not sure if I saw some episodes or just the trailer. All I can remember is the running mount of their horses that the pony riders used. It really looked neat at the time. I've ordered from Rodney and will see if the DVD brings back memories.
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I know I saw at least three chapters because I got all involved with the climax/resolution business. I loved the serial because of the boy hero and the fights (we'll see if they hold up), but especially because of the chapter endings, putting the hero in an impossible predicament but you know he'll be OK next week. To a kid, there's something reassuring about that once it sinks in.
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Don Diego
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Panzer - could you give a quality report on Cody and Perils?
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Cody's fine; I'll check Perils out tonite.

Incidentally, so far, nothing in Cody rings the faintest bell: I could be watching it for the first time.
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This has been a rather dry month for me in terms of dvd's, although I'm still enjoying a few previous months purchases, like Paramount's release of "The Invaders, s-2" and Timeless' big "M Squad" and "The Texan" sets. I keep on the lookout for individual movie releases, but there really hasn't been anything out lately that I cared to bother with.

It's been a number of months since viewing a serial, and I'm getting an itch to delve into one, but the only unwatched example I have is a bootleg of "The Green Hornet Strikes Again." And, I decided to forego that, in favor of waiting for VCI's upcoming release of it, which should serve up a preferable print. Any time-frame yet for when it's to be released? Or, how about the "Zane Grey Theater" set which they are also supposedly working on? I'm really looking forward to that one. It also makes me wonder if VCI has a deal from Fox to release any other old Four-Star tv properties.
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Boy, I sure hope so. There's an old Four Star Theater episode involving Ida Lupino and a hangman's noose that I'd give my eye teeth to see again. I bet she directed it herself. I've never run into anybody else who caught it, but it was the scariest thing I ever saw on TV.
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Say Panzer, how's the quality of Thelma Todd's shorts? No, the other ones.
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They're great. Go for it!
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