Ops I did it by accident.
I swear I didn't mean to purchase 'blacksploitation' DVD's during the Month of February. I was just cruising through my usual film resource guides and realized I didn't have Shaft which led me to Spike Lee, which led me to Barbershop. Maybe it was subliminal. I originally began this month's order when I found a rich source of 'Fox Noirs' when I was surfing for the films of director Joseph Mankiewicz. The Fox Noir series has a lot of major stars directed by major directors so I went nuts. I've also been doing a lot of digging for major films that haven't been in print for a while so I bought some collections to get them. I also realized I've never collected Ingmar Bergman or Betty Grable and due to popular demand Doris Day. I also picked up a few odds and ends and bought a lot of patron requests.
The Movies
No Way Out Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz this one is dated now but it's about southern racism and stars Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Ozzie Davis.
Fallen Angel An Otto Preminger noir with Dana Andrews as a drifter hustling Alice Faye to get money for bad girl Linda Darnell.
Where the Sidewalk Ends Another Otto Preminger noir with Dana Andrews as a brutal cop after the killer with Gene Tierney and Karl Maldon.
Whirlpool Otto Preminger directs Gene Tierney as a shoplifter manipulated the corrupt hypnotist Jose Ferrar.
I wake up Screaming. Betty Grable does a noir with Victor Mature and Carol Landis.
Road House Tense romantic drama with Ida Lupino, Richard Widmark, and Cornel Wilde.
Black Widow Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and Gene Tierney in a glossy murder of a Broadway writer.
Dangerous Crossing. Not really a noir, more of a psychological thriller-mystery aboard a cruise ship with Jeanne Crain and Michael Rennie.
Moontide Fritz Lang Salvadore both dropped out of this project but left an arresting noir with Ida Lupina and Claude Rains.
House of Strangers Joseph Mankiewicz directs Edward G. Robinson as a Ruthless Businessman that used his four sons, with Susan Hayward, Debra Paget, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Street With No Name. Gritty crime drama of the FBI breaking up a corrupt city, with Richard Widmark.
House on 92nd Street An Academy Award winning account of German spies trying to steal Nuclear secrets. Based on a true story.
Nightmare Alley Tyrone Power is the heartless mind reading carnie who uses everybody.
John Ford Film Collection Five Pack I bought this one for two movies, the Informer and the Lost Patrol. The Informer won Victor McLaglen a best actor Oscar while the Lost Patrol is an under appreciated classic that has been copied by a lot of different movies many times. This collection also has Mary of Scotland, Cheyenne Autumn, and Sergeant Rutledge.
Smiles of a Summer Night Ingmar Bergman.
Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection.
Seventh Seal I think I'm covered for Bergman Films.
Fox Horror Classics Collection
Fox Horror Classics 2 (For the serious Horror film buffs)
Down Argentine Way. Betty Grable's breakout musical with Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda.
Yank in the RAF Betty Grable and Tyrone Power in a rah rah musical war story?
My Blue Heaven. This is the Betty Grable Dan Dailey musical.
Four Jills in a Jeep Based on the true story of how Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Carole Landis, and Mitzi Mayfair pioneered the USO during WWII.
Breaker Morant a highly rated Aussie film about the Boer War in South Africa.
Midnight lesser known screwball comedy from 1939 with Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, and John Barrymore.
So Proudly We Hail Four nurses remember their service in the Philippines with Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake.
No Man of Her Own Good girl Carole Lombard tames bad boy Clark Gable.
Arabian Nights Sabu Maria Montez Leif Erickson with dashing thieves and really bad Caliphs.
Easy Living Preston Sturges wrote the screen play with Jean Arthur, Ray Milland, and Edward Arnold.
Phone Call From a Stranger Bette Davis, Michael Rennie, Shelly Winters, Keenan Wynn engrossing drama of the after math of a plane crash .
Hellfighters John Wayne fights oil well fires.
War Wagon John Wayne and Kirk Douglas steal gold.
Glass Bottom Boat. typical 60's rom-com with Rod Taylor chasing Doris Day while Arthur Godfrey and Paul Lynde provide the laughs.
In-Laws Peter Falk is CIA and Alan Arkin is a dentist.
Love Me or Leave Me Doris Day and James Cagney in an Oscar winning musical biography.
Where the Boys Are George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis in an early look at teenagers on spring break.
Gidget - the Complete Collection. Sandra Dee and surfers.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies Doris Day and David Niven.
Uptown Saturday Night Sidney Potier directing Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Harry Belafonte, and Flip Wilson.
Piece of the Action Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier do it again.
Shaft/Shaft's Big Score/Shaft in Africa The original with Richard Roundtree and the Oscar winning Isaac Hayes score.
The Mack The Urban cult classic.
Best of Soul Cinema I got this collection for Pam Grier in Coffy and Foxy Brown but it also includes the light comedy Cooley High, the Wayans lough out loud satire I'm going to get you sucka and a Fred Williamson bomb Hell up in Harlem.
She's Gotta have it. Spike Lee's first hit.
School Daze Spike Lee's look at life on a black college campus.
Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee's hot times in Brooklyn.
New Jack City Mario Van Peebles, Wesley Snipes, Judd Nelson, Ice T Chris Rock, Vanessa Williams in a new take on Gangsters.
Boomerang. Eddie Murphy Halle Berry Robin Givens in a romantic comedy.
Blankman Damon Wayans is an inner city superhero with no super powers and Robin Givens is the reporter that tracks him down.
Deliver us from Eva Gabrielle Union is Eva and LL Cool J is the player that tries to tame her.
Barbershop Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson in a well written multi-level screenplay.
Best Man Taye Diggs writes a novel that cuts too close to home.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Angela Bassett, Tay Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Older woman Stella finds a younger lover in Jamaica. Based on the Terry McMillan Novel.
Waiting to Exhale Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett and Gregory Hines are directed by Forest Whitaker based on the Terry McMillan novel.
Soul Food Vanessa Williams Vivica Fox in a rare movie of positive family Values.
Big Bounce Great cast misused but watchable. Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, and Sara Foster, based on an Elmore Leonard Novel.
Arthur: On the Rocks 1 & 2 Do drunks really have more fun if they're filthy rich. Dudley More and Liza Minnelli.
Caddyshack Billy Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield tear up the links and there goes the neighborhood.
Falling Down. Michael Douglas is going home for his daughters birthday and policeman Robert Duvall and his partner Rachael Ticotin are trying to stop him.
Sybil. Sally Field has multiple personalities.
Three Faces of Eve Joanne Woodward only has three personalities but she got an Oscar for one of them.
Non Fiction
Hubble's Amazing Rescue
400 Years of the Telescope
Woodstock 3 days of Peace and Music
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
The Movies
No Way Out Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz this one is dated now but it's about southern racism and stars Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Ozzie Davis.
Fallen Angel An Otto Preminger noir with Dana Andrews as a drifter hustling Alice Faye to get money for bad girl Linda Darnell.
Where the Sidewalk Ends Another Otto Preminger noir with Dana Andrews as a brutal cop after the killer with Gene Tierney and Karl Maldon.
Whirlpool Otto Preminger directs Gene Tierney as a shoplifter manipulated the corrupt hypnotist Jose Ferrar.
I wake up Screaming. Betty Grable does a noir with Victor Mature and Carol Landis.
Road House Tense romantic drama with Ida Lupino, Richard Widmark, and Cornel Wilde.
Black Widow Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and Gene Tierney in a glossy murder of a Broadway writer.
Dangerous Crossing. Not really a noir, more of a psychological thriller-mystery aboard a cruise ship with Jeanne Crain and Michael Rennie.
Moontide Fritz Lang Salvadore both dropped out of this project but left an arresting noir with Ida Lupina and Claude Rains.
House of Strangers Joseph Mankiewicz directs Edward G. Robinson as a Ruthless Businessman that used his four sons, with Susan Hayward, Debra Paget, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Street With No Name. Gritty crime drama of the FBI breaking up a corrupt city, with Richard Widmark.
House on 92nd Street An Academy Award winning account of German spies trying to steal Nuclear secrets. Based on a true story.
Nightmare Alley Tyrone Power is the heartless mind reading carnie who uses everybody.
John Ford Film Collection Five Pack I bought this one for two movies, the Informer and the Lost Patrol. The Informer won Victor McLaglen a best actor Oscar while the Lost Patrol is an under appreciated classic that has been copied by a lot of different movies many times. This collection also has Mary of Scotland, Cheyenne Autumn, and Sergeant Rutledge.
Smiles of a Summer Night Ingmar Bergman.
Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection.
Seventh Seal I think I'm covered for Bergman Films.
Fox Horror Classics Collection
Fox Horror Classics 2 (For the serious Horror film buffs)
Down Argentine Way. Betty Grable's breakout musical with Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda.
Yank in the RAF Betty Grable and Tyrone Power in a rah rah musical war story?
My Blue Heaven. This is the Betty Grable Dan Dailey musical.
Four Jills in a Jeep Based on the true story of how Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Carole Landis, and Mitzi Mayfair pioneered the USO during WWII.
Breaker Morant a highly rated Aussie film about the Boer War in South Africa.
Midnight lesser known screwball comedy from 1939 with Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, and John Barrymore.
So Proudly We Hail Four nurses remember their service in the Philippines with Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake.
No Man of Her Own Good girl Carole Lombard tames bad boy Clark Gable.
Arabian Nights Sabu Maria Montez Leif Erickson with dashing thieves and really bad Caliphs.
Easy Living Preston Sturges wrote the screen play with Jean Arthur, Ray Milland, and Edward Arnold.
Phone Call From a Stranger Bette Davis, Michael Rennie, Shelly Winters, Keenan Wynn engrossing drama of the after math of a plane crash .
Hellfighters John Wayne fights oil well fires.
War Wagon John Wayne and Kirk Douglas steal gold.
Glass Bottom Boat. typical 60's rom-com with Rod Taylor chasing Doris Day while Arthur Godfrey and Paul Lynde provide the laughs.
In-Laws Peter Falk is CIA and Alan Arkin is a dentist.
Love Me or Leave Me Doris Day and James Cagney in an Oscar winning musical biography.
Where the Boys Are George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis in an early look at teenagers on spring break.
Gidget - the Complete Collection. Sandra Dee and surfers.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies Doris Day and David Niven.
Uptown Saturday Night Sidney Potier directing Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Harry Belafonte, and Flip Wilson.
Piece of the Action Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier do it again.
Shaft/Shaft's Big Score/Shaft in Africa The original with Richard Roundtree and the Oscar winning Isaac Hayes score.
The Mack The Urban cult classic.
Best of Soul Cinema I got this collection for Pam Grier in Coffy and Foxy Brown but it also includes the light comedy Cooley High, the Wayans lough out loud satire I'm going to get you sucka and a Fred Williamson bomb Hell up in Harlem.
She's Gotta have it. Spike Lee's first hit.
School Daze Spike Lee's look at life on a black college campus.
Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee's hot times in Brooklyn.
New Jack City Mario Van Peebles, Wesley Snipes, Judd Nelson, Ice T Chris Rock, Vanessa Williams in a new take on Gangsters.
Boomerang. Eddie Murphy Halle Berry Robin Givens in a romantic comedy.
Blankman Damon Wayans is an inner city superhero with no super powers and Robin Givens is the reporter that tracks him down.
Deliver us from Eva Gabrielle Union is Eva and LL Cool J is the player that tries to tame her.
Barbershop Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson in a well written multi-level screenplay.
Best Man Taye Diggs writes a novel that cuts too close to home.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Angela Bassett, Tay Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Older woman Stella finds a younger lover in Jamaica. Based on the Terry McMillan Novel.
Waiting to Exhale Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett and Gregory Hines are directed by Forest Whitaker based on the Terry McMillan novel.
Soul Food Vanessa Williams Vivica Fox in a rare movie of positive family Values.
Big Bounce Great cast misused but watchable. Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, and Sara Foster, based on an Elmore Leonard Novel.
Arthur: On the Rocks 1 & 2 Do drunks really have more fun if they're filthy rich. Dudley More and Liza Minnelli.
Caddyshack Billy Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield tear up the links and there goes the neighborhood.
Falling Down. Michael Douglas is going home for his daughters birthday and policeman Robert Duvall and his partner Rachael Ticotin are trying to stop him.
Sybil. Sally Field has multiple personalities.
Three Faces of Eve Joanne Woodward only has three personalities but she got an Oscar for one of them.
Non Fiction
Hubble's Amazing Rescue
400 Years of the Telescope
Woodstock 3 days of Peace and Music
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
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