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Tough Guys is the correct title. It is unofficially vol. 2 of the Gangsters set.

Alpha is pretty poor on the whole, Edgecliff.

Sorry, CM, you would have to order them through Amazon.

A new series of discount codes for DVDPlanet..com: JAN2008 $5 Off $60 NEWYEAR2008 $8 Off $80 PREJAN2008 $12 Off $150 Expires 01/31/08

I came an excellent series of film books at the Arclight Cinemas a few days ago, and also at Samuel French Bookshop. They seem to be a series of 17 different softcover books, each about 200 pages, and the individual titles focus on Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn, The Marx Brothers, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, James Dean, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando, and Audrey Hepburn. The series, called Movie Icons, is published by Taschen, all books are copyright 2007, and printed in Italy. Each has the text in English, German, and French. They are mostly photo books, with each having somewhere between 150-200 pictures, I imagine, and all on good quality paper. While there are a number of pictures I have seen over the years in them, there are a lot of pictures in color and b&w I haven't, which was a nice surprise. They retail for $9.99 but Arclight in Hollywood was having a year-end clearance of 50% off on almost everything so I got ten for $5 each. You can get them on Amazon. Here are two pictures I haven't seen before from the Bogart book (the quality is much, much better than my scanner has reproduced here):

I don't know if I could call the following a special sale, but it is something I discovered today and thought I should pass it on. The Virgin Megastore in Hollywood is closing down. They will not be moving to another location, so this is it for them here. Apparently, they lost their lease. They currently have 30% off everything (DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, books, etc.) with a few clearance items at 50% off (no classic films). The only problem is that they price everything at street price, so at 30% off, you can usually do better online. They will be shutting the doors at the end of January and I am wondering if they will be having increased discounts as the weeks progress, like Tower did. I'll try to keep an eye on this and keep you posted.

Well, this is so difficult that I have to break it down into categories: Each category is in no particular order. Box sets (all-new or mostly new contents) Ford at Fox The Three Stooges Vol. 1 Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol. 5 Popeye the Sailor vol. 1 The Jazz Singer The Tyrone Power Collection The Literary Collection Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland Collection Fox Horror Classics Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory Honorable mention: Esther Williams Collection Errol FLynn Signature Collection vol. 2 James Cagney Signature Collection vol. 1 Les Miserables Restorations: A Christmas Carol 2001: A Space Odyssey (especially on Blu-ray) The Shining (especially on Blu-ray) Blade Runner (especially the 5 disc set on Blu-ray) Jailhouse Rock (BR) Viva Las Vegas (BR) Battleship Potemkin Help! Close Encountesr of the 3rd Kind Sergio Leone Anthology Honorable mentions: Peter Pan To Catch A Thief Rio Bravo TV: Twin Peaks the Gold Box Edition Design: Ford at Fox Rooney/Garland United Artists Collection Harry Potter Gift Set Blade Runner Gift Set

Amazon has a few good sales on today: Fox Box Sets 50% off sale: includes Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto volumes at $24.99 each, the three Ford at Fox smaller collections at $24.99 each, Tyrone Power at $24.99, Billy Wilder Collection at $59.99, etc. Those are good prices, especially on the Ford at Fox volumes: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6074302_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000177481&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0WBJKD0N1RYVK53FWPVY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=340993701&pf_rd_i=130 Fox sports movies for about 50% each: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6074302_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000179671&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0WBJKD0N1RYVK53FWPVY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=340993701&pf_rd_i=130 Misc. Fox films at about 50%, including New York New York anniversary edition at $9.99: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6074302_5?ie=UTF8&docId=1000178461&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0WBJKD0N1RYVK53FWPVY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=340993701&pf_rd_i=130 TV Boxed Sets at 2-for-1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6094072_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000179861&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=07VZEQ8HQ4FRCWEXT7MJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=342518901&pf_rd_i=501230

"I just wish more people had voted this time around. For one of my favorite schedules to not get any votes is a travesty." LOL, that would have been mine. But, quite honestly, I am really fine with this. I have had the honor and privilige of hosting one of the Challenges already. Kyle mentioned here that this current Challenge was the one to get the second-highest number of schedules entered. I am proud to say that it was the Challenge that I moderated that received the highest number of submitted schedules (thirteen, I think). I am pleased to see so many newcomers to the Challenge. It is a daunting task, and you never truly know how hard it is until you get in there and do it, but you come away from it with a greater respect and understanding of our TCM programmer and his job. That was the reason the Challenge was originally created by board member path40a. It is difficult indeed to come up with theme ideas, Star of the Month nights, birthday tributes, TCM Underground selections, The Essentials, Silent Sundays, etc. and fit all the other films into tightly-constructed time frames, but the TCM programmer does it week after week, month after month, and year after year. I think everyone who has done a schedule in any of the eight Challenges to date will agree that the TCM programmer is the true Challenge Master. Thanks to all who had kind words about my schedule and my covers. I am glad to have had a chance to participate this time around again, and, as said, I truly am fine with not getting a vote on it...it makes it SO much easier on my present-buying budget this year. (LOL, just kidding.) Patful, I decided to have real fun with your cover, including going away from the traditional logo on all other covers in an attempt to get into the mind of Norman Bates (a scary place to be, believe me). I'm glad you enjoyed it. My conratulations to Lynn for your great schedule and your victory. Am I mistaken, Lynn, but aren't you now the first 3-time winner?! And, of course, a big congrats to Kyle for overseeing this current Challenge. You faced many challenges within the Challenge, not the least of which was the message board loading problems. And now you have the honor of rejoining the rest of us in creating a new schedule in the next Challenge hosted by Lynn.

Let me guess...they featured Donny and Marie.

This is a hard choice. I've looked over all of them and there is some outstanding brilliance in there (but enough about me). It truly is a difficult choice this time around. I could almost go with a 3-way tie for first but I know I have to choose only one. So, before I can't get in here again, my vote goes to patful. I would enjoy seeing so many things on the list, including the tribute to Eugene Pallette, plus the Silent Sunday feature of Faust. And I still get a kick out of the reworking of Melanie Safka's song title, "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" into "Look What They've Done to Your Son, Ma." Very clever.

Hi, moviebuffer12, Since my original post got way back there, there were a couple of other things you probably missed about shaping the schedule: 1. As Kyle also mentioned, each day's schedule each day should start at 6AM. You have them starting in the evening at 8PM. So, for example: March 4th, 2008 6:00 AM first movie title of the day and then going through until the last film around 4AM or so then March 5, 2008 6:00 AM first movie title of this day etc. 2. The Keaton shorts and films should show a studio. 3. With regards to time again, there are the opposite problems, too. Putting a film in a time slot much too long. For example, you have Dr. Strangelove, a 97-minute movie in a 165-minute time slot. That would be about an hour between movies, something TCM doesn't like to do. In scheduling, you have to keep the viewer tuned in and that means not having much time between films. Phew, I'm going back to bed and hope my computer plays nice until the Challenge is over.

Hi, Kyle, I am glad you were able to retrieve it. I am having trouble with my computer. All I was trying to do was reprint the thing without typos and grammatical errors of my own, but -- argh, I don't even want to think about it anymore or I might throw the computer out the window. The important thing is that you were able to get it back in in plenty of time. I think my computer hates me since it learned I was looking at a sexy laptop in a store during Black Friday. Among the typos and corrections I wanted to enter were the titles of the other four films, esides The Honey Pot I spotted running time problems with: Gandhi, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. It will require you reworking your schedule a bit. P.S. ADDED SUNDAY MORNING AT 7:35 AM (PST) - I want to say sorry about all the duplicate posts since last night, but I was just having a nightmare with getting my message in. I finally gave up and went to bed. So, imagine my horror just now as I was getting up and seeing the message finally in - not once, but every time I tried. But, hey, at least if you look at all the different clock times in each post, you can see I was trying my all for this Challenge, lol! Message was edited by: filmlover

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Following up an earlier post of mine, Costco will be carrying Ford at Fox for $219, and that means during the sale Dec.17-24, the price will be $60 off, bringing it down to a nice $159 (almost half of its street price of $299.).

Hi, cascabel, The reason that some of us get concerned by the reappearance of old threads is that we had a very bad experience with a troll on the board who pulled up tons of threads that were three to four years old, totally disrupting all the threads, new and old, which was his intention. I think we are all just a little gun-shy after that.

Web, got my order from VCI today. Everything well packed. One item backordered. One thing I got I am waiting until Christmas Day to see is the Fractured Flickers DVDs. I enjoyed the show, with Hans Conreid, when I was a kid and hope it still holds up today. I also got my orders from DVD Planet and deepdiscount today. Combine that with the Ford at Fox big boxset that came yesterday, I may never step forth outside the house again. LOL, I think the only Christmas present I can now give myself this year is a new bookshelf to hold everything.

Realized that, but thought it looked better to have all the info since it was in the one column from digitalbits and posted today, rather than search all the way through each line and try to recall, "Gee, did we do that one yet or not?" (There are only so many hours in a day.)

Thanks, DS. Just to make it easy for all here, here is the text from digitalbits.com from Brian Maxwell's announcements: "AC Comics have updated their release news in its various lines of serial, mystery and detective films on DVD-R. Currently planned for November are Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of TV Classic Detectives, each of which will contain four or five episodes of vintage detective series from the first decades of network television. Examples are Richard Diamond, Private Detective (David Janssen); Markham (Ray Milland); Tightrope (Mike Connors); Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens); Mike Hammer (Darren McGavin); Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes); and Phillip Marlowe (Philip Carey). Source material for this series is 16mm film prints. Also on the docket is the 1944 Republic serial Perils of the Darkest Jungle. December plans include X the Unknown (1956, with Dean Jagger) and the 1939 Republic serial Dick Tracy's G-Men. January features The Mad Magician (1954, with Vincent Price), a double feature of The Brute Man (1946, with Rondo Hatton) and The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957, with Victor Jory), and TV Classic Detectives Volume 4. February will bring Fiend without a Face (1957, with Marshall Thompson), Diary of a Madman (1962, with Vincent Price), and The Girl Hunters (1963, with Mickey Spillane) while March plans include TV Classic Detectives Volumes 5 and 6, and the 1939 Columbia serial Mandrake the Magician. Criterion's plans include a release on February 12th of four early sound films from Paramount, all directed by Ernst Lubitsch (The Love Parade [1929], Monte Carlo [1930], The Smiling Lieutenant [1931], and One Hour with You [1932]). The films will be packaged together as Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals. Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965) is due on February 19th in a two-disc edition. Fox's An Affair to Remember: 50th Anniversary Edition will arrive on January 15th in a two-disc edition featuring a new digital transfer, commentary by Marni Nixon and film historian Joseph McBride, new featurettes on various cast and crew members, the AMC backstory, and various newsreels, galleries, and trailers. Charlie Chan: Volume 4 will be coming down the pipe on February 12th. Included will be Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), Charlie Chan in Reno (1939), Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939), and Charlie Chan in City of Darkness (1939). Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (one of the best of all the Chans) will include audio commentary and all the films will have new featurettes, still galleries, restoration comparisons, and trailers. On March 11th, a new film noir wave arrives, including the previously anticipated Black Widow, Daisy Kenyon (not film noir, but whatever, so long as another Joan Crawford title gets released), and Dangerous Crossing. Grapevine Video's December releases (grapevinevideo.com) include five silent offerings and two sound ones. The silent ones include a double feature starring Glenn Tryon consisting of Barnum Was Right (1929) and Dames Ahoy (1930); the William Boyd/Bessie Love film, Dress Parade (1927); a flapper era film starring Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); early Douglas Fairbanks, The Man from Painted Post (1917); and the Ken Maynard western, Red Raiders (1927). The sound releases are a double bill of two documentaries, The Forgotten Village (1941)/The Quiet One (1948), and a double bill of two Monogram wartime comedies, Horace Takes Over (1942)/The Last Three (1943). Kino will release a second set of film noir titles that previously were only available individually. No new transfers are involved. Packaged as a box set of five thin cases entitled Film Noir: Volume 2 - Five Classics from the Studio Vault and available on November 20th will be Scarlet Street (1945), Contraband (1940), Strange Impersonation (1947), They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), and The Hitch-Hiker (1953). Coming on December 4th is Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll (1919) combined with the 2006 documentary Lubitsch in Berlin. Lubitsch in Berlin is also the title of a five-disc box set that packages the aforementioned titles along with five other Lubitsch silent titles previously available individually (The Oyster Princess, I Don't Want to Be a Man, Anna Boleyn, Sumurun, and The Wildcat - all from 1919-1921). That set will be available on December 4th also. The Houdini: The Films box set is now penciled in for a March 2008 release (delayed from early October). MGM is trying to make a big splash for United Artists' 90th anniversary (an 18-month global celebration leading up to the actual 90th anniversary in 2009, being done in conjunction with Panasonic and the American Film Institute), but there's precious little news that goes beyond repackaging previously available titles. Concrete news so far has concentrated on anniversary editions for such post-1960 titles as In the Heat of the Night (40th anniversary, coming on January 15th), Last Tango in Paris (35th, coming in 2008), The Thomas Crown Affair (40th, coming in 2008), and New York, New York (30th, coming on December 4th). Several of these titles already have had good DVD releases and news to date indicates that the new versions merely add a few new supplements or perhaps an enhanced audio track. In the plans too are massive gift sets such as the United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection Gift Set (90 of UA's most acclaimed films plus an accompanying book of photos and text for each film, but no new transfers - available December 11th) and the United Artists 90th Anniversary Essential Collection Gift Set (a 30-film subset of the Prestige Collection, also due on December 11th). And just in case anybody wants another release of the James Bond films, the James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set (also December 11th) gathers all 21 Bond films together for the first time. I'll get excited if MGM starts to release some pre-1960 UA product on DVD for the first time or gives proper anamorphic transfers to previously released titles. We live in hope. Meanwhile, the latest announcement that's part of the UA tribute is a new special collector's edition of The Apartment (1960) set for February 5th, a release long sought by enthusiasts. Indications are there will be an audio commentary by Bruce Block (film producer, UCLA professor and AFI member), an "Inside The Apartment" documentary, and a "Tribute to Jack Lemmon". What's key, however, would be a new transfer but whether that's the case is unclear at present. In other news, MGM seizes upon the upcoming Will Smith theatrical film I Am Legend as a reason to release the Earlier Vincent Price version from 1964, The Last Man on Earth, on December 4th. The transfer will be widescreen but whether anamorphic or not is unclear so far. Continuing its emphasis on TV releases rather than classic theatrical product, Paramount will bring us Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Volume One (3 discs) on January 8th. Hawaii Five-0: The Third Season (6 discs) and The Odd Couple: The Third Season (4 discs) are set for January 22nd. Pioneers of Television is a new PBS four-part documentary series that offers a fresh look at TV's first celebrities - available through Paramount on January 29th. March 18th will see the release of The Wild Wild West: The Fourth Season. Restored Serials' release of the 1934 First Division serial Young Eagles is now available. Sony has now announced a February 12th release date for The Stanley Kramer Collection, previously delayed from early fall. The titles included are Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Wild One, Ship of Fools, and Member of the Wedding. The latter is the only title not previously released on DVD by Sony. Although not explicitly stated, the re-releases likely sport new transfers just as the ones in last year's Frank Capra Premiere Collection did. There will be a significant amount of bonus material created in conjunction with Kramer's widow Karen Sharpe Kramer and the Stanley Kramer estate. The Guess Who's Coming to Dinner title will be a new 40th anniversary edition and it will also be available separately. Unknown Video (unknownvideo.com) has added a new DVD release to its current offerings. It's Mabel Normand's What Happened to Rosa (1920). Supplements on the disc include the Normand short Hide and Seek (1913), a photo gallery and liner notes. There's also a new musical score by Ben Model. Warner Bros. will release TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Volume 2 on March 4th. The three-disc set will contain five pre-Code films plus a new documentary, all of which will only be available as part of the set. The films are: The Divorcee (1930) and A Free Soul (1931) - both Norma Shearer titles (the first her Best Actress award performance and the second co-starring Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymore [best Actor award]); Three on a Match (1932, Bette Davis), Female (1933, Ruth Chatterton), and Night Nurse (1931, Clark Gable); and the documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2007). Commentaries will be provided for The Divorcee and Night Nurse. Following one week later on March 11th will be The Warner Bros. Gangster Collection, Volume 3 containing Picture Snatcher (1933), Lady Killer (1933), Smart Money (1931), The Mayor of Hell (1933), Black Legion (1937), and Brother Orchid (1940) - that's four Cagneys, two Bogarts, and two Robinsons. Included as extras are the usual delectable collections of vintage shorts, cartoons and trailers. Interestingly, the latter include I Loved a Woman, Other Men's Women, The Perfect Specimen, The Kennel Murder Case, Crime School, Hell's Kitchen, and It All Came True which may presage future DVD releases. Warners will also dip into its animated catalog in honour of the Oscars with two releases on February 12th. Academy Award Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees will be a three-disc set while Academy Award Animation Collection - 15 Winners will be a single disc release. The winners apparently include all the cartoons so honoured by Oscar during the 1940-1965 period and within Warners' control. Finally, having missed the 40th anniversary, Warners will now release Bonnie and Clyde (1967) as both a 2-disc SE and an Ultimate Collector's Edition (UCE) on March 25th. The SE will contain the newly remastered film, a new in-depth making-of documentary, the History Channel documentary "Love and Death: The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," Warren Beatty wardrobe tests, and deleted scenes. The UCE will add various publicity material reproductions and a 36-page hardcover book. This release will be part of the WB 85th anniversary celebration next year, details for which will be announced in January. Promised are a number of branded collections including new-to-DVD releases, various high definition debuts, and other UCEs. The Weinstein Company's promised release of El Cid will arrive on January 29th in a 2-disc DVD edition featuring audio commentary, and new featurettes and interviews. A collector's edition (same discs plus a book of stills and historical articles) will also be available. In High Definition news, MGM's Blu-ray releases of The Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far have been delayed (for unspecified "marketing reasons") until 2008, perhaps as part of a Father's Day promotion then. Sony continues to work on Blu-ray releases of three David Lean films (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Passage to India) and The Guns of Navarone. Announcement of the release of the latter two of these four now appears likely in the first quarter of 2008, with the others coming later in the year. Recognizing how important these titles are to many fans, Sony is really hoping to put its best Blu-ray foot forward with them, hence the long delay in bringing them out. Warner Bros. will issue Bonnie and Clyde (1967) on Blu-ray and HD-DVD on March 25th. Otherwise, the lack of announced classic titles in forthcoming HD-DVD or Blu-ray plans is disappointing to say the least. One final note - I somehow missed the release of The Omega Man (1971) in both HD-DVD and Blu-ray by Warner Bros. It appeared on November 27th."

Wow, it's here! (I kept saying "Wow" a lot as I lifted it out of its box.) It's big, it's heavy, and it is solid. There was padding around the box set which kept it secure. I haven't heard anything rattling inside so it must be tightly packed inside the box set with the book and all. And this thing, when I say it's big, you can believe me...it's BIG! It looks like it measures 13 inches by 13 inches by about three inches think. I have absolutely no idea how to store this on the shelves. And did I mention it is heavy? This is something to get by mail becaus you do not want to be standing in some long line at the store lifting this weight the whole time. Word of warning, if you do have shelf space somewhere, do not put it up high because it will probably crush you when you go to lift it doww. I would love to open this now but as I mentioened earlier this is going under the tree for me. This is one great-looking present. LOL, there is even a silver TCM Seal of Approval on the top left corner of the plastic. I think I can say without a doubt that this will be the box set of the year. Thhe United Artists set may have 110 or so DVDs, but that one looks to me to be just a pulling together of DVDs from different single DVD releases. This, the Ford at Fox set, is a first-rate, well-designed miracle of a box set. "Pappy" wpuld have been proud.

Well, I am excited. I just got word that they delivered my box set at home.