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In honor of Chaplin's birthday, Criterion is offering the DVD or BluRay of Modern Times for 50 percent off. Use promo code "MODERN":

Through 4/17/11 or while supplies last.

http://www.criterion.com/films/27526-modern-times

Rick

I have been waiting FOREVER for these to drop in price and now they have. Not sure for how long though:

Betty Grable Collection Vol. 1- $24.99
http://www.amazon.com/Grable-Collection ... 843&sr=8-1

Alice Faye Collection Vol. 1- $23.99
http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Collection- ... 000&sr=8-1

Alice Faye Collection Vol. 2 - $22.99
http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Washin ... 843&sr=8-5

Karmen Miranda Collection - $24.99
http://www.amazon.com/Miranda-Collectio ... 869&sr=1-1

More sales on Amazon:

The Barbara Stanwyck Collection - $26.99
http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Stanwyck- ... ef=lh_ni_t

The Claudette Colbert Collection - $27.49
http://www.amazon.com/Claudette-Colbert ... 161&sr=1-4

The Cecil B. DeMille Collection - $19.99
http://www.amazon.com/DeMille-Collectio ... 244&sr=1-1

Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vol. 1 - $11.99
http://www.amazon.com/Screwball-Comedy- ... =pd_cp_d_2

Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vol. 2 - $7.99
http://www.amazon.com/Screwball-Comedy- ... y_d_text_b

Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack - $16.98 (This has now went up to $22.00)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00023P4OC

Shirley Temple- Little Darling Pack - $5.99
http://www.amazon.com/Shirley-Temple-Little-Darling-Forever/dp/B0007CNY7W/ref=sr_1_9?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1303848493&sr=1-9

The Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedy Collection - $11.49
http://www.amazon.com/Hudson-Comedy-Collection-Pillow-Flowers/dp/B000P2A22O/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1303848524&sr=1-1

The Gary Cooper Collection - $17.99
http://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Collection-Design-Ibbetson-General/dp/B0007RTB9M/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1303848558&sr=1-2

Marlon Brando Collection - $14.99
http://www.amazon.com/Collection-American-Appaloosa-Countess-Following/dp/B0007RTBA6/ref=sr_1_4?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1303848589&sr=1-4

Criterion Fans....Eclipse Series sales:

Eclipse Series 8 - Lubitsch Musicals - $25.49
http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Lubitsch- ... 11&sr=1-16

Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden's London Underground - $22.49
http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Undergrou ... 943&sr=1-2

Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse - $19.99
http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-26-Every- ... 943&sr=1-3

Buy.com sale

Bing Crosby Screen Legends Collection - $4.25
http://www.buy.com/prod/bing-crosby-scr ... 99972.html

Rock Hudson Screen Collection - $5.99
http://www.buy.com/prod/rock-hudson-scr ... 99971.html

John Wayne - An American Icon - Universal Franchise Collection - $9.99
http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=202414190%22

WC Fields Comedy Collection Vol. 2 - $12.99
http://www.buy.com/prod/w-c-fields-come ... 32117.html

Val Lewton Collection (Scorsese version)- $14.99
http://www.buy.com/prod/val-lewton-coll ... 46665.html

Lucille Ball - Film Collection- $17.99
http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=204297816

Get it now on Amazon.com while it's cheap:

"Tyrone Power Collection (Blood and Sand / Son of Fury / The Black Rose / Prince of Foxes / The Captain from Castile)"
Tyrone Power; DVD; $22.99
http://www.amazon.com/Tyrone-Collection ... y_d_text_b


"Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection (Cafe Metropole/Girls Dormitory/Johnny Apollo/Daytime Wife/Luck of the Irish/Ill Never Forget You/That Wonderful Urge/Love Is News/This Above All/Second Honeymoon)"
Tyrone Power; DVD; $23.99
http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Metrop ... 380&sr=8-1

Amazon has the FORD AT FOX - THE COLLECTION box set on sale for 46 percent off, $158.99.
Mostly talkies, includes silents also.

There are complaints about the manufacturer's packaging in the customer reviews,
so you might want to take a look at those first.

http://www.amazon.com/Ford-Fox-Collecti ... _rhf_p_t_1

Rick

I started this on the Silents Deal thread but it really belongs here. Amazon is having what might be called a "single digit" sale on some top classic dvds in the $5.99 - $6.99 range. Here are some titles I cherrypicked:

GUNGA DIN 6.49
CAPT. BLOOD 6.49
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE 5.99
Dr. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, both 1931 & 1941 versions, 6.98
KING KONG 5.21
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD 6.49
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME (in gorgeous Technicolor!) 5.69
and
BING CROSBY COLLECTION: Five Films DOUBLE OR NOTHING, WAIKIKI WEDDING, EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN, IF I HAD MY WAY, HERE COME THE WAVES - 5.69(!)
and
CB DeMILLE BOX SET 5 Films: FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE, CRUSADES, SIGN OF THE CROSS, CLEOPATRA, UNION PACIFIC 17.99 (from 59.99)

You may want to move fast because Amazon changes these prices w/o notice. Yesterday I bought the Laurel & Hardy set with FRA DIAVALO and BONNIE SCOTLAND for $10.99 and today it's $14.99. Go figure.

Jump $10.99 to $14.99?? That's nothing. I ordered a Blu Ray John Wayne for $10.99 and then went away for a few hours and I had to buy it for $19.99. With a group of ups and downs on the order I was doing I ended up paying about $9 more. But you have to be quick. Some on Amazon are marked deal of the day.

From an International point of view some of these very cheaps or otherwise unavailable items are Marketplace Sellers items and although some say International they don't always ship to your country. As an International customer of Amazon sometimes a message actually appears on the title page before I get to the sellers to check their deals. I think sometimes Amazon's charge for Market Sellers to International($12.29) might not be enough to cover the actual delivery costs. I did get caught recently when I went to the seller direct but PayPal got my money back when the seller did not reply when the item(VHS set) was overdue.

I did see a complete set of The Hulk series someone wanted for $32 and the seller wanted $32 for postage and I queried because it was not being shipped by Standard Shipping but Expedited shipping which I never use. They replied thru Amazon e-mail that USPS charges this because it was over 4lbs but can cancel if I wanted. I said go ahead. They quickly replied that they cancelled the order because they thought I was in Canada & not Australia. So I found another and it was $42 and they only charged $12.29 delivery so I was better off and it is on the way. The first guy congratulated me and said he hoped it turned out OK for me!!!

All this can be very frustrating and I have guys tearing their hair out(and mine) because they can't get what they want. We can't all live in USA but I did once before the digital era.

Eureka has a sale: great movies, great prices, free worldwide shipping.

http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/offers/juneoffers.html

Movies on DVD and Blu-Ray by Lang, Murnau, Renoir, Goddard, McCarey (Make Way for Tomorrow!), Keaton, Sirk, Rossellini, Fellini, Pabst, Pagnol, Visconti, Kurosawa, etc. for prices between £6.50 and £8.00. It's a steal.

BTW Not all Eureka Blu-Rays are region-free.

Region-free:
#01 – SUNRISE
#02 – MAD DETECTIVE
#03 – TOKYO SONATA
#04 – UNE FEMME MARIEE
#07 – SOUL POWER
#08 – CITY GIRL
#12 - THE WORLD

Region B:
#05 – FOR ALL MANKIND
#06 - LA PLANETE SAUVAGE
#09 – M
#10 - PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS
#11 - VENGEANCE IS MINE
#13 - THE BURMESE HARP
#14 - WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?
#15 - MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW
#16 - METROPOLIS
#17 - LA SIGNORA SENZA CAMELIE
#18 - LE AMICHE

Upcoming . . .

June 2011:
#19 - CŒUR FIDÈLE (region B)
#21 - PIGS & BATTLESHIPS (region B)

Kino has Pandora and the Flying Dutchman: Deluxe Edition
on sale for 40 percent off until July 4th:

http://www.kino.com/video/results.php?p ... liate=kcem

Rick

Just a reminder...the bn.com Criterion Collection 50% off sale has begun!
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/u/DVD-T ... 379000756/?

Non-Member 15% off coupon codes are (note: Expires on July 13):

T9P8A9P
L7C8F9D

Non-Member 10% off coupon code (Expires on July 19th):

J3M9D8K

Non-Member 7% off coupon code (Expires on Jan. 2012):

E7E4K8K

TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman) is on sale at Amazon for $15.51.

61 percent off, third party, but "fulfilled by Amazon."

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_ ... +hollywood

Rick

Amazon is selling the Errol Flynn WWII Adventures set for $18.75, marked down from $49.99. Amazon Marketplace is selling the Flynn set for less at $15.75:

The Stanley Kramer Film Collection is on sale at Amazon for 88 percent off,
$7.24, and even less from some other sellers:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 6714571-20

(Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / Ship of Fools / The Member of the Wedding / The Wild One / The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T)

Rick

Masters of Cinema September Sale is up:

http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/offers/new ... 50911.html" target="_blank

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Criterion 50% off sale.

75,000 Second Sale! - The Criterion Collection
www.criterion.com
Thanks to our 75,000+ Facebook fans, for 75,000 seconds, all in-stock Blu-rays and DVDs are 50% off SRP at criterion.com. Enter code FB75K at checkout.

Drat! I'm too late.

The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste) on sale at Amazon; $9.99 which is 63 percent off.

http://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Collection ... sim_mov_31" target="_blank

Rick

The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste) on sale at Amazon; $9.99 which is 63 percent off.

http://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Collection ... sim_mov_31" target="_blank" target="_blank

Rick

I'll go you one better -- I just bought that last week at Big Lots sealed for $5. Lots of classics that sneak in there. I recently found that, Camille with Garbo, the Brando Universal set, the Mae West collection, Marlene Dietrich set, two DVDs of early 30s John Wayne Warners, all for either $3 or $5 each.

South Pacific blu ray, new, $14.99 shipped.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/South-Pacific-Blu-ray-Widescreen?item=130562163200&cmd=ViewItem

Oldies.com is holding another sale on Warner Archive titles -- single discs and most 2-disc sets are $14.98 each, and a few are even cheaper:

http://www.oldies.com/Warner-Archive/collection.cfm" target="_blank" target="_blank

Amazon has the Hopalong Cassidy Ultimate Collector's Edition on sale
for 37 percent off. It comes in a reproduction Hoppy lunch box:

http://www.amazon.com/Hopalong-Cassidy- ... roduct_top

According to the reviews, it includes all 66 episodes, but not in order.
There are also issues with compression, etc. Read the customer reviews.

Rick

Oldies.com is offering a close-out on Warners Home Video's big box set, THE HUMPHREY BOGART ESSENTIAL COLLECTION. Twelve dvds with 24 Bogie flicks (both sides) and a 13th disc with the documentary THE BROTHERS WARNER, plus those great WHV bonus features and commentary with each film. This set was issued last year at $99 but Oldies is giving 50% off at $49.99. Oldies also sells it through Amazon Market plus $2.98 shipping. If you're a Bogie fan you may already have most of the titles but if you're missing even a few this is a deal.

The Essential Collection includes the following films:

The Petrified Forest (1936)
Black Legion (1937)
Marked Woman (1937)
Kid Galahad (1937)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Dark Victory (1937)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Invisible Stripes (1939)
Virginia City (1940)
Brother Orchid (1940)
They Drive by Night (1940)
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
All Through the Night (1941)
Across the Pacific (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Key Largo (1948)

Here's a link:

http://www.oldies.com/product-view/8369 ... 6aefd85c0e" target="_blank

Amazon is offering The African Queen Blu-Ray at 63 percent off.
So it is only $10.99 :

http://www.amazon.com/African-Queen-Blu ... 047&sr=8-1" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Rick

Amazon seems to be having a post-Halloween horror film sale. Most are the standard discount but one deal caught my eye: THE BORIS KARLOFF COLLECTION containing THE NIGHT KEY (1937), THE TOWER OF LONDON (1939), the Technicolor THE CLIMAX (1944), and two from the early 50s, THE BLACK CASTLE and THE STRANGE DOOR. The real prize of course is THE CLIMAX, with NIGHT KEY and TOWER OF LONDON (a version of RICHARD III w/o Shakespeare) as nice bonuses.

The sale price is $10.19, down from $29.98:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FWHW8Q/ref ... pe_vfe_dt4

I always try to set some extra money aside this time of year for the holiday DVD sales. I've availed myself of the recent Deep Discount sale and the Barnes and Noble Criterion 50% off sale. I've got my eyes on some Warner Archives stuff, too, but instead of the current 25% off sale, I'm hoping for a 5 for $50 sale (again, 50% off). I can't remember, does the Archive run this sale at Christmas time?
I'm hoping the most recent Keaton blu-ray, "Go West/Battling Butler" will get the half price treatment as well. "Seven Chances", too, but that's not likely for a new release. And lastly, the Laurel & Hardy Essential set. Let's be sure to keep each other apprised of upcoming sales.

Amazon is gearing up for Black Friday:

King Kong [Blu-ray Book] - $12.99 (63% off)
Mutiny on the Bounty [Blu-ray Book] - $13.99 (60% off)

I'll keep my eyes peeled for An Affair to Remember and All About Eve.

This was noted on the Silents deal thread, but since they're talkies: J&R has Laurel & Hardy Essential Collection at 64% off. Won't find a better price point than this. http://www.jr.com/product/movie/pv/_1254731V/

Thanks, Rob. I didn't think we'd see a price THAT low on the L&H set until after the holidays at the earliest. Just ordered.

I bought the L&H set from J&R too. But I was later told by email it was sold out! They are re-ordering, so I hope I get mine before Christmas. Who says there is no audience for this kind of film?

Another fine mess...