Actually, that’s “The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery”, so-called because it depicts a robbery at Southwest Bank on Kingshighway in St. Louis, Mo in 1953. Some tellers and police officers appear in the film, notably St. Louis Police Officer Mel Stein, playing himself. Here’s an interview with Mr. Stein that aired on KETC, the local PBS station. You probably won’t want to see the interview till after you watch the movie, so it doesn’t spoil the movie for you.
Kroger usually has $10 dollar dvds, buy one get one free sales during holidays. Memorial Day is coming up, so I know I’ll end up with 4 new dvds!
I usually buy popcorn movies or other favorites that I’ll watch multiple times.
Hubby picked up a 4 DVD, 20 movie set of classic Hitchcock for $5 at Wal-Mart. He also got a 20 movie John Wayne set, a 20 movie set of other westerns, and 2 150 cartoon collections, all $5 each.
He’s also been buying 50 movie sets through Amazon - all public domain films in different genres. He’s gotten 12 sets (600 movies!) for about $15 for each set. Unfortunately, mostly ho-hum to bad films, with about 5-6 real jewels strewn through them.
I’m often tempted, but usually manage to restrain myself, when presented with such bargains. I have so many videos or DVDs at home to watch already, to say nothing of all of the books I really wanna read, that I’m not seriously tempted.
Three Days of the Condor is a pretty good Cold War spy/assassin thriller, IIRC.
Last summer or the summer before I was in New Hampshire and I found Pink Floyd’s The Wall on DVD, new, at I think it was Circuit City. I had been looking for a copy since I lost mine ages ago, but since it’s so old nobody ever carried it and I never got around to ordering it off of Amazon. Anyway, they had about 7 or 8 copies. They were priced $.01. Yup, a penny. I bought one, then went back the next day and bought like five more.
I watched it a few months ago and it holds up very well and, given oil prices and the warmonger in the White House, the Middle East invasion plan plot is quite prescient.
Oh I know, and there’s another thread out there about the trove I got from returning duplicate gift DVDs from Amazon to Barnes & Noble.
Good point. Hadn’t thought of that. Unlikely you’d see a movie where
The New York Times are the good guys
nowadays, though.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is hysterical! The Martin/Lewis wannabes are absolutely dead-on. Yeah, it’s an unbelievable plot, and a horrible resolution, but was a great way to waste 80 minutes.
That’s the thing with having recently split up with my girlfriend; it afforded me with plenty of time to watch dvds. As such, I’ve been raiding the bargain bins for movies for six euros or under. The sale in HMV has helped greatly! All these movies were five euros each, and unless otherwise stated were as “special” an edition as is available;
Alien Vs Predator (Five euro; if it had been six, it was staying on the shelf, although the interview with toymaker Todd McFarlane was worth the money; that guy is the real-life David Brent)
Blazing Saddles
Brick (Brilliant movie, only a fiver? Get in)
Clerks II
For Your Consideration
Highlander (in steel tin, looks very well on the shelf)
Hot Fuzz (I didn’t like this movie as much as Shaun of the Dead when I saw it first; it wasn’t as quotable and funny as Shaun. I’ve come to realize that Shaun is only so beloved cos I’ve watched it so much; a few more watches of Hot Fuzz, and I can see it’s every bit as good as it’s predecessor!)
Infernal Affairs 1, 2, 3 (five euro each)
Inside Man (four euro!)
The Island (again, four euro, and worth as much)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Lady In The Water (only 2.99, for good reason)
MIB II
Office Space (for three euro! I’m gonna need you to go ahead and get me a copy, ‘kay?)
Ong-Bak
Scanner Darkly (four euro… seems we all waited for this to hit bargain bins… we want visually arresting adaptations of Dick novels, but we don’t want to pay too much for them!!)
A boxset of Spike Lee, ehm, joints; do the right thing, crooklyn, mo better blues, clockers and jungle fever, for TWENTY EURO; that’s four euros each!
Street Fighter II Anime
Time Bandits (3 euro)
War fo the Worlds (Spielberg version; well worth the four euro I paid for it)
All this, and that’s not counting TV sets; all three series of little Britain for fifteen euro? Extras for A tenner? Complete Black Books for twenty quid? Complete Spaced for fifteen euro?
It’s a wonderful time to be alive!
Since Christmas, I’ve found many.
- “Arabian Nights.” Background:
The frame tale goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهريار or “king”) would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday’s wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was betraying him. He had killed three thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier’s daughter.
Scheherazade marries him and begins the 1001 Nights. She tells a story but leaves him wanting more. He can’t kill her if he wants to find out the ending to her stories.
The DVD: pretty good, for a mini-series, and definitely worth the $6. John Leguizamo plays the genie of the lamp and the genie of the ring…he’s great.
One of my tests is “Will I watch this again?” Answer: yes, definitely. DVD extras include a “making of” which is interesting.
- Hard Candy
Synopsis: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Verdict: Interesting idea, some “hard not to look away” moments. The acting was pretty good but (without giving spoilers) I didn’t think it held the energy.
Watch it again? Maybe, but not soon…it requires some patience. Worth $6? Probably.
- Good Night and Good Luck
Synopsis: Edward R. Murrow brings down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
I like David Strathairn’s acting in general, so that was one reason to pick this up.
Verdict: pretty good. If the quotes used in his speech are in fact his and not revisionist history, the man was definitely decades ahead of his time.
D’oh, of course. I know how to spell St. Louis, I’ve even been there. I was born in Ft. Lewis WA, so flying fingers typed the version I type more often.
Latest finds are:
“Creature Comforts” - shorts by the creaters of ‘Wallace and Grommit’
“Shrek” - uh, for my daughter, yeah. plus a Scooby Doo movie and ‘Muppets in Space’.
“The Young Ones” - Three episodes, not even the best ones. It was the only VHS released in the US of these for years. Now you can get complete set on DVD.
For about $.75 each.
See, if I stayed away from the bargain DVD bins, I wouldn’t be the owner of “The Guy With Secret Kung-Fu”. Clearly, this would have been a tragedy of epic proportions.
From the Earth To The moon, th’ HBO series, for 15 euro, or about ten dollars.
Is it any good? RRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrremains to be seen. But for that money, it couldnt be passed.
Every time TCM repeat that I miss it, or rather I miss out when someone else complains that they don’t want to watch it :rolleyes:
Tesco does a great bargain bucket for DVDs, with the occasional £1 disc. I’ve picked up McBain on the recommendation of a mate who was awed at the plot revolving around a torn dollar bill and some other movies that have big stars but little know names.
It’s a good deal; if you have any interest in NASA it’s well worth viewing.