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Mr. Moto Collection - Vol. 2 (Mr. Moto's Gamble / Mr. Moto in Danger Island / Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation / Mr. Moto's Last Warning)

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MR. MOTO bad follow-up.
Mr. Moto's last Warning
Magnificent Moto
Excellent Adventure/Detective Series
Mr. Moto - Vol 2

Mr. Moto Collection - Vol. 2 (Mr. Moto's Gamble / Mr. Moto in Danger Island / Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation / Mr. Moto's Last Warning)
Starring: Peter Lorre , Joseph Schildkraut , Lionel Atwill , Virginia Field , and John 'Dusty' King
Director: Norman Foster , and Herbert I. Leeds
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000K7VHMI
Release Date: 2007-02-13

Description

Disc 1: MR.MOTO IN DANGER ISLAND Disc 2: MR. MOTO'S GAMBLE Disc 3: MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING Disc 4: THINK FAST MR. MOTO

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MR. MOTO bad follow-up........2007-06-16

I purchased Volume One of the MR. MOTO series from Fox, and was delighted with the entire package. The restoration of these films is perfect, and for 1930s' programmers, they are surprisingly exciting, with fine production values.

That said, Volume Two gives us the poorest MR. MOTO features, weak scripts, inept comedy relief. Several of these films need "dramatic relief" from the comedy. It was not WW II that stopped this series;
it was the dwindling quality of the films. Save your money.

Mr. Moto's last Warning.......2007-06-14

This is the epitomy of the Mr. Moto films and is an outstanding example from this series of films. Mr. Moto is traveling by ship to the northern Suez port and is killed early in the film shortly after docking. There is a ring of spies and sabotuers that plan to scuttle the French Fleet at the mouth of the canal to stop all marine passage. Moto wears disquises to remain unknown, and yet mixes in well with the enemy agents to learn what they plan. Comic relief comes from several Brits: the Port Commander, and a self centered traveler who has no common sense. People are killed left and right until Moto swings into action and dispatches the entire band of spys. He takes no prisoners and while his methods seem a bit extreme by today's standards, he eliminates the need for a public trial for these patently unscrupulous men.
This is the movie that pulls together all the parts of earlier films and provides a great adventure of non-stop thrills.
I found it a bit period in nature, but completely satisfying in its means of resolving a weighty problem, including coming back from the dead.

Tom Fetters

Magnificent Moto.......2007-04-10

Both collections 1 and 2 are fun filled evenings. Invite a few friends over and have a Moto party. MUCH better than a super bowl party - Moto is entertaining and even a bit cheesy-campy - not hormonal on screen or off.

Excellent Adventure/Detective Series.......2007-03-29

The Mr. Moto series is an excellent group of adventure/detective movies. Peter Lorre's characterization as Mr. Moto and a fine supporting cast elevates these movies above the usual "B" detective movies.

The restoration of these films by Twentieth Century Fox is excellent. The picture quality of this set(and its companion set) are far superior to the public domain versions of these films.

Please consider two (2) other related purchases (not to mention to other volume of Mr. Moto films) to become an expert fan of Mr. Moto and Peter Lorre. Howard Berlin has written a concise and well-organized overview of the Mr. Moto series, The Complete Mr. Moto Phile: A Casebook. This softcover book is available for approximately $[...] from Amazon.com. Stephen Youngkin has written a book on Peter Lorre, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. Youngkin's book is one of the most comprehensive and best researched biographes of a Hollywood star - it is a a treasure trove of information about Peter Lorre. This hardcover book is available for approximately [...]from Amazon.com. I gained a greater appreciation for Peter Lorre's acting talents in the Mr. Moto series after I read both of these books. Please review the Amazon.com reviews for these books!

The Complete Mr. Moto Film Phile: A Casebook

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre

Mr. Moto - Vol 2.......2007-03-29

Thank you 20th Century Fox for realizing that those old classic B movies are loved and worth restoring.

The prints of these films are marvelously clear and complete. It is easy to see why Mr. Moto was so popular in the late 1930's. The stories are light-weight, but it is obvious that the producers and directors worked hard to make them look good. Like the Charlie Chan series, Mr. Moto films are filled with the great character actors we all recognize. In these 4 films we see Maxie Rosenblum, Dick Lane, Leon Ames, Recardo Cortez, John Carradine, George Sanders, Lionel Atwell and a truly fun performance by J. Carrol Nash as a particularly nasty Indian henchman.

The stories are full of spies and murderers who succumb to the efforts of the tenacious Mr. Moto. Of course there is always a scene where he gets to display his mastery of Ju-Jitsu. With Mr. Moto, crime is both a physical and mental sport.

In addition each film has featurettes which gives insights into the Mr. Moto character and films. Especially interesting was "Mr. Moto meets Mr. Chan, the making of Mr. Moto's Gamble."

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Further Tales of the City, 2 Disc set
The Third Installment
The newspaper, the books and the TV show
Still a fun "tale" to watch.
don't be a dink and miss this fatabulous series!

Further Tales of the City. Vol 2
Starring: Olympia Dukakis , Paul Hopkins , Laura Linney , Barbara Garrick , and Jackie Burroughs
Director: Pierre Gang
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More Tales of the City
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More Tales of the City

ASIN: B00006FDBN
Release Date: 2002-09-17

Description

ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY is the third installment of Maupin's classic saga of San Francisco life. Set in 1981, the four-hour miniseries involves the residents of 28 Barbary Lane in a racy and rollicking adventure/mystery that leaps from Golden Gate Park to the home of a Hollywood icon to a remote island in the Alaskan wilderness. As usual in Maupin's world, romantic entanglements abound. Landlady Anna Madrigal (OLYMPIA DUKAKIS) is stunned by her mother's sudden arrival. Mother Mucca (JACKIE BURROUGHS) who runs a bordello in Nevada is in town to take care of personal business and meets a man from her past, Royal Reichenbach (JOHN MCMARTIN). When Mother Mucca introduces Anna to Royal, they find themselves in a rivalry over him. Madrigal's tenants have their own stories from the past to unravel. Michael Tolliver (PAUL HOPKINS) is working at a nursery called "Best Laid Plants." He tries to get over being dumped by his former lover Dr. Jon Fielding (BILLY CAMPBELL) who went off to work on a cruise ship.

Exploring his sexuality full tilt, Michael embarks on a series of sexual escapades involving cowboys, cops and Cage Tyler (JOHN ROBINSON) a closeted movie star. Michael's friend and neighbor Mary Ann Singleton (LAURA LINNEY) is challenged with a relationship problem of a different kind. Her boyfriend and upstairs neighbor, Brian Hawkins (WHIP HUBLEY) who has spent most of his adult life as a womanizer, comes to the realization that he wants to marry her. She, however, is hesitant to take the next step as she is focused on her career. Longing to become a serious reporter, but not given a chance by her station manager, she is forced to work as a daytime host of the "Bargain Matinee" show. Mary Ann's late boss' widow, socialite Frannie Halcyon (DIANA LEBLANC) is tormented by her daughter DeDe's (BARBARA GARRICK) apparent demise in the Jonestown Massacre. Living on Mai Tais and sleeping pills, she refuses to accept that DeDe and her children, Little Anna and Edgar were killed. She seeks advice from psychics to help her find her missing daughter. When a fortune-teller convinces her that DeDe is indeed alive, she asks for the support of society columnist Prue Giroux (MARY KAY PLACE) to make her story public. When Prue refuses to get involved, Frannie calls Mary Ann to share her secret. Since Mary Ann is always searching for a good story, she is eager to meet in hopes of finally getting a break on the evening news.

Meanwhile, Prue meets a mysterious homeless man, Luke (HENRY CZERNY) in Golden Gate Park. Immediately drawn to his intense charm, she falls madly in love with him. Little does she know that she's opening Pandora's Box when she attempts to bring him back to society with the help of flamboyant celebrity priest Father Paddy Star (BRUCE MCCULLOCH). Luke's past is far more sinister than Prue could ever imagine. Then it's revealed that DeDe Halcyon Day has spent three years in Cuba with her lover Dorothea (FRANÇOISE ROBERTSON) after escaping the massacre in Guyana. She ends up in a camp for gay Cuban refugees in Fort Chafee, Arkansas and finally calls her mother Frannie in San Francisco to tell her that she wants to come home. Through DeDe's unexpected reappearance and a twist of fate, the storylines begin to intertwine and all of the characters in Maupin's tales find themselves in the midst of an unpredictable adventure.

Customer Reviews:

Further Tales of the City, 2 Disc set.......2007-05-24

I just love this series! Since it had to end sometime, this had a good ending.

The Third Installment.......2007-04-15

"Further Tales of the City"

The Third Installment

Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride

Here we go again. "Further Tales of the City" is the third mini series based on the books of Armistad Maupin. It s a bit shorter than the two prior series but doesn't mean it is not as good. None will be as the first but the third is wonderful on its own. It has a great storyline and it is lots of fun. There is a lot of mystery and a lot of romance (and more frontal male nudity). Maupin was one of the first authors to integrate gay and straight characters into a novel and then we watched them mature and grow throughout six books. If you have lived in the real world, you know that Maupin has recreated the story of our lives and has done so beautifully. He writes about normal, everyday people who become our extended family and the mini series do for us on the screen what Maupin did on the printed page.
This series strays a bit from the books but the added storyline--that of Mother Mucca is great. I knew I did not have to worry about being disappointed in the screen adaptations of Maupin's books from the moment I started watching. Every nuance of every character is caught.
"Further Tales" begins some four years later than "More Tales of the City". The "ME" decade of the 80's is beginning and this is obvious throughout.
Maupin has stated that the main influence upon him when he writes is Alfred Hitchcock and as you watch the series you will see that. The stories and the characters overlap one another and the participants do not seem to notice this at all, Like Hitchcock, Maupin appears in a cameo.
Mary Ann has begun to notice love in her neighborhood. He has also landed a very hot news story and is waiting to spring it on her boss. As she and DeDe Halcyon-Day go through some great twists and turns, there is a wonderful comedy of errors. But have no fear. Anna Madrigal and Michael have their own subplots and their own twists and turns but it is Mary Ann that has the spotlight this time.
I have heard complaints that the ending is too happy. I think those that feel that way have forgotten just how many stories and subplots we have and how long all of this has been going on. The series is meant to entertain and we have all kids of entertainment here--a chase to Alaska, a kidnapping, a born again Christian wielding a gun and blowing someone away.
The third installment is darker than the others but that makes it even more fun. We must also remember that the 80's marked the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and one of the characters has signs that he has the disease. There is also the Jim Jones storyline which gives the conspiracy theorists something to consider.
Laura Linney as Mary Ann knows her character and is great Dukakis is always wonderful. The new storyline, as far-fetched as it is, works and the entire series is a wonderful look at the way we live. I can't say enough good things about the entire series.

The newspaper, the books and the TV show.......2007-03-08

When you think that Tales of the City led to national outrage in the US when it first aired on PBS in 1994, you almost don't believe it. Much has changed since then and part of that change must be credited to Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City; indeed, it paved the way for Ellen, for Will & Grace, for Queer as Folk, the L Word, Six Feet Under... you name it.
When you read the books, you become a prisoner of Armistead's wit and you can't stop reading. The short chapter structure, inherited from its daily serial early life in the San Francisco Chronicle, makes these books the perfect companion for short underground (subway) or bus journeys. The only problem is that as soon as you're done reading one chapter, you simply want to read further. With the exception of a few "one night stands", characters in the Tales are recurrent and they come and go into the lives of the main characters in such way that the only omnipresent and omniscient person is the reader. This helplessness of the characters and the inevitability of what you suspect is going to happen keeps you reading.
The TV series shares these exact same characteristics except that each episode (lasting for about 1,5 h) keeps you seated in front of your screen while you follow the lives of those living at 28 Barbary Lane.
Forget your prejudices. The Tales are actually about sharing your life with others and being good. It's about friendship and being open to it in the most unlikely places.
Further Tales of the City is the 3rd DVD of this most watchable TV series.

Still a fun "tale" to watch........2007-02-22

I hadn't watched this miniseries since its debut on Showtime back in 2001; I'm happy to say it's just as engaging as ever. While more condensed than its previous two miniseries, it still grabs you & sucks you into the "City" of yesterday, the early 80's, more than ever. It's also the mark of a good author such as Armistead Maupin and the skill of the actors who bring these quirky & diverse but "extended family" of characters who populate 28 Barbary Lane, to wonderful life.
The first two miniseries were good, full of surprising twists & turns, suspense, and frank sexual freedom, and "Further.." is no exception. Here's hoping for number 4!

don't be a dink and miss this fatabulous series!.......2007-01-10

The only thing wrong with this series is all of the books are not on tape . Loved the books .Loved the movies.

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Blue Collar TV Lives Up to Its Name
LARRY RULES!
Comedy for the ordinary blue collar people, and proud of it
Some things can remind us TV is a soulless box
Wow.

Blue Collar TV: Season 1, Vol. 2
Starring: Jeff Foxworthy , Larry The Cable Guy , Bill Engvall , Ayda Field , and Peter Oldring
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ASIN: B000C3L284
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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The key players behind the popular Blue Collar Comedy tour--Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy, and Larry the Cable Guy--take the next logical step behind the concept here, and turn the riotous, fun-filled performances into a television show. With musical performances, regular features, and a host of sketch-based comedy routines, BLUE COLLAR TV shows off all the talents of the three performers and their guests. Worth seeing for the regular "Redneck dictionary word of the week" section alone, this popular show from the WB has a variety of episodes from its first season included here.

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Running Time: 385 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Blue Collar TV Lives Up to Its Name.......2007-01-24

Most comedy we see on TV which features "working class" people gives us an "up-scale" writer's idea or view of what these people are like. Blue Collar TV gives a working man's view of "blue collar" people and their comic life situations. I would have a few criticisms of the excessive scatology and excessive sex jokes, but these are really just reactions to the way things are today in our decadent American society. Jeff Foxworthy and the others in the cast work great together as a team. I like the much better than the individual stand-up routines of Foxworthy, Larry, Bill and Ron. All in all, Blue Collar TV is a breath of fresh air. I can't seem to find it on local Chicago TV anymore. I wonder if they are still doing it?

LARRY RULES!.......2006-03-10

There's a reason why Larry The Cable Guy was the top grossing comedian of 2005 - he is the funniest man on the planet! I feel sorry for those who don't "git" it! Too bad they lack a sense of humor.

Comedy for the ordinary blue collar people, and proud of it.......2006-02-16

The reason that Jeff, Bill, and Larry are so popular is because their comedy is geared for your ordinary American worker. If you don't like the humour (ie the last three reviews) than you are probably one of the 'upscale viewers' that the show sometimes pokes fun at. All it takes is getting down to the Blue Collar level to enjoy these sketches, and believe me they are pretty funny. Yes, they do tend to redo some of their routines, but that tends to be because they get a laugh every time they are used! These guys manage to come up with fresh humour for every show, and I have not seen an episode yet that was a complete miss. In short: get off your high horse, get down in the mud, and laugh your rear end off. At the risk of being cliche, Git-er-done!

Some things can remind us TV is a soulless box.......2006-02-06

The two previous reviewers pretty much summed up my opinion of Foxworthy & co's sophomoric humor, but surely there's no wrong in voicing my discontent nontheless. "Blue Collar TV" was basically an ambiguous attempt at making Jeff Foxworthy somewhat relevant in pop-culture, for the hundredth time. Please, just disappear into the briny depths of television's obscure past.

The original concept was simple, if tolerable: Rednecks telling jokes about rednecks. Oh ho ho. Far from groundbreaking, but now these guys have a sketch comedy show? How many times can an audience cackle feverishly at the exact same dull mantras, like "GIT R DUN" and "You might be a redneck," despite the fact everyone knows these jokes by now, fan or not? When will these asinine groaners lose their appeal? When will pre-pubescent Foxworthy fanboys quit repeating these self-characteratures' jokes with their crackling croaks and feigned accents?

You are above this. (Unlike the silly muffins who voted "no.") Stop reading these reviews and exit this page.
- Thus says the Pellington

Wow........2006-02-05

The fact that this ignorance and banality could be rewarded with a television show, a DVD set, and any fans at all is unbelievable to me. This kind of crap is exactly what is wrong with America today.

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Good but...
I'm a true BLUE!
I bought Vol.1 and Vol.2 for $7 only ~~~
What "The Man Show" should have been.
Who's ready to git-r-done?!

Blue Collar TV - Season 1, Vol. 1
Starring: Jeff Foxworthy , Larry The Cable Guy , Bill Engvall , Ayda Field , and Peter Oldring
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ASIN: B000ARXFAA
Release Date: 2005-11-08

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Blue Collar TV finds three of the boys from Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie and Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again in a sketch comedy format, supported by a talented ensemble of comic players and writers who know how to build on the stars' individual strengths. Jeff Foxworthy is the series' anchor, opening each episode in the 1994 debut season with a strong monologue riffing on one or another theme: marriage, bad jobs, sports, vacations, family, partying. Happy redneck Larry the Cable Guy and NASCAR-loving Everyman Bill Engvall join Foxworthy in energetic skits that definitely become funnier and bolder with each new show. Among the best sketches is "CSI: Greater Greensboro Tri-Area," in which Foxworthy's crime-scene sleuth is on the trail of a deerslayer. "Lingerie for Couples Together 20 Years" spotlights such hot domestic garb as sweatshirts accented with a ratty, cat-hair-covered blanket from the back of a closet. "Hug or Hit" is a mock game show in which a terrified contestant has to predict whether a drunk sleeping in a glass booth will, upon awakening, embrace or take a swing at him.

The recurring "I believe" format finds Foxworthy, Larry, and Engvall piously revealing articles of their faith in this hard, hard world: "I believe," Engvall says, "that Angelina Jolie thinks about me as much as I think about her." Right. Guest star Ron White (the missing fourth partner from the Blue Collar tours), cigarette and Scotch-on-the-rocks in hand, lends his decadent (and welcome) persona here and there to the proceedings. Drew Carey shows up as well, but it's the series' obvious growth over 13 episodes that makes Blue Collar TV a comedy success. --Tom Keogh

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The guys who had you laughing on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour - Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy - bring their particular brand of hilarity to Blue Collar TV: Season 1 Volume 1. Expect a hometown buffet of TV parodies, sketches, and stand-up, celebrating everything from spouses to spoilers, Winnebagos to Waffle Houses, cheap beer to even cheaper lingerie. You are about to get a 64-oz. Big Gulp of blue collar comedy. Are you ready?

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Good but..........2007-03-25

This was very funny but I was disappointed at the amount of questionable content. Especially the cheerleader part??? I was hoping for more of a family program because my son LOVES the redneck references.

I'm a true BLUE!.......2006-04-21

OK, this is probably the BEST sketch comedy ever! The three rednecks, Bill, Jeff, and Larry shine in this show! Now I know what the folks down south do when a resteraunt runs outta gravy. So, even if you're not redneck, this show will bring out the red in ya! I must say tho, some of it may be dirty but I'm sure Bill wouldn't let it go that far.

My ratings, PG-13, 5 stars, go get it! NOW! ENJOY IT!

I bought Vol.1 and Vol.2 for $7 only ~~~.......2006-03-18

Yea, total of 5 DVDs for about $7, because I got a $25 giftsertificate from using my Amazon credit card.

Anyhoo let's talks about the DVD in Vol.1. I have high expectation on these DVDs, I have seen 1 or 2 episode of Bule Collor TV show before I order the DVDs. I gotta tell you, I am pretty disapointted on the content on these DVDs. What makes me what to buy these DVDs is because I bought the Jeff Foxworthy Show 2DVDs set previously and love it. I thought I gonna get similar materials from the Blue Colloar TV, apparently not.

I will tell you this, there is one part that is really funny where the 3 guys are in court cursing the judge out and causing a disturbance.

Each episode is very short I wish they are longer.

I hope Vol. 2 is "funner", I will write you a review soon.

What "The Man Show" should have been........2006-01-26

Okay, start with The Man Show. Peel off the giddy, adolescent obsession with naughty-bits, replace the talent with some people who actually have some wit comic timing and you get: Blue Collar TV.

This is the show that The Man Show would have been if the writers of that show understood that men are not perpetually 12 years old. The humor is based largely on laughing at the day-to-day grind of people with typical responsibilities (kids, jobs, family, etc), as well as the occasional scatalogical reference. (Whaddya want from them? Farts are funny.) Occasionally, they'll throw out a curve ball that's so wildly over the top that you might forget that it's funny on it's own merits.

The show manages to be unsophisticated without being crass-- a hard balance to strike these days. It pokes fun, but it never crosses the line into sheer malice (or, at least, not often) The talent is very helpful in making the show work. So much of the humor is self-deprecatory that nobody else could do it without coming across as mean spirited or cynical.

Another thing you'll notice about the show is that it doesn't suffer from an affliction that curses so many other comedy shows of this sort: None of the skits run too long. The writing is quick and surgical-- it gets in, makes the joke, and fades out for the next routine. Nothing overstays its welcome. The writers understand that if it's funny once, it's not necessarily funny another fifty times in a row. And for that, I'm thankful.

The added benefit of what I just mentioned is that stuff that isn't particularly funny doesn't last too long, so you're not stuck watching an ill-conceived "joke" fail to be funny for more than a few minutes.

Not that there are many of those on this show. Considering it's only half a season, there are quite a few episodes and not that many comedic missteps. Even the least-funny numbers elicit a chuckle at minimum. This kind of consistency is rare, and appreciated.

I like this show a great deal. Which means that it probably won't last another season. Grab this DVD while you can. It's just a good natured good time.

Who's ready to git-r-done?!.......2005-12-19

What a hilarious sketch show! Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy are here to entertain TV viewers alike, and making the show a lot more bearable than any other stupidly raunchy sketch show (such as The Man Show). Too bad this DVD set contains only 13 episodes, but they are funny all around, nonetheless. These episodes are:

1. Family
2. Naked
3. TV
4. Bad Jobs
5. Marriage
6. Boyz in the Wood
7. Vacation
8. Sports
9. Funerals
10. Music
11. Partying
12. Getting Sick
13. Haloween

No matter what the episode is, you'll always find a hilarious sketch all around. In FAMILY, you would find the antics of little kids in the back seat of the car, as well as an infomercial stating Dan Grogan's House of Gravy (Always drown every meal with gravy). In NAKED, you would find a man going blind after seeing a naked 80-year-old woman in a Rescue-911 parody (anybody remember that show?) as well as Larry the Cable Guy hang out with a bunch of buxom babes in The Real Bachelor. In TV, you'll see special guest Ron White in mockery game show called Hug You or Hit You (classic), as well as Jeff, Bill, and Larry take part in a deer killing crime on CSI: Greater Greensboro North Tri-County Area. In BAD JOBS, you'll see Human Stunt Torso (armless and legless) Weeble Kneeble become tormented by the antics of his stunt coordinator while trying to preform a stunt as well as see Jeff try to fix a toaster oven for a woman on Fix It Or Feel Better. In MARRIAGE, you'll see Jeff Foxworthy star as a secret agent in a suspense film parody, trying not to be defined as the "you might be" guy ("If you don't tell me where the drugs are stashed, you might be shopping for dentures.") In BOYZ IN THE WOOD, you'll find Jeff Foxworthy and the rest of the Blue Collar TV crew go deer hunting and never find a single thing. In VACATIONS, you'll see Larry the Cable Guy give directions to a couple while listening to Lynrd Skynrd and drinking cans of beer, as well as see a divorced Bill find a new pimpy girlfriend during spring break. In SPORTS, you'll see George Foreman sell his new Frying Batter device to a family and watch them get burned and scalded, as well as see a deranged Bill coach a baseball team. In FUNERALS, my personal favorite, you'll see a talentless songwriter and singer L. Roy Tippet sell over 20 million songs including his classic "Infinity" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...and so on), as well as see the Tackett family reluctantly share a moment of grief for their dead and unlikeably malicious mother (We buried a set of teeth.) In MUSIC, you'll see Jeff, Bill, Larry, and guest star Drew Carey take part in singing songs for the audience. In PARTYING, you'll see Jeff Foxworthy demonstrate the Mardi Gras (whooooo!!!!!) as well as see Hank Williams Jr. come to a family's dinner (ARE YOU READY FOR SOME DINNAH!!!) In GETTING SICK, you'll see Larry the Cable Guy get bitten by a spider in a Spider Man parody. In HALOWEEN you'll see the Tacketts make their returning debut and give chocolate laxatives to the trick-or-treaters.

In addition, you'll also get an 11-minute behind the scenes documentary on how the show was made.

So, enjoy all you Rednecks! And GIT-R-DONE!!!!

Sailor Moon - Field Trips (TV Show, Vol. 9)

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A Great Mystery
best vid ever
Memories of the best anime
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
...but why is it called "Field Trips"?

Sailor Moon - Field Trips (TV Show, Vol. 9)
Starring: Tracey Moore , Terri Hawkes , Linda Ballantyne , Karen Bernstein , and Liza Balkan
Director: Junichi Sato
Manufacturer: Adv Films
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Sailor Moon - Mysterious Tuxedo Mask (TV Show, Vol. 4)
Sailor Moon - Green Eyed Monsters (TV Show, Vol. 7)
Sailor Moon - Red Hearts & Silver Crystals (TV Show, Vol. 5)
Sailor Moon - Introducing Sailor Jupiter (TV Show, Vol. 6)
Sailor Moon - Sailor Mars Joins the Battle (TV Show, Vol. 3)

ASIN: B00005ICF0
Release Date: 2001-07-03

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Adventure can happen anywhere, especially when you're Sailor Moon! First a trip to a finishing school turns into a nightmare when it turns out that the teacher really wants to finish off her students! Then an avalanche threatens to disrupt the scouts' skiing trip, a hunky ice skating star turns out to be a pawn of the evil Negaverse, and a creature in a lake tries to wreck Serena^Rs family vacation! The excitement never stops in the ninth incredible collection of Sailor Moon!

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A Great Mystery.......2005-02-22

Okay in this review I'm not going to tell you about how bad this "dubbed" version is because it is soooooooo good. I er.....um just wanted to clear that up because most reviewrs will tell you it sucks!): NOT TRUE....IT DOESN'T.

Okay okay so here's the info on the video. Firt of all it rocks, it features four super cool episodes about poor Usagi/Serena and how Tuxedo Mask has been brainwasahed. The first episode Little Miss Manners-is about how Usagi wants to learn how to act like a princess. She goes to a school to learn but the headmistress is posessed by a yoma named Polite Society. Makota/Lita and Ami/Amy are trapped leaving the rescuing up to Sailor Moon, Venus, and Mars.....(hint hint the not good enough). The next episode Ski Bunny Blues-is about how the girls go on a ski trip. Rei is a pro but Usagi is not that good. Due to a yoma Usagi and Rei get trapped in an avalanch where usagi realizes Rei still loves Tuxedo Mask...(when he does show up his rose is black). The third episode is Ice Princess-and shows the girls going to an ice rink where they meet a pair of yoma disguised as skate champions-oh yah and for all you Makota fans she can skate really good! The last episode is the wicked cool episode Last Resort-where Usagi and her family go to a hot spring for vacation. Here Prince Darien(which should be Momura.....sorry all you Jappenese fans^_^)tries to tame an "evil"(you'll find out what the " mean if you buy it)lake monster. Sailor Moon shows up to protect her family but in the end the scouts show up to save her!

Okay so there you have it...a complete summary. Sorry I couldn't give you the endings but then why in the world would YOU but the thing.^_* Oh well enjoy the video if you buy it but remember I HIGHLY RECOMEND this video!

In the immortal words of Naoko Tee Hee Hee

Signing off
Sailor Universe

best vid ever.......2005-02-16

4 of my favorite season 1 episodes is in this video: little miss manners, ski bunny blues, ice princess, and last resort.

little miss manner: this is when serena want to learn to be a princess. spoiler-serena, rei, and mina fail the princess-finishing school.

ski bunny blue: when the girls went to the mountains with chad and serena enters a skiing contest.

ice princess: the girls takes lessons to ice skate. the enemies mistake lita as the moon princess.

last resort: serena and her family take a trip to a hot spring resort. enemies happens to be a very angery spirit.

mostly all 4 episodes focus on searching for the moon princess. all 4 episodes are very hilarious.

Memories of the best anime.......2004-09-20

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon brings back so many memories. When I was very young and Sailor Moon first came out, I found it by fate by flipping the channels. Back then no one else watched it and it was on at 6:00 in the morning. Many years later I reunited with it and then I ordered the Japanese episodes fansubbed. The Japanese episodes were amazing. Back then their was no official distributer, so I ordered from a fansubbed distributer. The Japanese version was so different from the American version. It was completely different. I love both versions though. The English version brings back memories from my childhood while the Japanese version is uncut. It's fun comparing the episodes and seeing how much was changed. This version, however, is the edited and changed. It cuts out many scenes and makes a lot of changes. While it has changed a lot from the original Japanese version, it's great for a trip down memory lane, and brings back my childhood memories. This volume has very important episodes. This volume has many romantic moments and Serena/Darien and Usagi/Mamoru are my favorite couple ever. Many exciting events happen, and this volume is very important. It brings back memories from your childhood. The Japanese version is my favorite. Serena and Darien and Usagi and Mamoru are my favorite couple ever. I love Tuxedo Mask.

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2002-03-13

This is my favorite volume of the Sailormoon Series. I suggested you get it it's worth it!!

...but why is it called "Field Trips"?.......2002-03-10

First of all, I would just like to point out that the name of this video is misleading. None of the 4 episodes have anything to do with field trips,unless they mean the trip to the hot springs in "Last Resort" (which is more of a Tsukino family vacation,anyway) And now,on to the actual review.

This tape contains the Sailor Moon episodes "Little Miss Manners", "Ski Bunny Blues", "Ice Princess",and "Last Resort" They are great episodes,although some people might consider them filler,because they don't really contain any major plot twists or anything. ...But who watches Sailor Moon for the plot twists,anyway?

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Lugosi at his most evil.......2006-02-25

This is one of lugosi's best roles and also one of the most evil characters he ever played on screen. It's a shame this film has not been restored and remastered to give it better picture and sound. Still, it's well worth watching and highly recommended for Lugosi fans.

More Monster Than Human..........2005-12-07

Bela Lugosi is perfectly eeevil as Dr. Orloff, part-time insurance salesman / full-time con-man and murderer! Orloff has been setting people up w/ fat life insurance policies, only to kill the poor suckers after making himself their sole beneficiary! With the help of his blind, giant henchman, Jake, Orloff has been busily dumping his victims into the Thames! Orloff's utter contempt for the human race is very convincing! Will he be stopped before more people perish?? Scotland Yard is on the case! HUMAN MONSTER is one of Bela's best movies, along w/ WHITE ZOMBIE, DRACULA, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, and MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. Belongs on every horror shelf...

Dull Movie, Shoddy DVD.......2004-12-30

"The Human Monster" is one of my least favourite Bela Lugosi vehicles. It's the story of a string of murders being commited in London, the victims being men without any family and who all have something to do with a life insurance company that is being run by Bela Lugosi. In a dual(?) role, Lugosi also plays the owner of an institution for the blind. Though Lugosi has his charisma (and it's kind of a guilty pleasure to see him goofily play a blind character), the pace is agonizingly slow and I saw the 'surprise' ending coming from a mile away.
The DVD from a bargain bin company called St. Clair Vision claims to be "carefully remastered for the best possible picture quality." That's a laugh. The movie looks as fuzzy as one would expect, with scratches and poor contrast. Strangely, this DVD actually has not one but TWO sets of opening credits, the first one with the title "The Human Monster" and the second one with the British title "Dark Eyes of London," complete with British censor certificate! These are played back to back. "Carefully remastered" indeed. Completists might be interested in having both sets of credits, but that's really the only thing to recommend in the DVD. There are predictably no extras, and the box are is ugly. I got it as part of a "Classic Horror" boxed set.

once again, quite annoyed, yet not by the movie.......2004-02-02

what annoys me is a review giving this little known classic horror movie one star due to bad dvd quality. people are going to see a bad customer rating for this movie, and believe based on the lack of stars that this is a terrible movie, which is just not true. please, for god sakes, review the MOVIE, not the quality of the release. how stupid some people are! that's like giving a book a bad review because you didn't like the cover art. grow up.

now for the movie. this is a wonderful thriller starring bela lugosi. much of the story is set in a shelter for the blind, and this creates an air of confusion. lugosi's henchman, a deformed blind giant named jake, is brilliant. i recall one scene that is a classic moment in horror movie history where bela lugosi, in order to punish one of his minions, deafens a man who is already blind and dumb. then he binds his arms and legs and throws him in a tub of water. brilliant.

GREAT PAIRING OF LUGOSI and GRETA GYNT.......2004-01-18

My DVD suffers from bad sound, but I hope I`ll get hold of another edition. Norwegian Greta Gynt is NOT the cowardly heroine one sees in Dracula 1930 and so forth(Quote from a US critic), but Greta`s Diana Stewart stand up to Dr Orlock a`la a modern Scarlett O`Hara. The film is also brutal and the World seems indeed a not safe place 2 be in this account... All good people are NOT as they are supposed 2 be.....

The film is good, but as I said - my edition isn`t on par of what I`ve been told of other editions of this film. We all know of Bela Lugosi, but u better catch GRETA GYNT(1916-2000) in the films DEAR MURDERER 1947-as the neurotic Vivien - married 2 a man called Lee(humoursely - Vivien Leigh - VIVIAN MARY HARTLEY - got her professional name from HER husband, Leigh Holman) and the Ronald Neame-Hithcock-thriller TAKE MY LIFE 1947 as an operasinger, trying 2 catch a real killer when her own husband is suspcted of foul behaviour.

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Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year old ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a hair-trigger temper. His goal: become the greatest high school teacher in the world! GTO is the story of Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member who becomes a teacher to make a difference. Using his street smarts to deal with colleagues, students, and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he too has many lessons to learn! As the students prepare for their long awaited field trip, Onizuka lays out a lesson plan guaranteed to stir up a healthy dose of trouble. His unorthodox teaching methods include pairing up antagonistic roommates, digging for buried treasure, and inadvertently planting the seeds of love. All of these lessons in life allow for a new sense of unity to emerge within the class. In English & Japanese w/ Optional English Subtitles.

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GTO Rules-Teacher Banzai!!!.......2003-09-09

I own all of the released Gto DVDs the only one i dont own is Accusations coming 9/16/03. If you have ever seen any GTOs get it.
In this DVD, Fuyutsuki tries to improve her image after over hearing some rude comments from Onizuka about her image.
The students get very angry with onizuka when he tampers with the room assignments making them co-ed. Class 3-4 also gets angry with him when he leads them on a treasure hunt. And finallly yoshikawa and Anko must rely on eachother when they get stranded after an accident.
Over all I would say that this is a terrific DVD and I would most definately recommend that you buy this. As usual it has all its special features.

GTO Begins To Come Around Full Circle.......2003-07-29

It's the GTO volume that opens with breast obsession and wraps up with a mushroom cloud bomb explosion. "Field Trips," the second to last volume of the "Great Teacher Onizuka" series, produces one sub-par episode, followed by three well-connected, well-orchestrated installments that once again remind us why GTO is such an addicting classic.

To quickly review what this series is about: Eikichi Onizuka, a former bike gang member, college karate champ, 22 years old and a bachelor, has taken it upon himself to be the world's greatest teacher. With little or no qualifications, he somehow gets accepted into a prestigious school, is assigned the worst class of delinquents and somehow has to control them.

Volume 9 picks up where the last left off: Onizuka has bluffed and pulled off funding a field trip for Holy Forest Academy to a posh hotel resort in Okinawa. "Field Trips" could've easily done without its first episode, a yawner revolving around the hammering of love interest Fuyutsuki's self-esteem as she overhears everyone's snide comments about her petite figure and not-quite-Pamela-Anderson-sized chest. It's pretty much a two-character episode, with the more ample-sized Nurse Kadena constantly, accidentally making Fuyutsuki more self-conscious as she tries to help her shop for a bathing suit. No one would have missed a beat if this episode had never existed.

Then the fun begins. The next three episodes revolve around two characters who made a small comeback in the last GTO offering: Anko Uehara and Yoshikawa--the bullying girl and bullied boy from Volume 2 (she led a group of three girls to constantly beat him up, and even strip him naked, draw on his body and take pictures). The bullying picks up again once the group touches down on Okinawa, something that doesn't slip by Onizuka, who has also grown keen to a story computer genius Kikuchi finds online about treasure buried in one of the surrounding islands.

As usual, Onizuka dribbles mayhem all over the situation, with two plot twisting schemes. First, he screws around with the room assignments to get Kanzaki in a room of Gundam Wing nerds, henchmen Murai and Kikuchi in a room with Miyabi's two henchwomen (she doesn't go), and Yoshikawa in a room with the three girls that have picked on him for as long as they've known him. Second, he steals the class on the pretense of a trip to dig for turtle eggs, all the while meaning to find the buried treasure. As expected, the room assignments clash more than a green hat with an orange bill, making Onizuka a magnet for the students ire. Yoshikawa is given his "room" by the three girls--the mosquito-infested balcony. With Onizuka's help, he pulls off a clever prank on the girls, but pays dearly with another beating. With the class sequestered from the rest of Holy Forest on Onizuka's wild-goose treasure hunt, Yoshikawa becomes easy pickin's for Uehara and her group on the deserted island. A few accidents, a few obstacles in a few plots, and the last three episodes of "Field Trips" become a chaotic ride with life-threatening implications.

This is one of the most balanced, and surprisingly simple, GTO's since Volume 4: "The Test." On one hand is Oniuzka's treasure hunting group, which turns on him and appropriately punishes him for misleading them; on the other, Yoshikawa and Uehara find themselves separated from everyone, as Yoshikawa dives after Uehara who falls into a treacherous tide cavern. It's as simple as that--the show cuts back and forth from the usual comedic moments from Onizuka's group, to the more poignant, emotionally-shifting situation with the two lost teens.

This volume also once more emphasizes why the Japanese, sub-titled version towers over the English dub. The difference can be as subtle as (Warning!: mini-spoiler) a sentence that reads "we can be together on our last night in Okinawa" to "we can be together *since it's* our last night in Okinawa." One is an offer based on love, the other based on a time limitation (the time limitation one is the English dub). The difference can also make a world of difference in terms of the mood. In the sequence showing the class waiting for Onizuka, Kanzaki, Yoshikawa and Uehara to return, the Japanese version maintains two sets of conversation simultaneously, with Kikuchi's conversation in the foreground, and the class picking on Murai in the background. In another sequence, the English dub shows a waiting, lonely, Uehara pounding the water furiously screaming "Come back, Yoshikawa! Come back!" while the Japanese version furthers the story more sorrowfully makes it appear instead as though she's tapping the water, saying "Yoshikawa" in sad, frightened tones.

If you're this far into the series, I won't even have to recommend it to you--you're almost required to buy it. To newcomers, this is the allure of the series, despite the lackluster fourth volume: a simple series that has a character every and anyone can associate with, along with a barrage of cliffhangers that make the wait for the next volume nearly unbearable. A great PG-13 series.

Onizuka NEVER fails.......2003-07-27

I just finished watching Vol. 9 and I have to say that I am never dissappointed with GTO. It has become my favorite anime and I can watch every episode again and again. Although Eikichi doesn't have very many roles in this Volume, you get to know more about the smaller characters like Yoshikawa and Anko. There are some really funny parts in this one too, and I know you will enjoy it! I've recently read the Final Japanese Manga of GTO and I was a little dissappointed with the ending. It's sad that there is only one volume left in this awesome series, and I hope that the ending is better in the Anime. Overall, I loved this volume (Well I love all of them) and I look forward to that sad day when I finish all the GTO episodes and shed a tear... (Ok maybe not)
Onizuka Forever!!!

Olympica: America's Gold - The Official Olympic Centennial Video: Vol.1: Great Moments of Track & Field

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Olympica: America's Gold - The Official Olympic Centennial Video: Vol.1: Great Moments of Track & Field
Starring: Olympic Skating
Manufacturer: Abc Video
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Binding: VHS Tape

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Olympica: America's Gold 2
The Olympic Series: Golden Moments 1920-2002

ASIN: 6304039743
Release Date: 1998-01-27

Dead End Kids: Sea Raiders (Vol 1- Chapters 1-6)

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"The King of Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Sea Raiders (1941)"
The Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys Get Wet

Dead End Kids: Sea Raiders (Vol 1- Chapters 1-6)
Starring: Billy Halop , Huntz Hall , Gabriel Dell , Bernard Punsly , and Hal E. Chester
Director: John Rawlins , and Ford Beebe
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B00011D1EK
Release Date: 2004-01-27

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"The King of Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Sea Raiders (1941)".......2005-12-04

VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present..."Sea Raiders" (1941) (Dolby digitally remastered), a 12 Chapter cliffhanger from an action packed Universal serial era featuring an outstanding cast with Ford Beebe and John Rawlins at the helm....our story has to do with the sinking of our allied shipping lanes by the mystery ship known as the "Sea Raider", responsible is a Nazi organization...will the Dead End Kids get into the thick of things, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall and Gabe Dell always cutting up and giving their fans 100% entertainment...is the navy's defense in danger with Edward Keane and Reed Hadley (Zorro's Fighting Legion) on the loose while heading a foreign sabotage group to make things a little sticky within the 12 chapter plays...what is this torpedo boat that John McGuire has invented for our U.S. Navy, will it make the difference and save the day...only our gang of juvenile delinquents can thwart veteran heavies that have been cast in our exciting and thrilling Universal Serial....don't leave the theater until the final chapter is over and done with "Paying the Penalty"....just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss a single spine thrilling episode..return next week to this local theater for another episode of action and adventure that will keep you thrilled until the next chapter.

Under director's Ford Beebe and John Rawlins, associate producer Henry MacRae, original screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and Paul Huston dialogue director Paul Huston, supervising editor Saul A Goodkind, musical score by Charles Previn, Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner and Franz Waxman, stunts by Eddie Parker (stunt double Eddie Dunn), Tom Steele (stunt double for Reed Hadley) and Bud Wolfe (stunt double for Richard Bond, Morgan Wallace and John McGuire) ...the cast includes Billy Halop (Billy Adams), Huntz Hall (Toby Nelson), Gabriel Dell (Bilge), Bernard Punsly (Butch), Hally Chester (Swab). Joe Recht (Swab), William Hall (Brack Warren), John McGuire (Tom Adams), Mary Field (Aggie Nelson), Elliott Carlton (Edward Keane), Marcia Ralston (Leach Carlton), Reed Hadley (Carl Tonjes), Stanley Blystone (Capt. Olaf Nelson), Richard Alexander (Jenkins), Ernie Adams (Zeke), Jack Clifford (Anderson), Richard Bond (Krans/Agent X-39 ), Morgan Wallace (Capt. Lester), Eddie Dunn (Capt. Meredith), James Blaine (Desk Sergeant), Ed Cassidy (Guard at Hospital), Jack Cheatham (Duke), Dick Curtis (Mate on the 'Astoria'), John Merton (First Island Guard), Jack Mulhull ('Dolphin' Radioman), Jack Perrin (Island Guard-Launch pilot), Tom Steele (Coral Strand crewman), Forrest Taylor (Fenwick/the inventor)........special footnote as we showcase three actors, Billy Halop began his acting career as a teenager in the stage hit "Dead End", was brought to Hollywood in a big success went on to become serials for Universal and Monogram Pictures "The Dead End/East Side Kids", most popular in the '40s B-Picture genre....another actor Huntz Hall also from New York auditioned for a part in "Dead End", rumor has it because he could imitate a machine gun director Martin Gable and playwright Sidney Kingsley gave him the role, Hall more than any other actor appeared in a total of 81 East Side Kids and Bowery Boys films plus serials, usually billed as the character "Satch" co-starring with Leo Gorcey...the final actor is Gabriel "Gabe" Dell who made his debut in "Dead End" another juvenile cast member, Gabe appeared in East Side Kids, Dead End Kids and final in the Bowery Boys, in the later playing a cop, gangster or reporter, always gave it his best shot in every film........meanwhile back to our Universal Serial which is always good till the last drop and this serial is no exception...there is a great deal of entertainment here for the cliffhanger fans out there...all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and features.

BIOS:
1. Billy Halop (aka William Halop)
Birth Date: 2/11/1920 - New York, New York
Died: 11/09/1976 - Brentwood, California
2. Huntz Hall (aka Henry Richard Hall)
Birth Date: 8/15/1919 - New York, New York
Died: 1/30/1999 - North Hollywood, California
3. Gabriel Dell (aka Gabriel Del Vecchio)
Birth Date: 10/08/1919 - New York, New York
Died: 7/03/1988 - North Hollywood, California

CHAPTER TITLES:
1. The Raider Strikes
2. Flaming Torture
3. The Tragic Crash
4. The Raider Strikes Again
5. Flames of Fury
6. Blasted From the Air
7. Victims of the Storm
8. Dragged to Their Doom
9. Battling the Sea Beast
10.Periled By a Panther
11.Entombed in the Tunnel
12.Paying the Penalty

If you're into vintage serials as I am, why not pick up a copy of the following titles from VCI Home Video:
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
4. Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien)
5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)

Coming soon January 2006 from VCI Home Video on DVD..."FLAMING FRONTIERS" (1938), Universal Serial with 15 chapters, featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, John Archer, James Blaine and Ralph Bowman..."OREGON TRAIL" (1939), another Universal Serial with 15 exciting chapters featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Roy Barcoft and Charles King..."THE TALL TEXAN" (1953), full length feature starring Lloyd Bridges, Lee J Cobb, Luther Adler and Marie Windsor...watch for more details on VCI Entertainment and Amazon your two favorite sites for serials and B-Westerns.

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Sea Raiders" (1941), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '30s, '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just the way we like 'em

Total Time: 240 mins on 2 VHS ~ VCI Entertainment 1736 ~ (1/29/1996)

The Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys Get Wet.......2004-11-15

A mysterious saboteur known as the "Sea Raider" has been destroying Allied merchant ships. Four wharf rats (Billy, Toby, Bilge, and Butch, played respectively, if not respectfully, by Halop, Hall, Dell, and Punsly) try to find out who the Sea Raider is. Meanwhile, Billy's big brother has invented some really nifty stuff, including a new type of torpedo boat, that the Sea Raider wants, and big brother works for Captain Carlton, who is really the Sea Raider, so there's all kinds of chicanery going on, and aren't you sorry you asked?

Reed Hadley, who played the lead in the great ZORRO'S FIGHTING LEGION (1939), must've done something terrible in his life, because only two years after that he's reduced to playing stooge for the Dead End Kids. He's an extremely unbelievable foreign agent; they may as well have signed Kate Smith to play a Nazi. There're a lot of other people in this serial, but for the sake of any good performances they may have given elsewhere, I won't mention them. Except for William Hall. Him I want to hurt. He plays a combination harbor cop and truant officer, he's dating somebody's sister (I forget whose, and it doesn't matter anyway) and he's a big, dumb, stupid clod and I hate him. And if you think I'm being too harsh, well, you should just see him. This isn't much of a chapterplay to begin with; we don't need some buttinsky copper hobbling around, spoiling what little quality in the film there is to begin with.

Most Universal serials run out of gas in the late going, and this one is no exception. The Universal chapterplay writers seem to try and jumpstart the stalled plot (or, more likely, they've simply lost any vestige of sobriety) in the final few episodes, and take the serial in a weird direction, and that's just what happens here. In chapter 8, the Boys are shanghaied by a whaling ship and nearly drown when they get caught in a harpoon's rope. In chapter 9, Halop gets eaten (nearly) by an octopus. In his underwear. That is, Halop, not the octopus, is wearing underwear. He took his clothes off for no apparent reason (all of the other Kids kept their modesty) except to match some antediluvian stock footage. In chapter 10, the Kids, shipwrecked on an island, get eaten by a panther. Nearly. I think they get away by smacking him on the nose with one of those concrete-like pretzels I used to buy from a street vendor in Manhattan at the entrance to the 3rd Avenue subway.

Wow. I got so wrapped up in the plot that I nearly forgot you all were still here. I will give you a special reward for staying with through so much blithering nonsense: I'll wrap up the review now. Or nearly now. I have to tell you my favorite part of the serial: the soundtrack. Folks, you've GOT to hear this. Whereas most Universal serials of the period simply reuse the score from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and other horror hits, somebody at Universal thought it would be a good idea to play classical music during this chapterplay. And if that's not bad enough, the music was apparently just chosen at random. It's as if they had forgotten to create a score for it, simply grabbed a stack of classical 78s, and recorded them, willy-nilly. You won't believe your own ears as gentle, lilting Rossini tunes are played over fight scenes. You'll doubt your own sanity. You'll wonder why, lord, why, and so I'm going to give you the answer: Because.

The Alpha DVD is a 3 ½ on a scale of 1-10. Not worse than the typical Alpha product, but certainly not better, either.

Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 3 (The Ape / Doomed to Die / The Fatal Hour)

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Excellent Karloff triple feature.

Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 3 (The Ape / Doomed to Die / The Fatal Hour)
Starring: Boris Karloff , Maris Wrixon , Gene O'Donnell (II) , Dorothy Vaughan , and Gertrude Hoffman
Director: William Nigh
Manufacturer: Rph Productions
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Excellent Karloff triple feature. .......2004-07-28

This a Boris Karloff Triple Feature DVD made by "Reel Values" studio. The two mystery/horror Detective Wong films included here have surprisingly good transfers, since it has not been restored. Each of the films included on this DVD will be explained in detail.
"Doomed to Die" is one of Boris Karloff's "Mr. Wong" films that he made for Monogram Studios. This a very exciting mystery involving the murder of a shipping businessman that has just lost his million dollar ship and the entire crew along with it. The climax is exciting, with Wong eventually solving the tight case. The digital transfer is probably the best on the DVD.
"The Fatal Hour" is another great entry in the "Mr. Wong" series. One of Boris Karloff's high ranking films. Mr. Wong is on the case when a police captain's relative is murdered. This is one of the most challenging cases for Wong and the audience to solve. Very gripping with a suitable video transfer.
"The Ape" is the worst print on the DVD. The picture quality is terrible, showing countless film dropouts, scratches, and grain. The film also "jumps" from one scene to another like a century old record. The movie itself however, is one of the best horror films I have seen. Boris Karloff gives a very fit performance as the evil doctor that kills townspeople for spinal fluid, using the skin of a dead gorilla for disguise. Even with the considerably lousy print, "The Ape" is still watchable, though I would prefer a better transfer.
The DVD is worth the price of the Detective Wong mystery films, but I recommended obtaining "The Ape" elsewhere. (I am not sure if there is a restoration.)
Overall a good buy.

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