Actual DVD movies at the Dollar Store
06-02-04, 03:25 AM
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Lone Ranger Vol. 2 from Dollar-DVD has a DVD menu that identifies it as Vol. 3, but at least it contains the correct Vol. 2 episodes as listed on the cover art. Another example of their bad quality control.
Some quality updates: Treasure Box's "Guilty Conscience" is almost unwatchably bad quality, like a poor dub of an SLP mode videotape copy. On the other hand, Dollar-DVD's "Bail Out" looks as good as you'll probably get on DVD for such a B-movie title.
I think I've come to the conclusion that the Dollar-DVD titles are all going to be decent-to-excellent quality, as they are just re-releases of titles previously released by Brentwood at higher prices and thus were cleaned-up and mastered with the care expected of a higher price-point release.
Some quality updates: Treasure Box's "Guilty Conscience" is almost unwatchably bad quality, like a poor dub of an SLP mode videotape copy. On the other hand, Dollar-DVD's "Bail Out" looks as good as you'll probably get on DVD for such a B-movie title.
I think I've come to the conclusion that the Dollar-DVD titles are all going to be decent-to-excellent quality, as they are just re-releases of titles previously released by Brentwood at higher prices and thus were cleaned-up and mastered with the care expected of a higher price-point release.
06-02-04, 06:01 AM
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Originally posted by snorlaxnut
Went to Dollar Tree and picked up the only ones they had left, both from Treasure Box Collection:
Suddenly with Frank Sinatra
Mark Of The Hawk with Sidney Poitier
And I just noticed that movies from Treasure Box Collection share the same UPC code. Same thing for the TV titles.
Went to Dollar Tree and picked up the only ones they had left, both from Treasure Box Collection:
Suddenly with Frank Sinatra
Mark Of The Hawk with Sidney Poitier
And I just noticed that movies from Treasure Box Collection share the same UPC code. Same thing for the TV titles.
06-19-04, 02:24 PM
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$1.00 DVDs at Walmart
Since this thread is about $1.00 DVD's I thought I would mention what I found at Wal-Mart.
My local Walmart has just started carrying $1.00 DVD's from a company called DigiView Productions.
They come in a slim plastic keep cases. The DVD's themselves have animated menus, color artwork on the discs and each run around 1 hour, movies run longer. The quality is clear and sharp. Better than the $1.00 DVD's that Dollar Tree is carrying.
According to the previews on the DVD's here is a list of titles they are offering.
Cartoons:
Superman: The Mechanical Monsters
Popeye: Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor
Superman: Terror on the Midway
Popeye: Popeye meets Ali Baba and his 40 Thieves
Superman/ Popeye: Cookin' with Gags
Casper and Friends: Ants in the Pants
Felix the Cat and Friends: Neptune Nonsense
Gulliver's Travels
Hunky & Spunky/ Molly Moo Cow: Picnic Panic
Gabby and Friends: It's a Hap Hap Happy Day
Betty Boop and Friends: Somewhere in Dreamland
The 3 Stooges and Friends: Play Safe
Movies:
Death Sentence - with Nick Nolte
David and Goliath
A Star is Born
Beneath the 12 Mile Reef - with Robert Wagner
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Letter
The Flying Deuces - with Laurel & Hardy
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble - with John Travolta
The Big Trees - with Kirk Douglas
Drums in the Deep South
Murder on Flight 502 - with Robert Stack
Little Princess
These were by the register in a large white cardboard box with the words $1.00 DVDs on the bottom.
My local Walmart has just started carrying $1.00 DVD's from a company called DigiView Productions.
They come in a slim plastic keep cases. The DVD's themselves have animated menus, color artwork on the discs and each run around 1 hour, movies run longer. The quality is clear and sharp. Better than the $1.00 DVD's that Dollar Tree is carrying.
According to the previews on the DVD's here is a list of titles they are offering.
Cartoons:
Superman: The Mechanical Monsters
Popeye: Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor
Superman: Terror on the Midway
Popeye: Popeye meets Ali Baba and his 40 Thieves
Superman/ Popeye: Cookin' with Gags
Casper and Friends: Ants in the Pants
Felix the Cat and Friends: Neptune Nonsense
Gulliver's Travels
Hunky & Spunky/ Molly Moo Cow: Picnic Panic
Gabby and Friends: It's a Hap Hap Happy Day
Betty Boop and Friends: Somewhere in Dreamland
The 3 Stooges and Friends: Play Safe
Movies:
Death Sentence - with Nick Nolte
David and Goliath
A Star is Born
Beneath the 12 Mile Reef - with Robert Wagner
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Letter
The Flying Deuces - with Laurel & Hardy
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble - with John Travolta
The Big Trees - with Kirk Douglas
Drums in the Deep South
Murder on Flight 502 - with Robert Stack
Little Princess
These were by the register in a large white cardboard box with the words $1.00 DVDs on the bottom.
07-03-04, 10:09 PM
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Mine had 2 big shelves of em. I got
God's Gun - Spaghetti Western w/ Lee Van Cleef
Boot Hill
Adventures of Jim Bowie
Get Christie Love
They Call me Trinity
Cold Sweat - Charles Bronson
Lone Ranger
Wild Ride - Jack Nicholson
Family Enforcer - Mob movie w/ Joe Pesci
Wagon Train
God's Gun - Spaghetti Western w/ Lee Van Cleef
Boot Hill
Adventures of Jim Bowie
Get Christie Love
They Call me Trinity
Cold Sweat - Charles Bronson
Lone Ranger
Wild Ride - Jack Nicholson
Family Enforcer - Mob movie w/ Joe Pesci
Wagon Train
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07-04-04, 03:39 AM
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Went to my local 99 Cents Only store and they had huge stacks of the 2 Ronald Reagan public domain titles: Santa Fe Trail and some title I don't remember with the word "Army" in it. Guess they were capitalizing on Reagan's death. Wonder if Brando had any public domain titles- I'm sure we'll be seeing those really soon.
07-24-04, 02:39 PM
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New $1 DVDs at Wal-Mart
My Wal-Mart got a new shipment of their $1.00 DVD's.
Some new titles added: Below is the list according to the previews:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Satanic Rites of Dracula - with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
The Swap - with Robert DeNiro
Angel and the Bad Man
The Proud and the Damned
His Girl Friday
The Terror - with Boris Karloff
A Farewell to Arms - with Gary Cooper
Black Brigade
The White Warrior
The Four Deuces
D.O.A.
Also went to my local Walgreens, and in the seasonal or Special Promotions aisle, they had a box of the same dollar DVDs that the Dollar Tree stores are selling. Same ugly cardbox paper sleeves and probably the same terrible transfers. They are selling them for $1.99 for 1 or 2/$3.00. Just to let you know in case some are interested and they don't have a dollar tree store near them. But their Walgreens may start carrying them as well.
Some new titles added: Below is the list according to the previews:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Satanic Rites of Dracula - with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
The Swap - with Robert DeNiro
Angel and the Bad Man
The Proud and the Damned
His Girl Friday
The Terror - with Boris Karloff
A Farewell to Arms - with Gary Cooper
Black Brigade
The White Warrior
The Four Deuces
D.O.A.
Also went to my local Walgreens, and in the seasonal or Special Promotions aisle, they had a box of the same dollar DVDs that the Dollar Tree stores are selling. Same ugly cardbox paper sleeves and probably the same terrible transfers. They are selling them for $1.99 for 1 or 2/$3.00. Just to let you know in case some are interested and they don't have a dollar tree store near them. But their Walgreens may start carrying them as well.
09-11-04, 12:12 PM
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Family Dollar DVDs
Add another dollar store to the list, this time Family Dollar. They have about a dozen $1 DVDs. Packaging is nonexistant, just thin paper and shrink wrap.
Popeye and Friends
Superman and Friends
Three Stooges shorts
Charlie Chaplin shorts
The Rascals
The Last Days of Patton (George C. Scott)
Plus some others I don't fully remember: one with 'White Fang' in the title, a Sherlock Holmes story, and a Bruce Lee movie.
Popeye and Friends
Superman and Friends
Three Stooges shorts
Charlie Chaplin shorts
The Rascals
The Last Days of Patton (George C. Scott)
Plus some others I don't fully remember: one with 'White Fang' in the title, a Sherlock Holmes story, and a Bruce Lee movie.
09-11-04, 12:39 PM
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I went to Dollar Tree last week and got:
Jack Benny Vol.2
Ozzie & Harriet Vol.2
And a bunch of those Australian cartoon movies based on classic books:
Westward Ho
Rob Roy
Prisoner Of Zenda
Black Beauty
Black Arrow
Tom Sawyer
Three Musketeers
Robin Hood
King Solomon's Mines
Jack Benny Vol.2
Ozzie & Harriet Vol.2
And a bunch of those Australian cartoon movies based on classic books:
Westward Ho
Rob Roy
Prisoner Of Zenda
Black Beauty
Black Arrow
Tom Sawyer
Three Musketeers
Robin Hood
King Solomon's Mines
10-25-04, 11:18 AM
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Digiview $1.00 horror DVDs at Wal-Mart
Digiview Productions continues to release a slew of public domain
films for a dollar at Wal-Mart; this time around they have released
25 horror themed films in time for Halloween. Here's the list:
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Yvette Vickers)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (Tor Johnson)
Doomed to Die (Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong)
The Manster (English/Japanese co-production)
The Ape
Bloodlust (early Robert Reed of "Brady Bunch" fame)
Scared to Death (Lugosi's only color film)
The Bat (Vincent Price)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent version)
The Phantom of the Opera (silent version)
Sabotage (early Hitchcock)
Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
Carnival of Souls
Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Ape Man
White Zombie (Lugosi)
The Giant Gila Monster
The Killer Shrews
Dead Men Walk
The Devil Bat
Indestructible Man (Chaney, Jr.)
Little Shop of Horrors (Corman)
The Corpse Vanishes (Lugosi)
Frozen Alive (English language, West German produced)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
My copy of The Manster was very good; Bloodlust was just fair; OK transfer of a worn print. Attack of the Giant Leeches was
letterboxed, but it looks matted to me; visual quality of the film
was variable. Haven't looked at The Beast of Yucca Flats or Doomed to Die yet.
films for a dollar at Wal-Mart; this time around they have released
25 horror themed films in time for Halloween. Here's the list:
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Yvette Vickers)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (Tor Johnson)
Doomed to Die (Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong)
The Manster (English/Japanese co-production)
The Ape
Bloodlust (early Robert Reed of "Brady Bunch" fame)
Scared to Death (Lugosi's only color film)
The Bat (Vincent Price)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent version)
The Phantom of the Opera (silent version)
Sabotage (early Hitchcock)
Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
Carnival of Souls
Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Ape Man
White Zombie (Lugosi)
The Giant Gila Monster
The Killer Shrews
Dead Men Walk
The Devil Bat
Indestructible Man (Chaney, Jr.)
Little Shop of Horrors (Corman)
The Corpse Vanishes (Lugosi)
Frozen Alive (English language, West German produced)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
My copy of The Manster was very good; Bloodlust was just fair; OK transfer of a worn print. Attack of the Giant Leeches was
letterboxed, but it looks matted to me; visual quality of the film
was variable. Haven't looked at The Beast of Yucca Flats or Doomed to Die yet.
Last edited by Bobhug; 10-25-04 at 11:20 AM.
10-25-04, 02:12 PM
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The past few weeks I bought at Dollar Tree:
From Treasure Box Collection:
Laser Mission (with Brandon Lee and Ernest Borgnine)
Bail Out (with David Hasselhoff)
From Television Classics:
Topper , Volume 2
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Volume 2
Make Room For Daddy, Volume 2
Jack Benny, Volume 3
Ozzie & Harriet, Volume 3
Bonanza, Volume 1 (Only one episode plays, when I press "title" on the remote, I get the menu, but the second episode has no audio!)
and another Australian cartoon movie based on some classic book, Black Arrow.
From Treasure Box Collection:
Laser Mission (with Brandon Lee and Ernest Borgnine)
Bail Out (with David Hasselhoff)
From Television Classics:
Topper , Volume 2
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Volume 2
Make Room For Daddy, Volume 2
Jack Benny, Volume 3
Ozzie & Harriet, Volume 3
Bonanza, Volume 1 (Only one episode plays, when I press "title" on the remote, I get the menu, but the second episode has no audio!)
and another Australian cartoon movie based on some classic book, Black Arrow.
