The following are price drops for classic box sets.

Every December, Amazon typically drops their prices for their classic sets. So, hopefully those of us who try to hunt them down, can chime in on the various sales taking place. (Note: It's already known that a few of the Warner sets like vol. 1-4 Gangster sets, Bette Davis v3, Forbidden Hollywood v2-3, Brando, Dean, Doris Day, Esther Williams, etc. went on sale before Thanksgiving and are still on sale right now). But here are some new ones:

SONY/COLUMBIA:

Icons of Screwball Comedy vol. 1 - $14.49

Icons of Screwball Comedy vol. 2 - $13.99

Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol. 1 - $14.49

Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol. 1 - $14.49

UNIVERSAL:

Barbara Stanwyck Collection - $27.99

NOTE: The Universal Gary Cooper, The Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and Carole Lombard Glamour Girls sets are also cheap right now by a third party seller for $7.99-$8.33.

If you see any new ones, please add to this list.

The Sony sets have an MSRP of $25 so they would have to get down under $12.50 (>50% off) for me to start getting excited. Right now they are a little over 40% off- nothing really spectacular imo.

The Warner sets, in comparison, are a much better bargain at the moment.

For Sony, 40% is pretty good. But for the ones listed...they usually hit $16.99 but first time I have seen them under $16.99. But the Warner sale on BF/Thanksgiving week on the wb.shop was very impressive. I would have never expected them to go down to $11.24. Too bad I bought most of them through Amazon days earlier.

Oh...and to bring up something, has anyone who ordered from Amazon last week checked the status of their shipments. I have had two ordered last Tuesday and both were lost in shipment courtesy of something called ONTRAC. I have never had that problem with UPS, so I was shocked to see this.

Fortunately, Amazon is great to work with and will ship me a new copy of the items lost (unfort. they'll get here in 2 weeks, a few days right before Christmas instead of a few days from today). But I've never had that experience before. So, some may want to check their shipment status if they ordered some of these WB sets last week.

They have the Samuel Fuller set on sale for $36.99 (54% off). Is that the cheapest its been? I'm debating whether or not to bite.

Don't know if these are December additions but don't remember seeing them before:

Chaplin Mutual Comedies - Restored Edition $25.99 (57% off)
More Treasures from American Film Archives 1894-1931 $32.99 (59% off)
Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen - Legendary Science Fiction Series $31.49 (46% off)
Leonard Bernstein: Omnibus - The Historic TV Broadcasts $22.99 (54% off)
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy $43.99 (45% off)
The 3 Faces of Shinji Aoyama $16.99 (43% off)
The Masterworks of Rokuro Mochizuki $21.49 (46% off)
Shinobi No Mono Collector's Set, Vol. 1 $29.99 (57% off)

Greetings Cody, this past Spring DD had it for $32 (while the other Sony/Film Foundation sets were going around $21. It's one set that hasn't really gone down too much in price at all though and I ended up getting it at $32.

Nice!! But also the Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics - The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection - DVD (July 8, 2003) is down to $29.49

As for the Rosselini War Trilogy, one can hold out for the B&N Criterion sale. It went down to $34.99 I believe.

So far nowhere near as good as last year's holiday sale which saw nearly every WB Signature Collection and classic box set at drastically reduced prices. The WB Shop had tremendous prices this year, beating even Amazon's of last year, but still not equaling the variety of titles that Amazon offered a year ago.

I agree...by now nearly every classic it seemed were on sale. I was hoping the Forbidden Hollywood 1 would go down or even the Noir sets. Personally, I'm hoping for more Bette Davis, Crawford, Grable, Stanwyck sets go down in price. Still, the sets that were on wbshop.com for $11.24 were a big surprise.

A few more on Amazon:

The Paul Newman Collection (Harper / The Drowning Pool / The Left-Handed Gun / The Mackintosh Man / Pocket Money / Somebody Up There Likes Me / The Young Philadelphians) (1956) - $14.99 (Third party - new)

Frank Sinatra MGM Movie Legends Collection (The Manchurian Candidate / Guys and Dolls / The Pride and the Passion / A Hole in the Head / Kings Go Forth) - $19.99

Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979]) - $18.58 (Third Party)

For silent fans, "American Slapstick" v1 and v2 are being sold for $13.00 (third party new) which is pretty cheap for these two releases.

Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection (The Golden Blade / Has Anybody Seen My Gal? / The Last Sunset / The Spiral Road / A Very Special Favor) - $11.99

John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection (Reap the Wild Wind / Rooster Cogburn / The Hellfighters / The War Wagon / The Spoilers) - $10.99

Bing Crosby: Screen Legend Collection (Double or Nothing / East Side of Heaven / Here Come the Waves / If I Had My Way / Waikiki Wedding) - $13.99

More Treasures from American Film Archives 1894-1931 has dropped to $32.99 on Amazon.

Deep discount has it on Amazon as third party for $25.99 (+$2.98 shipping) but you guys know how they are with the speed of their shipping....

John Wayne - An American Icon Collection (Seven Sinners/ The Shepherd of the Hills/ Pittsburgh/ The Conqueror/ Jet Pilot) (1957) - Lightning Deal for $12.99 (orig. price - $23.99) on Amazon

Thanks for the heads up on the Chaplin Mutual Comedies. I've been waiting on a price drop for awhile.