Classic Films

Yes the film A Midsummer Night's Dream with James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Dick Powell, and Olivia de Havilland is how Shakespeare wrote it.

MooMooMooMoo

I unfortunately discovered that. I think I lasted 10 minutes.

I don't mind the story lines (I like Shearer's Romeo & Juliet); but the spoken language is to archaic for me.

DaBargainHunta

If it has subtitles, turn them on. Made a world of difference for me with the recent Whedon adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.

MooMooMooMoo

Bridgeport (Tacoma WA) has a pretty large dvd clearance section, but not a 1 that tempted me at all. Not a single blu-ray in the store that I could see.

JohnIan

My store got new titles, but stuff I didn't want.

I did pick up (blind buy) "Stalingrad" for three dollars.

smartalec44

I purchased the following TV series sets for $5.00 each which have not been in my store ever.

The Practice- Volume One
Shark-Season One

Strapped4Cash

New shippers (looked like 7-8) with $8 tv show and 4-film set DVD's. Looked like all, or nearly all, stuff from the 50's-60's. 2 Seasons of I Love Lucy, several of Bewitched, a Season or two of Gilligan's Island.

I had a heck of a time looking at any of it, as it was on one of the towers near the front. So right next to the line of 11 people waiting on 1 cashier with lots of screaming kids.

MooMooMooMoo

Mill Creek?

Classic Films

I saw a Sony I Dream of Jeannie Season 1 Colorized for $8. Also Warner Western Box Set . Mostly 1950's Films. Includes 1960 Cimmeron. 6 films $8. The other Bewitched and Jeannie sets were Mill Creek.

BobO'Link

I'd pick up one of the Warner Western box sets for that price *with* a $5 off $20 coupon (I have one currently), but it's only $10.14 at Amazon so it really depends on what else I might find as I'd need to stay as close to $20 as possible to maximize the coupon.

Classic Films

At another store I saw James Stewart - The Signature Collection (The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek / The FBI Story / The Naked Spur / The Spirit of St. Louis / The Stratton Story)Also $8.

A Few of the TCM Greatest Classic Four Film sets $8 Each

Kirk Douglas - Lust For Life, Bad and the Beautiful, Young Man With A Horn, Before I Forget(Kirk talks about his life)
Bogart and Bacall
Gangsters - Humphrey Bogart
Wartime Musicals - Yankee Doodle Dandy / This is the Army / Thank Your Lucky Stars / Hollywood Canteen $8 Each
Henry Fonda
Spencer Tracy
Barbara Stanwyck
Natalie Wood
Gangsters - Prohibition Era (The Public Enemy / The Roaring Twenties / Little Caesar / Smart Money)
War (Battle of the Bulge / The Dawn Patrol / Gunga Din / Operation Pacific)
Taylor and Burton
Esther Williams Vol 1
2 John Wayne sets 4 films each.
Cary Grant Vol 2 SYLVIA SCARLETT (1935) , GUNGA DIN (1939), DESTINATION TOKYO (1943) - ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)

Classic Films

The TCM Greatest Classic Four Film sets currently are ringing up with $1 instant off each. So they are currently $7 each.

I saw the Jetsons Season 1 for $8.

BobO'Link

I stopped in Sunday and there was nothing new. I'll probably check again this week "just because" but we don't shop BL near as often as we did before they changed the "Buzz Club" to the "we'll send a coupon every so often" mode of operation.

kd5

From some of the available titles listed lately it sounds like Big Lots is turning into another Ollies, which is to say: titles I never give a rats behind about. I know some of you like the old timey wimey (quoting The Doctor) movies (wartime/gangster/musicals) but they don't appeal to me. I wish BL would get their shit together and start getting some decent titles again, I miss shopping for movies there...

js2shops

It's not even so much getting it together, this stuff isn't being produced (or, overproduced) in mass quantities like it once was. There's less back catalog to go around. A lot of times a retailer like BL may not even have control over what they're buying as stock- it will be sold to them as a pallet of "X number of DVDs", or if they're lucky, "X number of WB or whomever DVDs". They may get a packing list that says, "guaranteed to contain..." a certain title at quantity. I work for HPB, the same thing happens to us, though we are a bookstore and media only accounts for a small portion of our business.

BL did make a mistake in that they've cut back on focusing on DVDs, their new CEO said this was his strategy when he came in. He wanted to expand the food offerings, well, he is living with his decision.

Strapped4Cash

I saw a lot of the new brown-stickered titles, lots of them were only one apiece. And when there was more than one, it was usually only 2-3 total.

$5 TV Shows on DVD
Touch
My Name is Earl S1
My Name is Earl S3
My Name is Earl S4
Prison Break S3
Family Guy S3

$3 DVD's - An incomplete list of about 3/4 of what was there
6 Bullets
A Single Shot
Anonymous (Roland Emmerich)
Ben Hur: The Epic Miniseries Event
Blood: The Last Vampire
Casualties of War (old version, not the extended)
Child of God
Eastern Bandits
Extraordinary Measures
Flashpoint (Kris Kristofferson)
Godzilla (1998)
Ip Man 2
Ip Man: The Final Fight
Kaena - The Prophecy
Killers (Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel)
Last Vegas w/UV sticker
Little Big Soldier
London Boulevard
Muay Thai Warrior
My Way (Je-kyu Kang)
New World (Hoon-jung Park)
Not the Messiah
Once Upon A Time In Shanghai
Rise: Blood Hunter
Shaolin
St. Trinian's
Stalingrad
Standoff (Brendan Fraser)
Survivor (Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Weather Man
Third Person
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
XXX (Vin Diesel)

$3 Blu-ray
The Last Exorcism Part II

$5 Blu-ray
Evil Dead
Avengers Confidential
The Other Guy
In the Line of Fire
House Bunny
Marley & Me 3-Disc

MooMooMooMoo

There food prices are at times higher then grocery store (especially frozen).

MooMooMooMoo

Thanks for posting! Fortunately for my addiction, not one title is of interest!

PhantomStranger

Thanks for the list. A few interesting things, though nothing that will make me go out of my way.

JohnIan

The single disc version or two?

Strapped4Cash

You're welcome.

Single disc.

JohnIan

Another question.

I've seen all three seasons of "Gilligan's Island" - which version is that?

The same double sided entry or the pressing which has each side on their own disc?

BobO'Link

The double-sided are in thicker paperboard type cases (digipaks inside) while the newer ones are usually in viva style cases. The newer, SS, editions have a 2011 copyright date for S1 & S2 with 2012 for S3 in the block of text next to the WB logo on the back.

The easiest way to tell is look at the UPC - they are different:

S1-DS: 053939673425
S1-SS: 883929161256

S2-DS: 053939692624
S2-SS: 883929161263

S3-DS: 053939733129
S3-SS: 883929241323

I *think* I've seen both at BL but I already own both versions so I've not looked very closely.

laidbacklarkin

Found a ton of the 4 set TCM collection (various collections like John Wayne, Paul Newman, Bogart, Gangsters, Esther Williams, Kirk Douglas and many more I can't remember). Each is $8 with 20% off this weekend only.

Also found James Stewart Signature collection and Warner Western Collection (Fort Bravo, Cimarron and 4 other films), 'I Love Lucy S1' and 'I Love Lucy S2' for $8 each ($6.40 with this weekend's 20% off)

JohnIan

The reason I ask - I bought a season one re-release in a thicker case; all the discs inside were the first pressing; double sided. I was ticked off to say the least.