Special Amazon Deal on TCM Movie Collections.

[mzpro5]

Amazon is offering some very good deals on TCM Greatest Classic Film Collections on DVD from now until the end of the year.

Each set is a different genre and includes 4 films on two DVDs

Turner Classics Movie Collections

I ordered a Marx Bros. collection ($8.60) and a Mystery movie collection ($12.49) that includes The Maltese Falcon.

Came this afternoon, they are two sided discs. Watched some of The Maltese Falcon and good transfer, especially considering the prices.

Might make good stocking stuffers or gifts for work gift exchanges.

 

[Deleted member 133]

I have, on many occasions, pointed members towards "classic" movies, with perhaps some success. While I enjoy seeing aliens getting blown up by superheroes as much as the next person, sometimes it's nice to watch great film making instead.

(A digression: it's no surprise that the only movie that I screened start-to-finish at The Great Canadian GTG 1.0 was Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story (1942).)

You have pointed members towards box sets that, in their totality, represent a lot of the best of classic Hollywood film making. With but one or two titles, I have all of them in my collection. Each and every box set contains gems - at a great price.

I have a small quibble with how TCM has grouped some of the sets - and whether some of them are either truly representative of the featured theme / genre - or the best that a given director / actor had to offer. I would have like to see a true film noir set; a true screwball comedy box set; etc. But that's a small nit I'm picking since examples of both can be found throughout, and perhaps TCM does not have the rights to the films that I might have chosen.

Another example... Now I know that these are sets of four films so this is perhaps an unfair point. But I wonder how one can offer Fort Apache in a box set (on John Wayne) and not include the other two parts (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande) that form the rest of John Ford's cavalry trilogy? I would argue that that trilogy is the greatest threesome of films ever made (not even mentioning by the same director and starring the same actor). Problem is that the buyer of the box set who sees Fort Apache may never learn of the other two. A very small quibble but perhaps somewhat deserved given how excellent TCM is in terms of "educating" the public about movies and film history.

If I did not already have these titles in my collection, I'd be snapping up these box sets.