So I had no more than had finished the last post (on April 14th 2024) before I started buying more movies. That set is referred to as Set A and contained 9 movies with heavy emphasis on Action, Western, and Elvis movies.
I started purchasing Set B literally on April 14th after I published the previous post. I had been eyeing a collection called 'The Bombs, Babes & Blockbusters Of Cannon Films' which was a 10 pack of movies from the greats like Chuck Norris (5 movies), Sylvester Stallone (2 movies), Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme plus contained a documentary on the hey day times of Cannon Films. I got that from Ye Olde eBay. Then the next day, from Amazon I bought Elvis's Change of Habit and an Elvis musical double feature with Spinout and Double Trouble (to complete the collection of all 32 non-concert movies that Elvis made) as well as another 8 Film Collection of Jackie Chan.
And I thought that would be it.
But then there was Set C. This occurred at the beginning of May when the Friends of the Lane Library had their big sale where they filled up the gym of one of the local Catholic churches with books and movies and music and what not. Lost of stuff that was aged out at the library as well as plenty of donations from people who are friends of the library. The wife and I went on Thursday which was the opening day for the sale. When we got there they were still putting boxes and boxes of things out. From that first day I picked up 9 multi-movie sets. I went back on Saturday morning hoping that maybe they had put more stuff out on Friday and Saturday but alas it appeared to pretty much be the same stuff. I did manage to find one set that I must have overlooked. From this sale I picked up the following:
* 50 Whodunit Classics - This came in a mashed cardboard box the size of a standard DVD case and contained 4 double sided discs with lots of mystery themed movies TV episodes.
* Legends of the West Vol. 5 - This was a weird one. It was in a box for America Great Westerns Vol. 3 but contained the 8 discs from Legends Vol. 5 plus one disc from another western collection. Obviously there were more volumes from this series. And of course, more on that later.
* Total Movie & Entertainment DoubleDouble Feature pack. This had I believe 40 movies on 10 discs, with 4 movies (Get it? a double double feature!) and each disc had a theme such as Cult Classics, Overlooked Horror, Comedy & Romance, etc.
* Sam Elliott Western Collection which contained 3 movies
* Black Cobra collection which contained the three movies in the Black Cobra series featuring Fred Williamson. I later found out I already had these three on some other martial arts collection. Doh!
* A 4 movie Dirty Harry collection of Clint Eastwood movies.
* A 4 movie Ocean's Eleven collection which contained the original Ocean's Eleven, plus the Ocean's Eleven remake as well as Twelve and Thirteen.
* A 20th Century Fox Studio Classic which contained four movies which were almost too classy for my stupid movie collection.
* A Charles Bronson collection which contained two early Bronson movies; Chino and Guns Of Diablo..
and last but not least
* A Midnight Movies Double Feature from 20th Century Fox which contained Gorilla At Large and Mystery On Monster Island
Then at the end of May though much of June I picked up what I call Set D. This started when I tripped over a Mill Creek collection, Savage Cinema, for cheap on eBay which sparked my interest and got me going again. I knew that there were still two Maverick collections that I was interested in, so I picked up Urban Nightmares (aka Urban Chills) and Dangerous Babes. And of course, since I had the Legends of the West Vol 5 (which was 8 discs), I did my homework and realized that I could either get Legends Vols 1 through 5 with 8 DVDs each -or- get Vols 1 through 4 America's Greatest Westerns with 10 DVDs each. Both collections were from Echo Bridge and contained the exact same movies. And of course there was someone who was selling the four volume America's Greatest Westerns collection for a decent price, so after hemming and hawing for a while, I finally just pulled the trigger on that one. I also realized that I was 1 volume short of having all of the Western '4 Film Favorites' from Universal. Out of that collection, I only needed 2 of the 4 because the other 2 were already on other collections in that series that I already had. But, the completist won, and so I got it from eBay. Then I had watched one of my YouTube vloggers and he had mentioned Silent Rage from Chuck Norris. I checked, and I didn't have that movie on any of the Action or Cannon film collections I had, but there just happened to be an eBay auction for an action collection with that movie and a 6 movie horror collection from Pendulum which contained 4 movies that I didn't have yet. So I won that action for a decent price. All that action was from May 25th through June 9th. It was quiet for a couple of weeks until I delved into my existing DVDs and realized that I had a couple of other multi-movie packs. One was a 4 movie pack collection called 'Horror Classics' from Platinum that my wife had purchased for me ages ago. I had wrongly presumed that I had all of the movies already when she purchased it for me back in 2013, however a double check showed that there was one movie that I didn't have yet. I also 'claimed' a Warner Brothers 4 movie holiday movie collection, Classic Holiday Collection Vol. 1. Of course, since there was a volume 1, I knew there was a volume 2 so I found that on Amazon and bought it.
I then slammed on the brakes because I was drowning in movies and still had to do all the additional homework of creating the check lists for these movies and double checking which movies I already. Plus I also needed to photograph all of them.
So I got all the check lists done. And I have the photos of the Set A collections and I plan to get those up on the Stupid Movie blog very soon, hopefully this weekend. I actually had Set A check listed, photographed and ready to go when I did my last post back in April but then got so overwhelmed with purchasing Sets B, C and D and getting the checklists done for those that it just didn't happen. I still have to photograph Sets B, C, and D. I'm not exactly sure when that's gonna happen. I guess stay tuned! (Or don't. :P )
Whether I know you or not, I hope all is well with you. Take care!
P.S. - Sorry, no photo montage since, like I said, I don't have any photos of Sets B, C and D. But the collage of the movies from Set A is in the previous post. However, here are a couple of pictures of the two piles I need to photograph. Yes, I know, you can't see all the titles, but this is what I can give at the moment. Much better photos will be uploaded when they are added to the Stupid Movies blog.
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