Wish List

Wow, ok.  It’s been over a year since I was here. 

New baby, new job, Wife has new job, that’s my excuses.

Now I hope to get back to doing this.

I want to write a post, but I’m not in a position to watch a film, so I thought it would be a good time to write about my wish list. While I’m always looking for interesting films, there are a few that I just haven’t gotten my hands on. In no particular order:

Psycho- This is the Castle films digest of the Hitchcock classic. It has a beautiful blue and green box, so that’s alone is awesome. I know that there is another version out there from some British company, but from what I understand, that one focuses on the shower scene. I know that it’s the most iconic moment of the film, but I’m really more interested in how the Castle Films version tackles the film as a whole. I’ve tried bidding on it a few times, but it always winds up just a few bucks out of my range.

Coffy- Not only is it Blaxploitation, a genre I don’t have any examples of, but it’s also unique in that it is rated “R”. Not a digest of a rated R movie, but the digest itself is labeled as rated “R”. From what I understand, there is a shot of boobies in the digest and that makes it rated “R”. I don’t know of any other films like that. That’s not to say that there aren’t any Adult Films out there, there are a lot of them. Yes, I have some, and No I won’t be reviewing them here, only to say in one of them, they actually went to the trouble to subtitle all the grunts and groans.

The Detective- I used to see this movie on Ebay all the time, and nothing ever compelled me to want it. Frank Sinatra playing a typical Chicago cop. I’m a fan of the original Manchurian Candidate, but not necessarily really a big fan of Sinatra himself. But then I learned something about the movie. Follow me on this…This movie was based on a book. The book had a sequel. In the mid-eighties they made a movie based on the sequel. That movie was about a typical Chicago cop trapped in a skyscraper with a bunch of terrorists. So essentially, The Detective is a prequel to Die Hard. If I’d have known that I would have snatched it up a quick as I could. Since then, I just don’t see it on Ebay anymore.  I’ve seen the color/sound version, but that doesn’t do me any good.

The incredible Jewel Robbery- As I said earlier, I’m a big fan of the Marx Brothers. This TV special starred Harpo and Chico as jewel thieves and with a cameo by Groucho at the end, which makes this the last appearance of all three Marx Brothers together.  Now I am looking for the silent version of this, as I have the sound version. And honestly I don’t even know if they released a silent version of this. And this makes no sense, because except for one line of dialogue spoken by Groucho at the end, this was done entirely in pantomime, there was no dialogue. If any film didn’t need a sound version, it was this one.

I’ll be trying to get back to watching films in a few days.  I think my next one will be the awesomeness of Gandy Goose.