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I've seen this set flooding some online shopping centers lately. Is anyone familiar with it? Does it work with Region 1 DVD players? There's a Blu-ray version too. I've had a seller tell me it's from Canada.

I was unsure where I needed to post this thread, so if it needs to be moved, feel free to do so. But my sister-in-law and I are wanting to watch a Mexican telenovela. I've watched the "Telenovelas Are Hell" videos on YouTube, and they're keeping me going for now. These little five-minute...

Lucille Ball (television's "First Lady of Comedy") ended her near-25-year-run as a TV star when Here's Lucy concluded in 1974, but she continued to appear in the medium. She did a series of television movies and specials, such as Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974) and Lucy Calls the...

All-star movies (sometimes called multi-star or ensemble movies) are some of my favorites. I've always had a soft spot for Grand Hotel (1932) and Dinner at Eight (1933), two pioneers of the sub-genre, and many other films centering around the lives of multiple people whose stories may or may not...

When I think about Jane Russell, there's always a few things that immediately come to mind: her career beginnings with Howard Hughes, her sultry photos with a haystack as a backdrop, her Christian ideals, and the fact that she's a star in one of my favorite musicals, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...

I have been a part of Home Theater Forum for quite some time, but I'm just now getting around to posting my own introduction. I have been a fan of classic movies and TV for over the past decade. It all started with a little picture of Marilyn Monroe my brother had on his closet door. I swiped...

Alfred Hitchcock was one of classic Hollywood's most prolific and identifiable directors. He set many trends and was the mastermind behind a host of classics, such as Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960). I recently stumbled upon this video essay online, and it reignited my interest in Hitchcock.

Despite her iconic status, Marilyn Monroe didn't achieve stardom overnight. She originally signed with 20th Century-Fox in November 1946, but her career had a few different phases before Niagara (1953) provided her major breakthrough. This thread is dedicated to Marilyn's earliest years in...

One biography said Dorothy Dandridge was "Hollywood's first black, dramatic female movie star" and that she was a "powerful force on the stage and screen". She is well-remembered for her Oscar nominated star-turn as Carmen Jones (1954), making her the first black performer to be nominated for a...

A thread devoted to Elvis Presley's motion picture career in Hollywood. He appeared in 33 theatrical films between 1956 and 1972. His early work showed he had promise as an actor, while his later efforts declined consistently in quality. Elvis and his movie career are interesting topics to...

Marilyn Monroe was the biggest movie star in the world in 1950s, but as her star ascended, she became increasingly unmanageable and unreliable on movie sets. In hopes to "getting her in line", her home studio, 20th Century-Fox, recruited Broadway actress Sheree North and signed her to a contract...

This thread is dedicated to the 20th Century-Fox film noir movies released under the Fox Film Noir banner. The Fox Film Noir collection includes the following 26 movies: Laura (1944) Call Northside 777 (1948) Panic in the Streets (1950) House of Bamboo (1955) The Street with No Name...

Here recently, I have found myself drawn to those classic (or school) movie series that populated cinemas for many years back in the 1930s and 1940s. I'm talking about movie series such as The Thin Man, Maisie, Blondie, Mexican Spitfire, and many others. Anybody a fan of these movies?

I figured with October still being fairly young, we could get a conversation started here about the old-school Universal Monsters. It all started with the movie versions of Dracula and Frankenstein, both originally released in 1931, which were each followed by multiple sequels. Bela Lugosi and...

Music composers thought of her as the "best song-plugger in the business" during her prime. She was a star for 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s and 1940s, starring in a host of critically and commercially successful films. She might be best remembered as the star of Technicolor WWII-era musicals...

The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom based on the British series of the same name. It originally aired on NBC from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013, producing nine seasons and 201 episodes. This thread has been initiated as a discussion-aimed fan page for the American television...

What are some of your favorite TV shows that were revived (or created) for broadcasting in first-run syndication? It seems to be a trend that was especially popular in the 1980s, when a host of sitcoms were brought back for a "second life" in first-run syndication after their network runs had...

I collect the four-film combos that comes in this packaging: The Joan Crawford one was the first one I bought, so I figured I'd post a picture of it to clarify precisely what it is that I'm talking about. I probably have around 20 or so of these sets now. I've gotten them from Walmart...

The Golden Girls is easily my favorite sitcom. I've had all seven seasons on DVD for years. But I'd be willing to companion those DVDs with a nice, cleaned up Blu-ray release. Does anyone have any information about there being a potential Blu-ray release for this show?

To this very day, Doris Day remains the most popular female at the box office. From 1960 to 1964, she was the number one box office draw in America, outranking such luminaries as Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn in popularity polls. Films starring her were practically guaranteed to be...

Hairspray is easily one of my favorite musicals, even though the original John Waters film from 1988 was intended as a "dance movie" by the filmmaker himself. It was not converted into a musical until the show was tailored for Broadway in the late 1990s. The show had a successful Broadway run...

It seems that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are almost always mentioned in the same breath, despite making just one film together, the shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), which revolutionized a sub-genre known as hagsploitation. Both actresses were Oscar winners and each of them...

Grande Dame Guignol (sometimes called hag horror, hagsploitation, and psycho-biddy) is a film sub-genre that combines elements of horror, thriller, and women's pictures. Films in this genre generally star previously glamorous aging female who has become unbalanced and frequently terrorizes those...

The Golden Palace is the oft-forgotten spin-off of The Golden Girls. The series aired from September 18, 1992, to May 7, 1993, producing a single season and 24 episodes. The spin-off moved from NBC, where the original had ran for seven seasons, over to CBS, where it moved from its familiar...

Loretta Young had one of the longest careers in Hollywood history. She began her career in films in the late 1920s, and rose to prominence as a leading lady in the 1930s and 1940s. She won her only Oscar for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter in 1947. Her film career tapered off there...

I know there's a thread already out there discussing the Jayne Mansfield Collection, but its like 15 years old, so I figured it would be suitable to start a new one to give my own insights (I assumed that those posters in the older thread might not even post here anymore). Despite the...

For this thread, I'm talking specifically referring to the primetime soap operas that dominated the television landscape from the late-'70s practically into the early-'90s. The genre was initiated with Peyton Place in 1964, but didn't really take over until Dallas debuted in 1978. Over the next...

Halloween is an American slasher franchise that consists of multiple films, novels, comic books, and various other merchandise. The Halloween movies were a yearly staple in my home when I was a kid. I have the strongest memories of Halloween 4 and Halloween 5 from this time, but I occasionally...

Yes, I am quite aware that all 13 seasons of King of the Hill have been released and are available on physical media. Despite that, I'd still like to have a good box set of the show bundling all the seasons together in one box. Fans online have petitioned potential designs for a complete...

It saddens me just how under-represented Jean Harlow's films have been. She's practically a footnote, and even to most old movie fans. She was a mainstream star from 1930 to 1937, until her life tragically ended from renal failure when she was just 26 years old. This set here includes one of...