MGM Titles for $3 at Big Lots (1 Viewer)

[Malcolm R]

My local Big Lots store just got a huge display full of MGM titles for $3 each.

Some good stuff to be found if you dig including the 2006 Deluxe Edition of "Guys & Dolls", several Midnight Movies, all the classic Pink Panther films, several Sidney Poitier classics, and various other catalog titles and a few newer releases (including both the original and remake of "The Amityville Horror").

I picked up 12.

At $3 each, it's cheaper than renting at Blockbuster.

Big Lots has had quite a few good DVD deals recently from MGM, HBO, and Universal. I got the "Angels in America" set for $3 a couple weeks ago.

 

[Eric Peterson]

Thanks for the heads up. I rarely go to Big Lots, but I'll stop by and see if my local store has any.

 

[RyanAn]

Thanks for the heads up, I've found some great finds at Big Lots. (Sidekicks, OOP) and this seems like a great addition. ;0

ry

 

[Eric Peterson]

My local Big Lots did not have any of the MGM titles, but I managed to pick up several other exciting titles for $3 including "Sketches of Frank Ghery" & "Auto-Focus"

 

[Casey Neutron]

The Big Lots near me had a ton of titles. Here's just some that I can remember. For some movies there were multiple copies, but there were plenty others with only one copy each.


Salvador (SE)
To Live and Die in L.A. (SE)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (edited R-rated)
Prizzi's Honor
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978/first release)
The Woman in Red
Flesh + Blood
Bound For Glory
Dominick and Eugene
A Shot in the Dark
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Trail of the Pink Panther
The Flamingo Kid
Miami Blues
Semi-Tough
Breaking In
The Aviator (Christopher Reeve)
Flawless (DeNiro)
City of Ghosts
Soul Plane
Scanners
Pieces of April
Paths of Glory
Johnny Be Good
Roadie
Kotch
Eat Drink Man Woman
Carbon Copy
Undertow
Making Mr. Right
The Falcon and the Snowman
Out Cold
Four Friends
Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa)
The Sure Thing
Manhunter (full frame)
Carrie (TV remake)


...and lots more that have slipped my mind. If I go back in the next day or two I'll expand this list.

 

[Malcolm R]

Sounds like Casey's store has the same batch as mine.

I picked up a few more yesterday, including Swamp Thing, The Chateau, Phantom of the Opera, and A Summer Story (Bob Clark sequel to "A Christmas Story"...I had never heard of it before).

 

[Kyle McKnight]

You've got one helluva memory!

 

[TravisR]

Or a camera in his cell phone.

 

[L. Anton Dencklau]

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[Jeff Reis]

The store near me seems to have restocked the MGM stuff....I picked up

Sure Thing (SE)
Bubba Ho Tep (CE)
Alexander The Great (Richard Burton)
Thunderbirds Are Go
Thunderbird 6
To Live and Die in LA (SE)
Konga
Too Late The Hero
Hell In The Pacific
The Holcroft Covenant
Duel In The Sun
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood
The Ghoul

 

[MielR]

I considered a lot of them, but in the end I only got two: The Pink Panther Strikes Again (which is the one I hoped I'd find when I walked in the store) and I also got The Cheap Detective (which is full-screen, but I don't think there's a widescreen available yet). I would have liked to have gotten some more Sellers' Pink Panther titles, but the only ones they had were the ones like, "Curse Of....", "Son Of...." etc. There were A LOT of great titles, though.

A few others I remember (that haven't already been mentioned):

The Great Train Robbery (Sean Connery)
Frogs (Ray Milland)
A Bucket of Blood
The Man With The X-Ray Eyes (Ray Milland)
Son of the Pink Panther
Curse of the Pink Panther
The Cheap Detective
The Last Valley (Michael Caine)
Evelyn (Pierce Brosnan)
The Amityville Horror (the original AND the remake)
Amityville Horror II: The Possesion
Ned Kelly (Mick Jagger)
The Saddest Music in the World
The Black Stallion (AND the sequel)
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
That Championship Season (theatrical version AND TV remake)
Jinxed! (Bette Midler)

.......and many more.

I wonder why MGM is doing this- are these going OOP? Some of these titles are still for sale on Amazon for $9.99 or more.

 

[Ethan Riley]

I got Nicholas Nicholby and Inspector Clouseau.

 

[Robert Floto]

I got A Shot in the Dark, Revenge of the Pink Panther, and The Pink Panther Strikes Again. They had Inspector Clouseau, and the additional non-Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, but I stopped at the three I mentioned...

 

[Eric Peterson]

I didn't have much luck on first visit, but I re-visited both in my vicinity this week and they were fully stocked. I picked up the following.

Prizzi's Honor
Rollerball
Salvador (SE)
That Championship Season
Frogs
Bucket of Blood
The Fall of the House of Usher
Konga
Duel in the Sun
Foxy Brown
Scanners
The Brood
Bubba Ho-Tep
Chato's Land
De-Lovely
Evelyn
The Fugitive Kind
Hell in the Pacific
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Pink Panther Returns
The Sure Thing

Along with the others that I picked up a few weeks ago, that's nearly 30 movies for under $100 after taxes. Even if most of these are only viewed once, I'll be able to off-load them for $2 and get most of my money back.

I'm gonna try and hit another one later this week.

 

[Malcolm R]

I've also been making repeat visits and purchasing more. I think I've bought about 25 now over three visits. Hopefully they'll sell out soon before I go broke.

 

[Will Gioconda]

I stopped by my local Big Lots today, and they had a bunch of HBO titles for $3. I picked up The Laramie Project, Empire Falls, and American Splendor. I was really surprised to see such quality titles!

 

[Ethan Riley]

Yesterday picked up:

Duel in the Sun
Pretty Persuasion
Son of the Pink Panther
Hotel (2005)
Deal of a Lifetime
Moulin Rouge (1952)

Every time I go in that store, they have different titles! Yikes!

 

[Casey Neutron]

A bunch more titles available for those interested. Mostly Columbia stuff, but I'm starting to see a lot of Universal/Focus Features films in there too.

Adaptation
Monster
Leon: The Professional (non-SE)
Hellboy (3-disc director's cut)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (SE)
Postcards From The Edge
Bite The Bullet (P&S)
Close Encounters (single disc)
Identity
The Devil's Backbone
Capote
In Cold Blood
Capote/In Cold Blood (double feature package)
Bugsy (new extended version)
Hollywood Homicide
Bad Boys II
Booty Call
Bats
Gattaca (SE)
Hollow Man (Superbit)
Starship Troopers 2
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (original release)
A Few Good Men (original release)
Gigli
Saraband
Scoop
The Natural (original release)
The Missing (saw both WS and P&S versions)
Swimming Pool
The Door In The Floor
Untamed Heart
An Evening With Kevin Smith 2
L'Enfant

 

[MielR]

I got the widescreen 2-disc set of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King for my nephew (also $3)