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Sometimes buried treasure, sometimes buried for a good reason a reason

Posted by Bambi B on July 9, 2019 at 19:48:31:
Victor Khomenko,
I like to haunt thrift stores that have books and those that do often also have VHS. Othwer shops won't even take them as a donation. I have an old Sony combinations VHS and DVD player.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Janes Fighting Ships 2003-2004 for $1- and you can't beat the price per pound. At the same time I saw a whole pile of 70's 80's opera performances and got half the Ring Cycle and Beverly Sills performances I'd never heard. Also a Bolshoi tape. I also hadn't seen "What About Bob" since it was new or the great E>g Robinson /Orson Welles, "The Stranger" for a long while. I'd never seen Antonionionioni's(< sp?) "the Passenger" with Jack Nicholson. As any VHS was $.25, I took a big risk and had hours of entertainment.
"What About Bob" wasn't as goofily funny as I remembered when I was 35 years younger, and "The Passenger" was beautifully made but the premise was incomprehensible; "Why does Nicholson give up a prestigious journalist's job, a huge house in London, and beautiful wife, for wandering and pursuit by gun-running killers just because his Land Rover got stuck in the sand in Africa? Gosh, a whole quarter wasted!
"The Stranger" however was wonderfully quirky- sort of on the edge of surreal / noir. Who would ever think to put Edward G. Robinson in a Nazi fugitive in Vermont thriller with all all the action in a clock tower? Should it have been "The Covered Bridge of Spies"?
Anyway, the point is that what seems rubbish round the house might be gold to the thrift store punter, or at least a failed experiment comes at a reasonable price.
Not to belabor the point too much further, but there have to be a lot of movies never transferred to DVD.
Cheers,
Bambi B