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Men in Black

Men in Black VHS cover art. Movie starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, David Cross. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. 1997.

Men in Black on VHS. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, David Cross. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. 1997.

From the box:

Protecting The Earth From The Scum Of The Universe.

MEMO TO: Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and Agent J (Will Smith)

FROM: Agent Zed (Rip Torn)

WARNING: New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer (Vincent D’Onofrio, The Player). Your mission is to locate and exterminate this bug before it destroys our planet. We have a cache of weapons for you to arm yourselves with, including the Carbonizer, Series 4 De-Atomizer and the Noisy Cricket. Make sure you also bring your Neuralyzers. You may find Dr. Laurel Weaver (Linda Fiorentino, The Last Seduction) and an alien arms dealer (Tony Shalhoub, TV’s “Wings”) useful in carrying out your task. Good Luck!

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Morons from Outer Space

Morons from Outer Space VHS cover art. Movie starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, James Sikking, Dinsdale Landen. With Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown. Directed by Mike Hodges. 1985.

Morons from Outer Space on VHS. Starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, James Sikking, Dinsdale Landen. With Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown. Directed by Mike Hodges. 1985.

From the box:

Hilarious invasion from four extraordinary aliens.

The hilarious adventures of four ordinary aliens who crash land on Earth may give new dimension to the word “Moron.”

The aliens are quite human, and entirely uncurious about Earth and what they find there. Conversely, Earthling interest in them is so intense that they soon become international celebrities and pop superstars.

This could just be the beginning for the Morons From Outer Space.

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2001: A Space Travesty

2001: A Space Travesty VHS cover art. Movie starring Leslie Nielsen. With Ophélie Winter, Ezio Greggio, Peter Egan, Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld. Directed by Allan A. Goldstein. 2000.

2001: A Space Travesty on VHS. Starring Leslie Nielsen. With Ophélie Winter, Ezio Greggio, Peter Egan, Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld. Directed by Allan A. Goldstein. 2000.

From the box:

The Most Outer Spaced-Out Comedy Ever!

When the president of the United States is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a clone, the police call on Marshall “Dick” Dix of the International Security Force to help rescue him–and quickly, before they clone the rest of the world’s leaders.

With the fate of the world in his clumsy hands, Dix heads to the planet Vegan, a very strange place run by an evil doctor and inhabited by aliens who, having learned to speak English from watching television, all talk like different Hollywood movie stars. After engaging in some freaky lunar socializing, Dix joins forces with sexy officer Cassandra Menage and master of disguise Captain di Pasquale to rescue the saxophone-playing president. They return to Washington, D.C. and accomplish their mission of replacing the cloned president with the real president. Or did they?

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Space Truckers

Space Truckers on VHS. Starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar. Directed by Stuart Gordon. 1996.

Space Truckers on VHS. Starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar. Directed by Stuart Gordon. 1996.

From the box:

Earth’s Only Hope

“A $27 MILLION SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE EXTRAVAGANZA.”
“Fantastic… Amazing… Pure Genius”
“An Electrifying Cast”

(It’s a screener copy)

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Space Cowboys

Space Cowboys on VHS cover art. Movie starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 2000.

Space Cowboys on VHS. Starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 2000.

From the box:

Bonus Footage! A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Special Effects

Clint Eastwood, directing for the 22nd time and starring for the 42nd, leads a stellar cast into orbit in the exhilarating, high-tech adventure, Space Cowboys. Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner join Eastwood as old-school test pilots whose grasp of outdated technology make them the only ones able to repair a primitive, deorbiting Russian satellite that imperils Earth.

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Firefox

Firefox VHS cover art. Movie starring Clint Eastwood. With Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 1982.

Firefox on VHS. Starring Clint Eastwood. With Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 1982.

From the box:

The most devastating killing machine ever built. His job: steal it!

Like a high-tech bat out of hell, it rips through the skies at six times the speed of sound. Like a shimmering ghost, it is invisible to radar. Like a sleek cobra, it spits death — with missiles launched and guided purely by the pilot’s thoughts. It’s the most devastating war machine ever built by man. Code name: Firefox.

But Firefox belongs to the Russians. To maintain the delicate balance of world power, the West must steal it. The right man for the job? Take a guess.

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High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter VHS cover art. Movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. Also starring Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill and Mitch Ryan. 1973.

High Plains Drifter on VHS. Starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. Also starring Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill and Mitch Ryan. 1973.

From the box:

They’d never forget the day he drifted into town.

Eastwood portrays a mysterious stranger who emerges out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the guilt-ridden town of Lago. After committing three murders and one rape in the first 20 minutes, The Stranger is hired by the town to protect it from three gunmen just out of jail. The Stranger then paints the entire town bright red, renames it “Hell”, and supplies Divine retribution in a fiery climax.

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The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest VHS cover art. Movie starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran. Directed by Archie Mayo. Based on a play by Robert E. Sherwood. 1936.

The Petrified Forest on VHS. Starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran. Directed by Archie Mayo. Based on a play by Robert E. Sherwood. 1936.

From the box:

Bette Davis Signature Collection

Bogie plays Duke Mantee, a thug on the lam, who’s spent most of his life in jail. And, he growls, “It looks like I’ll spend the rest of my life dead.” At the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q, he holds hostages at gunpoint while waiting for his moll to show up with the getaway car. Among his captives are Alan Squier (Leslie Howard), a writer looking for something worth living or dying for, and Gabby (Bette Davis), a sweet-natured waitress who dreams of abandoning her nowhere existence for life as an artist.

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Jailhouse Rock

Jailhouse Rock VHS cover art. Movie starring Elvis Presley. With Judy Tyler, Dean Jones, Mickey Shaughnessy. Directed by Richard Thorpe. 1957.

Jailhouse Rock on VHS. Starring Elvis Presley. With Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy. Directed by Richard Thorpe. 1957.

From the box:

Elvis Commemorative Collection

Sent to prison for accidentally killing a man, young Vince Everett (Elvis) takes up signing behind bars. But everything gets “All Shook Up” when he crosses paths with a beautiful record label talent scout in this fast-paced musical drama featuring seven dynamic classics including “I Want To Be Free,” “Don’t Leave Me Now,” “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” and the blistering smash “Jailhouse Rock.”

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Eat The Rich

Eat the Rich VHS cover art. Movie starring Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne, Jimmy Fagg, Lemmy Kilmister, Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ron Tarr. With Kevin Allen, Dave Beard, Rowena Bently, Robbie Coltrane, Angela Bowie, Bill Wyman, Steve Walsh, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Hugh Cornwell, Miles A. Copeland III, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Jools Holland, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Kathy Burke, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson. Directed by Peter Richardson. 1988.

Eat the Rich on VHS. Starring Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne, Jimmy Fagg, Lemmy Kilmister, Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ron Tarr. With Kevin Allen, Dave Beard, Rowena Bently, Robbie Coltrane, Angela Bowie, Bill Wyman, Steve Walsh, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Hugh Cornwell, Miles A. Copeland III, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Jools Holland, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Kathy Burke, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson. Directed by Peter Richardson. 1988.

From the box:

You are what you eat!

“You are what you eat,” is given new meaning when a trendy London restaurant is suddenly taken over by maniacal subversives in the outrageous Eat The Rich. Nosher Powell stars as an ex-boxer, beer-gulping bully elected to the elitist position of Home Security, second in command to the Prime Minister. Tired of watching his country be terrorized by undesirables, Nosher kicks butts…bashes baddies…and still finds time to flirt with the Queen. Meanwhile, a surly but sensitive ex-waiter Alex (Lanah Pellay) has assembled a small band to join his people’s uprising-while suave Commander Fortune (Ronald Allen), a Soviet double agent, and his sidekick Spider (Lemmy), are plotting Nosher’s downfall. It’s might versus mincemeat, where the strongest, sexiest, or just plain silliest wind up eating eating their words-or each other-in this unforgettable spoof of the upper crust featuring music by “Motorhead,” and cameos by Paul McCartney, Koo Stark and Bill Wyman.

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