Rain Man

Invisible Man - The Legacy Collection (The Invisible Man/Invisible Man Returns/Invisible Agent/Invisible Woman/Invisible Man's Revenge)
$29.98
I grew up on the old films and loved them then and still do! In this day and age anything can be done; Buildings falling, Dinosaurs, someone flying, etc... but back then they had to use their minds to achieve what can be done today. They found how to do something in the first film and then make it even better in the sequel. its all corny and sometimes you can see the wires, but I just love to look at how they made it come to life. This is a GREAT DVD pack and I enjoy seeing it time after time...

Rain Man [Region 2]
$17.00
One of my favorite movies.....Great performances by Dustin Hoffman,who plays Raymond,a servant with a gift for numbers,and his brother,Charlie,Tom Cruise.....Charlie finds out after 30 years that he has a special brother who is in a home caring for his special needs.He desides to "kidnap"Rayond to get to know him better.The movie shows the very special challenges this creates for Charlie,and the special bond that is created when Charlie finally finds what a very wonderful person Raymond is.Hollywood at it's best....Very unusual in light of some of their recent efforts....example(2012-the movie)UGH!!!!

The Invisible Man
$14.98
The Universal Pictures horror film that put Universal Pictures back in black during the worse years of the Great Depression.

The comedy was fun without being slapstick silly (as in later sequels); the characters actors were great in conveying mood; and the megalomaniac vocal abilities of Claude Rains was fantastic. I picked up the Classic Monster Collection (1990) and it kept much of the original film's dusty, poppy stuff that you usually see in old Black & White films.

The DVD goes over the whole effects process of making a man invisible, expertly done by James Fulton.

James Whale, the man who directed Frankenstein and Dracula, took the H.G. Wells novel and its adaptation was near perfect, even approved by Wells himself.

The opening scene at the bar, the mad scientist who has achieved invisibility needs to find a place of quiet, working on an antidote. And as he works on it, he gets the idea that the chemicals have cleared his brain to where he can cause panic in the streets, kill a few people, great or small, cause a train wreck or so, and have the world grovel at his feet. Ya Ha Ha Ha Ha!! Oops!

As in Frankenstein, Whale has the worried fiance, the secluded mad scientist, the "other guy" who wants the fiance for himself and a desire to be famous.

After much police hyjinx, a bit of it slapstick and silly, the burning of a barn and a well-placed bullet puts an end to the mad scientist's invisibility and his formula.

John Carradine makes a brief appearance talking to police on a telephone. Henry Travers as the father of the fiance, who was later seen as Clarence the Angel in Its' a Wonderful Life. Gloria Stuart is the well-made-up fiance, Flora. Interestingly she gave up acting only to pick it up again in the 1980s. She was the old woman who was the last survivor in Cameron's Titanic.

So many facts and figures, great "making of" and a bit of a drawn-out commentary track by film historian Rudy Behlmer.

Great DVD, though I'm sure the newest Universal Legacy edition recently out is much better.

Rain Man
$19.98
One of my favorite movies.....Great performances by Dustin Hoffman,who plays Raymond,a servant with a gift for numbers,and his brother,Charlie,Tom Cruise.....Charlie finds out after 30 years that he has a special brother who is in a home caring for his special needs.He desides to "kidnap"Rayond to get to know him better.The movie shows the very special challenges this creates for Charlie,and the special bond that is created when Charlie finally finds what a very wonderful person Raymond is.Hollywood at it's best....Very unusual in light of some of their recent efforts....example(2012-the movie)UGH!!!!