Looking for Box Set Collections

I'm loading up for gifts and such and wondering if there are any
recommendations for especilly good box set collections out there. I
just picked up the Classic Comedies collection

Flasherly...

Not sure how it's packaged, but thoroughly enjoyed the British
production of Graves' - I, Claudius. Would of course bore some.
Nexflix thing, perhaps a couple episodes per disc - not sure, been
awhile. Cosmos, Carl Sagan, besides lots of other educational style
documentary series. Enjoyable, but rather have drama or sci-fi/fantasy
(Tolkien, Alien Quadrilogy, British SciFi Ch. Dune 3 episodes, etc). A

David Oberman...

Dozens of episodes from the excellent series "Foyle's War," starring
Michael Kitchen, are available on Region 1 in boxes. It's worth
watching every single episode.

definate on Criterions and maay a good classic put to film under that
label.

Flasherly...

A sure-fire winner. Also looking at the Complete Thin Man, the Alec
Guinness collection and/or the Ealing Studios collection. The

Sean O'Hara...

If you're looking at those, also check out the Peter Sellers collection.

The best boxsets I've encountered this year:

- Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection Volume 2 [1]
- The Jayne Mansfield Collection
- Bette Grable Collection
- Sam Peckinpah Collection
- John Ford/John Wayne Collection
- Batjac Suspsense Collection
- Cary Grant Collection (the one Sony with Holiday, His Girl Friday,
etc.)
- Ultimate Flint Collection

There are also a few I've picked up but haven't had a chance to dig
into:

- Preston Sturges Collection
- Oliver Stone Ultimate Collection ($34.99 at F.Y.E. this week)
- Gary Cooper Signature Collection
- The Premiere Frank Capra Collection

[1] Volume 1 and the Bogie & Bacall Collection simply repackage
discs that were released individually.

Casavettes box looks a little pricey.

Anyon have other recs? There's so much great stuff out there. Was also
looking at some of the Criterion stuff, the Sam Fuller issues, although
I don't think they have those collected. Some of the individual
Criterions have so many extras they're almost a box though.

David Oberman...

The two Marx Brothers sets -- one of the MGM films & one of the
Paramount films. The new Brando collection contains "Teahouse of the
August Moon," a warm, funny, mainstreamy film that most of today's TV
audience has probably never seen or heard about.

is there a Phil Silvers Box? Going to check............

Derek Janssen...

There's Sgt. Bilko, Season 1, since you did ask.

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

MFalc1...

I would recommend
GARY COOPER-Universal has a box that includes Cooper's 30's hits
BEAU GESTE, LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER and THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN,
among others. WB's collection includes SERGEANT YORK, THE
FOUNTAINHEAD,
DALLAS, SPRINGFIELD RIFLE and THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE. Extras
include a late-80's TNT documentary on Cooper hosted by Clint Eastwood.

BUSTER KEATON-Kino Video's box has all the Keaton silent features
(except THE CAMERAMAN), plus shorts and a rarities disc called KEATON
PLUS.
TCM's box contains THE CAMERAMAN, SPITE MARRIAGE and Keaton's first
talkie
feature FREE AND EASY. There's also a Columbia 2-reel shorts DVD set,
but due to the
uneven quality of the films (the best I saw were "The Pest From The
West" and "Nothing
But Trouble") it is better to rent it through Netflix.

PRESTON STURGES-Universal has a box with almost all of Sturges'
Paramount features
between 1940 and 1945 (THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK is available as a
single disc
from Paramount.).

WB's FILM NOIR boxes Volumes 1-3, which contain some of the best noir
from RKO
and MGM circa the late 40's/early 50's. (see also WB's Bogart and
Bacall box, which
unfortunately doesn't add any new extras but collects their four
co-starring films).

FRANK CAPRA-A collection of selected Columbia 30's releases including
MR. DEEDS GOES
TO TOWN, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, AMERICAN MADNESS and YOU CAN'T
TAKE IT WITH YOU.

Mark L. Falconer-film and video links at

Harkness...

If you have anyone who's brow is a little bit higher than Bilko...

John Harkness

CliffB...

Thanks for that one, interesting. I'm patiently waiting for the long
lost Bilko-Bunuel collaboration to surface........