These OOP Paramounts are still available new from Amazon:
A New Kind of Love
the Accused
Atlantic City
Barefoot in the Park
Desire Under the Elms
Detective Story
Election (Blu)
Hud
Laugh Or I'll Shoot Collection (The Naked Gun / Top Secret! / Airplane!)
Naked Gun 33 1/3
the Naked Jungle
No Way to Treat a Lady
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Blu)
Talented Mr Ripley/School Ties (Double Feature)
3 Days of the Condor

Available new for a price at or below list via Amazon Marketplace but fulfilled by Amazon:
Carrie (Wyler)
Daisy Miller
Hell Is For Heroes
It's All True
Murder on the Orient Express
Starting Over
Wonder Boys

Let me know of any others on Amazon that you come across and I will edit them into this post

I don't know. The VHS era was pretty robust for rentals, but the selection available nonetheless was pretty weak. I'm sure a lot of guys on this board remember driving to every Blockbuster in their area just to see which handful of films no other store was carrying. Or going to generic video shops where the clerks would inevitably ask just why you were renting so many miles from home.

No matter what's happening right now, I still think our current time period is the best ever for watching video. It's too bad the studios seem so behind the curve.

For domino's list in the top post above, It's All True is still available cheaply new but is OOP. And if we allow "available like-new for a price at or below list," then When Words Collide is still eligible for that category.

Terms of Endearment, The President's Analyst (1967), A Man Called Horse, and Little Big Man (1970) are still available from Amazon w/ that lame 10% discount.

in stock for $9.98.
Sabrina (1995)
Once Upon A Time in the West
Twilight (1998)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
A New Kind of Love
Hud
The Naked Jungle (1954)
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Monkeybone (Special Edition) (2001)
Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2
Mean Creek (2005)

in the "can still be had used for under ten bucks via marketplace" category:
Black Sunday
Marathon Man
Nashville
Rosemary's Baby
the Tenant
A Place in the Sun
Sunset Boulevard
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Save the Tiger (1973)
Houseboat (1958)
The Greatest Show on Earth
War and Peace (1956)
The Tin Star
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Last Train From Gun Hill
Five Card Stud (1968)
Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
Three Violent People (1956)
Arrowhead (1953)
Serpico
Dear God (1996)
Milk Money (1994)
Breakdown (1997)
Switchback (1997)
Kiss the Girls (1997)
A Simple Plan (1998)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
School Ties (1992)
Urban Cowboy (1980)
The Cowboy Way (1994)
Beverly Hills Cop
Daisy Miller (1974)
Harriet the Spy
The Conversation (1974)
Murder on the Orient Express
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Alfie (1966)
The Italian Job (1969)
I.Q. (1994)
The Thing Called Love (Director's Cut) (1993)

Getting expensive but haven't noticed mentioned yet:
It Started in Naples (1960)
Will Penny (1968)
Nevada Smith (1966)
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Branded (1950)
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Far Horizons
Waterhole #3
Frankie & Johnny (1991)
The Evening Star (1996)
In & Out (1997)
Soapdish (1991)
Andre (1994)
Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968)

Gregory, the War of the Worlds / When Worlds Collide double feature is in stock at Amazon for the time being, $13.49!

Domino mentioned this early in the thread, it's getting a re-issue by Lions Gate in August - see here. So anyone on edge doesn't have to jump the gun.

Terms of Endearment is also coming out August 3, and Little Big Man is not OOP

Also, at some point, I'm going to have to stop spending money on titles I think I might need in the future. I went from like six Paramount DVDs to probably five times that

The following are still available new from Amazon:

The Accused
American Gigolo (I Love the 80s Edition)
Beverly Hills Cop (80s Edition)
Clue
Death Wish
Death Wish / Escape from Alcatraz / Uncommon Valor (Triple Feature)
Election (Blu-ray)
Hud
Laugh Or I'll Shoot Collection (The Naked Gun / Top Secret! / Airplane!)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Centennial Collection)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / Shane (Double Feature)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Pretty in Pink
Roman Holiday (Centennial Collection)
Sabrina (Centennial Collection)
Shane
The Talented Mr. Ripley / School Ties (Double Feature)

These are still in-print

Yeah...Plains/Trains was only recently re-released after a long hiatus and criminally shitty barebones initial release. Pretty in Pink was also redone for the 4th time fairly recently.

I don't understand the Centennial stuff. First they were gonna be blu rays....then they half ass it and only release 8 or so....then half of those go out of print in less than a year, but some others stay in print. I have to think those that went OOP are in the works for blu ray. They are major titles...pretty much the cream of their classics....if they can't make money on them, they might as well give up completely.

But that doesn't stop Paramount. One of the titles climbing higher and higher in price right now is the recent SE of Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful

3 Days of the Condor (Blu-ray) is still available at Amazon. Just ordered mine. The DVD is gone, although you can still order the CD soundtrack!

3 Days of Condor has been released by Studio Canal in Europe with superior extras, don't spend 20$ on the US disc!

I followed Domino's advice and picked up Hud, Marathon Man, and The Talented Mr. Ripley at the Northgate location.
I'm poor, so I bought for my viewing collection and not for reselling purposes. But Seattle-ites, I did see Nashville, Heaven Can Wait, and Ragtime (all of which I already own) up there.

Now, I just need to get Save The Tiger, Margot at the Wedding, Breakdown, and The Tin Star.

What is the current status of Heller in Pink Tights?

OOP, but available cheaply from third-party sellers on Amazon.

well son of a bitch. I never bothered picking that up because I had the original. it's a guilty pleasure of mine (class of '88...I was 17 when it came out and thought Leah Thompson was super dreamy) and I have the first release. oh well, guess that'll have to do.

Tin Star has been OOP for quite a while now...good luck finding that. I've been looking for months not realizing this was going to be an epidemic. I also kind of held out hope it would be one Criterion picked up so didn't bother ordering one from the Marketplace. Still affordable there though.

But why the fuck isn't Lionsgate also releasing it on blu-ray????

I've been waiting for my absolute favorite films to come out on blu before I start expanding my currently-small collection. And this is on of them.

another one I noticed on my shelf: John Frankenheimer's Eco Terror masterpiece ( ) Prophecy from 1979...still cheap on Amazon Marketplace. Those damned Acid Rain bears scared the crap out of me as a kid!

Wait... you belittle me for liking Race With the Devil but you yourself like Prophecy? Whatever!

I wasn't belittling you! I was belittling dicks charging $50 for Race on Amazon....it's a fun little movie, but not worth THAT. that's all I said. Same goes for Prophecy....it's a stupid but fun bit of 70s schlock and worth about the $5 you can still buy it for. But it'll probably end up $50 too, which is sad. The whole thing is just sad.


I would never belittle anyone for liking anything. I like some incredibly stupid shit and have zero room to talk on that front. But it just amazes me how some incredibly average to lame movies can command such prices when they go OOP. Hell, I almost bought Race With the Devil a few times, but never found it for less than $10...had I seen it in a $5 bin it would be mine. A good example of this silliness is the ultimate in schlock: Gargoyles - a flick that terrified me in the early 70s when I was little, and I wanted but never got around to buying. Now it's $75 and up. ridiculous.

No no, I understand, just playing along.

Clearly, though, smaller cultish films have more of a tendency to skyrocket in price when unavailable, which is kind of unfortunate... these are the kinds of titles you love to share with people.

I'd like to throw in a recommendation for Starting Over while it's still cheap. I picked up a copy solely on the strength of Pakula being in the director's chair, without even realizing it was James L Brooks' first film as screenwriter. Well, I honestly can't remember the last comedy I saw that made me laugh so hard so consistently throughout. Candice Bergen steals the show and her aspiring singer-songwriter has what might be the funniest seduction scene I've ever seen. For under ten bucks and soon to disappear forever, you can't go wrong with this one, folks.