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The gift of show
Classics for reel collectors
By Steve Fisher
WHEN IT COMES to gift shopping, DVDs
can be a great choice for movie and television
lovers, and Costco has some exciting box sets
not available anywhere else.
These collections, compiled by Twentieth
Century Fox and Costco’s media buyers, are
available exclusively at Costco, and at a
considerable savings over buying each of the
films separately.
Anthology of War on Film ( 10 films)
Nobody likes war in reality, but onscreen
there are few arenas as exciting or moving.
This is a true collector’s set. It includes:
The Longest Day (1962). This Academy
Award winner captures the events of D-Day
and features an international all-star cast,
including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Sean
Connery and Richard Burton—and was
directed by four directors.
The Great Escape (1963). Director John
Sturges’ classic, based on the true story of
Allied POWs plotting to break out of a German prison camp, stars Steve McQueen,
James Garner, James Coburn, Richard Attenborough and Charles Bronson.
Patton (1970). The controversial American general is portrayed by George C. Scott,
who won the Best Actor Oscar. The film also
took Best Director and Best Picture.
The other films are classics in their own
right: Twelve O’Clock H igh (1949), starring Gregory Peck; Vo n Ryan’s Express
(1965), starring Frank S inatra; T he Sand
Pebbles (1966), starring Steve McQueen;
Battle of Britain (1969), starring Michael
Caine and Laurence Oli vier; T ora! Tora!
Tora! (1970); A Bridge T oo Far
(1977), with an all-star cast;
and Platoon (1986).
The Ultimate Sci-Fi
Collection ( 14 films)
Science-fiction film s
run the gamut from th e
sublime to the ridiculo us.
These tap into sublimit y.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
The American Film Institute ranked this tale
about an alien who comes to Earth to warn
humans to live in peace or face terrible consequence among the top 10 science-fiction films
of all time, and it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). Alien is
one of the most suspenseful and terrifying
films of all time, and many fans consider
the sequel superior to the first. Directed by
two masters: Ridley Scott and James Cameron,
respectively.
Also in the collection: The Fly (1958),
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959),
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), Fantastic
Voyage (1966), Planet of the Apes (1967), The
Neptune Factor (1973), Rollerball (1975), Mad
Max (1980), Escape from New York (1981),
T he Abyss (1993) and Independence
D ay ( 1996). Most of the films are the
c ollector’s or special editions.
The Ultimate Westerns
Collection ( 13 films)
From John Wayne’s
s tarring debut in The Big
T rail (1930) to Kevin Cost-
ner’s Academy Award–
winning epic Dances with
W olves (1990), from Clint
E astwood and Sergio
Leone’s entire “Man with No
N ame” series (The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly et al.) to The
Pictured clockwise from top: The Longest
Day, Aliens, Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, Tora! Tora! Tora!, South
Pacific, The Day the Earth Stood Still,
Fiddler on the Roof, Patton, The King and I
Magnificent Seven and Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, this superb set of films provides a great repre-sentation of the one truly
American film genre, the Western.
The other films in the collection are The
Westerner (1940), Red River (1948), Broken
Arrow (1950), The Comancheros (1961) and
The Missouri Breaks (1976).
Fox is also presenting four special gift sets
of the greatest Broadway musicals: The Sound
of Music, West Side Story, The King and I and
Fiddler on the Roof. Available November 15,
each set contains the DVD, an original
motion-picture soundtrack CD and companion coffee-table books with behind-the-scenes
stories and pictures or sheet music. C
The Costco Connection
You’ll also find four James Bond collections, each with bonus gifts, and selected
films such as, Talladega Nights, Across
the Universe, Monster House, and others,
include a bonus T-shirt with the DVD.
