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Best Picture of the Yeari Best. Rice of the Ear SUMMER 1984 SUP~LEMENT I WORLD'S GREATEST SELECTION OF THINGS TO SHOW Best picture of the yeari Best. rice of the ear. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) SHIRLEY MacLAINE, DEBRA WINGER Story of a mother and daughter and their evolving relationship. Winner of 5 Academy Awards! 30B-837650-Beta 30H-837650-VHS .............. $39.95 JUNE CATALOG SPECIAL! Buy any 3 videocassette non-sale titles on the same order with "Terms" and pay ONLY $30 for "Terms". Limit 1 per family. OFFER EXPIRES JUNE 30, 1984. Blackhawk&;, SUMMER 1984 Vol. 374 © 1984 Blackhawk Films, Inc., One Old Eagle Brewery, Davenport, Iowa 52802 Regular Prices good thru June 30, 1984 VIDEOCASSETTE Kew ReleMe WORLDS GREATEST SHE Cl ION Of THINGS TO SHOW TUMBLEWEEDS ( 1925) WILLIAMS. HART William S. Hart came to the movies in 1914 from a long line of theatrical ex­ perience, mostly Shakespearean and while to many he is the strong, silent Western hero of film he is also the peer of John Ford as a major force in shaping and developing this genre we enjoy, the Western. In 1889 in what is to become Oklahoma Territory the Cherokee Strip is just a graz­ ing area owned by Indians and worked day and night be the itinerant cowboys called 'tumbleweeds'. Alas, it is the end of the old West as the homesteaders are moving in . Hart becomes involved with a homesteader's daughter and her evil brother who has a scheme to jump the line as "sooners". The scenes of the gigantic land rush is one of the most noted action sequences in film history. Our 1939 re-issue includes the famous spoken prologue by Hart in which he bids his audience farewell in his rich, Shakespearean trained voice. This is one of the most moving speeches ever committed to film. Film is ac­ companied by a superb piano score per­ formed by William Perry. BW 89 min. 506-57-0588 - Beta 525-57-0588 - VHS ......... $34.98 VIDEO COLLECTOR'S PLAN Please look at your re­ quantity in the "shipped" Thank you for being our BLACKHAWK'S ceipts when you get them column, a zero will show in customer. for video movies. The the "not shipped" column Sincerely, NEWSREEL original copy is labeled "1 and then the words "video Customer Original Copy" tape" or "videodisc" in red ink in the lower left "validations on collectors hand corner. In the area plan" (depending on whicli ~ circled in the example you have ordered). Ted Ewing shown here it tells you: Only the copy of receipt President "ATTENTION VIDEO described is acceptable MOVIE BUYERS: SAVE when ordering your FREE • THIS RECEIPT. This is your title. IT IS IMPORTANT collector's card for this THAT YOU KEEP THIS order. It 1s your only COPY FOR USE ON THE Over copy." The last line on the COLLECTOR'S PLAN . 3,500 receipt listing the items you I hope this information is .,S.;~li,J,1..,;;1,;,,:.ll Movies · ~ ;l. ,, have ordered will say a helpful to you. t';:h 2 VIDEOCASSETTE FIRESIDE THEATRE This is a series of television dramas, police melodramas and comedy dramas produced in the 1950s by Proctor & Gamble. Alter its original telecasting, the series was sold and reissued under the title, " Return Engage­ ment" . It is top grade in every way, directed by various well-known Holl ywood directors, and given the care of a major television production. MURDERER'S WIFE AUDREY TOTTER, JOHN HOWARD, JUNE KENNY, MICHAEL CHAPIN Lovely Audrey Totter stars in this compelling drama of teen­ age and adult conflict at a private school. She portrays the role of a teacher who seeks to rescue a student from mak­ ing a serious mistake. At the risk of position and reputation, the teacher guides the troubled girl away from the path which she, herself, had taken and lived to regret. 24 min . BW 506-30-0565 - Beta 525-30-0565 - VHS ......... $19.98 BOOK XVI scrounging expedition; and the gang assembles buggy 50 min . SW wheels, a window-washer's ladder, a neighbor's hose and LOVE BUSINESS (1931) some appropriated lumber. With much sawing, pounding, Jackie Cooper hos a crush on his pretty schoolteacher, hammering and a very complicated wheel assembly, the Miss Crabtree; every night in bed he keeps hi s little brother 10-man engine is completed. Wheezer awake as he hugs and kisses his imaginary Spanky clangs the bell from the forward seat and Stymie sweetheart and calls her lovey-dovey names. One day steers from the back, and the wondrous vehicle starts down Jackie gets a piece of news that hits like a thunderbolt: Miss hill - challenged by the rich kid . Swerving from side to side, Crabtree is coming to live with his family! This means the back section swinging sideways, the super truck washing before every meal, and along with Wheezer and threatens everything in its path. Pedestrians fly in the air his sister Mary Ann, keeping an eye on dinner etiquette. as the truck veers onto the sidewalk, traffk disappears, and But it also means having to put up with a romantic rival, the rich kid ' s truck is wrecked. Finally gravity and a tall as Chubby drops by to ask Miss Crabtree to marry him . hedge bring them to a breathless halt. Jackie heckles his adversary, but the love-scene comes to Pooling ingenuity and mechanical inspiration in this 1934 a definite halt when Jacki~'s mother recognizes the mushy " how-to" are Spanky, Wally, Stymie, Scotty, Tommy sentiments Chubby is dishing out. He's memorized her old Bond, Jane Taylor, Jerry Tucker, Bubbles Trin, Donald love letters, which Wheezer has been selling! Profitt, Tommy Bupp and Cotton. LOVE BUSINESS is a typically amusing and appealing CAME THE BRAWN (1938) short from the early-talkie period, lealuring that idolized In a biting spoof of both "wraslin" and fickle women, schoolmarm, Miss Crabtree, played by June Marlowe. In CAME THE BRAWN finds Spanky promoting a fixed light one scene, the Hal Roach filmmakers play a subtle inside­ between Alfalfa and the mysterious Masked Marvel. The joke; Chubby practices lovemaking in front of the local match rehearsal is slowed down when Alfalfa is unable to movie theatre, where a giant photo shows a typically sappy pick out someone he's certain he' ll be able to lick . At last, movie couple - Charley Chase and Thelma Toddl Bookworm Waldo strides by and trips over his own feet HI NEIGHBOR (1934) ... he has a problem with lolling down. Alfalfa is sure he Wally and Spanky, nothing to do but sail their homemade can pin this guyl Alter training though, he visits Darla who sailboat in a puddle, perk up when a Wilshire Moving truck thinks she likes he-men. Alfalfa brags just a little too much pulls alongside. The driver asks directions to Cherry Street. about his wrestling prowess, especially in front of tough­ Spanky and Wally spot a shiny junior-sized lire engine on guy Butch, his chief rival for Darla's alledions, and the bully the back of the truck and round up the whole gang. As the switches places with weakling Waldo in the Masked Mar- lire truck touches the sidewalk, Spanky, Wally, Stymie and vel 's dressing room before the light. Afolfa thinks he'll have their buddies swarm over it - ringing the bell, turning the an easy time of it until the unmasking in the ring, when the steering wheel, and admiring their funny reflections in the mysterious fighter is revealed, as Butch the Bruiser. Before side mirror. In spite of their friendly "Hi, Neighbor" , the Alfalfa concedes though, Butch finds that he must contend snooty rich kid won't give the boys a ride. But when Wal­ with pesky Porky and Buckwheat, who grab hold of his ly's girlfriend Jane appears - guess who does get a ride. wrestling outfit from beneath the mat and pull it off, leav- Poor Wally, shamed in front of all his friends, brags that ing Butch to hide under a sheet of canvas! he has a bigger and better lire engine. His boast starts a 506-05-0589 - Beta 525-05-0589 - VHS .. .. ......... ........... $29.98 3 VIDEOCASSETTE THE FLOORWALKER (1916) HIE GOLD RUSH• (1925) CHARLIE CHAPLIN, EDNA PURVIANCE, CHARLIE CHAPLIN, MARK SWAIN, FIEa,DS Comedy ERIC CAMPBELL, LLOYD BACON, 8 TOM MURRAY ALBERT AUSTIN, CHARLOTTE MINEAU This complete version of Chaplin's most Charlie becomes involved with a store ambitious film includes all the famous scenes: THE BARBER SHOP' (1940) CHAPLIN detective on the escalator in a series of Charlie devouring his boots on the verge of W. C. FIELDS, ELSIE CAVANNA escapades entirely in the slapstick tra~ition of starvation, his cabin being swept away in a 8 Fields, in a story which he wrote by his earlier Keystone and Essa nay productions. flood, his preparing dinner for the girl who himself, portrays the bumbling and carefree CHAPLIN MUTUALS VOL. In the process, he thwarts some skullduggery never comes and more. This masterpiece of barber Cornelius O'Hare. Elise Covonna, cast (1916.1917) on the part of the manager making away with comedy is made even more funny (and sod) as his vegetarian and ompletely sober wife, 8 CHARLIE CHAPLIN the day's receipts. True to form, charming with on exclusive musical score by William does a tremendous iob. The Great One is in "The Immigrant", "The Count" and "Easy Charlie wins the girl. THE FLOORWALKER Perry. 80 min. SW MUS top form as the purveyor of village gossip and Street". 60 min. MUS is the first of the two-reelers.
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