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My grandfather loved movies. His collection mostly consisted of mob and war movie titles, which sparked my young imagination. I remember as a kid, I would spend hours going through his collection, picking titles I wanted to watch. I've been slowly trying to rebuild my grandfather's movie collection since his passing a couple years ago. He used to tape everything and anything onto VHS and had a little notebook that he would keep track of all of his movies in. When he passed, most of the VHS tapes were either old and worn out or borrowed and never returned, or taped over with something else, so my uncle ended up throwing most of them out, but before he did I was able to save gramp's little notebook and have been on a mission since. There's around 230 titles in his collection, but there are a few titles that he recorded that he didn't write detailed notes on, or got the title wrong, or it was a program that he recorded off of basic television, so some of these are proving to be a little difficult to track down, especially the obscure documentaries that my grandfather was fond of. I’ve scanned all the pages in his book and have put the titles in an excel spreadsheet that I’ve been slowly populating with info. Most of them are pretty well known, but there are a few that I have almost nothing to go off of. Hopefully with the help of this thread, I’ll be able to identify the rest of this list and complete my quest to recreate my grandfather’s collection, upgrading to BluRay where possible (although why anyone else would want Attack Force Z on Blu Ray is beyond me). The following list are the problematic titles I can’t find much info on, followed by the main list itself for those curious (with the problematic titles still in), and finally the scans of the pages themselves for completion’s sake. First, the trouble titles. Most of these are super vague, sorry. Also keep in mind nothing on this list will be post 90s. I think the most recent movie on this list might be Casino. 1980 New Mexico Prison Riots – Possibly this BBC documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M-hPpuAqwQ A Question of Guilt (TV Movie?) America 40s Battle Line Battle of Peleliu Beyond the Wall Blackout – 2 possibilites for this one, a 1978 movie about criminals during the New York blackout, and an ‘85 release with Keith Carradine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkiuLHPvx4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4IUiOKuUEA Chicago Protest (Beyond the Wall?) Chicago's Greatest Hits Cop – This is more than likely an episode of Cops, so we can skip this one. Crimes of Violence David Copperfield Erased Frank Sinatra Gangs Cops & Drugs Investigative Reports: Prisons J. Gotti Mafia Wars Kamikaze: Mission of Death Mob Fathers Mob Stories Murder Can Hurt You! (possible tv movie?) Slam Dancing Soldiers Men in Battle Tongs – possibly this 1986 movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=366Xzf_lWWo Tour of Duty (Vietnam I - III) Vietnam Memories War - knowing my grandfather, this was NOT the Troma release of the same name. More than likely, it was just some generic war program on A&E or something. War Clips - Same as above War Scenes - Same Welcome to Nam Vol. 2 And here’s the entire list in alphabetical order. 10 to Midnight *1980 New Mexico Prison Riots 48 Hours 52 Pick-Up 8 Million Ways To Die *A Question of Guilt (TV Movie?) A Rumor of War A Soldier's Story Witness to the Mob About Last Night Above the Law Across 110th Street Air Power *America (40s) American Me An Officer and a Gentleman Angels with Dirty Faces Apocalypse Now Assassination Attack Force Z Bad Boys *Battle Line *Battle of Peleliu Betrayed Beverly Hills Cop Beverly Hills Cop 2 *Beyond the Wall Black Rain *Blackout Blind Date Born American Born in East LA Breakheart Pass Brewsters Millions Bronx Tale Cannonball Run 2 Cape Fear Carlito's Way Casino *Chicago Protest (Beyond the Wall?) *Chicago's Greatest Hits China Girl Cobra Code of Silence Cold Steel Color of Money Color Purple Cooley High *Cop Cotton Club Crime Inc. Crime Story *Crimes of Violence Crimson Tide Crocodile Dundee 2 D Day The Total Story *David Copperfield Day of the Jackal Dead End Deadpool Dear America Death Before Dishonor Death Wish IV Deer Hunter Delta Force Dragnet Eddie Murphy Delirious Eddie Murphy Raw *Erased Executioner's Song Extreme Prejudice Fatal Attraction Fatal Beauty Ferris Bueller's Day Off Fire Walker First Blood Flowers in the Attic Fort Apache The Bronx *Frank Sinatra Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives Full Metal Jacket *Gangs Cops & Drugs Godfather Epic Godfather I Godfather II Godfather III Golden Child Gone with the Wind Good Guys Wear Black Goodfellas Halloween Hamburger Hill Hand That Rocks the Cradle Hanky Panky Heartbreak Ridge Heat Honor Thy Father House on Carroll St. Hunter's Blood In the Custody of Strangers *Investigative Reports: Prisons *J. Gotti Mafia Wars Jagged Edge Jesus of Nazareth Jo Jo Dancer Johnny Dangerously Jumpin' Jack Flash *Kamikaze: Mission of Death Kiss of Death La Bamba Last Don, The Let's Get Harry World of Suzie Wong Lucky Luciano Mafia Wars Malcom X Maltese Falcon Mannequin Messenger of Death Midnight Run Mike's Murder Miracle of our Lady of Fatima Mischief Misery *Mob Fathers *Mob Stories Mortal Thoughts Moving *Murder Can Hurt You! My Chauffeur Naked Gun Naked Gun 2 1/2 Native Son Night Hawks Night Stick Nightmare on Elm St. Nightmare on Elm St. 3: Dream Warriors Nikita (La Femme Nikita) No Man's Land No Mercy No Way Out Once Bitten Once Upon A Time in America Opposing Force P.O.W. (P.O.W. The Escape) Platoon Platoon Leader Police Academy Police Academy Poltergeist Pork Chop Hill Predator Primal Fear Pritzi's Honor (Prizzi’s Honor) Private Eyes Psycho III Public Enemy Raging Bull Red Dawn Return to Iwo Jima Richard Prior Live Richard Pryor Live in Concert Roaring 20s Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin Hood Men in Tights Rocky Rocky II Rolling Thunder Runaway Train Running Scared Ruthless People Salvador Scarface Schindler's List Shoot to Kill Silence of the Lambs *Slam Dancing Soldiers A History of Men in Battle *Soldiers Men in Battle Soldiers in Hiding Someone to Watch Over Me Spaceballs St. Valentine's Day Massacre Stake Out Stone Killer Street Wise Tank Target Terminator Boys in Company C Boys Next Door But Not For Me (The End, But Not For Me) Principal Rosary Murders Shining Sicilian Soldier, The Sting 2 Tie That Binds Unholy They Were Young and Brave Vietnam Throw Mama From the Train Tightrope To Live and Die in LA *Tongs Top Gun Tough Guys Tour of Duty *Tour of Duty (Vietnam I - III) Trading Places Treasure of the Sierra Madre Uncommon Valor Victory at Sea *Vietnam Memories Vietnam The Ten Thousand Day War Vol. 1 Vietnam Trilogy Wall Street Wanted Dead or Alive *War *War Clips War of the Century *War Scenes *Welcome to Nam Vol. 2 Wise Guys Witchboard Witches of Eastwick Witness Year of the Dragon And finally, the individual page scans. Look at that handwriting!   Rest of the scans are at this link. http://imgur.com/a/SSnQ7 Thanks to any who help, and if you have any weird personal collection stories you want to add, feel free to share. I hope I'm not the only weirdo out there doing something like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvOnDlql5g
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Feb 21, 2017 02:12
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Cop may actually be referring to this James Woods movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092783/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Murder Can Hurt You! is a TV movie spoof of crime dramas from 1980. J. Gotti: Mafia Wars is probably referring to the 1996 TV movie starring Armand Assante that's just called Gotti. It had a bunch of alternate titles on video and when cut for other TV stations like GOTTI: Dramatic Blurb About the Mob and such. Soldiers Men in Battle is almost definitely referring to the documentary series Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle. Tour of Duty (Vietnam I-III) reads like it would be referring to all three seasons of the 1987 TV series Tour of Duty.
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Feb 21, 2017 04:59
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Whoa, good looking out with that James Woods movie! Definitely something I could see in this collection. I'll have to run it by my uncles and see if it rings any bells. I actually found a doc series called Mafia Wars, but the Armand Assante movie does sound familiar so I'm going to hunt that one down as well. It's kinda crazy how some of the obscure stuff ends up being on Youtube in its entirety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBnGY-Q9Tfo and movies like 52 Pick-Up are getting remastered Blu Ray releases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2D0WOUhtJM I can't wait for Cimino's Year of the Dragon to get a proper american Blu release too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRF35LcYFHQ
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Feb 21, 2017 19:33
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"Erased" is probably the Schwarzenegger movie Eraser?
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Feb 21, 2017 22:48
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ruddiger posted:Cold Steel Seeing those two rarities made me laugh. I inherited many VHS tapes from a step-grandfather and those were two he'd recorded. He had one of those giant satellite dishes back in the 1980s that could receive all the channels for free (with zero commercials). This was before the cable companies started scrambling all the channels in the early 1990s. He was recording like a madman.
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Feb 21, 2017 23:23
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Those two are great. It's definitely the obscure titles that I don't even remember watching that sparked my desire to complete this list. I never even heard of Hanky Panky, and in my lil kid mind, I probably looked at that title in my gramps' collection and just went "lame" or whatever, without realizing it's actually a pretty funny comedy with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPtRLU5XmKk then there's titles like Death Before Disnhonor or The Unholy, which I must've watched a million billion times just on the strength of the name alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPQcVZUpt4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-39xlYox1I
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Feb 22, 2017 02:45
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precision posted:"Erased" is probably the Schwarzenegger movie Eraser? That's a possibility, but it seems too new to be on the list, even though in reality it came out in 96, only a year removed from Casino. Another title I'll have to run by the family to see if anyone remembers any alternate movies that title may be referencing.
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Feb 22, 2017 03:09
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Investigative Reports: Prisons is obviously an episode of the A&E show that started in the early 90's. (Hello, I'm Bill Curtis)
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Feb 22, 2017 04:08
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