Grand Rapids Trading Post

Where can you see these movies????

I started this group because there is a large local connection on Spout of Grand Rapids, Michigan users. Even with DVD releases every week there are quite a few movies that remain unavailable to rent at GRPL, Netflix, or Blockbuster online. This group is not intended to be an ebay or take the place of Spout's purchasing service, but to connect users to other users who will lend or give a copy of a desired film so it can be watched. All right, I'll kick this off. These are the movies I cannot find - if you have a copy or know where to locate one(without having to spend $20 or more online) please let me know.

1. The Magician (1958)

2. Bad Ronald

3. Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

4. Brighton Rock

5. Cobra Woman (1944)

6.Cul-de-sac (1966)

7. Edge of Darkness (1943)

8. Ice Cold in Alex

9. Man of Iron (1981)

10. Ministry of Fear

11. Murder by Contract

12. Skin Game

13. The Blue Dahlia

14. The Crimson Kimono

15. The Fugitive (1948)

16. The Lusty Men (1952)

17. The Phenix City Story

18. The Wild Rovers

19. While the City Sleeps

 I'll post some of the movies I have available since I have some rarer films that have yet to be released on dvd.

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Just curious. Where I live (San Francisco area), I get a lot of my movies by browsing the unified library catalog (all the libs in the county), then put a hold on the movies I want ($.75 each) and they're delivered to my local branch. With the advent of dvds, practically every movie is available somewhere.  You can keep them for two weeks.

In fact, I'm just leaving now to go pick up the third season of The Wire. 

How much of a resource are the Grand Rapids libraries?

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The Grand Rapids library sytem is an incredible resource - I've lived in a couple of other states and Grand Rapids is the only area with a huge video/dvd database that allows me to reserve online and rent for free. That being said there are some of the movies that I have listed that have not come out on dvd and even with the enormous amount of old video cassettes that the GR sytem still has, we don't have access to some of the movies I want to see. I was just wondering if anybody here has a similar personal video library that I have and has some older videos that aren't available anywhere else ( or taped off of TCM or live close to a place that still rents tapes)

BTW - Don't you love The Wire? - maybe we should start a group for that great show. I don't know if you are re-watching the third season or watching it for the first time, but that season is my absolute favorite. It's not as if there is a bad season (I love 1 & 2 as well) but I think season three is absolutely brilliant. I read a critic one time that wrote that most television that is quality aspires to be a good popular novel while The Wire achieves a brilliance reserved for Dostoyevsky masterpieces. I agree. 

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I started the third season of The Wire last night and it was very hard to stop and go to bed. I'm yawning now.

Next time you're on the West Coast you can watch The Blue Dahlia, because I checked it out a while back. Excellent movie.

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