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Movies on Betamax -- Page One

BETAMAX VIDEO TAPES FOR SALE

The BETA format is (well.... was) the best video tape format ever to be marketed.
Sony ceased manufacturing consumer BETA recorder-players for the American market in 1993

My ancient SLHF-900 finally crapped out in early 2000 -- which is really messed up because I liked my betamax!.

Reluctantly, I've decided to say bon voyage to my Beta collection.

So, if you are a Beta-phile and are looking for pre-recorded video tapes in this format -- READ ON!

2010!
The βeta format is still alive -- on the net!

$1.00 per tape!

Since I first put up this site, I have sold about 2/3 of my Betamax tapes. Beta is indeed live and well on the internet.

About once a year, I update this site by removing the Sold items making space for other sale items and images.

I will sell all these betamax videos individually -- in groups of two or more -- or the entire collection! As of this update -- March 2010 -- that's 153 tapes!

Just click "e-mail me" if you want to buy any or all of the remaining Beta library as is.

I'm also selling my "off-air" Beta tapes. Yes, there are recorded TV shows on them, but I cannot sell them as anything except "Blank Tape." Also: Beta rewinders and any other Beta items I come across.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to click that link.

Buyer will assume shipping and handling costs.

Depending on the number of tapes you order, and the combined weight, shipping is actually cheaper if you buy in bulk.

Below are links to 7 pages of Beta format video tapes. These are all commercially released features, Made-for-TV movies, Music Videos, Cartoons, Comedy, Special Interest, Documentaries, and (of course) Kung Fu movies.

Titles are in alphabetical order and include reviews (or references) and a small picture of the actual box. I recommend to viewers and potential buyers to also reference the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) for alternate reviews of these features. My reviews are highly biased and subjective. I could be wrong.

Several of these videos no longer reside in their original boxes. Where noted they are protected by sturdy translucent white or solid brown clamshell cases.

Click to go to your page of interest:

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Titles beginning with
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Features and Made for TV Movies

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Titles beginning with
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Features and Made for TV Movies

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Titles beginning with
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Features and Made for TV Movies

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Titles beginning with
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Features and Made for TV Movies

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Beta
MUSIC VIDEOS

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Beta
CARTOONS, COMEDY, TV SHOWS, SPECIAL INTEREST

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Beta
MARTIAL ARTS (KUNG FU) MOVIES

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ITEM STATUS:

IF AN ITEM GETS SOLD:	A RED LABEL WILL INDICATE "SOLD" THAT ITEM WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ANY MORE.
IF AN ITEM IS PENDING SALE:	A GREEN LABEL "SALE PENDING" WILL ACCOMPANY THE DESCRIPTION.

FEATURE FILMS
MADE-FOR-VIDEO FEATURE RELEASES

AFTER HOURS
1985
Griffin Dunne
Rosanna Arquette

One of those "New York Stories"
but better than usual. Dunne is the
fish-out-of-water character on the
wrong side of town.

SOLD No Longer Available

ALLIGATOR
1980
Robert Forster
Robin Riker
Henry Silva

Better than average combo horror sci-fi movie as a cop on the edge (Forster) teams up with a pretty herpetologist (Riker) to hunt down a rogue mutant alligator that's eating people. Henry Silva plays a Great White Hunter in Harlem. Lots of humor.

SOLD No Longer Available

ANDROID
1982
Klaus Kinski
Don Oppor

On occasion even a very low budget sci-fi movie can entertain. Kinski plays a scientist whose eccentric lifestyle has him creating androids. Unfortunately for him, a group of criminals decides to visit his space station.

SOLD No Longer Available

ARTHUR
1981
Dudley Moore
Liza Minelli
John Geilgud

Dudley Moore may be the star but butler John Geilgud steals every scene. Think of it as a tweaked variation on Cinderella.

BACK TO SCHOOL
1986
Rodney Dangerfield
Sally Kellerman

Rodney Dangerfield continues his string of hits with this movie about a clothing merchant who returns to college to keep an eye on his son. He ends up disrupting the college and falling for a poetry teacher (Kellerman).

BASIC TRAINING
1986
Ann Dusenberry
Rhonda Shear
Angela Ames

Military comedy (from imdb) Melinda (Dusenberry) comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie (Rhonda "Up all Night" Shear). Working for the Pentagon, Melinda discovers that her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than finding lost data on the Russians. Melinda finds subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the top brass."

BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS
1979
dir. RUSS MAYER

One of Russ Mayer's classics and -- for fans of this man's films -- a rare treat on beta.

SOLD -- No Longer Available

BETWEEN THE LINES
1977
John Heard
Lindsey Crouse

An underground newspaper in Boston is about to be taken over by a big time publisher.

BORN AMERICAN
1986
Mike Norris
Steven Durham

One of Chuck Norris' sons stars but chain-smoking newcomer Steven Durham's character is riviting in this tale of three friends who "accidently" invade Russia illegally and end up in some kind of internment camp for lunatics.

SOLD No Longer Available

BREAKING ALL THE RULES
1985
(US-Canada)
Carolyn Dunn

(from the IMDB) "The story of two guys and two girls who meet and fall in love in an amusement park on the last day of summer -- all the while outwitting 3 moronic would-be jewel thieves."

SOLD No Longer Available

BUCKAROO BANZAI
1984
Peter Weller
Ellen Barkin
John Lithgow

Under-rated and very peculiar movie about a brilliant leader of a team of engineers and scientists who gets caught in a warring struggle between aliens. John Lithgow ("3rd Rock from the Sun") steals the film with his manic portrayal of a human possessed of an alien entity. Peter Weller playes the understated Buckaroo Banzai, a comic hero come to life. Weird yet fun.

SOLD -- No Longer Available

CANNONBALL
1976
David Carradine
Veronica Hamel

A low budget version of "The Cannonball Run"-- America's most notorious clandestine road race -- with Carradine in the driver's seat.

SOLD No Longer Available

CHOOSE ME
1984
Keith Carradine
Genevieve Bujold

(from IMDB) "Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance."

CISCO KID: SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE
1945
Duncan Renaldo

In 1945, Duncan Renaldo stepped into the shoes of the Cisco Kid. Cisco's sidekick is Martin Garralaga. This was one of 3 western potboilers made by Monogram pictures. Renaldo is playing a more romantic lead role and singing. It doesn't have the panache of the later TV series with the great Leo Carrillo (Pancho). The Lone Ranger was a classic, but the Cisco Kid was cool. "Hey, Cisco! Hey Pancho!"

CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
1986
Daryl Hannah

Hannah plays a cave girl who gets treated differently by the tribe because of her blonde hair and her non-neanderthal looks. Yes, it does sound a little like "One Million Years BC." This cave-movie, based on the book by Jean Arel, is played for a more "realistic" "Quest for Fire" sense.

CLASS OF NUKE'EM HIGH
1986
Troma Pictures Classic

The insane people at New York's Troma Pictures cannot let a year go by without one of these movies getting out of their sack. Entertaining low-budget horror-comedy with acting on a high school level, yet somehow, they make a living on this stuff. Go figure.

SOLD No Longer Available

C.O.D.
1981
Chris Lemmon
Olivia Pascal
Corinne Wahl
Carole Davis
(US-Germany)

Funny, sexy movie about a company PR guy (Lemmon) who is hired to save the desperate Beaver Bra Company from disaster.

SALE PENDING

CROCODILE DUNDEE
1986
Paul Hogan
Linda Kozlowski

Paul Hogan went from "shrimp on the barbee" salesman for the Australian tourist bureau to world superstar with this movie about a cocky outback Aussie man who comes to New York and discovers a whole different kind of outback.

DARK STAR
1974
Dan O'Bannon
John Carpenter

Science fiction comedy about a team of planet destroyers whose lives are disintegrating aboard a spaceship that is also disintegrating.

SOLD
No Longer Available

DAY TIME ENDED
1980
Chris Mitchum
Jim Davis

Low budget sci-fi movie shot in the Mojave desert of California. An isolated home becomes the center of a time travel vortex that disrupts the lives of the family staying there.

SOLD -- No Longer Available

DEMENTIA 13
1963
William Campbell
Luana Anders

Little known B-movie from the Roger Corman factory and a very tight first effort by director Francis Ford Coppola. Good old fashioned horror mystery.

DRAW!
1981
Kirk Dougles
James Coburn
Alexandra Bastedo

Two aging burned-out gun fighters -- who happen to know each other -- are forced by an entire town into a face off. Coburn plays the hopeless alcoholic, Douglas is just looking to quietly retire, and Brit babe Alexandra Bastedo is the intelligent love interest. Comedy Western with more talk than gunplay.

EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY
1989
Geena Davis
Julie Brown
Jeff Goldblum
Jim Carrey

Geena Davis is a hair stylist who falls for furry alien Goldblum in this whacked comedy that also stars the Homecoming Queen Julie Brown, the spaztic pre-superstar Jim Carrey, and a cameo by billboard queen Angelyne.

EDUCATING RITA
1983
Michael Caine
Julie Walters

Two academy award winners in one film. Walters plays the working class hairdresser who strives to be more. Caine plays the cynical professor who has lost his way. Excellent movie.

ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK
1988
Cassandra Peterson
Edie McClurg

The stunning and shapely Elvira (Peterson), horror host forever, stars in this very funny tale. The death of her great Aunt brings her to the uptight puritanical town of Falwell. Naturally, Elvira's anarchic hedonism and, er... buoyant uplift... disrupts the town completely. No, I haven't seen the sequel.

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX
1972
Woody Allen

Some people consider this sex farce Woody Allen's peak, career-wise. It is funny, but Allen has done better work. "Bananas" and "Sleeper" come to mind -- and my favorite guilty pleasure, "What's up, Tiger Lily?"

EXPERIENCE PREFERRED BUT NOT ESSENTIAL
1983
Elizabeth Edmunds

Understated Brit comedy -- and a subtle statement about class in merry olde England -- "Experience Preferred" is a delightful story of a young schoolgirl who takes a summer job at a seaside resort hotel.

FAST LANE FEVER
1982
(Australia)
Terry Serio
Deborah Conway

Australia in the early 80's. Hot cars, hot chicks and hot times. Fox (Serio), the fastest street drag racer there is, accepts a challenge: 3 competition races. After two of the three race rounds, the race is no longer a game, but a struggle for survival.

SOLD -- No Longer Available

FERRIS BUELLER`S DAY OFF
1986
Mathew Broderick
Mia Sara
Alan Ruck

Successful teen comedy that put Mathew Broderick's star on the map.

FIND THE LADY
1975
(Canada)
John Candy
Peter Cook
Alexandra Bastedo

Lunatic comedy farce with Candy as a bumbling detective.

SALE PENDING

FLASHDANCE
1983
Jennifer Beals
Michael Nouri

Sleeper hit that made dancing into an exercise craze and made Jennifer Beals a star.

FOOTLOOSE
1984
Kevin Bacon
Lori Singer

Kevin Bacon teaches a puritanical Mid-Western town that dance isn't the work of the devil. Duh.

FRATERNITY VACATION
1985
Cameron Dye

"Valley Girl's" Cameron Dye goes from sidekick to lead as a group of students go looking for some spring break action and get hitched up with a wimp they wished they could leave behind.

SOLD No Longer Available

FRONTIER HORIZON & LAWLESS NINETIES
1939
John Wayne
3 Mesquiteers double feature

These serial westerns were made just before the movie that made John Wayne famous, "Stagecoach."

FUNNY MONEY
1982
E.G. Daily
Greg Henly

E.G. Daily stars as a young woman who gets caught up in some high stakes intrigue.

SOLD No Longer Available