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Movies on Betamax -- Page Four

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 the remaining Beta library as is.

I'm also selling my off-air Beta tapes. Yes, there are recorded shows on them, but I cannot sell them as anything except "Blank Tape." 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.

The Betamax movie titles listed on these 7 pages are commercially released features and 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
A-F
Features and Made for TV Movies

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Titles beginning with
G-N
Features and Made for TV Movies

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Titles beginning with
O-S
Features and Made for TV Movies

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Titles beginning with
S-Z
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

E-MAIL ME to make sale arrangements.

Or, return to the Chunk O Stuff For Sale Home Pag

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

SPLITZ
1984
Robin Johnson
Dom Irrera

More college hyjinks and T & A. You get what you pay for. In this spin, a bunch of busty sorority sisters and an all female rock band team up to save a sorority house that has been condemned by the university. Comic Dom Irrera puts in an appearance as well.

SALE PENDING

STAR STRUCK
1982
(Australia)
Jo Kennedy
Ross O'Donovan

Delightful Aussie musical comedy about a young girl (Kennedy) who wants to become a singing star, and her scrappy cousin (O' Donovan) who manages her.

STRANGE BREW
1983
(Canada)
Dave Thomas
Rick Moranis

Those two guys from The Great White North (SCTV's Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis) take their Cannuck goofs into a movie about a brewery that is selling more than just beer. Hey, take off you hoser!

SOLD No Longer Available

STREET MUSIC
1981
E. G. Daily

Early E. G. Daily film shot, if memory serves, in San Francisco. Daily plays the street singer of the piece, but the story revolves around the residents of an old hotel that is about to be demolished.

STREETS OF FIRE
1984
Michael Pare
Amy Madigan
Diane Lane
Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Willem Dafoe
Bill Paxton
E. G. Daily

Strange film that's part action, part musical directed by Walter Hill. Mercenary (Pare) goes ballistic when his girlfriend, a singer, is kidnapped by a gang. May well be remembered for production design but this feature is often underrated and overlooked.

STUNT MAN
1980
Peter O'Toole
Steve Railsback
Barbara Hershey

Highly recommended movie. Director Richard Rush made this masterpiece. It should have won at least 4 academy awards. O'Toole plays Eli Cross, a movie director with a vicious streak. Cameron (Steve Railsback) is a Vietnam Vet on the run from the cops. Forced to become a stuntman, Cameron falls for the leading lady (Hershey) but the cops are still too close and Cameron thinks Cross is trying to kill him too. Cult classic.

SUBURBIA
1983
dir. Penelope Spherris

Violent and dispicable film about punk rockers through the lens of Penelope Spherris.

SALE PENDING

SUMMER CAMP
1979
Michael Abrams
Jake Barnes
Kashka Bartisick
Linnea Quigley

More teen hyjinks by young adult actors playing teens. Camp Malibu is in financial straits, so the owner tries to get a bunch of rich kids to bail him out. The imdb lists Quigley but her name appears nowhere in the credits of this movie.

SOLD
No Longer Available

SURE THING
1985
John Cusack
Daphne Zuniga

Another early John Cusack comedy. If John boy can make it from the East coast college to California by a certain time, he is guaranteed to get laid. Daphne Zuniga plays the ride-sharing bitch who nearly ruins his potentially fulfilling sex life.

SWORD AND THE SORCERER
1982
Lee Horsley

Sword and sorcery epic starring that guy from that TV show, uh, what's the name? Matt ... uh, something? Yeah, that's him.

SALE PENDING

TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT
1981
Robert Hays
Barbera Hershey

Yep, based on that country song but this is actually a pretty good movie. Company drone Robert Hays gets caught up in the small town politics surrounding the sale of a small brewery that would affect many people's lives.

TAKIN IT OFF
1985
Kitten Natividad
Angelique Pettyjohn

Bust queen Kitten Natividad plays in this soft core comedy farce about a girl who thinks she is just too big. This in an era when most women want more on top. My how times have changed...

SOLD No Longer Available

TERROR-VISION
1986
Gerrit Graham
Mary Woronov

Errant satellite dish becomes a portal for an alien invasion. Yep, it's a comedy; it's a horror. It's two, two, two movies in one!

SOLD No Longer Available

THAT WAS THEN; THIS IS NOW
1985
Emilio Estevez

(imdb) Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart. One is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.

THEY CALL ME BRUCE
1982
Johnny Yune
Margaux Hemingway

Korean comedian Johnny Yune becomes a mob stooge in this comedy farce. Yune's character idolizes Bruce Lee. Hardly a minute goes by without a joke.

SALE PENDING

TIME BANDITS
1981
John Cleese
Sean Connery
Michael Palin
Shelley Duvall
dir. Terry Gilliam

Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam created this epic adventure film about a young boy who accidently joins a band of dwarves as they jump from time-period to time period seeking treasure.

TOGA PARTY
1979
Bobby Charles
Mary Mitchell

More college hyjinks obviously inspired by "Animal House." Pizza and a beer movie. Well, maybe two beers. Okay, three.

SALE PENDING

TOUCH AND GO
1980
(Australia)
Wendy Hughes

Australian movie about a team of bored women who decide they need a little danger in their lives so they plan to hyjack a yacht and knock over a casino. Hot babe Hughes plays their ringleader.

SOLD
No Longer Available

TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME
1975
Terrance Hill
Bud Spencer

Italian western farce starring that skinny guy (Hill) and that fat dude (Spencer).

TUNNELVISION
1976
Chevy Chase
John Candy

One of the classics of TV satire made into a film. Probably the best of the top four of this genre that includes: "Kentucky Fried Movie", "Groove Tube" and "Prime Time."

SOLD No Longer Available

TURK 182
1985
Timothy Hutton
Robert Culp
Robert Urich
Kim Cattrall
(comes in clear white plastic clamshell)

Under-rated movie about the brother of an injured firefighter who goes on a crusade to get back at the dirty politics that unfairly screwed his brother out of his disability.

UP THE CREEK
1984
Tim Matheson
Stephen Furst

Perrenial student Matheson gets caught up in a raft race rivalry. More youth oriented comedy farce.

SOLD No Longer Available

UTILITIES
1981
Robert Hays
Brooke Adams

Hays plays a social worker who hates the big utilities. He runs into the law in the form of Brooke Adams and they get all sentimental and squishy.

VALLEY GIRL
1983
Nicolas Cage
Deborah Foreman
E. G. Daily
Cameron Dye
dir: Martha Coolidge

Nick Cage stole this movie and became a star soon afterward. Deborah Foreman, no slouch in the acting department, never seemed to find her star. The ultimate valley girl movie, fer shuurre!

SOLD No Longer Available

VIDEODROME
1983
James Woods
Deborah Harry
dir. David Cronenberg

Spooky movie about terrorism through TV.

SOLD No Longer Available

W
(aka W is War)
1983
Dir Willie Milan
Anthony Alonzo
Paul Vance
Joonee Gamboa

Philippino version of Road Warrior. Extremely violent and completely over the top.

SOLD -- No Longer Available

WHAT WAITS BELOW
1983
Timothy Bottoms
Lisa Blount

B budget movie made in some famous caverns in Tennessee. Cave explorers Bottoms and Blount seek the mystery of people disappearing and discover humanlike creatures living in the depths. I met one of the girls who played one of the cave creatures. Last time I saw her she was a topless dancer. Ready for your close up, Stephanie?

SOLD No Longer Available

WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?
1966
Woody Allen

One of Woody Allen's funniest ideas. Take a Japanese James Bond spy movie, and replace the soundtrack with something completely insane. It works.

SOLD No Longer Available

WIMPS
1987
Louie Bonanno

The box cover pretty much explains this teen sex comedy. Us wimps like sex too ya know!

SOLD
No Longer Available

ZONE TROOPERS
1985
Timothy Van Patton
Tim Thomerson

Is that alien giving us the finger? Interesting mix of World War 2 and science fiction. The Germans have discovered a downed spacecraft and the aliens are trying to get away. Naturally, American soldiers caught behind enemy lines have to save themselves and the aliens. Better than average for its kind.

SALE PENDING