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Monday, May 9, 2011
Film / Film News / News Manifest to the rescue with Warner Archive titles
Posted By Matt Brunson on Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:54 AM
By Matt Brunson
A few weeks ago, when plugging my home-entertainment column View From The Couch (archived here), I wrote, “To enjoy the many made-to-order selections offered through the Warner Archive label, online is pretty much your only option.” It appears I wrote in haste, because around the same time, the folks at Manifest Discs & Tapes, 6239 South Blvd., had just placed an order for dozens of Warner Archive DVDs to have on hand for interested customers.
Noticing the opportunity to fill a video void, Manifest general manager Adam Carmen elected to stock these under-the-radar releases in-house, thereby providing customers with the chance to easily purchase these titles and providing the venue with another unique hook, the sort that has allowed it to win countless Creative Loafing Best of Charlotte awards over the years.
The Warner Archive Collection website presently offers 1,038 made-to-order selections, so Manifest is clearly just getting its feet wet. As employee Joe Diaco stated, “We don't have all of them, but we're trying to get a majority of them. I'd say right now, we have about 50 in stock with lots more on the way.”
The current selection is certainly wide-ranging and varied enough to include both acting legends (Edward G. Robinson in The Last Gangster) and acting jokes (Shaquille O’Neal in Steel), TV movies (the classic 70s horror yarn Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark) and TV stars (SNL's Gilda Radner in her concert film Gilda Live), cult flicks (Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze) and cult performers (the title comics in Penn & Teller Get Killed). According to Carmen, some titles that have already generated robust sales include the animated set Thundarr the Barbarian: The Complete Series, the late-70s camp outing Legends of the Superheroes, and the Kid ‘n Play comedy Class Act.
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