Stocking Stuffers For Aging Hipsters

Alright, we gotcher stocking stuffer choice for the aging hipster in your life. I've been enjoying this one for three nights now. It's ... Classic Heist Movies. For only $5.98. Released on DVD in 1959, it features - Steve McQueen in "The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery", starring several actual members of the St. Louis police department, showing us why they are police, not actors. "High Risk". Scroll down. That's the one with James Coburn in it ... as Serrano! And, pick of the litter ...

Starring a Russian hat  ... with Lee Van Cleef in it!

And the strange beauty of Karen Black!

This was the best snarking out I've done since I rented that Korean movie. This movie has everything. It's got that freaky sleazy, 70's Brooklyn thing. It's got Max, from "Hart to Hart". It's got a guy I saw in a Bolo Yeung movie. There's a car that runs into a thing and everything explodes much too much. There's a fat effeminate diamond fencer. There's a karate scene with a black dude with sideburns; there's a meathook baling hook. The music is fantastic. And, best of all, the story is actually OK. Really.

Has this movie got hats? It's got hats.

And scenes of prison life.

I'm buying a copy for my brother in law, the space lawyer. He's a little young for it, but I think he'll understand.

And right now the AI that runs Amazon has decided I want to buy Cat Powers, "What would the community say?" And Nosferatu. There is a certain synchronicity to the images.

Comments

[Sam]

There were DVDs in 1959?

[jholbo]

I only know what I read on Amazon.

[Steve]

"Cat Powers"? Is that like a neurotic Southern singer-songwriter who writes epics about the Fisher King and Las Vegas chaos magick and used to date Smog?