FREE: SCI-FI & SPACE (2 VHS), "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND" & "APOLLO 13"

The listing, SCI-FI & SPACE (2 VHS), "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND" & "APOLLO 13" has ended.

2 VHS movies, (couple of my favorites) in original cases.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (The Collector's Edition) [VHS] (1977) Richard Dreyfuss (Actor), François Truffaut (Actor), Steven Spielberg (Director)
The Collector's Edition (CE) represents Steven Spielberg's third version of Close Encounters. Created in 1998, this sequence contains most of the judicial edits made for the Special Edition (SE) in 1980, speeding up Roy Neary's first contact with the UFOs and adding a scene of a discovery in the Mongolian desert. The Collector's Edition also reinstates the comical madness of Neary tearing up his own front yard, replaced in the SE by a scene where he breaks down in the shower; both scenes are restored in the CE. The SE's revised ending, featuring an extended scene inside the mothership is deleted.

Apollo 13 [VHS] (1995) Tom Hanks (Actor), Bill Paxton (Actor), Ron Howard (Director)
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from a distance of 205,500 miles. Using state-of-the-art special effects and ingenious filmmaking techniques, Howard and his stellar cast and crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to the facts. The result is a fitting tribute to the Apollo 13 mission and one of the biggest box-office hits of 1995.