Jumpin Jack Flash VHS
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"Jumpin' Jack Flash" on VHS, pressed by CBS Fox Video and released in 1986, is the home format debut of Penny Marshall's comedic spy thriller starring Whoopi Goldberg. The clamshell packaging is the peach-toned variant, front art built around Goldberg mid-leap, arms and legs wide, dreadlocks in full flight against a dark silhouette of the New York City skyline. That image is a genuine period cover decision: kinetic, loud, and completely at home on a 1986 video store shelf.
1986 sits right at the center of the CBS Fox Video golden run. The label had locked down major Fox theatrical titles through the early home video boom, and the retail clamshell format was at its physical peak before the switch to slimline cardboard sleeves changed the format's shelf presence in the late '80s and early '90s. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" arrived during a good year for Goldberg on home video: "The Color Purple" had just made its VHS bow the same year, and her name was marquee enough to carry a case. Penny Marshall, not yet the director of "Big" or "A League of Their Own," was building her feature career, and this was her second theatrical outing. The film itself is a mid-budget studio comedy thriller that never quite broke through theatrically but found its real audience on tape, which is how most people still know it. CBS Fox put real production energy into the clamshell art during this stretch, and the peach colorway on this case is one of the warmer-toned examples from the label's catalog.
Goldberg airborne, dreadlocks flying, the year CBS Fox bet big on comedy thrillers at home.
This copy presents in the peach clamshell housing with the full-color wrap intact. Look at the case spine for any cracking or hinge stress along the top seam, which is the first place these CBS Fox clamshells show age. The tape window on the cassette body should show ribbon sitting flat with no slack or curl. If the paper insert slip is still inside the clamshell, that is a meaningful condition bonus on any '86 CBS Fox title.
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Goldberg airborne, dreadlocks flying, the year CBS Fox bet big on comedy thrillers at home.
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Before streaming flattened the difference between movies, VHS was a physical act. Rentals, buybacks, Blockbuster sleeves, promo tapes, ex-rentals with security stickers still on the side. 80s tapes outlived the stores they came from. We keep them in their original cases where possible and note every sticker, sun-fade, and sleeve crease in the photography.
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This jumpin jack flash vhs originates from the 80s era[01], represents CBS Fox Video[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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- CBS Fox Video
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- 80s
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