Medicine Man VHS
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Buena Vista's 1992 VHS release of "Medicine Man" is a studio-era physical copy of John McTiernan's jungle thriller, directed between "Die Hard" (1988) and "The Hunt for Red October" (1990) at the peak of McTiernan's commercial run. Sean Connery plays Dr. Robert Campbell, a biochemist who thinks he's found a cancer cure buried somewhere in the Brazilian rainforest canopy. Lorraine Bracco plays the corporate researcher sent to pull his funding.
McTiernan in 1992 was one of the few directors who could put two above-the-title names in a remote location shoot and get a wide theatrical release out of it. "Medicine Man" came out the same year as "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Unforgiven," a year when Hollywood was still betting on location-driven, mid-budget adult dramas with genuine stars. Connery was still riding the post-"The Name of the Rose" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" goodwill, making him one of the last actors who could carry a theatrical ecological thriller with zero franchise attachment. The film wasn't a runaway box office success, but Buena Vista pressed it to VHS, standard clamshell format, because the home video market in 1992 was still willing to give any Connery vehicle a serious shelf run. Blockbuster stocked it. Video clubs stocked it. It moved.
Connery in the jungle, Bracco cross-armed, and a premise you could pitch in ten seconds.
This copy carries the standard Buena Vista clamshell sleeve with the jungle canopy photography front and center, the Washington Post pull quote visible on the cover. The tape itself is a rental-grade or retail configuration, and the condition of the sleeve will tell you more than anything else at this point. No visible label damage noted on the cassette body, sleeve edges are the first place to look on any clamshell this age. Check the spine fold where the front panel meets the back panel, that crease line is where 30-plus years of shelf pressure shows first.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm 1992 production year from cassette label or sleeve copyright line, and note rental vs. retail configuration.
Connery in the jungle, Bracco cross-armed, and a premise you could pitch in ten seconds.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This medicine man vhs originates from the 90s era[01], represents Buena Vista[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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- Buena Vista
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- 90s
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