VHS Lethal Weapon 4
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Warner Bros released "Lethal Weapon 4" on VHS in 1998, the fourth and final entry in the Riggs-and-Murtaugh run that started in 1987 and closed out one of the most commercially durable buddy-cop franchises in Hollywood history. The cover art comes in that red gradient Warner Bros used across their late-90s tape spine design, with cast photography and the silver distressed lettering the series adopted as its visual signature for the third and fourth installments.
By 1998 the franchise had been running for eleven years and the studio knew exactly what it was doing with this release. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were returning for the fourth time. Rene Russo came back from the third film. Joe Pesci came back. And then Warner Bros added Jet Li, making his American film debut as Wah Sing Ku, a Hong Kong Triad enforcer who gave the fight choreography a different gear entirely. Li had already built his reputation across a decade of Hong Kong productions, including the "Once Upon a Time in China" series starting in 1991, before this film put him in front of a U.S. audience for the first time. The theatrical run hit summer 1998, and the VHS release followed that same year, arriving on shelves in time for the holiday rental season. Director Richard Donner had been with the franchise from the start. The formula was proven. The VHS market was still near its ceiling before DVD began pulling significant share in 1999 and 2000.
The last Riggs and Murtaugh run, red gradient intact, VHS holding the line into Y2K.
The copy we have is pre-owned. The red gradient on the shell holds well and the case closes cleanly without a cracked hinge. The tape window should show ribbon with no slack or bunching, which is your first read on whether this has been stored flat and rewound correctly before it sat on a shelf. Check the label face on the spine for any peeling at the edges where tape stock meets the plastic shell, that seam being the first place moisture works on cases stored upright in humid conditions for any length of time.
OWNER VERIFY: release year confirmed as 1998 theatrical and same-year VHS.
The last Riggs and Murtaugh run, red gradient intact, VHS holding the line into Y2K.
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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. 90s 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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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This vhs lethal weapon 4 originates from the 90s era[01], represents Warner Bros[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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