Search - Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack on DVD

On a 1 to 10 scale, this collection is rated: 6.3

Annie Van Auken | Planet Earth | 04/05/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"MYSTERY CLASSICS 100 MOVIE PACK is a combination of the 50 movie sets: MYSTERY CLASSICS and DARK CRIMES. With 124 hours of vintage motion pictures on 24 double-sided DVDs, this collection is a sure-fire crowd pleaser.

Based on viewer tabulation from a film data website, on a one to ten scale this collection's averaged out score is: 6.3

The following alphabetized program list includes individual ratings, years of release and main actors--

(7.1) Algiers (1938) - Charles Boyer/Hedy Lamarr/Alan Hale
(5.6) Baby Face Morgan (1942) - Mary Carlisle
(5.6) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) - John Barrymore/John Howard
(5.7) Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) - Ray Milland/Guy Standing
(5.9) Bulldog Drummond In Africa (1938) - John Howard/Anthony Quinn (in a minor role)
(6.0) Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) - John Barrymore/John Howard
(5.9) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) - John Barrymore/John Howard
(6.4) Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939) - John Howard/Heather Angel
(6.5) The Capture 1950 - Lew Ayres/Theresa Wright
(6.2) Cause For Alarm! (1951) - Loretta Young/Barry Sullivan
(6.5) The Chase (1946) - Robert Cummings
(7.4) D.O.A. (1950) - Edmond O'Brien
(6.3) The Death Kiss (1932) - David Manners/Bela Lugosi
(7.3) Detour (1945) - Tom Neal/Ann Savage
(6.5) Devil's Party (1938) - Victor McLaglen
(6.1) Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) - Boris Karloff/Ralph Byrd
(6.0) Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) - Morgan Conway/Anne Jeffreys
(5.5) Dick Tracy(, Detective) - Morgan Conway/Anne Jeffreys
(7.0) Dressed To Kill ("Sherlock Holmes") (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce
(6.8) Eyes In The Night (1942) - Edward Arnold/Ann Harding/Donna Reed
(6.7) Fear in The Night (1947) - DeForest Kelley (his film debut)
(???) Flowers From A Stranger ("Studio One") (1949 or '50) - Yul Brynner
(5.2) Fog Island (1945) - George Zucco/Lionel Atwill
(7.5) Gaslight ("Murder In Thornton Square") (1940) - Anton Walbrook
(6.5) The Great Flamarion (1945) - Erich von Stroheim
(6.0) Great Guy (1936) - James Cagney/Mae Clarke
(6.7) The Green Glove (1952) - Glenn Ford/Cedric Hardwicke
(6.1) Guest In The House (1944) - Ann Baxter/Ralph Bellamy
(6.4) Half A Sinner (1940) - Heather Angel
(7.4) He Walked By Night (1948) - Richard Basehart/Jack Webb
(6.3) The Hoodlum (1951) - Lawrence Tierney
(7.0) Impact (1949) - Brian Donlevy/Charles Coburn
(6.6) The Inner Circle (1946) - Adele Mara/William Frawley
(6.8) Inner Sanctum (1948) - Charles Russell/Mary Beth Hughes
(6.1) International Crime ("The Shadow") (1938) - Rod La Roque/Astrid Allwyn
(6.3) Jigsaw (1949) - Franchot Tone/Jean Wallace
(7.5) Kansas City Confidential (1952) - John Payne/Neville Brand/Lee Van Cleef
(6.9) The Kennel Murder Case (1933) - William Powell/Mary Astor/Eugene Pallette
(7.0) The Last Mile (1932) - Preston Foster
(5.2) A Life At Stake (1954) - Angela Lansbury
(5.9) The Limping Man (1953) - Lloyd Bridges
(6.2) Love From A Stranger (1937) - Ann Harding/Basil Rathbone
(6.0) The Man On The Eiffel Tower (1950) - Charles Laughton/Franchot Tone/Burgess Meredith
(7.3) The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) - Lee J. Cobb/Jane Wyatt
(6.0) The Man Who Had Influence ("Studio One") (1950) - Robert Sterling
(5.7) The Mandarin Mystery (1936) - Eddie Quillan (as Ellery Queen)
(6.0) Midnight Manhunt (1945) - William Gargan/Leo Gorcey
(6.2) The Moonstone (1934) - David Manners/Phyllis Barry
(6.4) Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) - Peter Lorre/John Carradine
(5.9) Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) - Boris Karloff/Grant Withers
(5.5) Murder At Midnight (1931) - Aileen Pringle/Alice White
(5.9) Murder at the Baskervilles ("Silver Blaze") ("Sherlock Holmes") (1937) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Fleming
(4.4) Murder By Television (1935) - Bela Lugosi/June Collyer/Hattie McDaniel
(6.0) Murder With Pictures (1936) - Lew Ayres/Gail Patrick
(4.6) The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934) - Bela Lugosi/Wallace Ford
(5.0) Mystery Liner (1934) - Noah Beery/George "Gabby" Hayes (in a minor role)
(6.1) The Mystery Of Mr. Wong (1939) - Boris Karloff
(7.4) The Naked Kiss (1964) - Constance Towers
(6.3) Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939) - Bonita Granville/John Litel
(4.5) Parole, Inc. (1948) - Michael O'Shea
(5.3) The Pay-Off (1930) - Lowell Sherman
(5.2) The Phantom Fiend (1931) - Ivor Novello
(???) Plan For Escape ("Studio One") (1952) - Peggy Ann Garner
(6.4) Please Murder Me (1956) - Angela Lansbury/Raymond Burr
(5.8) Prison Shadows (1936) - Edward J. Nugent
(6.4) Quicksand (1950) - Mickey Rooney/Peter Lorre
(7.0) The Red House (1947) - Edward G. Robinson/Judith Anderson
(6.4) The Scar ("Hollow Triumph") (1948) - Paul Henreid/Joan Bennett
(7.8) Scarlet Street (1945) - Edward G. Robinson/Joan Bennett/Dan Duryea
(6.0) The Second Woman (1951) - Robert Young/Betsy Drake
(5.3) The Shadow Strikes (1937) - Rod La Roque/Agnes Anderson
(6.8) Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon (1943) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Lionel Atwill
(6.2) Shoot To Kill (1947) - Russell Wade
(6.0) The Sign Of Four ("Sherlock Holmes") (1932) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Hunter
(5.8) Sinners In Paradise (1938) - Madge Evans/Bruce Cabot
(6.8) The Sleeping Tiger (1954) - Dirk Bogarde/Alexis Smith
(6.1) Slightly Honorable (1940) - Pat O'Brien/Edward Arnold
(6.2) Strange Illusion (1945) - James Lydon
(7.2) The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers (1946) - Barbara Stanwyck/Van Heflin/Kirk Douglas
(6.3) Strange Woman (1946) - Hedy Lamarr/George Sanders
(7.5) The Stranger (1946) - Edward G. Robinson/Loretta Young/Orson Welles
(6.4) A Study In Scarlet ("Sherlock Holmes") (1933) - Reginald Owen/Warburton Gamble
(6.5) Sucker Money (1933) - Mischa Auer
(7.0) Suddenly (1954) - Frank Sinatra/Sterling Hayden
(5.4) Ten Minutes To Live (1932) - A.B. Comatherie
(7.0) Terror By Night ("Sherlock Holmes") (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Alan Mowbray
(???) There Was A Crooked Man ("Studio One") (1950) - Robert Sterling
(5.2) They Made Me A Criminal - John Garfield/The Dead End Kids(1939)
(4.7) Things Happen At Night (1947) - Gordon Harker/Alfred Drayton
(7.2) Too Late for Tears (1949) - Lizabeth Scott/Don DeFore/Dan Duryea
(6.9) Topper Returns (1941) - Joan Blondell/Roland Young/Billie Burke
(6.5) Trapped (1949) - Lloyd Bridges
(6.1) The Triumph Of Sherlock Holmes (1935) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Fleming (as Dr. Watson)
(7.9) Two Sharp Knives ("Studio One") (1948) - Stanley Ridges
(4.8) Whistle Stop (1946) - George Raft/Ava Gardner
(6.0) The Woman Condemned (1934) - Claudia Dell/Jason Robards Sr.
(6.9) The Woman In Green ("Sherlock Holmes") (1945) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Hillary Brooke
(6.7) Woman In The Shadows (1934) - Fay Wray/Ralph Bellamy
(7.5) Woman On The Run (1950) - Ann Sheridan
(5.8) The Wrong Road (1937) - Richard Cromwell/Helen Mack"

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Michelle Faison | Quincy, MA USA | 11/18/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a combination of the 50 Movie Pack Mystery Classics & 50 Movie Pack Dark Crimes Collections offered by Amazon. This is not clear in the description of the set online, nor the box, until you open it.Once you open it, you can only get a partial refund from Amazon, if you return it. The movies themselves are great, and fortunately, my sister loves old movies, too, so I'm giving her the 50 Movie Packs I got as a gift."

If you like old crime/mystery movies...

Kevin T. Parks | 02/14/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you like old (1930's-40's) crime/mystery movies, and don't mind them being "B" pictures you may enjoy this set. A mixture of "B" (and lesser studio) movies: some good (for example the 4 Holmes-Rathbone series), some mediocre but still watchable and some when-is-this-thing-going-to-end torturous (the Holmes-Wontner/Owen series). 3 or 4 of the 'movies' are actually made for TV movies from the early 50's, not theatrical movies at all.

I paid [one-five-dot-eight-six], including shipping for my set (new).

Yes video/audio quality varies; many prints are very contrasty, it may help to turn down the contrast and turn up ther brightness on your set. One movie (Fog Island) I had to listen via headphones through my stereo and adjust the audio equalizer, otherwise the dialog was so unclear I could not understand it. The audio/video quality could have been improved noticeably if Mill Creek had just made some very, very simple video and audio adjustments when they transferred the films to video.

I won't repeat points already covered in other reviews. If you want a taste of what is on the set, go to [lileks(dot)com] and click on '100 Mysteries'. James Lileks is a writer/humorist on a Minneapolis newspaper and has authored several books. He received this as a gift and as of 2009-10 is commenting on a movie a week from the boxset, with stills from the films and even some very short video clips. Yes, his comments are mainly intended to entertain, having a bit of fun at the expense of some of the films/actors, but he still gives credit where credit is due. It was reading about his slogging thru the boxset a film a week that got me interested in buying the set."