Mystery Classics : 4 Feature Films

Karloff, Price... two names well-known in the suspense arena. And none do suspense better ...even today. Bring back the old classics, the well-seasoned actors who take their roles seriously and make you believe the characters they portray are real.... at least on screen.Boris Karloff stars in Doomed to Die, as Mr. Wong, investigating the death of a shipping mogul.Vincent Price stars in Shock!, as Dr. Cross, a psycho psychiatrist.Morgan Conway stars in Dick Tray, Detective, as Dick Tracy, hunting a notorious criminal named Splitface.Noah Beery stars in Mystery Liner as ship's captain along with Edwin Maxwell as a detective Major Pope, investigating murder and suspicious activities on-board an ocean liner fitted with a newly designed remote-controlled steering device.Sound quality is fantastic and clear. The video is nice and sharp and crisp. It's like you're right there, watching it in person.

This is a nice set of older mystery movies. Although occasionally a word or phrase would be skipped for some reason, it was still understandable.It would be nice to get a whole collection of Nancy Drew movies starring Bonita Granville, but I have not yet found a complete set.

great compilation of movies from vintage hollywood when actors knew how to act and didn't look like they were made from a cookie cutter, writers could write and neither relied on computer imaging, bad language or fast car chases. just pure clean entertainment.

Great

Some tales are truly good, while some are OK. There are no real duds. Again, good stuff if you like period pieces and are drawn to the 30s and 40s.

Have not seen them yet, but I'm a big Vincent Price fan and I know I will enjoy them.

The best movie on this one is SHOCK with Vincent Price. DOOMED TO DIE is also good, but for me it's a duplicate. I own the complete James Lee Wong detective series and DOOMED TO DIE is on it. I already own 8 other volumes of the Mystery Classics Collection.

I liked seeing Boris Karloff as a good guy. I enjoyed the film.And Vincent Price did a good job. He was a decent actor.Is this the DVD that had one with Hugh Beaumont from "Leave It To Beaver"? Not a good movie but fun to see him in the role he played.

Whilst watching any of the films of this era remember, movie film production was still in its infancy. Most films of this ilk were meant to be billed as Second or even Third features. Transatlantic quota agreements between Britain and The States were rigorously enforced and so a lot of films that wouldn't necessarily entertain some people got an undeserved airing in Theatres across both sides of "The Pond." "Mystery Classics" include some such worthless film stock but they also have little gems of entertainment that for all their age, time has not eaten away their worth to the industry or to the thrill of entertainment value to us oh so sophisticated beings of the "New Millennium." Take them in context, age and at face value and you shall be pleasantly entertained as our Fathers and Forefathers were in times gone by. Peter Pan KPES.

good dvd