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If you like old crime/mystery movies... | Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack | Edwin G. Robinson, Basil Rathbone

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	• Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack Edwin G. Robinson, Basil Rathbone Mill Creek Entertainment, 2006 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack

Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack

I think I paid $17.xx for this set. There are 100 movies in the set, though they are on double-sided discs and usually 2 movies to a side. There are a bunch of really good movies--especially if you like the old classic B&W movies.

Read the description; if that's what you want, buy them. By the way, the box they come in is handy for storage, and there are mini-reviews on each disc sleeve.

Buy 'em!

LD

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good product or I wouldn't bother but requiring a written review will discourage participation. did i really have to tell you this?

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If you like old crime/mystery movies...

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.

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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.

Merges Dark Crimes and Mystery Classics movie packs

This is actually a pretty good buy as long as you dont already have either Mystery Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection or Dark Crimes Collection 50 Movie Pack. This combination pack is actually cheaper than the two movie packs from which it springs.

Among the real finds in this set are the serials. "Bulldog Drummond" is quite amusing, and all but the first one is quite viewable. The Bulldog Drummond series even has John Barrymore with a very good turn as a police inspector quite late in his career. There is the Dick Tracy series, which is also quite well preserved and watchable. Finally there are some of the old Sherlock Holmes films. The earliest of these suffer from some pretty bad fading, but most are OK. Then there are some great individual films including an independent film by James Cagney in the 30's - "Great Guy", Mickey Rooney at the center of a film noir in "Quicksand", which pretty much says it all about the plot, and the unforgettable noir "He Walks by Night" with Richard Basehart that focuses more on the psychology of the criminal and the science of criminology. You know from the start who did it, the fun is in seeing how the cops catch the criminal. David Manners and even Bela Lugosi show up in a couple of forgotten films with pretty good plots.

If you're into classic stars and great plots, I recommend this. However, do note that there are a few films that are quite faded and their audio is so bad that it makes it difficult to enjoy them.

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Combining its popular Mystery and Dark Crimes 50 Movie Packs, Mill Creek Entertainment returns you to a time when the movies were black and white but the dark characters that inhabited them displayed every shade of grey. Deception, betrayal, corruption, larceny and murder stir the landscape in this collection of amoral tales that thrilled bygone audiences and are back to delight a new generation.

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