  
A collection of 50 classic Mystery and Suspense thrillers in one complete set. Hours of entertainment await you from series including Dick Tracy, Bulldog Drummond, Sherlock Holmes, and Nancy Drew. Enjoy great performances by James Cagney, Orson Welles, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and Brian Donlevy to name a few. All films digitally remastered. Provided on 12 double sided DVD’s and packaged in an attractive collector’s edition storage box.
Disc 1 Side A
Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge
Released: 1937
Color/B&W
Run Time: 55 Minutes
Star: John Howard
Rating: Unrated
Bulldog Drummond (John Howard) along with his pal Algy Longworth and fiancée Phyllis Claverling, come upon a severed arm that is still attached to a valise filled with high explosives. Their investigation put them on the trail of the evil Draven Nogais (Frank Puglia), who has run off with the top secret formula for the high explosives. As usual, Bulldog is aided by Colonel Neilson (John Barrymore) of Scotland Yard, and his trusty servant (E. E. Clive).
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Released: 1937
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 67 Minutes
Star: Ray Milland
Rating: Unrated
This is the only Bulldog Drummond film to star the fabulous Ray Milland as our heroic adventurer who must once more try to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel). She is being held prisoner on a country estate by a supposed friend who is scheming to steal her fortune. When her brother is killed, the perpetrators then stalk Bulldog and his pal Algy Longworth (Reginald Denny). Bulldog must face his greates challenge before the mystery is unraveled with the help of Scotland Yard.
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Released: 1938
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 58 Minutes
Star: John Howard
Rating: Unrated
Bulldog’s wedding plans are put on hold when his fiancée Phyllis (Heather Angel) witnesses the violent kidnapping of long-time pal and wedding guest Colonel Neilson of Scotland Yard. The chase leads to far away Morocco where a foreign spy ring headed by the ruthless Richard Lane holds the Colonel prisoner. If he doesn’t give up his country’s secrets, a large and distinctly unfriendly lion is ready to rip him to pieces. Can Bulldog save the day?
Disc 1 Side B
Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police
Released: 1939
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 56 Minutes
Star: John Howard
Rating: Unrated
Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is, yet again, all set to wed his long-suffering fiancée Phyllis Claverling (Heather Angel). And, yet again, the wedding must wait when the eccentric Professor Downie (Forrester Harvey) appears and informs Bulldog that a fortune is buried on his Rockingham estate and he has the secret cipher that will lead them to it. Before he can follow through, the Professor is murdered, and the hunt is on to find the killer.
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Released: 1937
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 58 minutes
Star: John Barrymore
Rating: Unrated
The intrepid Captain "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) must try to rescue his kidnapped fiancée, Phyllis Claverling, who is being held captive by Drummond’s old adversary Mikhail Valdin (J. Carrol Naish). The evil Valdin is wanted for the murder of an American Tycoon in his native Paris. Drummond is aided in his search by his butler Tenny and his pal Algy Longworth, as well as Scotland Yard’s Inspector Neilson (John Barrymore), a master of disguises.
Bulldog Drummond’s Peril
Released: 1938
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 67 Minutes
Star: John Howard
Rating: Unrated
Once again Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is about to wed his long-suffering fiancée Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) at Swiss “Maison”. And once again the wedding is put on hold when the Swiss police officer who is guarding their wedding gifts is killed. The murderer had a hidden agenda, as one of the gifts was an artificial diamond developed by the scientist father of the couples’ friend Gwen Longworth.
Disc 2 Side A
Dick Tracy, Detective
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 61 Minutes
Star: Morgan Conway
Rating: Unrated
The body count has mounted to fifteen victims when Dick Tracy gets involved in the investigation. The victims come from every facet of society and economic status. The one common denominator is the method of their demise…they were all slashed to pieces. Now our hero must find the linkage that will lead him to the culprit before the killer strikes again.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Released: 1947
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 65 Minutes
Star: Boris Karloff
Rating: Unrated
The inimitable Boris Karloff guest stars as the titular Gruesome, an escaped prisoner who is planning a daring bank robbery. The robbers use a gas that temporarily paralyses the bank’s employees and customers allowing them quick access and escape. Unfortunately for them, one customer, Tess Truehart (Anne Gwynne), is unaffected, and telephones Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) for help.
Disk 2 Side B
Dick Tracy versus Cueball
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 62 Minutes
Star: Morgan Conway
Rating: Unrated
Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) faces one of his most evil adversaries in the form of “Cueball”, a ruthless criminal played by a very scary Dick Wessel. Cueball has been betrayed by his gang members, and is now disposing of them one by one. Normally this would not have bothered the police who had long targeted the villains, but now Dick Tracy himself is marked for death.
The Shadow Strikes (Scourge of the Underworld)
Released: 1937
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 62 Minutes
Star: Rod LaRoque
Rating: Unrated
To those around him he is Lamont Cranston (Rod LaRoque), debonair man-about town. Secretly he is the legendary Shadow, whose secret is known only to his loyal servant and companion Henry. This time he must find the killer of a rich “gentleman” whose long list of enemies included his heirs and an assortment of mobsters.
Disc 3 Side A
The Shadow: International Crime
Released: 1937
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Star: Rod LaRoque
Rating: Unrated
Lamont Cranston (Rod LaRoque) is both a legendary criminologist and on air crime reporter. Cranston takes on the investigation of the slaying of a wealthy business tycoon. In doing so, he exposes a far larger conspiracy involving a group of foreign saboteurs. Will good prevail over evil?…the shadow knows.
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning
Released: 1939
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Star: Peter Lorre
Rating: Unrated
The legendary Peter Lorre stars as Mr. Moto, the brilliant and inscrutable detective whose investigations span the globe. Evil ventriloquist Fabian the Great (Ricardo Cortez) and his cohort Eric Norvel (George Sanders) are plotting to sink the French fleet that is due to dock in the Egyptian Port Said. Their goal is nothing less than to disrupt relations between England and France, and precipitate a world war. Unfortunately for the villainous duo, Mr. Moto has other ideas.
Disc 3 Side B
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Released: 1935
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time; 68 Minutes
Star: Bela Lugosi
Rating: Unrated
Mr. Wong (Bela Lugosi) appears to be a mild mannered Chinatown merchant, but appearances can be deceiving. By night he ruthlessly seeks the Twelve Coins of Confucius that will give him control of an entire Chinese province. With eleven of the twelve coins in his evil grasp, a bloody killing spree gets the attention of news hound Jason Barton (Wallace Ford) and his girlfriend Peg (Arlene Judge). The tenacious pair get in over their head when they find Wong’s headquarters.
Mr. Wong, Detective
Released: 1938
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Star: Boris Karloff
Rating: Unrated
In the first feature in this long-running and popular series, the incomparable Boris Karloff stars as the inscrutable Chinese detective, Mr. Wong. He is called in to investigate the case of a vengeful inventor who has been accused of killing the businessmen who duped him. The only clue to be found is a shard of glass found nearby the bodies of the victims. But what does it mean and where did it come from.
Disc 4 Side A
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
Released: 1934
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 74 Minutes
Star: Arthur Wontner
Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) and Dr. Watson (Ian Hunter) are determined to protect Mary Morstan, a frightened young woman who is threatened by an escaped murderer. The killer is looking for a stolen fortune, and revenge on the man who stole it. Now he’s at Mary’s door and Holmes and Watson must look for answers in a freakish carnival filled with pygmies and tattooed men. When Mary is kidnapped, it becomes a desperate race against time.
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Released: 1935
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 75 Minutes
Star: Arthur Wontner
Rating: Unrated
Holmes (Arthur Wontner) and Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming) travel to Birlstone Castle to unravel a mysterious murder. The trail leads to a secret American society of coal-miners called the Scowlers. As usual, that diabolical villain Professor Moriarty (Lynn Harding in fine form) is the evil instigator who has allied with an American mobster (Ben Welden) to kill the detective who is trying to bring down the Scowlers.
Disc 4 Side B
Sherlock Holmes: Murder at the Baskervilles
Released: 1937
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 70 Minutes
Starring: Arthur Wontner
Rating: Unrated
When Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) takes some time out to visit his old pal Sir Henry Baskerville, he never anticipated finding himself in the middle of a double murder mystery. Now he and the ever-resourceful Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming) must find their nemesis Professor Moriarty and the championship horse Silver Blaze before the cup final horse race.
Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green
Released: 1945
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 65 Minutes
Star: Basil Rathbone
Rating: Unrated
Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) attempt to solve a series of strange, seemingly random murders. The gory common denominator is that each young female victim had had her right thumb severed. The investigation subsequently leads to an organization of hypnotists and a beautiful but enigmatic woman. The diabolical Dr Moriarty, despite premature reports of his execution in Montevideo, is thought to be implicated. Holmes and Moriarty face off in the climactic scene, when, briefly, it appears that our hero’s nemesis may win the day.
Disc 5 Side A
Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet
Released: 1933
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 77 Minutes
Star: Reginald Owen
Rating: Unrated
In this one-of-a-kind feature, Reginald Owen stars as Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is charged with investigating the slayings of members of an organization known as “The Scarlet Ring”. When he visits the stately home Mrs. Pyke, the widow of one of the deceased victims, Holmes must face his ultimate challenge. The climactic scenes take place on a foggy night filled with shrieks, dark figures, hidden passages and a none-to-friendly Asian man servant.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Released: 1942
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 68 Minutes
Star: Basil Rathbone
Rating: Unrated
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are searching for a kidnapped scientist whose invention may decide the fate of World War II. Both the Allies and the Nazis are in a desperate race to possess it for their own benefit. As Holmes and Watson close in on the missing scientist, they are confronted by their diabolical nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill).
Disc 5 Side B
Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 60 Minutes
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) has been commissioned by Roland Castairs to safeguard the fabulous Star of Rhodesia diamond that is owned by his mother. Holmes is convinced that the diamond will be stolen en route by train to London, he switches the real diamond with a fake. Unfortunately Roland is murdered, and the thieves make off with the fake. Aided by Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), and Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey), Holmes tracks down the murderer and discovers the involvement of Colonel Sebastian Moran, the henchman of their nemesis Moriarty.
Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 72 Minutes
Star: Basil Rathbone
Rating: Unrated
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are on the trail of a plot that threatens to destroy the financial fabric of the country. An unscrupulous prison inmate who stole engraving plates from the Bank of England has hidden them in a series of music boxes. Now it’s up to Holmes and Watson to find them before an unsavory collection of criminals do. The repartee between Rathbone and Bruce is delightful as always.
Disc 6 Side A
Nancy Drew, Reporter
Released: 1939
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 68 Minutes
Star: Bonita Granville
Rating: Unrated
Nancy Drew (Bonita Granville) is the daughter of prominent attorney Carson Drew, and she has a few things she can teach him about the justice system. When a local paper sponsors a contest asking for story submissions from school children, Nancy takes it very seriously. She decides to report on the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Believing the young woman accused of the murder to be innocent, Nancy enlists the help of her neighbor Ted and together they expose the identity of the real killer.
The Kennel Murder Case
Released: 1933
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 73 Minutes
Star: William Powell
Rating: Unrated
Detective Philo Vance (William Powell) investigates the suspicious deaths of two brothers who both belonged to a prestigious Long Island kennel club. He is assisted in his efforts by hilariously over eager Sergeant Ernest Health (Eugene Pallette). Philo gets a chance to enjoy his love of canines while tracking down the perpetrator before they kill again in this entertaining feature.
Disc 6 Side B
The Death Kiss
Released: 1932
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 74 Minutes
Star: David Manners
Rating: Unrated
While filming the closing scene of "The Death Kiss", leading man Myles Brent is actually killed. Having played around with, or been married to, most of the women connected with the movie studio, there are lots of suspects. When leading lady Marcia Lane is arrested for the killing, her suitor, a studio writer, starts to investigate the killing in order to prove her innocence.
Suddenly
Released: 1954
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 77 Minutes
Star: Frank Sinatra
Rating: Unrated
Discover Frank Sinatra at his finest in this adrenaline-filled thriller that tells the story of a cold-hearted assassin who is planning to assassinate the commander-in-chief when his train passes through the sleepy town of Suddenly. Sinatra and his equally ruthless henchmen commandeer a house that looks out on the Presidential train stop. The terrified residents are held hostage as the clock counts down to a shattering conclusion
Disc 7 Side A
Impact
Released: 1949
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Star: Brian Donlevy
Rating: Unrated
Unsuspecting businessman Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is the target of a plot by his scheming wife Irene (Helen Walker). She and her paramour Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) plan to dispose of her inconvenient husband by orchestrating a car “accident”. Unluckily for them, it is Jim who dies in the crash. When Walter realizes the world believes him to be dead, he decides to change his identity and relocate in a small town where no one will recognize him.
He Walked by Night
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 79 Minutes
Star: Richard Basehart
Based on the exploits of real life criminal Erwin Walker (Richard Basehart) the film portrays a brilliant thief and sociopath who eludes the police by listening in to their radio communications. He alters his modus operandi with each successive crime, leading the police to believe that multiple criminals are at work. When he murders a police officer it’s the beginning of the end for Walker.
Disc 7 Side B
Quicksand
Released: 1950
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 79 Minutes
Star: Mickey Rooney
Dan (Mickey Rooney) is an ingenuous mechanic who thinks he is irresistible to women. When he falls for a beautiful blonde named Kay, he promises to wine and dine her, but lacks the funds to fulfill his pledge. Desperate, he steals $20 from the shop’s register, thinking he can replace it before the shortage is discovered. When he comes up short it precipitates his steady descent into a sordid life of crime. The magnificent Peter Lorre co-stars in this dark classic.
Eyes in the Night
Released: 1942
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 80 Minutes
Star: Donna Reed
Rating: Unrated
Barbara Lawry (Donna Reed) has been dating a theatrical has-been, Paul Gerente (John Emery), much to the displeasure of his former lover Norma (Ann Harding) who just happens to be Barbara’s mother. When Paul turns up murdered, Norma assumes that a jealous mother is to blame. Blind detective Captain Duncan McClain (Edward Arnold) investigates and finds the things are never as they seem.
Disc 8 Side A
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Released: 1949
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Star: Charles Laughton
Rating: Unrated
George Simenon’s legendary Paris detective, Inspector Maigret is brought vividly to life by the legendary Charles Laughton. He will need all his analytical powers to track down an elusive killer. The villain, played by Franchot Tone, is a self-impressed psychopath who has been persuaded to kill the aunt of scheming Edna Wallace (Jean Wallace). Maigret must keep his patience until all the evidence is in place as he is taunted by the arrogant murderer.
Topper Returns
Released: 1941
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 88 Minutes
Star: Roland Young
Rating: Unrated
Topper (Roland Young) encounters a sarcastic ghost (Joan Blondell) who insists that our intrepid hero help her find her murderer. The plot unravels in Carrington Hall, a fabulous haunted mansion, replete with mysteries and a phantom who passes through solid stone.. Beset by falling objects, dark, mysterious corridors and hidden traps, Topper must persevere to solve the dark crime. Of course the setting would be incomplete without the dastardly butler, the prissy housekeeper, a performing seal, Topper’s irascible chauffeur “Rochester” and Ms. Blondell’s disappearing corpse.
Disc 8 Side B
The Green Glove
Released: 1952
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Star: Glenn Ford
Rating: Unrated
Glenn Ford Stars as an American GI who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel-encrusted glove that had been pillaged from a country church during hostilities. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide played by Geraldine Brooks, and an unsavory Nazi collaborator (George MaCready) whom he had fought during the war.
The Second Woman
Released: 1951
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 122 minutes
Star: Robert Young
Rating: Unrated
Robert Young stars memorably in this dark mystery with more than its share of twists and turns. Young plays an architect who remains devastated by the death of his wofe-to-be in a tragic car accident. A friend, played by Betsy Drake, helps him look into a series of “accidents” that are wrecking his life and all that he holds dear.
Disc 9 Side A
Fog Island
Released: 1945
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 72 Minutes
Star: George Zucco
Rating: Unrated
Framed by one of his colleagues, George Zucco stars as a man who goes to prison for a crime he didn’t commit…the murder of his wife. Now he’s served his time and has joined forces with a crazed scientist to exact his long-awaited revenge. They invite his suspected colleagues to an isolated island estate, where the guest face a series of booby traps in the midst of an impenetrable fog. Will the guilty party be discovered and eliminated. Only time will tell in this updated take on Ten Little Indians.
They Made Me a Criminal
Released: 1939
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Star: John Garfield
Rating: Unrated
Meet Johnnie Bradford, a boozy pugilist who has just become the number one suspect in a murder investigation. Not about to play patsy for a crime he didn’t commit, he goes on the lam, hiding out on a work farm staffed by juvenile delinquents (The Dead End Kids) sent there for rehabilitation. Johnny decides to try and set the kids back on the straight and narrow, but time is running out as a veteran detective (Claude Rains) closes in. Now the fate of both Johnny and the kids hangs in the balance.
Disc 9 Side B
Jigsaw
Released: 1949
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Star: Franchot Tone
Rating: Unrated
Franchot Tone plays Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy, a man with a mission out to avenge the brutal slaying of his friend who discovered that a group of supposed patriots were really members of a fascist hate group. Now he’s determined to expose them for what they are. When the group sends Barbara (Jean Wallace) to seduce Malloy and ruin his career, she has misgivings, but is murdered before she can confess.
Algiers
Released: 1938
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Star: Charles Boyer
Rating: Unrated
Meet Pepe Le Moko, a master thief who fled his native France with a treasure trove of gems. For two years now he has lived in the infamous Casbah section of Algiers ruling its tangled streets with avarice and cunning. The government wants him taken out of circulation but the canny Inspector Slimane is willing to play a waiting game. Pepe is reminded of the free spaces of his native land when a stunning Parisienne named Gaby turns his world upside down and brings down the wrath of his Algerian mistress, Ines. Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two
Disc 10 Side A
Murder with Pictures
Released: 1936
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 69 Minutes
Star: Lew Ayres
Rating: Unrated
Newsman Kent Murdock has a reputation for scooping his competition. Meg Archer (Gail Patric) is a feisty young woman out to seek justice for those who wronged her father. When an expensive criminal attorney dies on the job a newspaper photographer captures it on film. When the photo goes missing courtroom theatrics and gunplay ensue.
The Stranger
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Star: Orson Welles
In this legendary dark masterpiece, Orson Welles stars as Franz Kindler, a horrific Nazi war criminal who has painstakingly erased all evidence of his identity. Edward G. Robinson plays Wilson, a War Crimes Commission detective who is determined to track Kindler down. Only one man, Kindler’s former ally Meinike, knows the true identity of the monster. The suspense build relentlessly as the chase reaches its nerve wracking conclusion.
Disc 10 Side B
Murder at Midnight
Released: 1931
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 69 Minutes
Star: Aileen Pringle
Rating: Unrated
A high society game of charades turns deadly lethal an "unloaded" firearm kills a man. The man who shot him is obviously the prime suspect, until he too is shot. Guessing the identity of the real culprit will have everyone scratching their heads in this clever “Clue” like mystery.
Kansas City Confidential
Released: 1952
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Star: John Payne
Rating: Unrated
Joe Rolfe (John Payne) is a hard-bitten ex-con who has plenty of luck and it’s all the bad kind. He finds himself set up as a patsy who is picked up on suspicion of committing a robbery that was actually orchestrated by a former Kansas City police officer Tim Foster (Preston Foster). On the lam, Joe takes on the identity of a dead hoodlum and joins Foster’s gang in hopes of exposing the true villain and proving his innocence.
Disc 11 Side A
Detour
Released: 1945
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 69 Minutes
Star: Tom Neal
Rating: Unrated
Al Roberts’ life takes an unexpected and unpleasant turn when he decides to hitchhike to the west coast in pursuit of his girlfriend Sue. When the driver who gave him a ride turns up dead, Al decides that the police wouldn’t believe him innocent and decides to dispose of the body and assume the man’s identity. Things go horribly wrong when he in turn picks up a hitchhiker name Vera who sees through his story and promptly begins to blackmail him. After agreeing to go along with her plans he finds himself spiraling into darkness and despair.
Too Late for Tears
Released: 1949
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Star: Lizabeth Scott
Rating: Unrated
One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the Palmers are traced by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang onto it, Jane will need all the qualities of an ultimate femme fatale...and does she ever have them!
Disc 11 Side B
Mystery Liner
Released: 1934
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 63 Minutes
Star: Noah Beery
Rating: Unrated
Captain Holling (Noah Beery) is stripped of his command after a nervous breakdown. When Captain Downey (Boothe Howard) assumes command, he discovers that the ship will be navigated by a remote-control device invented by Professor Grimson (Ralph Lewis). A gang of villains has figured out how to intercept signals from the device and assume control of the ship. Murder, mayhem and suspicion ensue.
Scarlet Street
Released: 1946
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Star: Edward G. Robinson
Rating: Unrated
Edward G. Robinson stars as despondent middle-aged banker Christopher Cross., an aspiring weekend artist who is suffocating in a loveless marriage to an impossible woman. When he meets smart and sexy Kitty March (Joan Bennett) he is mesmerized and fails to notice that her affections are for sale. Her unsavory boyfriend, Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea) becomes convinced that the banker is wealthy and the unscrupulous pair plan to relieve him of his money. This begins a cycle of theft and betrayal that soon escalates to murder and insanity.
Disc 12 Side A
Midnight Manhunt
Released: 1945
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 63 Minutes
Star: Ann Savage
Rating: Unrated
Two competing reporters vie to be first to break the story of a body found murdered in a wax museum. The body turns out to be Joe Wells, an infamous criminal who was shot in his hotel room and staggers into the museum where he expires. Spunky reporter Sue Gallagher finds the corpse and is about to call in the exclusive when Pete Willis, a fellow reporter and occasional lover, shows up and sniffs out the story. When the killer (George Zucco) shows up, he is frustrated to find the body missing, removed by Clutch (Leo Gorcey) a clueless museum worker.
Murder by Television
Released: 1935
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 60 Minutes
Star: Bela Lugosi
Rating: Unrated
In the midst of his debut broadcast the inventor of the television dies mysteriously on air. When the Chief of Police investigates, the inventor’s assistant also dies mysteriously. Only when the federal government sends in an agent does the investigation get back on track. Before long the murderer is revealed.
Disc 12 Side B
The Moonstone
Released: 1934
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 60 Minutes
Star: David Manners
Rating: Unrated
Franklin Blake (David Manners) is a young adventurer who arrives at a dark and forbidding mansion in the midst of a tremendous storm. Accompanied by his Hindu servant Yandoo (John Davidson), they are there to deliver the legendary Moonstone, a fabled jewel stolen from a hidden temple in the depths of the Indian sub-continent. The guests in the mansion are suspicious and sinister, and, in the course of the night, the Moonstone disappears.
Great Guy
Released 1937
Color/B&W: B&W
Run Time: 75 Minutes
Star: James Cagney
Rating: Unrated
Johnny Cave (James Cagney) has said goodbye to his boxing career and agreed to take on the job of managing the Bureau of Weights and Measures. Being a hands-on boss and very street smart, he soon uncovers a web of corruption and deceit. His crusading zeal is met with dismay by his girlfriend Janet (Mae Clarke), and his crooked subordinates.
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