Mystery / Suspense - DVD

<p>Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena...

<p>Think of them as working men who work the angles. Rodrigo is the rookie. Richard is the mentor who knows crime like a book. But a new book is about to be written. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal navigate the con-or-be-conned...

<p>Isabel Lorrison is a good-time girl destined for a bad-time fate: a murder victim on a mortuary slab. But who killed her? A casual pickup? An envious girlfriend? A philandering husband with an eye for beauty? Or the man's wife, who had every motive...

<p>Outlaws come and go in Nick and Nora's lives. Now it's time to meet the in-laws. The debonair sleuths leave little Nicky Jr. at boarding school, grab Asta and head to Nick's boyhood home of Sycamore Springs. Of course, wherever they go, murder has...

<p>At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and, before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold. They're playing your song, Nick and Nora Charles! William Powell and Myrna Loy return as the...

<p>Private eye Lew Harper is in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air. Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years...

<p>If you were a famed mystery playwright with a devastating string of recent flops, what would you do for a can't-miss thriller script? Beg for it? Pay for it? Kill for it? Get snared in Deathtrap, the fiendishly funny film version of Ira Levin's...

<p>Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in...

<p>Based on the wildly popular comic book character from DC Comics, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight --...

<p>Aging private eye Ira Wells (Academy Award winner* Art Carney) has agreed to help a Hollywood kook named Margo (Lily Tomlin) locate her missing cat. Little does he know he's got a tiger by the tail. Written and directed by three-time Oscar winner* Robert...

<p>In season two of the animated adult comedy series MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES, the team is back for more mystery solving. Mike Tyson (voiced by series star MIKE TYSON), once the "baddest man on the planet," remains hell-bent on becoming the "goodest man on the...

<p>Who's the guy lying next to her? How did they meet? All Alex knows is that he's as dead as a toe-tagged John Doe. "He had a heart attack?" Alex's ex asks over the phone. "From a knife in the chest," she retorts. Two-time...

<p><strong>The Red Dragon: </strong>Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.</p>

<p>The first major Hollywood production to film in Egypt, Valley of the Kings is a grandly scaled and ravishingly scenic adventure about the search for clues across the Sinai terrain offering proof of Biblical events. Set in 1900 and unfolding across landscapes of awesome...

<p>Novelist Dave Brady (George Brent) makes a living out of crime stories, and now he's wrapped up in the real enchilada. Drawn to Mexico by a letter from fugitive ex-reporter Tip Carter (Morris Ankrum), he learns that the alcoholic expatriate fled the country because...

<p>Welcome to western Alaska, where bush pilot Mike Wein (real-life flyboy Wayne Morris) operates a puddle jumper flying passengers to remote locations -- and where one false move traversing the dateline can bring you up close to the Red Menace. Russian sentries patrol the...

<p>Good news: Switchboard operator Ruth Raymond (Mary Carlisle) is the long-lost daughter of a railroad tycoon. Bad news: The cross-country train trip she takes to claim her birthright is going to be a veritable slay ride. A crazy-quilt concoction stitched together with laughs and...

<p>Heave-to for homicide. While in port, the USS Carolina is chosen for an urgent test of a new electronic firing system due to its shipshape efficiency record. That reputation will be stained -- in blood -- by a saboteur out to scuttle the trial,...

<p>And it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game -- forever. The St. Louis Cardinals may be a hard-luck club rallying toward the pennant, but with a killer afoot, they're on a losing streak -- of lives! A brisk, well-played...

<p>When club owner Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett) blithely declares, "Gambling is my profession," it's an understatement. Because the beautiful, tough-talking society dame he's talking to is the riskiest wager he's made yet. Virginia Mayo plays tart tomato Linda Vickers, who, suspicious that Fain used...

<p>Spenser: For Hire's third and final season sees the wheel of fate keep spinning for Boston's favorite cop-for-hire and company. Spenser's independently minded inamorata, Susan Silverman, returns from the West Coast, determined to bridge their sundered relationship. Spenser's longtime friend and valued ally in...

<p>An escape artist (John Gilbert) attempts to clear his name after being convicted of murder in this imaginative mystery thriller based on the novel Cheri-Bibi et Cecily by Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera). When the father (C. Aubrey Smith) of the woman...

<p>Stewart Granger pays the price to keep his past a secret in this 'ingenious British Qthriller" (Radio Times) costarring Haya Harareet (Ben-Hur). A convicted embezzler-turned-successful-businessman, John Brent (Granger) discovers his real troubles are just beginning. First, he's blackmailed by a prison dentist (Norman Bird)...

<p>Laugh-In's Rowan and Martin scare up the laughs in this madcap horror/mystery spoof costarring Carol Lynley and Julie Newmar. Kicked out of their office for non-payment of rent, bickering buddies Ernie (Dick Martin) and Sam (Dan Rowan) move into a creepy old house where...

<p>Murder becomes a laughing matter in two screwball mysteries based on the comic misadventures of attorney John J. Malone, one of the most popular fictional sleuths of the '40s and '50s. The creation of famed mystery writer Craig Rice, Malone played detective in 11...

<p>Mystery novelist Phillip Blackwood has writer's block. He hits the courtrooms for inspiration - and is zapped with a doozy. A mysterious Romanian woman arraigned for murder arouses both his creative and amorous impulses. Is she guilty? Who are the gray-suited fellows shadowing her?...

<p>With a twinkle of his eye and a twirl of his moustache, Tony Randall steps into the patent leather pumps of Hercule Poirot - and joins the ranks of Charles Laughton, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, David Suchet and more distinguished actors who've charmed generations...

<p>A dose of Brit humor for what ails you! Terry-Thomas leads a cast of British wits and wags in a zany whodunit set in a posh spa. He plays private eye J. Barker-Rynde, hired by a wealthy dowager to investigate mysterious goings-on at Green...

<p>They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a...

<p>To experience the grisly goings'on of Wicked. Wicked, your right eye has to know what your left eye is doing! Filmed in a split-screen process dubbed Duo-vision. this guilty pleasure follows a psycho electrician at an elegant California resort who prefers blondes,.,dismembered. It simultaneously...

<p>Pardon the malaprop above, but it's time to celebrate in the style of Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) because with this fourth and final volume the entire record-breaking run of The Bowery Boys films are available at last. To sweeten the pot, this...

<p>Crime pays handsomely in this smart and stylish double feature based on the adventures of Arsene Lupin, fiction's most famous gentleman thief. john and Lionel Barrymore "make a marvelous team in their first film together" (Leonard Maltin 's Classic Movie Guide) in the risque...

<p>Counterfeiters can be deadly, as attested to by "Boiling Point" and "To Live and Die in L.A." Here, a killer escapes from prison and will stop at nothing to pull off a massive counterfeiting scheme.</p>

<p>Don't jump to conclusions when you meet LA. homicide detective Shirley Ridgeway. Sure, she's a widow and a dowdy dresser who strides through crime scenes in sensible shoes. Sure,she's a meat-and-potatoes kitchen enthusiast whose idea of a romantic evening is meatloaf by candlelight. But...

<p>Over a year ago, Elizabeth Alden plunged over a twisting mountain road to her death. So how come lawman Abel Marsh sees her driving through town? It's a mystery -- one with a terrific surprise ending. Well remembered as Mayberry's amiable sheriff in The...

Richard Dix stars as Pike Winslow, a bumbling heir to a large fortune. Winslow is also The Reckoner, a mysterious avenger and investigator who always leaves behind a business card printed with the scales of justice. He leads a pair of justice-minded vigilantes --...

<p>Tinseltown tough guy supreme George Raft (Scarface) stars as a rogue detective obsessed with finding the femme fatale inside a rogues' gallery of eye-popping pinups after a composer's supposed suicide. Successful songsmith Keith Vincent is a serial seducer of women -- all brunettes, all...

<p>Superstar cowboy actor "Wild Bill" Elliot traded in his boots and spurs at Allied Artists for gumshoes and a badge in a series of crackling crime dramas playing a Los Angeles County Sheriff's department detective lieutenant. Dubbed Lt. Andy Flynn in the first film,...

<p>This third volume of the complete Bowery Boys film collection carries within it some milestone moments for the series - along with more mirth and malaprops than you can swing a crumpled fedora at! First off, the Boys look back to their roots as...

<p>When William Powell signed with Warner Bros., he did more than find a new studio home for his urbane sophistication -- it was there he solidified himself as a leading man. Culled from the nine 1931-34 films Powell made at Warner, these four films...

<p>Suspense and suspicion power this absorbing postwar drama from writer-director Michael McCarthy. When Col. Charles Price (Donald Wolfit) receives a phone call from a man claiming that one of the former German resistance members gathered in his home is responsible for a friend's death,...

<p>Stuart Palmer's immortal crime-solving school teacher Hildegarde Withers came to the screen courtesy of a series of mysteries from RKO Pictures. Memorably played by character great Edna May Oliver in three features, Hildegarde was ably paired with her flirty foil of Inspector Piper in...

<p>A mother, Leanne, vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also go missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the Leanne's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. Everyone is a suspect. In the end,...

<p>Set sail for a thrilling mystery-adventure filled with tantalizing twists and gripping suspense! Robert Taylor stars as John Nordley, an opportunistic charter boat captain who's always willing to skirt the rules if the price is right. When Nordley's passenger dies on a clandestine voyage...

<p>Everything's going right for Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan). He came home after the war, married his gal, got a regular job as a bank teller in Hollywood, makes payments on a house in the 'burbs. But, as the voice-over narrator of this on-edge film...

<p>Tom Cochrane has no memory of the murder. What he remembers is a party, a few unusually powerful drinks, a blonde songstress, and then waking up woozy in an unfamiliar room where there's a bloody knife and a blonde stuffed lifeless in a closet....

<p>Who's that dodging his murderous mama, an equally murderous sheik, and the temptations of a harem full of beauties? It's Brooklyn's own Eddie Wilson, who comes to Egypt to claim an inheritance and finds that lots of other folks want a slice of his...

<p>Loose women. Unscrupulous heels. Adulterous husbands. Unfaithful wives. Pre-Code Hollywood had them all, with most sins going unpunished. Starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Loretta Young and quintessential screen scoundrel Warren William in two of his best, Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Seven shines the spotlight...

<p>Who bumped off bibliophile Otto Brockler? Mystery turns a new page when bookdealers and amateur sleuths Joel and Garda Sloane (Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice) sift through clues and suspects in Fast Company, the first of three brisk, urbane Sloane films. When a rare Shakespeare...

<p>Robert Cannon (Jack Kelly), Fred Vitale (Ray Danton) and Alan Nichols (Andrew Duggan), three men vital to America's missile program, are en route to Cape Canaveral when a bomb is discovered in a suitcase. Defused by Vitale, the device is turned over to the...