Mystery / Suspense - DVD

<p>Audacious, controversial and shockingly frank, Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Six turns the spotlight on adultery, alcoholism, prostitution and racism, issues the Production Code would soon ban from the screen. Starring the pre-Code era's biggest stars, including John Gilbert, Richard Barthelmess, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis and...

<p>Private eye Nick Carter's detective adventures encompassed over 1000 stories, a 1943-1955 radio series and, among his screen heroics, these three MGM "Bs" starring Walter Pidgeon (soon to be Greer Garson's costar in nine films, including Mrs. Miniver). In Nick Carter, Master Detective, someone...

<p>Combining Nelson Eddy's fine baritone voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, Let Freedom Ring distinguishes itself as a most unusual western. While boasting its share of bad guys and two-fisted action, this ambitious film delivers a powerful and heartfelt message. The...

<p>Tom Conway continues his run as the suave society sophisticate sleuth Tom Lawrence in the second half of the smash RKO mystery series. Making the title role strictly his own, Conway clearly delights in mixing the detective with the dash. The war years and...

<p>In his sophomore and, sadly, final season, Harry Orwell steps a little lighter but never stops searching for the truth. Or working to restore his boat, "The Answer." Continuing the shift in tone that began with the first season's mid-season shift from San Diego...

<p>The dilettante detective stylishly sleuths his way through some of his most famous cases in this 2-Disc, 6-Film Collection. And a veritable rogue's gallery of golden age "gentlemen actors" all take a crack at Philo, including William Powell, Warren William and Basil Rathbone. Classic...

<p>Speed kills, as Peter Graves attempts to bust up a black market amphetamine racket in this action-packed thriller directed by two-time Academy Award nominee* Joseph Newman (This Island Earth). When bootleg bennies threaten to destroy the long-distance trucking industry, undercover FDA agent Tom Kayler...

<p>Tonight on the program at the Hollywood Bowl: murder! A bravura production of Verdi's Il Trovatore is the setting for this con brio blend of music, mystery and murder most foul. Leo Carrillo portrays Gino D'Acosta, a brilliant tenor who has millions of die-hard...

<p>Did Samuel Metford push his wife from Dover Cliff? Lady Helen Dearden saw the Metfords there and knows the woman's death was an accident. If she testifies in court, an innocent man avoids the gallows. Yet one thing will die if she testifies --...

<p>When she was a tot, Sue Talley was given half a Biblical quotation. Now she's in France, eagerly awaiting a reunion with her brother, whom she hasn't seen since early childhood. How will Sue recognize him? He has the other half of the quotation....

<p>After 22 years as a recluse in her New York home, wealthy dowager Melissa Pilson is stepping out to find the murderer of caddish movie producer Len Haworth. Is it the movie starlet (Virginia Bruce) who accepted Haworth's marriage proposal and who owns a...

<p>Robert Mitchum takes a walk on the wild side in his TV acting debut, a suspenseful tale of blackmail and murder costarring Angie Dickinson and Mel Ferrer. Harold Shillman (Mitchum) used to be the best on the force. Now he's a washed up ex-cop,...

<p>The search begins. For the mistress and the son of a mob boss. For Barry "Bottomless Pit" Rosen, missing soon after he won a competitive chili-eating contest. For an air traffic controller who reported possible terrorist activity. For a basketball star, a stripper, a...

<p>From Dead Ends to the East Side and finally landing in Louie's Sweet Shop in the heart of the Bowery (3rd and Canal, natch!), there was no stopping these Boys! When understudy Leo Gorcey joined the ensemble of teen thespians on stage for the...

<p>Nominated for three 1986 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Miniseries and Writing, Dress Gray stars Alec Baldwin, Hal Holbrook, Eddie Albert and Lloyd Bridges in Gore Vidal's explosive adaptation of Lucian K. Truscott IV's best-selling novel. When freshman cadet David Hand (Patrick Cassidy) is found...

<p>Ten people -- eight strangers and two married domestics -- attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. What's the occasion? Each has unwittingly been invited to his/her own murder. Who's behind this dastardly plot? You'll have a devilishly tense time figuring it out...

<p>A decade before TV saw another silver-haired, slow-drawling Southern shyster with a knack for sleuthing out the truth, M-G-M welcomed back two titanic talents, TV producer Norman Felton and screen legend Jimmy Stewart, for Hawkins. Stewart played Billy Jim Hawkins in rotation with the...

<p>Baldpate Inn has seven keys. The mystery writer has one. The other six are in the hands of lunatics: the hermit, the flirt, the prof, the boss, the belle and the thug. And each of these eccentrics has a secret -- one might be...

<p>A generation before he would become a TV titan, the solicitor sleuth solved mysteries across the silver screen. And this is a Perry with a difference -- dashing, debonair and full of savoir-faire! Pre-Code King Warren William originally personified Perry for four films, with...

<p>Debonair thief-turned-detective Simon Templar circles the globe to solve cases with charm and cunning in a series of fast-paced RKO films (1939-41) full of clever banter and cleverer twists based on stories by bestselling author Leslie Charteris. Academy Award winner* George Sanders made his...

<p>Before he hit his stride as a symbol of screen decency and likeability (notably in films opposite Greer Garson), Walter Pidgeon worked in numerous A films as second leads and as the occasional male lead in compelling B programmers like these two movies from...

<p>In his third year as a Warner Bros. contract player, U.S. President Ronald Reagan did time as a federal employee 40 years before becoming U.S. President. In 4 fast-paced B-movies, he was Lt. "Brass" Bancroft, a stalwart Secret Service agent who risked life and...

<p>Haunted houses. Sinister sanitariums. Murder, suspense and laughter are unleashed in this 3-Disc, 6-Movie Collection of Horror Mysteries. It's an electic mix of stars (Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith) in fast-paced, deftly-directed "B"-Movie gems, some adapted from noted mystery masters (including Mignon G. Eberhardt and...

<p>W.S. Van Dyke directs Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders and Robert Montgomery in a gripping psychological thriller from the pen of celebrated English author Christopher Isherwood. Montgomery plays British steel mill owner Philip Monrell, whose outward charm and flippancy conceal a terrible secret, while Sanders...

<p>Glenda Farrell was a signature Warner Bros. 1930s star and she shone brightest as tough-talking reporter Torchy Blane, who always broke the case and got the story -- if not her man, a police detective always a crimesolving step behind her. The 9-movie, 5-disc...

<p>Acclaimed film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean, CSI) is back again in the nick of time with ELEVENTH HOUR. Starring Rufus Seewell as Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government, the series follows the...

<p>Based on a terrifying true story, there's a madman setting fires that kill in Southern California. A madman leading a double-life that his friends, his partner, even his wife doesn't know about. John Orr (Liotta) is a veteran investigator with a sixth sense of...

<p>Peggy (Joan Bennett) feels trapped, lacking the will to break free of her husband Tod (Charles Bickford), a famed painter whose career and eyesight she destroyed during a violent quarrel. A war-traumatized sailor (Robert Ryan), eager to claim Peggy for himself, is convinced Tod...

<p>Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn't mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain...

<p>Julia Joliet handles fan mail for movie stars. Now someone has a message for her, delivered at point-blank range. David Janssen (TV's The Fugitive) brings his laconic cool to Twenty Plus Two as Tom Alder, a Los Angeles private eye who ties Joliet's murder...

<p>The heist at an 1890 soiree is flawlessly executed, and the Calgurie Emerald that adorned the neck of Mrs. Chumley Orr rests in the pocket of clever gentleman thief Nicholas Revel. But something else happens that night that even Revel couldn't foresee. A bobby...

<p>Soon after L.A. police detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. While the police dragnet draws tighter, Carter scrambles to clear his name, connecting the dots involving Pasadena bluebloods, the meat-packing...

<p>Hear those footsteps in the dark? They signal thrills, laughs and mystery as swashbuckler Errol Flynn steps out of tights and into a dinner jacket for a jolly round of sleuthing. Flynn plays a blueblood who juggles two identities: his public persona as a...

<p>A sudden death. Cries in the night. A locked laboratory in a windswept mansion. It's hard to say what creates more tension in Cry Wolf, the nerve-tingling atmosphere (enhanced by Franz Waxman's edgy score) or the flashfire romantic chemistry between movie immortals Barbara Stanwyck...

<p>Bill Clark (Steve Cochran) is a brooding, fresh-from-the-pen ex-con who has spent his entire adult life behind bars. Upon discharge, he is a newborn in a fast, unforgiving world. When a reporter posts a front-page story on his release he has no recourse but...

<p>Jean Arthur teams with William Powell in a playful murder mystery that proves Myrna Loy isn't the only beautiful, fluty-voiced comedienne who can trade banter and hunt killers with the suave star of The Thin Man series. The yarn begins when a jockey heads...

<p>WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn't happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his...

<p>Is one of them an exclusive member of Phi Beta Killer? A Who's Who of '70s stars -- Cathryn Damon, Shelley Fabares, Sondra Locke, Tina Louise, Paula Prentiss, Stella Stevens and Loretta Swit -- headline a 100% female cast in the whodunit Friendships, Secrets...

<p>When a car rams through a guardrail and plunges into the river below, all the elements of a tantalizing movie thriller bubble to the surface: a drowned cocktail waitress, a disoriented driver with no memory of the accident -- and a ferocious D.A. who'll...

<p>New York Newark Pittsburgh St. Louis. Vivian Palmer and Ross McBride are on the lam, trying to put daylight between themselves and pursuing coppers and a rival gang of jewel thieves. But Ross isn't a criminal; he's a G-Man posing as a crook to...

<p>Dr. Hunt Bailey (George Brent) is fascinated by a portrait of breathtaking Allida Bedereaux (Hedy Lamarr) -- and with the woman herself. Fragile and frightened, Allida confides to him that she and her young son are in great peril. Her husband (Paul Lukas) insists...

<p>Forced to retire because his techniques are deemed "old-fashioned," a Scotland Yard detective and his artist friend conspire to dupe a young arrogant detective by committing the perfect murder. Starring "Casablanca" co-stars Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre and Oscar- nominee George Coulouris ("Watch on...

<p>George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley top the bill of fare in this food- and fun-filled mystery garnished with wit. Segal plays a glib fast-food tycoon and Bisset is his ex-wife, a pastry chef who may become the last course in an enigmatic...

<p>A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but obtaining that knowledge is even more dangerous for a Civil War spy. Marion Davies portrays the Union agent codenamed Operator 13, whose work behind enemy lines grows more precarious when she violates the first rule of...

When several people inexplicably vanish after wading into a lake, a paranormal investigator and an actor set out to document their search for the truth. The investigator suspects this may have something to do with her mother's disappearance years earlier. Determined to find answers,...

A private investigator is reluctantly persuaded to come out of hiding to help a friend find her missing sister. Learning that not everything is as it seems, the clues lead him to a dangerous man that is working with the gang he was hiding...

A financially struggling married couple starts filming themselves for a podcast when a gunshot rings out and they find their next-door neighbor is murdered. To find the killer, they invite the other residents over to probe for clues over cocktails. It gets more complicated...

<p>A luxurious family wedding at a California vineyard estate turns deadly when a body is discovered. As the clues are pieced together and secrets are revealed, everyone is a suspect from the groom's celebrity mother and the bride's deceitful father to the sommelier with...

Agatha Christie, a young mystery writer, is commissioned to solve a real-life murder. Assuming a disguise, a trap is set for the suspects, but she soon discovers that this killer is more cunning and dangerous than her fictional creations.

<p>After losing his job, fisherman Mike Luna (Josh Walther, Eugene O'Neill, Art As Life) is forced to take odd jobs in the close-knit community of Cape Cod. He meets fashion writer Elizabeth Baldwin (Jade Harlow, The Bay) while she is spending a winter holiday...