Mystery classics. Disk 11.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972, director.

Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984, director.

Nigh, William, 1881-1955, director.

Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976, director.

Neal, Tom, 1914-1972, actor.

Scott, Lizabeth, 1922-2015, actor.

Berry, Noah, 1882-1946, actor.

Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973, actor.

Treeline Films, distributor.

Series:

50 movie pack. Mystery classics.

Language:

English

Genre:

Detective and mystery films.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 330 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Minnesota] : Treeline Films, [2003]

System Details:

DVD, double sided.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

[Detour]: Hitchhiking nightclub performer runs into trouble with a mysterious death and a blackmailing woman.

[Too late for tears]: A bag containing $60,000 is thrown into the convertible of a young couple. The wife murders her husband to keep the money and is prepared to murder anyone who gets in her way.

[Mystery liner]: Professor Grimson invents a device which can power a liner by remote control. Obviously enemy spies would love to get ahold of the device and they send an agent to mix among the various vacationers unnoticed while he or she sabotaged the ship. The inventor is strangled and the crew must wait until the steering experiment is proven a success before the saboteur strikes, and what has this all to do with the ship's captain, Holling taking ill right before the ship is to depart.

[Scarlet street]: A timid and unassuming middle-aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend.

Contents:

Side A: Detour (1945, 68 min.) ; Too late for tears (1949, 98 min.)

Side B: Mystery liner (1934, 62 min.) ; Scarlet street (1945, 103 min.).

Participant:

[Cast for Detour]: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Roger Clark, Pat Gleason ; [Cast for Too late for tears]: Lizabeth Scott, Don Defore, Arthur Kennedy, Dan Duryea, Kristine Miller, Barry Helley ; [Cast for Mystery liner]: Noah Berry, Astrid Allwyn, Edwin Maxwell ; [Cast for Scarlet street]: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea.

Credits:

Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer [Detour] ; Byron Haskin [Too late for tears] ; William Nigh [Mystery liner] ; Fritz Lang [Scarlet street].

Notes:

"50 movie pack DVD collection."--Container of set.

Videodisc release of 4 motion pictures released 1934-1949.

Part of a 12-disk set packaged in a single container.

OCLC:

57146231

Publisher Number:

826831070049