Tuesday, December 2, 2008

We Love Old Movies


VCI Entertainment has released some great collections recently, specifically the Forgotten Noir Collections. One of my favorites is Collection 4. There are nine movies in this collection. I've been looking for a good quality transfer of "Mr. District Attorney" for years and this collection has an excellent quality copy. I purchased a DVD several years ago from Thomas Classic Films and the quality was terrible. VCI claims to own the rights to this movie or at least to their version (digitally remastered it says) of this rare flick. Anyway, you an purchase this collection from their website or from The Nostalgia Merchant. This collection also includes "Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard," based on the radio program of the 1940s, "Counterspy." Then there are several rare, but obscure movies that nobody's ever heard of from Weiss-Global Enterprises. Kit Parker Films supposedly recently acquired the rights to these losers from the 1950s. Looks like all of these films were produced in Hollywood and repackaged for England by a British distribution company. Most of the films indicate this in the opening credits. "Motor Patrol" is a pretty good flick to began with and then loses it's steam about mid-way.

Here is the complete list of titles in this collection with the stars:


COUNTERSPY MEETS SCOTLAND YARD: Howard St. John, Ron Randell, Amanda Blake, Lewis Martin, June Vincent, Charles Meredith
RADAR SECRET SERVICE: John Howard, Adele Jergens, Tom Neal, Myrna Dell, Sid Melton, Ralph Byrd
MOTOR PATROL: Don Castle, Jane Nigh, Reed Hadley, William Henry, Sid Melton, Richard Travis
MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1941): Dennis O’Keefe, Peter Lorre, Florence Rice, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Charles Arnt WESTERN PACIFIC AGENT: Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, Mickey Knox, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lowery, Sid Melton
HIGHWAY 13: Robert Lowery, Pamela Blake, Michael Whalen, Dan Seymour, Clem Bevans
TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO: Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie, Robert Jordan, Michael Whalen, Margia Dean ROARING CITY: Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Joan Valerie, Wanda McKay
SKY LINER: Richard Travis, Pamela Blake, Rochelle Hudson, Steven Geray, Greg McClure

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