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Date Posted: 05:31:55 10/03/06 Tue
Author: Rick
Subject: DVD Request form for new Universal 30's Mystery/Drama Set!/Attention: Colleen Benn!

Colleen Benn
Universal Studios Home Video
70 Universal City Plaza
Suite 435
Universal City, California
91608



Dear Colleen,

I and fellow collectors of classic Universal films are cordially requesting the studio release the following 30's films in a new box set. It falls under the mystery/drama/horror genres. I will provide more details below:


Bombay Mail ( 1934 )
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin
Format: Black & White, Mono
Running time: 70 minutes
Release date: January 6, 1934
Genre: Mystery/Drama

Plot details:

In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place between Calcutta and Bombay.

Note: The original film is housed at Library of Congress in Dayton, Ohio.

Starring:

Edmund Lowe as Inspector Dyke
Shirley Grey as Beatrice Jones
Onslow Stevens as John Hawley
Ralph Forbes as William-Luke Patson
John Davidson as Xavier

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Destination Unknown ( 1933 )
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Format: Black & White, Mono
Running time: 66 minutes
Release date: April 1, 1933
Genre: Drama

Plot details:

A group of people are stranded on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind and no known destination.

Note: The film is housed at Library of Congress in Dayton and has been digitally restored in recent years.

Starring:

Pat O' Brien as Matt Brennan
Ralph Bellamy as Stowaway
Alan Hale as Lundstrom
Charles Middleton as Turk
Richard Alexander as Alex

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Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1935 )
Directed by: Stuart Walker
Format: Black & White, Mono
Running time: 87 minutes
Release date: February 4, 1935
Genre: Mystery/Horror/Drama

Plot details:

A respectable choir master strangles his rivals for his love of a beautiful girl.

Starring:

Claude Rains as John Jasper
Douglas Montgomery as Neville Landless
Heather Angel as Rosa Bud
Valerie Hobson as Helena Landless

Note: The film was previously released on VHS format by Universal in the 1990's.

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The Great Impersonation ( 1935 )
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Format: Black & White, Mono
Running time: 68 minutes
Release date: December 9, 1935
Genre: Drama

Plot details:

This screen adaptation by Universal sticks by the Oppenheim novel well. Excellent acting and dialogue. Good casting with interesting plot.

Starring:

Edmund Lowe as Sir Everard Dominey
Valerie Hobson as Eleanor Dominey

Note: The original film is housed at the Library of Congress at Dayton, Ohio.


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Great Expectations ( 1934 )
Directed by: Stuart Walker
Format: Black & White, Mono
Running time: 100 minutes
Release date: October 22, 1934
Genre: Drama

Plot details:

Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman.

Starring:

Henry Hull as Abel Magwitch
Phillip Holmes as Pip
Jane Wyatt as Estella

Note: The film was previously issued on VHS format by Universal in the 1990's.

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There you are. I am urging all to write to your above address at the studio by snail mail and to your email address as well. This will ensure that you receive the requests for this long-awaiting DVD set of these 5 classic Universal films. I will leave the below blank--so the individuals can sign and date with their own names when printing or emailing this to you personally. Prepared by Rick, the web site owner.


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Email Colleen at:

http://www.universalstudios.com/dvd/MBright.html



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[> Re: DVD Request form for new Universal 30's Mystery/Drama Set!/Attention: Colleen Benn! -- Tim, 12:33:21 10/03/06 Tue [1]

Great job, Rick! As a Universal fan I hate to admit it, but I don't recall seeing any of these pictures before with the exception of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which used to show up on some of the local late night horror shows way back when.

What an incredible cumulative cast of performers in these vintage films...Onslow Stevens, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale (Senior), Charles "Ming" Middleton, Jane Wyatt, Henry Hull, Claude Rains...Wow!

I hope everyone will write to Universal and urge them to release these neglected film gems on DVD soon.

Tim


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[> [> Re: DVD Request form for new Universal 30's Mystery/Drama Set!/Attention: Colleen Benn! -- Prince Barin, 16:17:44 10/03/06 Tue [1]

I also remember the Mystery of Edwin Drood occasionally showing up. The other titles I've never seen but would love to.

What treasures these film companies have locked up! Paramount in particular has done very little in making their vast library available.

I'll be writing to Universal this week.


Prince Barin


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