Monday, September 23, 2019

VCI Entertainment Restores The Mysterious Mr. M For Blu-ray Release On Nov. 12


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
VCI Entertainment will be bringing to market on Nov. 12 a new 2K film restoration (from the original studio 35mm film elements) of the directing team of Lewis D. Collins and Vernon Keays’ 1946 mystery/thriller, The Mysterious Mr. M.

Both DVD (an upgrade from the new 2K restoration) and Blu-ray (the first time available on Blu-ray) editions will be available.

This was the final serial produced by Universal Pictures (the studio’s first serial was all the way back in 1914) … there were 63 full-sound serials produced by the studio between 1930 and 1949, including the likes of The Vanishing Shadow, the three Flash Gordon adventures, The Phantom Creeps, Buck Rogers and more.

Here we find the sinister Anthony Waldron (played by Edmund MacDonald — Detour, Sherlock Holmes in Washington, Flying Tigers) in hiding — the police actually think he is dead, which gives him the perfect cover.   It is from his secret lair that he plans to steal the elements of a new post-war submarine being developed by Dr. Kittridge (played ever so briefly by John Hamilton, who is perhaps best known as Perry White in the Adventures of Superman television show).

Kittridge has cleverly assigned the production of each key component to a different scientist, but before Waldron can extract the information from him, he inadvertently causes his death.   Rats!!   To accomplish his goal now he will have to figure out who these scientists are.
DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


The same holds true for G-Man Grant Farrell (Dennis Moore — Raiders of Ghost City, The Purple Monster Strikes), who was assigned to protect Kittridge and his secret project … and now he has to unravel the mystery of whom has what and who killed Kittridge.

To complicate matters further, there’s another player at the table.   A mystery “man,” who goes by the name of Mr. M, and who helps (and taunts) Waldron through a series of record recordings.   

Pamela Blake (This Gun for Hire, Chick Carter, Detective, Ghost of Zorro) co-stars as Shirley Clinton, the love interest for Farrell, while Jane Randolph (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Curse of the Cat People) is properly sinister as Marina, one of Waldron’s “associates.”

13 chapters, 12 cliffhanging thrills and a final reveal.   Will Waldron succeed?   Who is Mr. M?   Will Grant and Shirley survive the certain-death traps prepared for them in each chapter and find true romance?    Nov. 12, the Blu-ray debut of The Mysterious Mr. M answers these questions (and more)!!!

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey



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