25 Gangster Classics

As issued by Pacific Entertainment, this package offers a compilation of gangster-themed material pulled from different time periods and sources. Contents include: four episodes of the late 1950s crime series Decoy, entitled First Arrest, High Swing, Saturday Lost and To Trap a Thief, and starring Beverly Garland; the 1940 big-screen detective yarn Midnight Limited, starring John King; two Bulldog Drummond features (Bulldog Drummond Escapes and Bulldog Drummond in Africa); and two Dr. Fu Manchu vehicles (The Death Ship and The Prisoner) starring Glen Gordon. The set also includes the legendary John Huston satire Beat the Devil (1954), starring Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre; Walter Matthau's directorial debut, Gangster Story (1959); the 1976 Joe Pesci starrer Death Collector; two early 1950s episodes of Dragnet (The Big Seventeen and The Big Girl); two episodes of the 1950s series Racket Squad (The Case of the Hearse Chaser and Accidentally on Purpose); the 1959 Steve McQueen vehicle The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery; and much more.