Mystery and Imagination DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Various (TV)
Produced in 1968-70
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - British Film
Cast
Denholm Elliott, Freddie Jones, Ian Holm, Patrick Mower, Susan George, Joan Hickson, Graham Crowden
Genres
Classic Drama Movies • Classic Horror Movies • Classic Mystery Movies • Television Drama • British Television • Classic Horror Movies • Vampire Films • Classic British Film
Film Description
Contains every existing episode of Mystery and Imagination - the late 60s anthology series that presented a selection of Gothic tales from major 19th century writers. Contains adaptations of Sheridan le Fanu's Uncle Silas, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Jewel of the Seven Stars (The Curse of the Mummy), Robert Louis Stevenson’s nihilistic The Suicide Club, George Dibdin Pitt's Sweeney Todd, Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher and Mrs. Oliphant's The Open Door.
A distinguished cast includes Ian Holm as Dr Frankenstein, Denholm Elliot as Dracula, Patrick Mower (Callan) and Freddie Jones, who gives an astonishing performance as the demented barber, Sweeney Todd.
This release brings together all six of the specially commissioned feature-length teleplays which made up the latter incarnation of Mystery and Imagination, produced by Thames Television, and originally screened between 1968 and 1970.
DVD Details
Certificate: TBC
Publisher: Network
Length: 540 mins
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Region: 2
Cat No: 7953006
Format: DVD B&W
DVD Extras
- 4 discs
- The Fall of the House of Usher and The Open Door – the two remaining, complete episodes produced by ABC in 1966
- An extract from Casting the Runes – all that exists from this 1968 ABC episode
- Extensive image gallery
- Episode guide booklet by Archive TV historian Andrew Pixley.
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Community Reviews
by DEN on 12th January 2009
well,im over the moon...at last mystery and imagination is going to be released on dvd...its about time...this series was on tv back in the 1960s,as a yong lad i was a... Read on
by DEN on 4th January 2009
well,i'm over the moon...at last mystery and imagination is going to be released on dvd...its about time...this series was on tv back in the 1960s,as a yong lad i was ... Read on
