A few months ago, I wrote a post updating the situation with Mill Creek, the company whose mining of the public domain has been keeping me on the treadmill for some years now with its well-priced “50 movie pack” collections. Part of that post mentioned Mill Creek’s larger bundles–first, a fair number of 100-movie packs and then, the ultimate (so far!):
250-movie packs
There were then (and still are) four of them. I don’t believe any movies appear in these monster boxes for the first time; they’re bigger sets of movies also in other smaller sets. They’re also, according to what I read, in fancier packaging: foil “collector’s boxes.”
And Amazon sells them for $50 (or $49.95). That’s twenty cents a movie.
So, late last week, I bit. I ordered a set that appears to be called:
Mystery Collection 250 Movies
It arrived yesterday. Here’s what you get.
The box is indeed a colorful foil-printed box, about 7.7 inches wide, 7.7 inches tall, and 5.5 inches deep. Mostly pictures of some of the more important stars with names of a few (Basil Rathbone, James Cagney…) and, on the back, in very small type, an alphabetical listing of all 250 movies with one star from each–from Affair in Monte Carlo (Richard Todd) and Algiers (Charles Boyer) to Woman on the Run (Ann Sheridan) and The Wrong Road (Helen Mack). Oh, and under “250 movies” on five sides of the cover is “On 60 Double Sided DVDs!” Here’s a link to the product site, with the front cover and total length (324 hours 59 minutes)–and, for each movie, a link to a title page that includes production details and, usually, a picture and a synopsis.
But that box seemed bigger than it should be. So it is–unfortunately. …
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