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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569797949
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 263 minutes
Sales Rank: 5988
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1939
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/12/2007
Amazon.com:
These four classic, 1938 black-and-white Nancy Drew hour-long films directed by William Clemens (not the 2007 movie starring Emma Roberts) feature Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew, John Litel as Carson Drew, and Frankie Thomas as Ted Nickerson. Based on the character from the book series first published in 1930, the headstrong teenager Nancy Drew has a knack for winding up right in the middle of a mystery, and neither her father nor friend Ted can talk Nancy into doing what they consider the sensible thing: letting the police handle the detective work. With a curious mix of early feminism and cultural chauvinism, a dichotomy representative of late-1930s society, Nancy investigates each mystery with fervor, usually dragging her friend Ted into the thick of the investigation and demonstrating a complete disregard for her personal safety or the safety of her friends and family in her determination to track down the perpetrator. Sharp-witted and quick to pick up on the smallest, seemingly insignificant details, Nancy often succeeds where the local Police Captain Tweedy (Frank Orth) fails. Nancy Drew, Detective presents the story of an elderly benefactress unscrupulously detained at a sanatorium, while Reporter and Trouble Shooter are murder mysteries, and Hidden Staircase deals with a combined murder and attempt to dupe two elderly women. While somewhat ponderously paced by modern standards, these original Nancy Drew adventures are quality suspense mysteries that deserve their classic designation. (Ages 10 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Likeable characters.
Four films from 1938 in black and white. "Reporter", "Trouble-shooter", and "Hidden Staircase" are lively, clever, with some humor. "Reporter" has a song. "Hidden Staircase" has some scary moments, not too scary.
Nancy's boyfriend, Ted Nickerson, is always working or planning something fun like fishing, when Nancy comes along and talks him into helping her solve a mystery, which always means putting Ted in danger. Ted always begins to say "no", how he already has plans, yet Nancy always manages to charm him into helping her. Nancy and Ted are just good friends, rather than officially boyfriend and girlfriend. So Nancy always makes sure Ted does not get too interested in other girls. Nancy always has good motives, but her plans often don't go as planned, getting Ted into trouble.
The first film "Detective" is fair at best. Scenes like Nancy calling the police captain a fool, and her lawyer-father calling his elderly maid an idiot set the tone for a poor script.
I wish they had made more episodes, because after the first film, they began hitting on some good themes that they could have run with.
Rating: - Detective Fun
If you loved the books then get this classic collection. Light comedy in amongst detective work. Very entertaining for all ages. Lots of laughs and mystery. Even though these 4 movies in the collection are in black and white they are picture perfect and well worth adding to the DVD Collection.
Rating:  - True to Nancy's spirit
The plots of these four movies bear only a slight resemblance to the stories I remember from my long ago childhood, but the spirit of Nancy is present in Bonita Granville's performance. I was disappointed in characters dropped, and I'm still not sure why Ned became Ted, but all four tales were fun to watch.
Rating: - Nancy Drew....Stacked!
Caught one of these movies on TCM. Not bad, but I noticed an anomaly usually missing from movies of the era. Bonita Granville's rather ample bosom. Yes, I know one should watch these videos for other reasons. But based on my knowledge of the movie studio system at that time, she stands out. Also, her wardrobe is tailored to cover her "puppies" up. (Similar to what Disney did with Raven Symone during early episodes of her sitcom, "That's So Raven". These are part of movie history and I am going to purchase them. For that reason only. Yes, just that reason.
Rating: - Great old movies
Bonita Granville is great in these old flicks. The movie quality is good and the films are fun. Frankie Thomas is also excellent in his role as Nancy's boyfreind.
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