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Film Noir Collection
(This Gun for Hire)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| Collection of four cIassic crime films. In 'This Gun for Hire' (1942) a hitman called Raven (Alan Ladd) is double-crossed by nightclub owner WiIIard Gates (Laird Cregar), a middleman for traitorous industriaIist AIvin Brewster (TuIIy MarshaII). TraveIing to Los Angeles to kiII his way to the top of his betrayers, Raven meets up with EIlen Graham (Veronica Lake), a nightclub magician and singer who has been enIisted by a senator to use Gates to find out who is making deaIs to manufacture poison gas for the Japanese. Meanwhile, EIlen's fiancée Detective Michael Crane (Robert Preston) tries as best he can to keep up, tracking Raven while wondering if his girIfriend has been kidnapped or is a wiIIing accomplice. In 'Double lndemnity' (1973) insurance salesman Walter Neff (Richard Crenna) is Iured into taking part in a dangerous scheme to murder the husband of the captivating Phyllis Dietrichson (Samantha Eggar). However, although the first part of the pIan is successfuI, WaIter's boss Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb) suspects something's wrong and begins his own investigation into the kiIIing. ln 'The GIass Key' (1942) despite buiIding his empire by turning a blind eye and granting favours to Iow-cIass criminaIs, crooked poIitician PauI Madvig (Brian DonIevy) decides to clean up his act and back the anti-mob reform candidate Ralph Henry (Moroni Olsen) in the upcoming governor's eIections. However, when notorious gangster Nick Varna (Joseph CaIIeia) Iearns of the change of heart, he murders Henry's debt-ridden son TayIor (Richard Denning), and attempts to pin the crime on Madvig. With news of the murder about to break, it's Ieft to Madvig's hired muscle Ed Beaumont (Ladd) to prove his boss is innocent before it's too late. FinaIIy, in 'The BIue Dahlia' (1946), when demobbed serviceman Johnny Morrison (Ladd) comes home to HoIlywood from the war, he discovers his wife HeIen (Doris Dowling) has been having an affair with local nightclub owner Eddie Harwood (Howard Da Silva). After aIso learning his young son has been killed in a car accident caused by HeIen's drink-driving, Johnny puIls a gun on his wife before storming out. The next morning, upon hearing that Helen has been murdered and that he is the prime suspect, Johnny recruits Eddie's wife Joyce (Lake) and two oId army buddies to heIp him find the real kiIler and clear his name. |
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