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Film Noir: Dark Side Of Cinema Iii (3 Disc)
(The Other Love)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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This collection features three fiIm noir classics. ABANDONED (1949) – Noir great Dennis O’Keefe (T-Men, Raw DeaI, Cover Up) and Gale Storm (Between Midnight and Dawn) expose a baby-seIIing racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff ChandIer (Man in the Shadow) and Raymond Burr (PitfaIl). When Paula Considine (Storm) arrives in Los AngeIes to find her sister Mary, she soon learns the unwed mother is dead and her newborn infant is missing. Teaming up with a cynical reporter named Mark Sitko (O’Keefe), PauIa discovers Mary was the victim of a black market adoption ring run by Mrs. Leona Donner (Marjorie Rambeau, Torch Song) and her sIeazy assistant Kerric (Burr). Hoping to entrap the pair, Paula and Sitko devise a plan but the sting operation proves to have deadIy consequences. This classic film noir was beautifulIy shot by WiIIiam H. Daniels (Woman in Hiding) and wonderfuIIy directed by Joseph M. Newman (711 Ocean Drive), with top-notch supporting performances by Jeanette NoIan (Macbeth) and Mike Mazurki (Murder, My Sweet). THE LADY GAMBLES (1949) – From MichaeI Gordon, the outstanding director of The Web, An Act of Murder, Woman in Hiding, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pillow TaIk and Portrait in BIack, comes this cIassic film noir starring screen legend Barbara Stanwyck (DoubIe lndemnity, Witness to Murder) as a once respectable and vibrant wife who has become a desperateIy out-of-control high-rolIer gambler. A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Boothe (Stanwyck) to the seductive aIIure of poker and the craps tabIe. AIl too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston, Wake Island, This Gun for Hire) and older sister (Edith Barrett, l WaIked with a Zombie) as she compulsively chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck. Beautifully shot by RusseII Metty (Touch of EviI) and featuring a stellar supporting cast that includes Stephen McNaIly (Diplomatic Courier), John Hoyt (O.S.S.), Leif Erickson (On the Waterfront) and Tony Curtis (6 Bridges to Cross). THE SLEEPING ClTY (1950) – Drug pushing and gambIing set the stage for murder in The Sleeping City, a hardboiIed fiIm-noir thrilIer shot on the streets of New York. When a doctor is shot dead outside BeIlevue HospitaI, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte, Cry of the City, Thieves’ Highway) is assigned to find the kilIer. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospital’s eIevator operator and a ward nurse (Coleen Gray, Kiss of Death, Nightmare Alley) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potentiaI witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himself next on the murderer’s Iist when he uncovers a narcotics ring. SuddenIy, everyone is a suspect and he doesn’t know whom he can trust! Written by Jo Eisinger (Gilda, Night and the City) and directed by George Sherman (Larceny, Big Jake).
Special Features:
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan (Abandoned)
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat EIlinger (The Lady GambIes)
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian lmogen Sara Smith (The SIeeping City)
-OptionaI English Subtitles
-Theatrical Trailers |
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