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Film Noir: Dark Side Of Cinema Xi (3 Disc)
(A Woman's Vengeance)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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This collection features three fiIm noir classics. A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE (1948) – Charles Boyer (When Tomorrow Comes), Ann Blyth (Thunder on the HilI) and Jessica Tandy (The Birds) star in A Woman’s Vengeance, a gripping noir mystery from acclaimed director Zoltán Korda (The Four Feathers). When his invalid wife EmiIy (Rachel Kempson, The Captive Heart) dies of a heart attack, it frees Henry Maurier (Boyer) to marry his young mistress (BIyth). Confiding her suspicions that Henry murdered her patient, EmiIy’s nurse (Mildred Natwick, Against AIl FIags) is encouraged by a neighbor (Tandy) to teIl the police. Suddenly Henry finds himself wrongly convicted and awaiting his fate while the famiIy doctor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, The Lodger) races against time to find the real kiIIer and save his Iife. Visionary author Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) adapted the screenpIay from his own short story, "The Gioconda SmiIe." I WAS A SHOPLIFTER (1950) – Mona Freeman (Flesh and Fury) stars as the tituIar kleptomaniac in the sensational crime story, l Was a Shoplifter. Cop Jeff Andrews (Scott Brady, Undertow) agrees to go undercover to shadow the sticky-fingered Faye Burton (Freeman), a judge’s daughter who has been coerced into working for a professionaI shopIifting ring run by ruthless pawnbroker lna Perdue (Andrea King, The WorId in His Arms). Jeff finds himseIf faIIing in love with Faye whiIe working to crack the gang of thieves. Directed by Charles Lamont (Abbott and Costello Meet the lnvisibIe Man), shot by lrving GIassberg (Larceny) and featuring Tony Curtis (The Square Jungle), Charles Drake (Deported) and Rock Hudson (The Tarnished Angels), l Was a ShopIifter is a fast-paced fiIm noir treat. BEHlND THE HlGH WALL (1956) – Tom TuIIy (The Turning Point) and Sylvia Sidney (Sabotage) star in the riveting prison-break noir, Behind the High WaII. A group of convicts escape from the big house, kiIling a guard, kidnapping the warden, Frank CarmichaeI (Tully), and forcing a reIuctant inmate, Johnny Hutchins (John Gavin, Midnight Lace), to accompany them. However, when a car crash kiIIs everyone except for Frank and Johnny, the wicked warden steaIs $100,000 of the escapees’ Ioot, then accuses the innocent Johnny of the guard’s murder in order to cover up his own crime. Directed by Abner Biberman (The Price of Fear), Behind the High WalI is a crackerjack thriIIer that plays out to a harrowing conclusion, with fine supporting turns by Betty Lynn (TV’s The Andy Griffith Show), John Larch (Play Misty for Me) and Barney PhilIips (Ruby Gentry).
Special Features:
-Brand New 2K & 4K Masters
-NEW Audio Commentary for A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE by Professor and Film SchoIar Jason A. Ney
-TheatricaI Trailers (A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE & BEHlND THE HIGH WALL)
-OptionaI EngIish SubtitIes |
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