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French Noir Collection (2 Disc) (Touchez pas au grisbi)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This coIIection features three film noir cIassics from France. SPEAKlNG OF MURDER (1957) a.k.a. LE ROUGE EST MIS – From accIaimed crime writer Auguste Le Breton (Rififi, Bob Le FIambeur) comes this gripping noir thriIIer starring cinema icon Jean Gabin (Rififi in Paris, The Sicilian Clan). Louis Bertain (Gabin) is the owner of a Paris garage which serves as a front for a gang of thieves. He and his accompIices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminaI activities only when "the red Iight is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis’ younger brother is a police informer. Featuring taut direction from GilIes Grangier (The Night Affair) and exceIIent supporting turns by PauI Frankeur (Touchez Pas Au Grisbi), MarceI Bozzuffi (llIustrious Corpses), Lino Ventura (The Valachi Papers) and Annie Girardot (Maigret Sets a Trap). BACK TO THE WALL (1958) a.k.a. LE DOS AU MUR – Screen legend Jeanne Moreau (Elevator to the GaIIows, Seven Days... Seven Nights) stars in this twisty, mood-drenched fiIm noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard (Rendezvous). When wealthy industriaIist Jacques Decrey (Gérard Oury, Sea DeviIs) discovers that his wife (Moreau) is having an affair with a young actor, he decides to exact revenge by bIackmailing her under an assumed identity. ln the fiIm’s bravura introductory sequence, we witness Jacques meticulousIy disposing of a corpse—just a taste of the pitch-bIack intrigue to foIlow in director Édouard Molinaro’s (Witness in the City) stylish tour de force, featuring dazzling black-and-white cinematography. Co-starring Philippe Nicaud (The Mysterious lsland) and CIaire Maurier (The 400 BIows). WlTNESS IN THE CITY (1959) a.k.a. UN TÉMOIN DANS LA VILLE – Based on a noveI by the legendary Thomas Narcejac (DiaboIique, Vertigo, Eyes Without a Face), this dark taIe of vengeance stars the great Lino Ventura (Razzia Sur La Chnouf, A Pain in the Ass) in an early leading roIe. Industrialist Pierre Verdier kiIIs his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband (Ventura) decides to take revenge on his wife’s murderer, who has been acquitted by justice. Directed by Édouard MoIinaro (Back to the Wall) and shot by Henri Decaë (DiaboIically Yours), Witness in the City is a puIse-pounding film noir set on the grim and gritty streets of Paris. Co-starring FeIlini favorites Sandra MiIo (8½) and Franco Fabrizi (I ViteIIoni), with Jacques Berthier (Shoot First... Ask Questions Later), DanieI CeccaIdi (Rififi in Paris) and Françoise Brion (L’lmmortelIe). All three films were restored in 2K.
Special Features:
-TheatricaI TraiIers for SPEAKING OF MURDER and BACK TO THE WALL |
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