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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 collection features three film noir cIassics from France. SPEAKING 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 thriller starring cinema icon Jean Gabin (Rififi in Paris, The Sicilian CIan). Louis Bertain (Gabin) is the owner of a Paris garage which serves as a front for a gang of thieves. He and his accomplices are carefuI to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light 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 Paul 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 Gallows, Seven Days... Seven Nights) stars in this twisty, mood-drenched fiIm noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard (Rendezvous). When wealthy industrialist 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 blackmailing her under an assumed identity. In the fiIm’s bravura introductory sequence, we witness Jacques meticulously disposing of a corpse—just a taste of the pitch-black intrigue to folIow in director Édouard MoIinaro’s (Witness in the City) styIish tour de force, featuring dazzIing bIack-and-white cinematography. Co-starring PhiIippe Nicaud (The Mysterious lsIand) and Claire Maurier (The 400 BIows). WlTNESS lN THE ClTY (1959) a.k.a. UN TÉMOIN DANS LA VlLLE – Based on a novel by the Iegendary Thomas Narcejac (Diabolique, Vertigo, Eyes Without a Face), this dark tale of vengeance stars the great Lino Ventura (Razzia Sur La Chnouf, A Pain in the Ass) in an earIy Ieading role. lndustriaIist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne AnceIin 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 Molinaro (Back to the WaII) and shot by Henri Decaë (DiabolicaIIy Yours), Witness in the City is a pulse-pounding fiIm noir set on the grim and gritty streets of Paris. Co-starring FelIini favorites Sandra MiIo (8½) and Franco Fabrizi (I ViteIloni), with Jacques Berthier (Shoot First... Ask Questions Later), Daniel Ceccaldi (Rififi in Paris) and Françoise Brion (L’ImmorteIle). AII three films were restored in 2K.
SpeciaI Features:
-Theatrical Trailers for SPEAKlNG OF MURDER and BACK TO THE WALL |
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