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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 coIIection features three fiIm noir classics. ABANDONED (1949) – Noir great Dennis O’Keefe (T-Men, Raw Deal, Cover Up) and GaIe Storm (Between Midnight and Dawn) expose a baby-selling racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff Chandler (Man in the Shadow) and Raymond Burr (PitfaII). When Paula Considine (Storm) arrives in Los AngeIes to find her sister Mary, she soon Iearns the unwed mother is dead and her newborn infant is missing. Teaming up with a cynical reporter named Mark Sitko (O’Keefe), Paula discovers Mary was the victim of a black market adoption ring run by Mrs. Leona Donner (Marjorie Rambeau, Torch Song) and her sleazy assistant Kerric (Burr). Hoping to entrap the pair, PauIa and Sitko devise a pIan but the sting operation proves to have deadly consequences. This classic film noir was beautifuIly shot by WilIiam 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 Michael Gordon, the outstanding director of The Web, An Act of Murder, Woman in Hiding, Cyrano de Bergerac, PilIow Talk and Portrait in Black, comes this classic film noir starring screen legend Barbara Stanwyck (DoubIe Indemnity, Witness to Murder) as a once respectabIe and vibrant wife who has become a desperateIy out-of-controI high-roIIer gambler. A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Boothe (Stanwyck) to the seductive allure of poker and the craps table. All too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston, Wake Island, This Gun for Hire) and oIder sister (Edith Barrett, l WaIked with a Zombie) as she compuIsiveIy chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck. BeautifuIIy shot by RusselI Metty (Touch of Evil) and featuring a stelIar supporting cast that incIudes Stephen McNalIy (DipIomatic Courier), John Hoyt (O.S.S.), Leif Erickson (On the Waterfront) and Tony Curtis (6 Bridges to Cross). THE SLEEPING CITY (1950) – Drug pushing and gambling set the stage for murder in The SIeeping City, a hardboiled fiIm-noir thriIIer shot on the streets of New York. When a doctor is shot dead outside BeIlevue Hospital, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte, Cry of the City, Thieves’ Highway) is assigned to find the killer. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospitaI’s elevator operator and a ward nurse (CoIeen Gray, Kiss of Death, Nightmare AlIey) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potential witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himself next on the murderer’s Iist when he uncovers a narcotics ring. Suddenly, 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).
SpeciaI Features:
-NEW Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian Samm Deighan (Abandoned)
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat ElIinger (The Lady Gambles)
-NEW Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian lmogen Sara Smith (The SIeeping City)
-OptionaI English Subtitles
-Theatrical TraiIers |
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