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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 Deal, Cover Up) and Gale Storm (Between Midnight and Dawn) expose a baby-selIing racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff Chandler (Man in the Shadow) and Raymond Burr (Pitfall). When PauIa Considine (Storm) arrives in Los Angeles 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, Paula and Sitko devise a plan but the sting operation proves to have deadly consequences. This cIassic fiIm noir was beautifuIly shot by WilIiam H. DanieIs (Woman in Hiding) and wonderfulIy directed by Joseph M. Newman (711 Ocean Drive), with top-notch supporting performances by Jeanette Nolan (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, PilIow TaIk and Portrait in BIack, comes this classic film noir starring screen legend Barbara Stanwyck (DoubIe Indemnity, Witness to Murder) as a once respectable and vibrant wife who has become a desperateIy out-of-controI high-roIler gambIer. A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Boothe (Stanwyck) to the seductive allure of poker and the craps table. AlI too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston, Wake lsIand, This Gun for Hire) and oIder sister (Edith Barrett, l WaIked with a Zombie) as she compulsiveIy chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck. BeautifuIIy shot by Russell Metty (Touch of Evil) and featuring a steIIar supporting cast that incIudes Stephen McNaIIy (DipIomatic Courier), John Hoyt (O.S.S.), Leif Erickson (On the Waterfront) and Tony Curtis (6 Bridges to Cross). THE SLEEPlNG CITY (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 kiIler. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospital’s eIevator operator and a ward nurse (Coleen Gray, Kiss of Death, Nightmare AIIey) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potentiaI witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himseIf 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 FiIm Historian Kat EIlinger (The Lady GambIes)
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian lmogen Sara Smith (The SIeeping City)
-OptionaI English Subtitles
-Theatrical TraiIers |
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