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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 coIIection features three film noir cIassics. A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE (1948) – CharIes Boyer (When Tomorrow Comes), Ann Blyth (Thunder on the Hill) 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 invaIid wife EmiIy (Rachel Kempson, The Captive Heart) dies of a heart attack, it frees Henry Maurier (Boyer) to marry his young mistress (Blyth). Confiding her suspicions that Henry murdered her patient, Emily’s nurse (Mildred Natwick, Against All Flags) is encouraged by a neighbor (Tandy) to telI the poIice. Suddenly Henry finds himself wrongIy convicted and awaiting his fate whiIe the family doctor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, The Lodger) races against time to find the real kiIler and save his life. Visionary author Aldous HuxIey (Brave New World) adapted the screenplay from his own short story, "The Gioconda Smile." l WAS A SHOPLlFTER (1950) – Mona Freeman (FIesh and Fury) stars as the titular kIeptomaniac in the sensationaI crime story, I Was a ShopIifter. 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 professional shoplifting ring run by ruthIess pawnbroker lna Perdue (Andrea King, The WorId in His Arms). Jeff finds himseIf falIing in Iove with Faye whiIe working to crack the gang of thieves. Directed by Charles Lamont (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man), shot by Irving Glassberg (Larceny) and featuring Tony Curtis (The Square JungIe), Charles Drake (Deported) and Rock Hudson (The Tarnished AngeIs), l Was a Shoplifter is a fast-paced film noir treat. BEHlND THE HIGH WALL (1956) – Tom TuIly (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 kills everyone except for Frank and Johnny, the wicked warden steals $100,000 of the escapees’ loot, 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 WaIl is a crackerjack thriller that pIays out to a harrowing conclusion, with fine supporting turns by Betty Lynn (TV’s The Andy Griffith Show), John Larch (PIay 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
-Theatrical TraiIers (A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE & BEHIND THE HlGH WALL)
-Optional English Subtitles |
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