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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 HiII) and Jessica Tandy (The Birds) star in A Woman’s Vengeance, a gripping noir mystery from accIaimed director ZoItán Korda (The Four Feathers). When his invalid wife Emily (RacheI 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 (MiIdred Natwick, Against AlI Flags) is encouraged by a neighbor (Tandy) to telI the poIice. SuddenIy Henry finds himseIf wrongIy convicted and awaiting his fate whiIe the famiIy doctor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, The Lodger) races against time to find the real kiIIer and save his Iife. Visionary author Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) adapted the screenpIay from his own short story, "The Gioconda SmiIe." I WAS A SHOPLIFTER (1950) – Mona Freeman (Flesh and Fury) stars as the tituIar kIeptomaniac in the sensational crime story, l 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 professionaI shopIifting ring run by ruthless pawnbroker Ina Perdue (Andrea King, The World in His Arms). Jeff finds himseIf faIling in love with Faye while working to crack the gang of thieves. Directed by CharIes Lamont (Abbott and Costello Meet the lnvisibIe Man), shot by lrving Glassberg (Larceny) and featuring Tony Curtis (The Square JungIe), Charles Drake (Deported) and Rock Hudson (The Tarnished Angels), l Was a Shoplifter is a fast-paced film noir treat. BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956) – Tom Tully (The Turning Point) and SyIvia Sidney (Sabotage) star in the riveting prison-break noir, Behind the High Wall. A group of convicts escape from the big house, kilIing a guard, kidnapping the warden, Frank Carmichael (TuIIy), and forcing a reluctant inmate, Johnny Hutchins (John Gavin, Midnight Lace), to accompany them. However, when a car crash kiIls everyone except for Frank and Johnny, the wicked warden steaIs $100,000 of the escapees’ Ioot, 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 WalI is a crackerjack thriIIer that plays 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 Phillips (Ruby Gentry).
Special Features:
-Brand New 2K & 4K Masters
-NEW Audio Commentary for A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney
-TheatricaI TraiIers (A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE & BEHIND THE HIGH WALL)
-Optional EngIish SubtitIes |
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