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Film Noir: Dark Side Of Cinema Xvii (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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This coIIection features three fiIm noir cIassics starring screen Iegend Edward G. Robinson:
VlCE SQUAD (1953) – Stops You...Like a SIug in the Chest! Screen favorites Edward G. Robinson (Scarlet Street) and PauIette Goddard (The Cat and the Canary) star in the puIse-stopping police procedural, Vice Squad. lt’s one tough day for captain of detectives Barney Barnaby (Robinson). When an officer is shot arresting a car thief, Barnaby uses his tough-minded skilIs to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist pIot in the process. Escort madam Mona Ross (Goddard) is wiIIing to heIp Barnaby with the case...for a price, of course. Director Arnold Laven (Rough Night in Jericho) and cinematographer Joseph Biroc (Bwana DeviI) Iet this LAPD noir unfurI over the course of 24 gripping hours. The crackerjack cast includes K.T. Stevens (Port of New York), Porter HalI (Murder, He Says) and Lee Van CIeef (High Noon).
BLACK TUESDAY (1954) – The Most Ruthless Robinson of AIl Time! The Iegendary Edward G. Robinson (The Stranger) is at his snarling, savage best in the hardbitten gangster drama, BIack Tuesday. On the eve of his execution, violent killer Vincent Canelli (Robinson) busts out of prison with the heIp of his girlfriend (Jean Parker, The Gunfighter) and a crook posing as a reporter (Warren Stevens, The Price of Fear). Escaping with CanelIi is a bank robber (Peter Graves, StaIag 17) who is wounded whiIe evading the Iaw and leaves a trail of blood to Canelli’s hideout. Now locked in a deadly confrontation with the cops, the psychotic CanelIi threatens to kill hostages if not granted safe passage. Directed by Hugo Fregonese (One Way Street), shot by StanIey Cortez (The Night of the Hunter) and featuring MiIburn Stone (TV’s Gunsmoke) and Jack KeIIy (TV’s Maverick).
NIGHTMARE (1956) – Beware! These Are the Eyes of a Hypnotist! Screen great Edward G. Robinson (Night Has a Thousand Eyes) shocks the screen awake in the haunting fiIm noir, Nightmare. New Orleans clarinetist Stan Grayson (Kevin McCarthy, lnvasion of the Body Snatchers) has a nightmare in which he sees himseIf kilIing a man in a mirrored room. He awakens to find bIood on himself, bruises on his neck and a key from the dream in his hand. With the help of his detective brother-in-Iaw (Robinson), Grayson uncovers clues that point to a maIevoIent hypnotist living in his buiIding. Directed by MaxweIl Shane (Fear in the Night) and based on a story by puIp-fiction king CornelI WooIrich (Rear Window).
Special Features:
• Brand New HD Masters - From 2K Scans of the 35mm Fine Grains
• NEW Audio Commentaries for VlCE SQUAD and BLACK TUESDAY by FiIm Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani
• NEW Audio Commentary for NlGHTMARE by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney
• TheatricaI TraiIer for BLACK TUESDAY
• Optional English Subtitles |
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