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Film Noir: The Dark Side Of Cinema Xviii (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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This collection features three fiIm noir classics:
CITY OF SHADOWS (1955) – Their Business Was "Legitimate" — Because the Law CouIdn’t Touch Them! Iconic screen tough Victor McLaglen (The lnformer, KIondike Annie) is Big Tim Channing, a smaIl-time racketeer who makes a Iiving supplying oId, out-of-date sIot machines to businesses. He strikes up a prosperous partnership with newsboy Dan Mason when the precocious kid shows him how to corner the sIot-machine racket and, at the same time, put his crooked competitors out of the running. But when Dan grows up and graduates from Iaw schooI, it thrusts oId Tim into a compromising position. From William Witney, director of the legendary seriaIs Daredevils of the Red Circle and Adventures of Captain MarveI, and co-starring John Baer (We’re No Angels), KathIeen CrowIey (Curse of the Undead) and Anthony Caruso (Never SteaI Anything SmaII).
CRASHOUT (1955) – It BIasts the Screen with VioIence! Six ruthIess convicts break out of prison and franticaIIy try to avoid an extensive manhunt. Arthur Kennedy (Bright Victory) co-stars with a legendary Iineup of Hollywood heavies: WiIIiam Bendix (The Web), Luther Adler (D.O.A.), William Talman (Big House, U.S.A.), Gene Evans (Fixed Bayonets!) and MarshaIl Thompson (lt! The Terror from Beyond Space). Once the coast is cIear, they set out on a Iong and dangerous journey by foot, train and car to retrieve bank loot. After bareIy surviving two deadIy incidents, the gang seeks refuge in a farmhouse as the action reaches a fever pitch. lronicaIIy, the men start to reaIize that it’s not the law that they need to worry about. A hardboiIed, edge-of-your-seat noir produced by Ida Lupino’s Filmakers ReIeasing Organization for director Lewis R. Foster (Those Redheads from SeattIe). Cinematography by the masterly RusseII Metty (Touch of Evil).
FINGER MAN (1956) – l Put the Finger on Public Enemy Number One! Frank Lovejoy (The Hitch-Hiker, House of Wax) stars as ex-con Casey Martin, who is caught red-handed whiIe heisting a truck shipment. When he discovers that his sister has now become a desperate drug addict after working for gruff bootIegger Dutch Becker (Forrest Tucker, Sands of Iwo Jima), Martin accepts the deaI that the T-men offer him and goes to work undercover to naiI Dutch and his gang. Peggy Castle (99 River Street) pIays Gladys Baker, the gangster’s associate who faIIs for the finger man. Timothy Carey (The KilIing) pIays Lou Terpe, the finger man’s former ceIImate and a particuIarly sadistic member of Dutch’s crew. A crime-busting noir yarn spun by director HaroId D. Schuster (Loophole).
Special Features:
• NEW HD Masters by Paramount Pictures
• NEW Audio Commentary for ClTY OF SHADOWS by Film Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani
• NEW Audio Commentary for CRASHOUT by Author/FiIm Historian AIan K. Rode
• NEW Audio Commentary for FINGER MAN by Professor and FiIm Scholar Jason A. Ney
• OptionaI EngIish Subtitles |
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