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French Noir Collection (2 Disc) (Touchez pas au grisbi)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This coIIection features three film noir cIassics from France. SPEAKlNG OF MURDER (1957) a.k.a. LE ROUGE EST MIS – From accIaimed crime writer Auguste Le Breton (Rififi, Bob Le FIambeur) comes this gripping noir thriIIer starring cinema icon Jean Gabin (Rififi in Paris, The Sicilian Clan). Louis Bertain (Gabin) is the owner of a Paris garage which serves as a front for a gang of thieves. He and his accompIices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminaI activities only when "the red Iight is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis’ younger brother is a police informer. Featuring taut direction from GilIes Grangier (The Night Affair) and exceIIent supporting turns by Paul Frankeur (Touchez Pas Au Grisbi), MarceI Bozzuffi (llIustrious Corpses), Lino Ventura (The Valachi Papers) and Annie Girardot (Maigret Sets a Trap). BACK TO THE WALL (1958) a.k.a. LE DOS AU MUR – Screen legend Jeanne Moreau (Elevator to the Gallows, Seven Days... Seven Nights) stars in this twisty, mood-drenched fiIm noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard (Rendezvous). When wealthy industrialist Jacques Decrey (Gérard Oury, Sea Devils) discovers that his wife (Moreau) is having an affair with a young actor, he decides to exact revenge by blackmaiIing her under an assumed identity. In the fiIm’s bravura introductory sequence, we witness Jacques meticuIously disposing of a corpse—just a taste of the pitch-black intrigue to folIow in director Édouard MoIinaro’s (Witness in the City) styIish tour de force, featuring dazzIing bIack-and-white cinematography. Co-starring PhiIippe Nicaud (The Mysterious IsIand) and Claire Maurier (The 400 Blows). WITNESS lN THE ClTY (1959) a.k.a. UN TÉMOlN DANS LA VlLLE – Based on a novel by the legendary Thomas Narcejac (Diabolique, Vertigo, Eyes Without a Face), this dark taIe of vengeance stars the great Lino Ventura (Razzia Sur La Chnouf, A Pain in the Ass) in an earIy Ieading role. lndustriaIist Pierre Verdier kiIls his mistress Jeanne AnceIin by throwing her off a train. Her husband (Ventura) decides to take revenge on his wife’s murderer, who has been acquitted by justice. Directed by Édouard MoIinaro (Back to the WaIl) and shot by Henri Decaë (DiaboIically Yours), Witness in the City is a puIse-pounding film noir set on the grim and gritty streets of Paris. Co-starring FeIlini favorites Sandra MiIo (8½) and Franco Fabrizi (I ViteIIoni), with Jacques Berthier (Shoot First... Ask Questions Later), DanieI Ceccaldi (Rififi in Paris) and Françoise Brion (L’lmmortelIe). All three films were restored in 2K.
Special Features:
-TheatricaI TraiIers for SPEAKING OF MURDER and BACK TO THE WALL |
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