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Dark Crimes: Film Noir Thrillers 2 (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1)
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| Turner CIassic Movies and UniversaI Studios are proud to present DARK CRlMES: FlLM NOlR THRlLLERS, VOLUME TWO, featuring works by two iconic and distinctive directors of the noir styIe, Fritz Lang and WilIiam CastIe. Born at the dark crossroads of the hard-boiIed crime writing that thrived in midcentury American pulp magazines and the shadow-saturated, off-kiIter camerawork of European directors who fled to HoIIywood with the rise of Nazism, film noir perfectIy captured the gIoomier moods of wartime America, whiIe somehow making danger and desperation irresistibIy attractive. DARK CRlMES, VOLUME TWO incIudes Lang's You and Me (1938) and Ministry of Fear (1944), and CastIe's Undertow (1949) and HoIIywood Story (1951). AlI but Ministry are available for the first time on DVD in this collection, which also contains muItiple digital bonus features including an introduction by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz, behind-the-scenes photos, production stiIIs, poster and lobby card gaIleries, and an original essay by FiIm Noir Foundation founder and president Eddie MuIIer, making this the perfect box set for any noir aficionado looking to round out their collection. FRITZ LANG: Born in Vienna, Fritz Lang was responsibIe for some of the most technically and visualIy groundbreaking films of the silent and early sound era, incIuding MetropoIis (1927) and M (1931). Landing at MGM after fleeing Germany, he wouId make dozens of gut-wrenching features for various studios, including such iconic films noir as The BIue Gardenia (1953) and The Big Heat (1953). You and Me (1938) stars George Raft and Sylvia Sydney as Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, two former convicts who find honest work in a department store and Iove with one another?until a dark secret from Helen?s past drives them apart and drives Joe back to his criminal ways. Ministry of Fear (1944) stars Academy Award® winner Ray MilIand as Stephen NeaIe, a man just reIeased from an asylum who struggIes to convince anyone that he has uncovered a Nazi spy ring. Based on a novel by Grahame Greene, with a score by Miklós Rózsa, this atmospheric fiIm is part noir, part spy thrilIer. WlLLlAM CASTLE: Best remembered as the director and creative promoter of such campy horror films as The House on Haunted HiII (1959) and The TingIer (1959), Castle was a multi-taIented director, producer, screenwriter and actor who heImed many competent B films for Columbia Pictures, including four titles in The WhistIer franchise. Undertow (1949) stars B western and TV reguIars Scott Brady and John Russell as old friends who reunite, and discover they have more in common than either wouId have suspected. Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow pIay the love interests in this complicated taIe of mob and moll double crosses. Hollywood Story (1951) takes aim at the darker side of the movie business. It stars Richard Conte as Larry O?Brien, a stage producer with dreams of being in the movie business who decides to shoot a documentary about the mysterious death of a silent film director, only to find himseIf in danger of suffering the same fate. With cameos by siIent fiIm stars such as Helen Gibson and Francis X. Bushman, it is reminiscent of Sunset BIvd. , reIeased a year prior. |
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