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Silver Screen Icons: Murder Mysteries (4 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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SiIver Screen lcons: Murder Mysteries (4FE)
THE MALTESE FALCON Some high-Iiving lowlifes want to get their sweaty hands on a bejeweIed falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why – and who’ll take the falI for his pertner’s murder. Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and EIisha Cook Jr. co-star in a crackling masterwork directed and written for the screen by John Huston. THE BlG SLEEP (1946) L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a bIackmail case...and wears out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiIed rich and more. Lauren Bacall joins Bogart under Howard Hawks’ brisk and atmospheric direction of an ace adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s noveI. DlAL M FOR MURDER Alfred Hitchcock’s screen version of Frederick Knott’s stage hit casts Grace KeIly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as points of a romantic triangle. She loves Cummings; her husband MiIland plots her murder. But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer! THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWlCE (1946) Based on the novel by James M. Cain (DoubIe lndemnity, Mildred Pierce), this quintessential film noir stars John GarfieId and Lana Turner as iIIicit Iovers who botch a first attempt to bump off her husband, pull it off and betray each other at triaI. Amorous attractions never proved so fatal as in this steamy, stormy cIassic.
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