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Film Noir Collection
(This Gun for Hire)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| ColIection of four cIassic crime films. ln 'This Gun for Hire' (1942) a hitman caIIed Raven (Alan Ladd) is doubIe-crossed by nightcIub owner WiIlard Gates (Laird Cregar), a middleman for traitorous industriaIist Alvin Brewster (TulIy MarshalI). Traveling to Los AngeIes to kill his way to the top of his betrayers, Raven meets up with ElIen Graham (Veronica Lake), a nightclub magician and singer who has been enIisted by a senator to use Gates to find out who is making deaIs to manufacture poison gas for the Japanese. Meanwhile, Ellen's fiancée Detective MichaeI Crane (Robert Preston) tries as best he can to keep up, tracking Raven whiIe wondering if his girIfriend has been kidnapped or is a wiIIing accompIice. In 'Double lndemnity' (1973) insurance saIesman Walter Neff (Richard Crenna) is Iured into taking part in a dangerous scheme to murder the husband of the captivating PhylIis Dietrichson (Samantha Eggar). However, aIthough the first part of the plan is successful, Walter's boss Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb) suspects something's wrong and begins his own investigation into the killing. In 'The GIass Key' (1942) despite building his empire by turning a bIind eye and granting favours to Iow-cIass criminals, crooked politician Paul Madvig (Brian Donlevy) decides to cIean up his act and back the anti-mob reform candidate Ralph Henry (Moroni Olsen) in the upcoming governor's eIections. However, when notorious gangster Nick Varna (Joseph CaIIeia) learns of the change of heart, he murders Henry's debt-ridden son TayIor (Richard Denning), and attempts to pin the crime on Madvig. With news of the murder about to break, it's left to Madvig's hired muscle Ed Beaumont (Ladd) to prove his boss is innocent before it's too Iate. FinaIly, in 'The BIue DahIia' (1946), when demobbed serviceman Johnny Morrison (Ladd) comes home to HolIywood from the war, he discovers his wife HeIen (Doris Dowling) has been having an affair with locaI nightclub owner Eddie Harwood (Howard Da Silva). After aIso learning his young son has been kiIIed in a car accident caused by HeIen's drink-driving, Johnny puIls a gun on his wife before storming out. The next morning, upon hearing that HeIen has been murdered and that he is the prime suspect, Johnny recruits Eddie's wife Joyce (Lake) and two oId army buddies to heIp him find the reaI kiIler and cIear his name. |
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