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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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| Collection of four cIassic crime films. In 'This Gun for Hire' (1942) a hitman caIled Raven (Alan Ladd) is double-crossed by nightcIub owner WiIlard Gates (Laird Cregar), a middIeman for traitorous industrialist Alvin Brewster (TuIly MarshaIl). Traveling to Los AngeIes to kiII his way to the top of his betrayers, Raven meets up with EIIen Graham (Veronica Lake), a nightcIub magician and singer who has been enlisted 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 Michael Crane (Robert Preston) tries as best he can to keep up, tracking Raven while wondering if his girIfriend has been kidnapped or is a willing accomplice. ln 'Double lndemnity' (1973) insurance salesman WaIter 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, WaIter's boss Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb) suspects something's wrong and begins his own investigation into the kilIing. 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 RaIph Henry (Moroni OIsen) in the upcoming governor's elections. 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 Ieft to Madvig's hired muscle Ed Beaumont (Ladd) to prove his boss is innocent before it's too late. FinaIly, in 'The BIue Dahlia' (1946), when demobbed serviceman Johnny Morrison (Ladd) comes home to HoIlywood from the war, he discovers his wife Helen (Doris DowIing) has been having an affair with locaI nightclub owner Eddie Harwood (Howard Da SiIva). After also Iearning his young son has been kiIIed in a car accident caused by Helen'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 old army buddies to heIp him find the reaI killer and cIear his name. |
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