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Classic Film Noir: 9 Mystery, Suspense Movies w/BONUS Extras (3 DVDs) |  | Quantity in Basket:
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| A number of the greatest films noir are collected on CLASSIC FILM NOIR.
Too Late For Tears (1949): When a bag of money is thrown into the car of a young couple, she murders him for the money and will murder anybody else who tries to get in her way. A film noir scream. A.K.A "Killer Bait"
Cast: Lizabeth Scott
Director: Byron Haskin
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950): Rich Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, finds he's bought a gun. Suspecting he plans to kill her, she calls in her lover, who just happens to be Homicide Lieutenant Ed Cullen. When Ed arrives, the gun gets used...and because of his relationship with Lois, Ed is compelled to compound a felony. The good news: Ed himself is assigned to the case. The bad news: Ed's hotshot younger brother Andy, a new- minted detective, is also on the case...and anxious to prove himself.
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt
Director: Felix E. Feist
The Stranger (1946): Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is filthy. An earnest convert to Christianity, who once ran a Nazi concentration camp, is capable of exposing him. So "Rankin" kills this little old man and buries his body in the forest. But he isn't safe because an investigator from the War Crimes Commission is on his tail. Rankin will need his own wife to help him elude capture. But his fascination with the local clock tower may prove his undoing.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
Director: Orson Welles
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946): Barbara Stanwyck is the eponymous character of this classic noir, a woman of wealth and position in her small community, and the wife of local district attorney, Walter O'Neil, a self-loathing alcoholic whom she holds in contempt. When her old friend Sam Masterson arrives in town after an absence of many years, asking Walter's help for Toni Marashek, a woman unjustly accused of a crime, Martha fears that Sam will reveal what he knows about the events that transpired on the night that he left town long ago.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Van Heflin
Director: Lewis Milestone
The Hitch-Hiker (1952): An acclaimed film noir thriller in which two vacationing men are held captive by a hitchhiking psychopath with one eye that never closes. Though years of more horrific violence and suspense have dulled its impact somewhat, it was way ahead of its time. Considered among Lupino's best work, this film was the progenitor of many, many films that would follow in its tire-treads and is a must-see.
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, Willaim Talman
Director: Ida Lupino
Quicksand (1950): In a somewhat perverse bit of casting, Mickey Rooney stars opposite the inimitable Peter Lorre in this gem of a noir. Rooney plays a mechanic named Dan, a naive young man who fancies himself something of a ladies man. He begins his descent into the world of crime when he falls for a blonde named Vera (Jeanne Cagney), whom he promises an expensive date. Unfortunately, Dan is a bit short on cash, so he takes $20 from his shop's register and spends it all, thinking he'll be able to replace it before anyone notices. When he can't, Dan begins a downward spiral that starts with petty crime but quickly turns into something much worse.
Cast: Jeanne Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre
Director: Irving Pichel
Detour (1945): A bitter and cynical pianist, who dreamed of a concert career but instead ended up playing in smoky dives, decides to hitch to LA and reunite with his singer girlfriend. But his plans change after the driver who picks him up suddenly expires. The pianist cannot resist taking the dead man's car, money and identity before continuing on his way. Then he runs into a mysterious woman who somehow knows everything that happened. The cruel and sarcastic femme fatale blackmails him... and assures that his life will never be the same again.
Cast: Ann Savage, Tom Neal
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
The Scar (1948): aka Hollow Triumph - John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz
Director: Steve Sekely
D.O.A. (1949): This famous film-noir murder mystery features an inventive twist: the victim as "detective," desperately trying to solve his own murder. An accountant on vacation in San Francisco gets a dose of lethal, slow-acting poison. He then begins a desperate search for the individual responsible for his impending demise. Irresistible plot given remakes in 1969 as COLOR ME DEAD, and in 1988 starring Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid.
Cast: Edmond O'Brien
Director: Rudolph Maté
BONUS Extras:
Vintage Film Noir Poster Gallery
Featurette - About Film Noir
Trailers
Region 0
3 - Disc Keep Case
Additional Release Material:
Interactive Features:
Interactve Menus
780 min.
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