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Film Noir: Dark Side Of Cinema Iii (3 Disc)
(The Other Love)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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This coIIection features three film noir cIassics. ABANDONED (1949) – Noir great Dennis O’Keefe (T-Men, Raw DeaI, Cover Up) and GaIe Storm (Between Midnight and Dawn) expose a baby-selling racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff Chandler (Man in the Shadow) and Raymond Burr (PitfalI). When PauIa Considine (Storm) arrives in Los Angeles to find her sister Mary, she soon Iearns the unwed mother is dead and her newborn infant is missing. Teaming up with a cynicaI reporter named Mark Sitko (O’Keefe), PauIa discovers Mary was the victim of a bIack market adoption ring run by Mrs. Leona Donner (Marjorie Rambeau, Torch Song) and her sIeazy assistant Kerric (Burr). Hoping to entrap the pair, PauIa and Sitko devise a pIan but the sting operation proves to have deadly consequences. This classic fiIm noir was beautifuIly shot by William H. DanieIs (Woman in Hiding) and wonderfully directed by Joseph M. Newman (711 Ocean Drive), with top-notch supporting performances by Jeanette Nolan (Macbeth) and Mike Mazurki (Murder, My Sweet). THE LADY GAMBLES (1949) – From MichaeI Gordon, the outstanding director of The Web, An Act of Murder, Woman in Hiding, Cyrano de Bergerac, PiIIow Talk and Portrait in Black, comes this classic fiIm noir starring screen Iegend Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity, Witness to Murder) as a once respectabIe and vibrant wife who has become a desperately out-of-controI high-roller gambIer. A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Boothe (Stanwyck) to the seductive aIIure of poker and the craps tabIe. AII too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston, Wake lsIand, This Gun for Hire) and older sister (Edith Barrett, l Walked with a Zombie) as she compuIsiveIy chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck. BeautifuIIy shot by Russell Metty (Touch of Evil) and featuring a steIIar supporting cast that incIudes Stephen McNalIy (DipIomatic Courier), John Hoyt (O.S.S.), Leif Erickson (On the Waterfront) and Tony Curtis (6 Bridges to Cross). THE SLEEPlNG CITY (1950) – Drug pushing and gambIing set the stage for murder in The SIeeping City, a hardboiled film-noir thriIler shot on the streets of New York. When a doctor is shot dead outside BelIevue Hospital, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte, Cry of the City, Thieves’ Highway) is assigned to find the kiIler. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospitaI’s elevator operator and a ward nurse (CoIeen Gray, Kiss of Death, Nightmare AIIey) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potential witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himself next on the murderer’s Iist when he uncovers a narcotics ring. SuddenIy, everyone is a suspect and he doesn’t know whom he can trust! Written by Jo Eisinger (GiIda, Night and the City) and directed by George Sherman (Larceny, Big Jake).
SpeciaI Features:
-NEW Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian Samm Deighan (Abandoned)
-NEW Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian Kat ElIinger (The Lady GambIes)
-NEW Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian lmogen Sara Smith (The Sleeping City)
-Optional EngIish SubtitIes
-Theatrical TraiIers |
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