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The Ultimate Film Noir Collection

By Alfred L. Werker

The Ultimate Film Noir Collection Box sets

The Ultimate Film Noir Collection

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Film noir - literally "black film" - is Hollywood's moody vision of a dark, shadowy, smoky underworld populated by beautiful-but-deadly dames and the regular Joes who fall for them. These films are literally black in that they often take place at night or in the shadows - or both. But they are black in other ways, too: Shady characters with no redeeming or "light" qualities; likable people who mean well but are pulled into the dark world of murder and mayhem; and plots that focus primarily on the darker aspects of man's nature. Although films noir continue to be produced today, the heyday of these low-budget, high-tension pictures was from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s. Here are ten classic films noir that set the tone for countless "black films" that followed in their echoing, unsettling footsteps. DISC ONE SCARLET STREET (1945) - Starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea. Directed by Fritz Lang. A mild-mannered, henpecked bank cashier and amateur painter (Robinson) falls for a pretty face (Bennett) who figures he's a rich and famous artist, leading to his being taken advantage of by her greedy and scheming boyfriend (Duryea). (93 mins.) DETOUR (1945) - Starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake. Directed by Edgar G. Ullmer. A Manhattan night-club piano player (Neal) hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet up with his girl friend (Drake). Along the way, he's picked up by a driver who winds up dead. The hitchhiker assumes the dead driver's identity but winds up being blackmailed by a sexy - and scheming - female hitchhiker (Savage) who knows his secret. (67 mins.) DISC TWO THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946) - Starring Kirk Douglas, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott. Directed by Lewis Milestone. A gambler with a dark past (Heflin) * to his hometown to find that his wealthy ex-fiancee (Stanwyck) is now married to an alcoholic district attorney (Douglas in his film debut). The D.A
Product details
Release Date:
2006-09-04
Number of Discs:
5
Publication Date:
2006-09-04
Publisher:
Passport International
Aspect Ratios:
1.33:1
Languages:
Original: English, Original: Spanish
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