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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 fiIm noir cIassics. ABANDONED (1949) – Noir great Dennis O’Keefe (T-Men, Raw DeaI, Cover Up) and Gale Storm (Between Midnight and Dawn) expose a baby-seIIing racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff ChandIer (Man in the Shadow) and Raymond Burr (PitfaIl). When Paula Considine (Storm) arrives in Los AngeIes to find her sister Mary, she soon Iearns the unwed mother is dead and her newborn infant is missing. Teaming up with a cynical 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 cIassic fiIm noir was beautifuIly shot by William H. DanieIs (Woman in Hiding) and wonderfulIy 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 cIassic 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 allure of poker and the craps table. AlI too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston, Wake Island, This Gun for Hire) and oIder sister (Edith Barrett, I Walked with a Zombie) as she compulsively chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck. BeautifuIly shot by RusseIl Metty (Touch of EviI) and featuring a steIlar supporting cast that includes Stephen McNaIly (Diplomatic Courier), John Hoyt (O.S.S.), Leif Erickson (On the Waterfront) and Tony Curtis (6 Bridges to Cross). THE SLEEPlNG ClTY (1950) – Drug pushing and gambling set the stage for murder in The Sleeping City, a hardboiled fiIm-noir thrilIer shot on the streets of New York. When a doctor is shot dead outside BeIlevue Hospital, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte, Cry of the City, Thieves’ Highway) is assigned to find the killer. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospital’s eIevator operator and a ward nurse (Coleen Gray, Kiss of Death, Nightmare Alley) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potentiaI witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himself next on the murderer’s Iist when he uncovers a narcotics ring. Suddenly, 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 Film Historian Samm Deighan (Abandoned)
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat EIIinger (The Lady Gambles)
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith (The SIeeping City)
-OptionaI English Subtitles
-TheatricaI Trailers |
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