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Contraband
An excellent spy story from the sterling team of Powell and Pressburger. Danish freighter captain Conrad Veidt is detained in wartime Contraband Control, then must trail temptress Valerie Hobson through the demi-monde of a blacked out London. |
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Great Italian Directors Collection
A 4-DVD Box Set featuring 3 films from some of Italy's greatest directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Vittorio De Sica. Contains STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR, BOCCACCIO '70, and CASANOVA '70. |
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The Hitch-hiker
The only true film noir ever directed by a woman, this tour-de-force thriller (considered by many, including Lupino herself, to be her best film) is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who stumble upon a psychopathic hitchhiker. |
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House By The River
In 1949, at Republic Pictures, Fritz Lang (self-proclaimed "master of the unusual") created HOUSE BY THE RIVER, a shocking and mordant thriller of passion and murder. Boasting an ingenious script by SPIRAL STAIRCASE scribe Mel Dinelli and evocative photography by Edward Cronjager (I WAKE UP SCREAMING), HOUSE... is an underrated American "Grand Guignol" that transcends its modest origins and affirms Lang's genius. |
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Liliom
A charming French fantasy that was the original inspiration for Rogers and Hammerstein's Carousel. Charles Boyer stars as a carnival barker who is taken to heaven after he dies and placed before a celestial trial in order to gain his wings. Available for the first time with English subtitles. |
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The Long Night
Atmospheric American remake of the Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour Se Leve. Returning WWII vet Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) settles in a small Pennsylvania town and falls in love with a local beauty only to find that they are pursued by her ex-lover magician (Vincent Price). |
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Shot in scintillating black and white widescreen, this self-conscious mis-translatioin of a hardboiled Mickey Spillane odyssey is indeed ultimately a dogged quest for "missing persons" --the cultural displaced of a post-modern Taiwan. |
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Railroaded
John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont star in this gritty drama of one cop's crusade to avenge the death of a fellow officer. Violent, dark, and tight as a drum, Railroaded established Mann's reputation as a master of noir and set the stage for his fruitful collaboration with d.p. John Alton. |
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Scarlet Street
When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. SCARLET STREET is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 LA CHIENNE. |
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Siberian Lady Macbeth
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. |
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) in The Stairway to the Distant Past, the second part of director Kaizo Hayashi's stylish modern-day Japanese film noir trilogy. Picking up where The Most Terrible Time in My Life left off, Stairway delivers a knockout combination of widescreen color visuals and savvy pulp storytelling more luridly violent, outrageously ironic and sincerely affecting than its predecessor. |
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Story of a Love Affair (2-Disc Special Edition)
Story of a Love Affair (1950) is the legendary Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishing formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that would later make him famous in films like Il Grido, L'Avventura and Blow-Up. |
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Sudden Fear
Joan Crawford delivers an emotionally charged performance as a playwright who uses her plotting skills to save her own life. The supporting cast, headed by a young Jack Palance and tartish Gloria Grahame, plus a rousing Elmer Bernstein score, combine for a jolting climax. |
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They Made Me A Fugitive
Director Alberto Cavalcanti (When the Day Went Well?) turns his sights on the London underworld in the engrossing Brit-Noir gangland drama THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE. |
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The Trap
In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand
new fax machine prodding his office into the nineties, down-on-his-luck
private eye Maiku "Mike" Hama has the world on a string at last. Or does he?
In The Trap, things are not what they seem. When a hooded stranger appears
in his office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama
is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police
baffled and the city terrified. |
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