Film noir collection : 10 classic films.
Whirlpool (98 min.; director, Otto Preminger) : A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence. Shock (70 min.; direct...
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| Language: | English |
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Eugene, OR :
Timeless Media Group,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (approximately 905 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
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Whirlpool (98 min.; director, Otto Preminger) : A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
Shock (70 min.; director, Alfred L. Werker): A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitorium by the man whom she witnessed commit a murder.
They made me a criminal (92 min.; director, Busby Berkeley): A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Quicksand (79 min.; director, Irving Pichel): After borrowing twenty dollars from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.
Port of New York (82 min.; director, Laslo Benedek): Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
DOA (83 min.; director, Rudolph Maté): Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
Scarlet Street (103 min.; director, Fritz Lang): When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con the man out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.
Impact (111 min.; director, Arthur Lubin): San Francisco industrialist Walter Williams's wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car.
Beat the devil (89 min.; director, John Huston): On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet, and things begin to happen...
The stranger (95 min.; director, Orson Welles): An investigator from the War Crime Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi. |
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| Note: | Originally released as motion pictures in 1945-1956. Title and movie summaries from container. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | PN1995.9.F54 F543 2012 VideoDVD |
| ISBN: | 9780741136800 0741136805 |
| System Details: | DVD, full screen. |
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Whirlpool: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford.
Shock: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Lattimore, Anabel Shaw.
They made me a criminal: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, Leo Gorcey.
Quicksand: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Peter Lorre.
Port of New York: Yul Brynner, K.T. Stevens, Scott Brady.
DOA: Edmond O'Brien, Beverly Garland, Neville Brand.
Scarlet Street: Edward G. Robinson, Dan Duryea, Joan Bennett.
Impact: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn.
Beat the devil: Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Jennifer Jones.
The stranger: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles. |