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Film noir classic collection volume 1
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English
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Former private detective Jeff Bailey is trying to lead a quiet life, but his past comes back to haunt him and he finds himself framed for murder.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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English
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The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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English
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"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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English
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Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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English
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Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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English
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Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.
7) The racket
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"Nick Scanlon is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in a corrupt new world of smooth operators on both sides of the law, efficient green-eyeshade types who run a crime ring like a corporation. They won't mind if Scanlon and McQuigg square off... if they bring each other down"--Container.
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Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
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English
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Act of violence: Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
Mystery street: Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is found on a lonely...
9) Crime wave
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Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
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English
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Crime wave: Three San Quentin escapees kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, one of the escapees flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey. Steve is paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and can't afford to be caught associating with old cronies. But homicide detective Sims wants to use Steve to help him catch the other 2 escapees, who in turn extort his help in a bank job.
Decoy: Gangster...
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Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
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English
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Illegal: Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution, but is too late. Scott resigns as a prosecutor and enters private practice. He draws the attention of mob kingpin Frank Garland. Scott represents one of Garland's stooges on a murder rap...
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Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
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English
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They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...
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Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
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English
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Where danger lives: Jeff Cameron, a young intern at the beginning of his career, who links his destiny to that of a patient who is brought to the hospital after a suicide attempt. Jeff dumps the secure, rather plain nurse Julie, for the passionate but perplexing Margo. Confused and caught up in Margo's deceptions, Jeff loses his sense of reality and finds himself fleeing with her for the Mexican border.
Tension: A drugstore manager turns attempted...
13) Backfire
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Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 4
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English
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Backfire: A war veteran, aided by his resourceful nurse, is on a quest to prove his pal innocent of murder.
Deadline at dawn: A gangster's sister lies dead. All clues point to sailor Bill Williams. He has mere hours to prove that he is innocent.
14) Cornered
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Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 1
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English
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Cornered: an ex-RCAF pilot stalks the Nazi collaborator who murdered his bridge, but no one can describe the mysterious man.
Desperate: an Everyman who accepts what he thinks is an honest trucking job, only to find he's the driver in a botched heist that puts Brodie and his bride on the run from the cops and the cons who planned the job.
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Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 3
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English
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Crime in the streets: Following a turf rumble with a rival gang, the street gang leader tells his gang to kill the snitch.
Armored car robbery: Film about a deadly heist and the battle of wits between a fugitive gangster, his stripper moll, and a bulldog cop out to avenge his partner's death.
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Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 2
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English
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The Phenix City story: Corruption, brutality and vice plagued Phenix City, Alabama for 100 years. This is Phil Karlson's semidocumentary telling the jolting tale of those who risked their lives to bring the burg's syndicate of thugs and murderers to justice.
Dial 1119: An asylum inmate escapes to the city where he takes hostages at a local dive, guns down a bar employee, and warns authorities his captives will be next if the doctor whose testimony...