The ultimate film noir collection [videorecording] /

Contributor Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976.

Imprint:North Hollywood, CA : Passport International Productions of California, 2006.

Description5 videodiscs ( 909 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Disc 1. Scarlet street (Fitz Lang, director ; cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea) (1945) -- detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, director ; cast, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake) (1945) Disc 2. Strange love of Martha Ivers (director, Lewis Milestone ; cast, Kirk Douglas, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott) (1946) -- Whistle Stop (Leonide Moguy, director ; cast George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway ) (1946) -- Disc 3 He walked by night: (Alfred Werker, director ; cast Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Jack Webb) (1948) --trapped: (director, Richard Fleischer ; cast Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Peyton, John Hoyt) (1949) Disc. 4 Impact: (director, Brian Donlevy ; cast, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn) (1949) -- D.O.A.: (director, Rudolf Mate ; cast, Edmund O'brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler) (1950) -- Disc 5 Quicksand: (director, Irving Pichel ; cast, Mickey Rooney, Jeane Cagney, Peter Lorre ) (1950) -- Hitch-hiker: (director, Ida Lupino ; cast, Edmund O'Brioen, Frank Lovejoy, Willaim Talman) (1953) -- Best of Film Noir.

Note:Scarlet Street: a bank cashier and amateur painter falls for a pretty face who figures he's a rich and famous artist, leading to his being taken advantage of by her scheming boyfriend. Detour: a Manhattan night-club piano player hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet up with his girlfriend. 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. The strange love of Martha Ivers: a gambler with a dark past returns to his hometown to find his wealthy ex-fiancee is now married to the district attorney. The D.A. tries to use the gamblers new friend to get rid of him. Whistle stop: a woman of ill repute returns to her home town looking for money and rekindles her relationship with her old love, an alcoholic gambler. His bartender pal lures him into a plot to do away with a wealthy and corrupt night club owner. He walked by night: a detective is on the trail of a cop-killer. Trapped: A forger is allowed to escape from prison so that the feds can secretly follow him to his counterfieting plates. His plan is to head to Mexico. Impact: a femme fatale and her boyfriend conspire to murder her industrialist husband, who survives the attempt but suffers from amnesia - until he gradually retrieves his memory and begins to plot revenge. D.O.A.: an accountant discovers he has only one week to live after he is poisoned. Together with his secretary he tries to beat the clock to find out who poisoned him - and why- before it's too late. Quicksand: an auto mechanic falls for a scheming waitress, and is pulled into the dark world of crime by her ruthless boyfriend. The hitchhiker: Two army buddies pick up a phychotic hitch-hiker on their way to Mexico.

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