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L.A. Confidential [Blu-ray]
: essential video:In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned ...
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Touch Of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition)
:Description:Experience director Orson Welles’ masterpiece Touch of Evil like never before in an all-new 50th Anniversary Edition DVD! Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles himself, this exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Now for the first time ever, see all three versions of the film – the preview version, the theatrical version and the restored version based on Orson Welles’ ...
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L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: essential video:In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned ...
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Laura (Fox Film Noir)
:Description:Nominated for five Academy Awards®, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy journalist (Clifton Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But shortly before her wedding to a dashing young playboy (Vincent Price), she is found murdered. Stirred by her portrait, the detective (Dana Andrews) assigned to her case finds that he, too, is strangely under Laura's spell. essential video:This silky smooth film noir pits gruff police detective Dana ...
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Road House (Fox Film Noir)
:Description:Ida Lupino is a singer working at Richard Widmark's club. When she falls for Cornel Wilde, Widmark goes berserk.
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Moontide (Fox Film Noir)
:Description:Ida Lupino is a singer working at Richard Widmark's club. When she falls for Cornel Wilde, Widmark goes berserk.
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Dangerous Crossing (Fox Film Noir)
: :Ruth Bowman (Jeanne Crain) is a new bribe glowing with delight as she and her charming new husband John (Carl Betz) set sail on the SS Monrovia for a transatlantic honeymoon. But when John inexplicably vanishes Ruth discovers that no one on the ship has any record of his existence! As she slips into hysteria Ruth has to prove that her marriage - and John's existence - is not just her own delusion. The ship's physician Dr. Paul Manning (Michael Rennie) might be the only ...
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Daisy Kenyon (Fox Film Noir)
: :Film noir a classic film style of the '40s and '50s is noted for its dark themes stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films film noir tells realistic stories about crime mystery femmes fatales and moral conflict.Joan Crawford Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda deliver dazzling performances in this 'highly polished slick triangle melodrama' (The Film Daily) based on the novel by Elizabeth Janeway and directed by Otto Preminger!Daisy Kenyon (Crawford) is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle ...
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Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
:Description:Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, muderous replicants - and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. This incredible 2-Disc Set features the definitive Final ...
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Sin City
: :A collection of intertwined stories stemming from corruption, revenge and the criminal underworld.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 22-AUG-2006Media Type: DVD :Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser ...
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