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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
: :Cynical pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy postwar Vienna only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend black-market opportunist Harry Lime and thus begins this legendary tale of love deception and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten Alida Valli and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's haunting deep focus shots off-kilter angles and dramatic use of light and shadow The Third Man directed by the inimitable Carol Reed only ...
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Witness For the Prosecution
:Description:Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton star in this brilliantly made courtroom drama (The Film Daily) that left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. Directed by Billy Wilder, scripted by Wilder and Harry Kurnitz and based on Agatha Christie's hit London play, this splendid, six-time Oscar-nominated* classic crackles with emotional electricity (The New York Times) and continues to keep movie lovers riveted until the final, mesmerizing frame. When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Power), is ...
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Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
:Description:One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most suspenseful screen achievements, Rear Window, is now available in a new 2-disc Special Edition DVD! When a professional photographer (James Stewart) suspects his neighbor of murdering his nagging wife, he enlists his socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to help investigate the suspicious chain of events. Honored in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies for excellence in film, Rear Window has also been hailed as “one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most stylish thrillers” (Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide). With in-depth bonus features and ...
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The Haunting
:Description:A group is introduced to the supernatural through a 90-year old New England haunted house. Be prepared for hair-raising results in this classic horror film! essential video:Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear. A classic spook-fest based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House (which also inspired the ...
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To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
: :Cary Grant plays John Robie reformed jewel thief who was once known as 'The Cat' in this suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller. Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Grace Kelly) he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's (Jessie Royce Landis) fabulous jewels. His plan backfires however but France who believes him guilty proves her love ...
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Dial M for Murder
: :When American writer Mark Halliday visits the very married Margot Wendice in London he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder. After sensing Margot's affections for Halliday her husband Tony Wendice fears divorce and disinheritance and plots her death. Knowing former school chum Captain Lesgate is involved in illegal activities Tony blackmails him into conspiring to kill Margot. When she kills Lesgate in self-defense Tony implicates her as being guilty of premeditated murder. Halliday must out-stratagize Tony to save Margot's live.Running Time: ...
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Notorious
: essential video:One of Alfred Hitchcock's classics, this romantic thriller features a cast to kill for: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains. Bergman plays the daughter of a disgraced father who is recruited by American agents to infiltrate a post-World War II spy ring in Brazil. Her control agent is Grant, who treats her with disdain while developing a deep romantic bond with her. Her assignment: to marry the suspected head of the ring (Rains) and get the goods on everyone involved. Danger, deceit, ...
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Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)
: essential video:Considered by many to be the greatest B movie ever made, the original-release version of Orson Welles's film noir masterpiece Touch of Evil was, ironically, never intended as a B movie at all--it merely suffered that fate after it was taken away from writer-director Welles, then reedited and released in 1958 as the second half of a double feature. Time and critical acclaim would eventually elevate the film to classic status (and Welles's original vision was meticulously followed for the film's 1998 restoration), but for ...
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