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Physical Desc
xxiii, 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eddie Muller -- host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur -- takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore.
2) Sin City
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
A collection of intertwined stories stemming from corruption, revenge and the criminal underworld.
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
4) Sudden fear
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a train headed home to California, Myra Hudson falls in love with and marries actor Lester Blaine, whom she has just fired from her most recent New York play. Back on her San Francisco estate, something evil appears to be lurking beneath the surface of the couple's idyllic life.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A jealous husband is accused of murder after a man his wife was flirting with turns up dead.
7) Gun crazy
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 1
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hedy Lamarr is Madeleine Damien, a gorgeous and sophisticated fashion editor living life in the fast lane in an age when "good girls didn't." Depressed by her tarnished reputation, she deliberately crashes her car into a tree and lands on a psychiatrist's couch. Encouraged to change her ways, she starts over with a new name and a new career. She falls in love with a young doctor (Dennis O'Keefe) but her past-life returns to haunt her. Dragged into...
9) Border radio
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three musicians take money that is owed to them from a job and flee to Mexico.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
A gangster story about a hitman who lost his last target, and now another hitman is after him.
11) Niagara
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although the quaint motel overlooking the famed falls seems like the perfect honeymoon retreat, in fact, it's where the young and beautiful Rose Loomis plans to kill her husband George.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A tribute to tough film noir crime films.
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
14) The Blue Dahlia
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II veteran is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger.
15) Rope
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner -- with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder. Shot in eight-minute segments and edited together using some rather unconventional methods, Rope takes place almost entirely on a one-room set.
16) A double life
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The portrayal of an actor who finds his on stage role of Othello is affecting his off stage life as murderous revenge begins to seem reasonable.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
19) Key Largo
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
20) Sunset Boulevard
Series
Language
English
Description
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her ex-husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is...
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