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1) Film noir
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller examine noir's key themes and their most representative movies from 1940 to 1960."--Jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same...
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Spellacy and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brother and rock the foundation of his beloved church.
5) The stranger
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
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Description
A Nazi (Welles) has escaped to a small town in Connecticut and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter (Robinson).
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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A cop has been put in charge of protecting a gangster's girlfriend as she is being transported from Chicago to L.A. by train to testify before a grand jury. He has his work cut out, though, as there are hitmen on the train that are after her.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
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...
16) Sudden fear
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Description
A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour butas those dark, classic movies made clearthe country needed outsiders to study and...
19) Scarlet Street
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.
20) Deception
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
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