| Description |
6 videodiscs (540 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Special features (Disc 6): What is film noir? ; Femme fatale: the film noir dame ; 38 classic film noir trailers ; posters of film noir. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. D.O.A. / director, Rudloph Mate ; producer, Leo C. Popkin ; cast, Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler (1950, 83 min.) -- Disc 2. Detour / director, Edgar G. Ulmer, producer, Leon Fromkees ; cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake (1945, 68 min.) -- Disc 3. The Stranger / director, Orson Welles ; producer, S. P. Eagle ; cast: Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale (1946, 94 min.) -- Disc 4. Scarlet Street / producer, director, Fritz Lang ; cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea (1945, 106 min.) -- Disc 5. Killer Bait / director, Byron Haskin ; producer, Hunt Stromberg ; cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don Defore, Dan Duryea (1949, 99 min.) Stromberg ; director, Byron Haskin ; cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea (1949, 99 min.) |
| Summary |
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why. |
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Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders. |
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Stranger: Orson Welles directs and stars in this thriller about a monstrous Nazi official who's hiding out as a small-town American college professor. A war crimes detective turns up determined to expose him -- even if it means endangering the Nazi's innocent wife. |
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Scarlet street: Homely, henpecked Chris Cross leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with the dangerously seductive young Kitty. |
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Killer bait: A bickering couple finds a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea -- and she'll do anything to realize it. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Added Author |
Maté, Rudolph, 1899-1964.
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Popkin, Leo C.
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O'Brien, Edmond, 1915-1985.
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Britton, Pamela, 1923-1974.
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Adler, Luther, 1903-1984.
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Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972.
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Fromkess, Leon.
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Neal, Tom, 1914-1972.
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Savage, Ann, 1921-2008.
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Drake, Claudia.
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Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
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Spiegel, Sam.
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Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973.
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Young, Loretta, 1913-2000.
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Merivale, Philip, 1886-1946.
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Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976.
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Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990.
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Duryea, Dan, 1907-1968.
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Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984.
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Stromberg, Hunt, 1894-1968.
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Scott, Lizabeth, 1922-2015
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Defore, Don, 1913-1993.
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Questar, Inc.
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| Added Title |
Five film noir killer classics |
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D.O.A.
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Detour.
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Stanger.
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Scarlet Street.
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Killer bait.
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| ISBN |
1594640688 |
| Standard No. |
033937035012 |
| Music No. |
QD3501 Questar Entertainment |
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