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Title Hammer film noir / Kit Parker Films.

Publication Info. [United States?] : Distributed by VCI Entertainment, 2006.

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 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD HAMMER FILM NOIR VOL. 1 DISC 1-3    Check Shelf
Edition Double feature collector's set.
Description 3 videodiscs (457 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD-9; all regions; NTSC; aspect ratio 1.33:1; Dolby Digital.
Note Bonus features: scene selections, bios, trailers, photo gallery. Bonus comments: The world of Hammer noir by Richard M. Roberts.
Contents Vol. 1. Bad blonde / Robert L. Lippert presents ; screenplay by Guy Elmes and Richard Landau ; based on the novel by Max Catto ; Exclusive Films, Ltd. ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Reginald Le Borg (1953, 81 min. ; also known by title The Flanagan boy) ; Man bait / Lippert Pictures Inc. presents ; screenplay by Frederick Knott ; based on a story by James Hadley Chase ; Exclusive Films Limited ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Terence Fisher (1952, 84 min. ; also known by title The last page) -- Vol. 2. Stolen face / a Lippert Pictures presentation ; screenplay by Martin Berkeley, Richard H. Landau ; based on an original story by Alexander Paal and Steven Vas ; Exclusive Films, Ltd. ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Terence Fisher (1952, 72 min.) ; Blackout / a Lippert Pictures presentation ; produced by Exclusive Films ; screenplay by Richard Landau ; from the novel 'Murder by proxy' by Helen Nielsen ; produced by Michael Carreras ; directed by Terence Fisher (1954, 87 min. ; also known by title Murder by proxy) -- Vol. 3. The gambler and the lady / Robert L. Lippert presents ; Exclusive Films Limited ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Patrick Jenkins and Sam Newfield (1952, 72 min.) ; Heat wave / Robert L. Lippert presents ; Exclusive Films Ltd. ; screenplay by Ken Hughes, based on his novel High wray ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Ken Hughes (1954, 68 min. ; also known by title The house across the lake).
Cast Bad blonde: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James, Tony Wright, Marie Burke, Selma Vaz Dias, Enzo Coticchia.
Man bait: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds, Eleanor Summerfield, Meredith Edwards, Harry Fowler, Diana Dors.
Stolen face: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell, Mary Mackenzie, John Wood, Arnold Ridley, Susan Stephen, Diana Beaumont, Terence O'Regan.
Blackout: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor Summerfield, Andrew Osborn, Harold Lang, Jill Melford, Alvys Maben, Michael Golden, Nora Gordon, Alfie Bass.
The gambler and the lady: Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance, Meredith Edwards, Anthony Forwood, Eric Pohlmann, Julian Somers, Anthony Ireland.
Heat wave: Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James, Susan Stephen, Paul Carpenter, Alan Wheatley.
Credits Bad blonde: Music, Ivor Slaney ; director of photography, Walter Harvey ; editing, James Needs.
Man bait: Music, Frank Spencer ; director of photography, Walter Harvey ; editing, Maurice Rootes.
Stolen face: Music, Malcolm Arnold ; director of photography, Walter Harvey ; editing, Maurice Rootes.
Blackout: Music, Ivor Slaney ; director of photography, Jimmy Harvey ; editing, Maurice Rootes.
The gambler and the lady: Music, Ivor Slaney ; director of photography, Walter Harvey ; editing, Maurice Rootes.
Heat wave: Music, Ivor Slaney ; director of photography, Walter Harvey ; editing, James Needs.
Note Originally released as sepoarate motion pictures between 1952 and 1954.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary Bad blonde: A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager who is promoting the young man's career.
Man bait: The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in his entanglement in blackmail and murder.
Stolen face: A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, who leaves him to return to her previous boyfriend. He finds a horribly scared patient and fashions her face into the image of his former lover and enters into a marriage that is disappointing.
Blackout: An American drifter in London meets a stunning blonde while on a bender at a bar. The girl tricks him into marrying her while he is in a drunken stupor. When he wakes up he finds 500 pounds in his pocket and discovers he is involved in a murder and an inheritance scam.
The gambler and the lady: A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, and neither is his past.
Heat wave: An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.
Subject Murder -- Drama.
Adultery -- Drama.
Extortion -- Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Motion pictures -- England.
Adultery. (OCoLC)fst00797378
Extortion. (OCoLC)fst00918984
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (OCoLC)fst01156439
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Genre/Form Detective and mystery films. (OCoLC)fst01710476
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Film noir. (OCoLC)fst01710306
Thrillers (Motion pictures) (OCoLC)fst01726193
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film noir.
Detective and mystery films.
Feature films.
Added Author Lippert, Robert L.
Valk, Frederick, 1895-1956.
James, Sidney.
Reynolds, Peter.
Scott, Lizabeth, 1922-2015.
Morell, André, 1909-1978.
Mackenzie, Mary.
Lee, Belinda.
Davies, Betty Ann, 1910-1955.
Slater, John.
Chance, Naomi, 1930-2003.
Huntley, Raymond, 1904-1990.
Edwards, Meredith.
Nicol, Alex.
Brooke, Hillary, 1914-1999.
Stephen, Susan, 1931-2000.
Slaney, Ivor.
Harvey, Walter.
Needs, James, 1919-2003.
Spencer, Frank.
Rootes, Maurice, 1917-1997.
Arnold, Malcolm.
Hinds, Anthony, 1922-2013.
LeBorg, Reginald.
Elmes, Guy, 1920-1998.
Landau, Richard.
Payton, Barbara.
Catto, Max, 1909-1992.
Fisher, Terence, 1904-1980.
Knott, Frederick.
Brent, George, 1904-1979.
Chapman, Marguerite, 1918-1999.
Chase, James Hadley, 1906-1985.
Berkeley, Martin.
Henreid, Paul.
Paal, Alexander.
Vas, Steven, 1894-1967.
Carreras, Michael, 1927-1994.
Clark, Dane, 1912-1998.
Lee, Belinda, 1935-1961.
Jenkins, Patrick.
Summerfield, Eleanor.
Newfield, Sam, 1899-1964.
Byron, Kathleen, 1921-2009.
Hughes, Ken, 1922-2001.
Nicol, Alex, 1916-2001.
Nielsen, Helen. Murder by proxy.
Lippert Pictures, Inc.
Exclusive Films, Ltd.
Kit Parker Films.
VCI Entertainment (Firm)
Spine Title Hammer film noir double feature collector's set
Standard No. 089859055423
ISBN 1557399034
9781557399038
Music No. #KPF-554 VCI Entertainment
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