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Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.
2) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The killers (1946) Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede," who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's life, Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime, all linked with gorgeous, mysterious Kitty Collins.
The killers (1964) Supposedly based on the short story by...
3) Sudden fear
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Victoria sails to America after the war. She has assumed her dead friend's identity and now lives among her family, including a young boy who is to inherit a fortune. She falls for the boy's guardian but soon learns that she may be in danger again.
6) Film noir
Author
Series
Publisher
Longman
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), THE HITCH-HIKER is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He...
Publisher
Madacy Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Number 17 (1932): Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police. It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel.
Juno and the paycock (1930) : An actress in a travelling theatre group is murdered and Diana Baring, another member of the group is found suffering from amnesia standing by the body. Diana is tried and convicted...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
Clips from noir classics and little known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This noir drama stars Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon (*Boardwalk Empire, Nocturnal Animals*) as John Rosow, a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold’s identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing Harold back to his...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Collecting 100 noir movie posters of, arguably, the greatest noir films ever made in the genre (including classics The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity). Reproduced in a stunningly designed, over-sized format that shows off the spectacular visual elan of Hollywood movie posters at their best, the book is not only a spectacular showcase of film noir art, but also establishes the crucial films, identifies their key characteristics, with critical...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.
17) The Bigamist
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
An amazingly sympathetic portrait of a figure historically given very short shrift: the title character is not only a two-timer—he’s a traveling salesman as well. But, as embodied by that perpetually pressured everyman of the 1950s, Edmond O’Brien, the bigamist comes across as a victim of his own sensitivity. Caught between two complementary spouses, O’Brien’s dazed indecisiveness dominates the narrative. As always in Ida Lupino’s directorial...
18) Shelter
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn in this suspense-laden,...
19) Cause for alarm!
Publisher
Alpha Group
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
An insane husband terrorizes his wife because he suspects her of infidelity.
20) Pushover
Series
Columbia Pictures film noir classics volume 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A cop, staking out the apartment of a bank robber's girlfriend, makes a move on her to get information. But she ups the stakes, turning the case deadly.
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