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(0)Eddie Muller
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Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets "discovered" by a big-time movie agent. Because when he takes his shirt off young hearts beat faster, because he is the picture of innocence and trust and need, he will become a star. It seems almost preordained. The open smile says, "You will love me," and soon the whole world does.
The young boy's name was Tab Hunter, a made-up name,...
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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.
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" . . . hard-boiled cat detective Kitty Feral combs the city on a hunt for best buddy Mitch the Mutt -- and a missing candy crusted confection! Dangerous denizens lurk around every dark corner as Kitty searches for clues in bookstores, alleyways, rooftops, and waterfronts. Who made off with the majestic Marshmallow Monkey? Where is the beloved Mitch the Mutt? Kitty's got plenty of questions and not enough answers! Follow along through a tangled web...
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"Film noir is all about style, as much as it is about crime. The poster art from the noir era has a bold look and an iconography all its own ... During noir's golden age, poverty-row studios commissioned these arresting illustrations for even the lowliest "B" thriller. "The Art of Noir" is the first book to present this striking artwork in a single lavishly produced, large-format, full-color volume ... The more than 350 dazzling posters, lobby cards,...
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"What a sense you have for finding trouble and entering into it."
Veronica Lake remains one of Hollywood's greatest icons, from movies like Sullivan's Travels and The Blue Dahlia. Her trademark 'peek-a-boo' blonde hairstyle, partly hiding one eye, is a legend in its own right, but her blend of beauty, ice cool persona and dry comedic style makes the actress a timelessly magnetic screen personality.
The persona hid a tumultuous personal life, and this...
11) Macao
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A traveling night club singer gets hired by an American expatriate who runs a casino in Macao, and specializes in converting stolen jewelry into cash. When one of her traveling companions turns out to be a cop, complications ensue.
13) Angel face
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When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur, but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out.
14) The racket
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"Nick Scanlon is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in a corrupt new world of smooth operators on both sides of the law, efficient green-eyeshade types who run a crime ring like a corporation. They won't mind if Scanlon and McQuigg square off... if they bring each other down"--Container.
16) Gilda
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Criterion collection volume 795
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A deceitful woman plays with the lives of her husband, his crime lord boss, and his right-hand man.
17) Alias Nick Beal
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"Joseph Foster is an honest district attorney who wants to run for governor in order to clean up the criminal underworld. Blocked by corrupt political forces, Foster would practically have to make a deal with the devil to reach his goal. Enter Nick Beal, a diabolically handsome gent with a slick line of patter and a smooth, infallible method of getting things done. Foster agrees to a deal, and to bind the bargain, Beal sends out one of his most trusted...
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"In the 1940s, a new genre, film noir, emerged from the world of 'hard-boiled' pulp magazines, paperback thrillers and sensational crime movies. These films, tough and unsentimental, depicted a black-and-white universe at once brutal, erotic and morally ambiguous. Now, Sony Pictures and The Film Foundation have brought five noir classics together in one collection, all restored and remastered"--Container.
The sniper: San Francisco delivery van driver...
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Crime wave (1954 ; 74 min.): "Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter"--Amazon.com.
Decoy (1946 ; 76 min.): "A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash"--Amazon.com.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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"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 multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.