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Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4 (Act of Violence / Mystery Street / Crime Wave / Decoy / Illegal / The Big Steal / They Live By Night / Side Street / Where Danger Lives / Tension)
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List Price: $59.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Directed By: André De Toth, Anthony Mann, Don Siegel, Fred Zinnemann, Jack Bernhard
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391150206
Format: Box set
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-07-31
Running Time: 833
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1950-07-28
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier (Robert Ryan) shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be as director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal) guides a searing Act of Violence, "the first postwar noir to take a challenging look at the ethics of men in combat" (Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir). Murder lives on Mystery Street. John Sturges (The Great Escape) directs a revealing-for-the-era procedural about a Boston cop (Ricardo Montalban) solving a whodunit with the help of a Harvard forsensic expert (Bruce Bennett). Welcome to CSI Noir.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Commentaries are great to have.
Comment: I love the picture quality of this great DVD set and also the commentaries on all of the movies. These are movies I can watch over and over again and never get tired of. Along with the commentaries they are a pretty good education in film noir.
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Summary: ijustlovetheoldies
Comment: hats off,this is the best collection of film noir yet if i could give it more stars i would,buy it now i guarantee you wont be disappointed
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Summary: A Surprisingly Good Collection
Comment: I've bought all the series, this being the fourth. I thought they might be stretching things a bit. The scripts are a bit ragged, but there is a terrific range of points of view. The transfers are nice, and all the commentaries had something of value, which doubles the running time.
All these films reflect the era. They are about men and women, relationships, but women are amazingly empowered in this era. Noir is about corruption. There is always a price tag on sexual exploration. Everyone uses sex, but they never show any sex.
Much of the acting is sound, even if the style is dated. The impressionism of Noir can be quite beautiful, especially when they bothered to shoot in the real world and not with process or a stage. The seedy world was much broader in these movies. There were layers of degraded humanity. The corrupt people are more comprehensible. Today there is a hard, mega-violent edge that fills the gap. In these movies, bad people are shown in a social context. These films sought more understanding, apparently. Characters travel from one level to another, collapsing into the corruption, many times.
Well done set.
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Summary: widescreen?
Comment: loved this set.
did anybody, besides myself, notice that "illegal" was presented in wide screen format?
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Summary: I Remember When I Saw That.
Comment: I bought Volume 4 because it was sold as a "deal" with another 50's film that I remembered and bought.
It was quite an experience seeing films that I had watched as a teenager. I was impressed with the crisp black and white photography. It was like going through an old family album looking at the early pictures of actors such as Robert Mitchum in "The Big Steal," Edward G. Robinson in "illegal," "Farley Granger in "They Live by Night," and Sterling Hayden in "Crime Wave". Even though they are all crime movies, they have a certain sweetness that is reminiscent of earlier Anerica. If you want something different, perhaps a bit of nostalgia, this set offers ten hours of viewing.
All of the DVD's played well using my Samsung player.
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