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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790785899
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790785889
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 7946
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 02, 1946
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Adapted from James M. Cain's story, the film relolves around the destructive relationship of two lovers whose troubles mount after they do away with her husband.
Amazon.com essential video:
Even under the heavy censorship of 1946 Hollywood, Lana Turner and John Garfield's libidinous desires burn up the screen in Tay Garnett's adaptation of James M. Cain's torrid crime melodrama. Platinum blond Turner is Cora, a restless sexpot stuck in a roadside diner married to mundane middle-aged fry cook Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) when handsome drifter Frank (Garfield) blows her way. It's lust at first sight, a rapacious desire that neither can break off, and before long they're plotting his demise--but in the wicked world of Cain nothing is that easy. Garnett's visual approach is subdued compared to the more expressionistic film noir of the period, but he's at no loss when he films the luminous Turner in her milky-white wardrobe. She radiates repressed sexuality and uncontrollable passion while Garfield's smart-talking loner Frank mixes street-smart swagger and scrappy toughness with vulnerability and sincere intensity. Costar Hume Cronyn cuts a cold, calculating figure as their conniving lawyer, a chilly character that only increases our feelings for the murderous couple, victims of an all consuming amour fou that drives their passions to extremes. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
With platinum hair, dark eyelashes and pouty lips, Cora Smith is a slut to dream about. Or maybe she's just an ambitious, dissatisfied wife, married to Nick, the fat older owner of a greasy roadside diner. Or maybe all those banked flames of hers are getting too much fresh oxygen from tough, dumb Frank Chambers, who drifts into her life and watches Cora's lipstick roll across the diner floor to his feet. It doesn't matter. Fate is walking slowly down the highway toward Cora and Frank. Nothing is ... Read More
Rating:  -
The DVD itself is in good condition, but the dvd case arrived damaged. The center piece was broken and so the dvd slid around the inside. This did not cause damage during shipment (although it easily could have). My concern is that over the course of time this problem could cause damage as the dvd is used. The damaged case was a disappointment.
Rating: -
I have to agree with the other two-star reviews of this movie. The acting was marginal and the relationship between Garfield and Turner never sparks. Turner's "classic" entrance, with the lipstick rolling across the floor and the camera gliding up to her bare legs, really doesn't stand the test of time - however daring or sultry it may have seemed in the 40s it's just campy now, and to tell the truth I highly doubt it was ever that exciting. The whole mood has to be working for a film to support ... Read More
Rating: -
I love Lana as an actress, but you can't top her beauty in her twenties.
Rating: -
Another post war classic Film Noire, touching on the angst of a femme fetale [Lana Turner] and her hapless illicit lover [John Garfield].
He knows all along he has walked into something he can neither resist, nor is wise or prudent to persue, but his own lust overwealms his better judgement and murder can't be too far behind.
The script is scintillating for the 40's, and barely made it through the censors of that era.
Turner is radiant as the young frustrated ... Read More
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