Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 1 (The Asphalt Jungle / Gun Crazy / Murder My Sweet / Out of the Past / The Set-Up) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790797144
Feature: Asphalt Jungle (1950)- You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in The Asphalt Jungle, a renowned tale of dishonor among thieves whose cast includes.Gun Crazy (1949) - When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr'
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790797143
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 39812
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 463 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 1944
Features:- Asphalt Jungle (1950)- You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in The Asphalt Jungle, a renowned tale of dishonor among thieves whose cast includes.Gun Crazy (1949) - When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr'
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Asphalt Jungle (1950)- You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in The Asphalt Jungle a renowned tale of dishonor among thieves whose cast includes. Gun Crazy (1949) - When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act he's a dead-bang goner. The two become bank robbers on the run eluding roadblocks and roaring into movie history as one of the benchmark film-noir works. Murder My Sweet (1944)- They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding moneywarming his pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. Murder My Sweet is film at its most noir creating a moody sense moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Out of the Past (1947)-Everything you want in a film noir you'll find in Out of the Past. A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good. A moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin. Plus double-crosses and fall guys. Shadowy rooms and bleak souls. The Set-Up (1949)- Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he's just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 085393981228
Amazon.com:
Some boxed sets claim to be definitive, but are haphazardly selected. Not this one. Four of the five titles here can legitimately lay claim to being essentials in the film noir canon, and the fifth, The Set-Up, is a terrific boxing picture with a strong noir atmosphere. If you're a fan of noir--or have no idea what it's all about--this collection is a treat.
Of course, none of these movies were made as "film noir." The term was coined later by French critics to describe the moody, anxious feel of postwar American movies, especially the genre that highlighted duplicitous dames and susceptible men lost in the criminal jungle. Indeed, the title The Asphalt Jungle conveys the edgy urban arena of these pictures. That film is John Huston's masterly 1950 account of a heist, with Sterling Hayden the disenchanted, noirish hero. Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1949) is one of the most supercharged (and sexually perverse) of noir films, with John Dall and Peggy Cummins as young criminals in love. Murder, My Sweet (1944) is a straight adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely. Amid the film's shadowy chiaroscuro, former musical comedy star Dick Powell makes a career-changing transition as Chandler's private dick, Philip Marlowe. Out of the Past puts Robert Mitchum (perhaps the quintessential noir actor) in trouble with gangster Kirk Douglas, complicated by classic femme fatale Jane Greer. Jacques Tourneur provides the evocative direction. And The Set-Up plays out an ingenious boxing tale in "real time," superbly enacted by (former boxer) Robert Ryan. --Robert Horton
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Let me first state that I've rated this 5 stars with the average so as not to throw it off. This is partly because the movies are so good obviously but also because in principle I myself dislike when people trash a movie because of the buying experience. In any case I purchased this as "New" from amazon. I received a shrinkwrapped outer box but the movies inside had all been opened. I know they weren't factory fresh because some still had remnants of the security seals. I exchanged it and received ... Read More
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These are really good examples of Film Noir, and they look luminous on a plasma screen.
Loved the cameo by a very young Marilyn Monroe in the Asphalt Jungle.
If you want hard bitten dialogue and femmes fatale, then this is your collection!
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To date, I have watched two of the included movies, Out of the Past and Murder My Sweet. I had never before seen them, and they were thoroughly enjoyable. Watched them again with the commentary, which added much timely information, such as background of supporting actors, lighting for mood, camera angle, progress of the main actors' careers, etc.
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Anyone that has ever watched a Rockford Files
episode, seen a Police Story or Hill Street
Blues or has not seen any of these classics
...really needs to. Robert Mitchum, Sterling
Hayden and the Dick Powell really will amaze
....with their great performances. Bittersweet
Revenge at its best! No one goes home happy
in this group!
Marilyn Monroe's 1949 introduction in her
second film with a speaking role is awesome!
Worth the entire ... Read More
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Worth the price for the "Asphalt Jungle" alone. Films that have a beginning, middle and end -- lawd be praised. Filled with sentient suspense, devilish dialogue, perspicacious plotting, awesome acting, and passion -- lots of purple passion. Made to entertain, not enlighten (not at least on the surface). A great first collection if you've never experienced Film Noir. A great collection even if you have. Pop some corn. Invite some friends. Close the curtains. Douse the lights. And watch. You'l have a memorable ... Read More
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