5 film noir killer classics
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
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| Summary: | D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why. Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders. Stranger: Orson Welles directs and stars in this thriller about a monstrous Nazi official who's hiding out as a small-town American college professor. A war crimes detective turns up determined to expose him -- even if it means endangering the Nazi's innocent wife. Scarlet street: Homely, henpecked Chris Cross leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with the dangerously seductive young Kitty. Killer bait: A bickering couple finds a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea -- and she'll do anything to realize it. |
| Item Description: | Special features (Disc 6): What is film noir? ; Femme fatale: the film noir dame ; 38 classic film noir trailers ; posters of film noir. |
| Physical Description: | 6 videodiscs (540 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| ISBN: | 1594640688 |
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PN1997.C7 F584 2004 |
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| PN1997.C7 F584 2004 | Available Place a Hold |