Essential Film Noir Collections 1-4.
Note - Boxes have some damage so please see all photos.
Essential Collection 1:
Framed (1947)
Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford) takes to driving a truck when he falls on hard times. When his rig brakes stop working in a small town he meets Paula Craig (Janis Carter) at the La Paloma Cafe and is quickly drawn into a criminal plot devised by the seductive femme fatale.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2020 Audio commentary by noir expert and Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode
English HOH Subtitles
Theatrical Trailer
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Ray Milland is the mysterious Nick Beal, who materialises to offer honest politician Thomas Mitchell not only wealth but also the charms of Audrey Totter. The former crusader against crime becomes power hungry under “Old Nick’s'” malign influence.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW2020 Audio Commentary with Film Historian Eddie Muller
English HOH Subtitles
Theatrical Trailer
Detective Story (1951)
A day in a New York police station, during which a detective of almost pathological righteousness discovers a stain on his family and d himself. Based on the play by Sidney Kingsley. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Director.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2020 Audio commentary by noir expert and Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode
NEW 2020 Visual essay about the film noir work of Kirk Douglas with noir expert’s Alan K. Rode & Constantine Nasr
English HOH Subtitles
Theatrical Trailer
The Garment Jungle (1957)
On the mean streets of the garment district in New York City, Alan Mitchell (Kerwin Mathews) discovers that the dress business owned by his father (Lee J. Cobb) is being controlled by the mob.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2020 Audio commentary by noir expert and Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode
2007 Q&A with Robert Loggia about THE GARMENT JUNGLE
English HOH Subtitles
Theatrical Trailer
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Essential Collection 2:
Hollywood Story (1951)
During the 1950s Hollywood, an independent producer unwisely opens an old can of worms when he decides to make a movie about the 1929 unsolved murder of a famous silent-film director. Starring Richard Conte With cameos by silent film stars such as Helen Gibson and Francis X. Bushman and produced by William Castle.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary with professor and film scholar Jason A. Ney (2020)
NEW Interview with film author & critic Kim Newman on “Hollywood Story” (2020)
Julie Adams on “Hollywood Story”
Eddie Muller on “Hollywood Story”
Theatrical Trailer
LPCM 2.0 Mono
Optional English subtitles
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Film Noir veterans John H. Auer (Hell’s Half Acre) and Steve Fisher (I Mobster) directed and wrote this police thriller in the vein of the popular Detective Story of two years earlier. Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
NEW Audio commentary film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith (2020)
NEW Interview with author & film critic Kim Newman On ”City That Never Sleeps” (2020)
Theatrical Trailer
LPCM 2.0 Mono
Optional English subtitles
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
Glenn Ford stars as an American insurance agent who is hired to smuggle a mysterious package from Cuba to Mexico. After his employer is suddenly murdered, Ford winds up embroiled in a hunt for an ancient Zapotecan treasure along with a down-and-out archeologist and a shady antiquities dealer. Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina co-star.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
Audio commentary by Peter Ford (Glen Ford’s son) and writer/historian Frank Thompson
NEW Video Interview with film critic Barry Forshaw on “Plunder In The Sun” (2020)
On Location with Glenn Ford” – Brief series of photos accompanied by Peter Ford’s reading of a letter his father wrote to his grandmother while on location.
“Plundering History” featurette
The John Wayne Stock Company: Sean McClory” featurette
Photo Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
LPCM 2.0 Mono
Optional English subtitles
Private Hell 36 (1954)
Ida Lupino co-wrote and stars in this classic film noir about a desperate cop (Steve Cochran) straying off the straight-and-narrow, falling for a world-weary lounge singer (Lupino), and betraying his honest partner (Howard Duff). Directed with grim, artful efficiency by Don Siegel.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary with Film Historian Drew Casper (2021)
NEW Video Essay with film critic Kat Ellinger on Ida Lupino (2020)
NEW Featurette about the early career of Don Siegel (2021)
NEW Video Interview with film critic Barry Forshaw on “Private Hell 36”
Theatrical Trailer
LPCM 2.0 Mono
Optional English subtitles
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Essential Collection 3:
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to “good boy” Walter O’Neil, now district attorney. At first, Sam is more interested in displaced blonde Toni Marachek than in his boyhood friends; but they draw him into a convoluted web of plotting and cross-purposes.
This Film Noir classic is superbly directed by Lewis Milestone with an outstanding performance by Kirk Douglas in his film debut.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray from a 4K scan by Paramount Pictures
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NEW Audio commentary by Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode (2022)
- Introduction with Kirk Douglas & Alan Rode
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NEW Barbara Stanwyck: From Stage to Screen to Legend with Alan K. Rode (2022)
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NEW Domestic Terror: Barbara Stanwyck and the Gothic Noir – video essay by Kat Ellinger (2022)
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line – documentary
- Theatrical Trailer
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English subtitles
No Man Of Her Own (1950)
A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this classic Film Noir. Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck assumes another woman’s identity after surviving a train accident in this haunting drama based on a Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym, William Irish) novel, I Married a Dead Man. Eventually her past catches up to her when her crooked ex-lover (Lyle Bettger) arrives in town, demanding money to keep her true identity a secret.
Beautifully photographed by legendary cinematography by Daniel L. Fapp (The Big Clock). Directed by Mitchell Leisen (Midnight).
Premiere Blu-ray release worldwide.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray by Paramount Pictures
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NEW Audio commentary by film historian Drew Casper (2022)
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NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on No Man of Her Own (2022)
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The Screen Director’s Playhouse: No Man of Her Own – radio drama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Lyle Bettger (1950)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.33:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Optional English HOH subtitles
The Turning Point (1952)
Prosecutor John Conroy (Edmond O’Brien) is determined to bring down organized crime in his Midwestern town. He looks to his father, Matt (Tom Tully), a police officer, for help, but Matt refuses. John’s childhood friend Jerry McKibbon (William Holden), an investigative reporter, senses something fishy.
Premiere Blu-ray release worldwide.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray by Paramount Pictures
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NEW Audio commentary by Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode (2022)
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NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on The Turning Point (2022)
- Photo Gallery
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH subtitles
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Director William Wyler’s suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you’d expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose, as his family is held hostage by Bogart. As the desperate hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.
Premiere Blu-ray release worldwide.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray
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NEW Audio commentary by film historian Kevin Lyons (2022)
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NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on The Desperate Hours (2022)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Optional English subtitles
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Essential Collection 4:
Rope of Sand (1949)
After a two-year hiatus, Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) returns to the same African city where he was tortured and left for dead at the hands of a sadistic Police Commandant (Paul Henreid). Originally innocent of all charges, Mike is back to claim the diamonds he had supposedly stolen two years ago. He enlists the help of an alcoholic stranger (Peter Lorre) and the doctor (Sam Jaffe), who had helped him back to health. The diamond syndicate head (Claude Rains) recruits a nightclub temptress Suzanne Renaud (Corinne Calvet) to seduce and betray Mike as an alternate to brute force.
This suspense-noir classic was directed by William Dieterle (Dark City).
Starring Burt Lancaster, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid & Sam Jaffe.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 2021 4K scan
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NEW Audio commentary by film historian Samm Deighan
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NEW Interview with film professor Jose Arroyo
- Trailer
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH subtitles
Appointment with Danger (1950)
Postal Inspector Al Goddard (Alan Ladd) is assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. The only witness to the crime is Sister Augustine (Phyllis Calvert), who identifies the photograph of one of the assailants. This leads Goddard to a seedy hotel where he learns that the assailant is a member of a gang headed by Earl Boettiger (Paul Stewart), and he soon discovers that the gang is planning a million dollar mail robbery. This classic film noir also features the stars of Dragnet, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, as Stewart’s Henchmen.
This was Alan Ladd’s final Film Noir and was directed by Lewis Allen (The Uninvited).
Starring Paul Stewart, Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Jan Sterling & Jack Webb.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 2021 4K scan
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NEW Audio commentary with professor and film scholar Jason Ney
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NEW Interview with Film Noir specialist Frank Krutnik
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NEW Video featurette on director Lewis Allen
- Trailer
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.33:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH subtitles
The Enforcer (1951)
Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon) is in fine form as a crusading District Attorney out to convict the head of a vicious murder-for-hire ring. But when his star witness is killed, Bogart must race against time to find the evidence he needs to bring down the mob boss. Told in a series of flashbacks, this tense, tough-as-nails crime thriller on the cutting edge of film noir was based on actual Murder, Inc. Trials.
Stylishly directed by Bretagne Windust (June Bride) with un-credited help from Raoul Walsh (Pursued) and beautifully shot by the great Robert Burks (North by Northwest).
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia & Everett Sloane.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 2021 4K scan
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NEW Audio commentary by noir expert and Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode
- Original aspect ratio 1.37:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English subtitles
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Helen Gordon (Ida Lupino) hires Howard Wilton (Robert Ryan) as a handyman to do chores around her house. She doesn’t know what she’s let herself in for. Insecure and paranoid, Wilton thinks everyone, including Helen, is against him. He suffers from memory lapses and extreme mood swings. She’s soon a prisoner in her own house after Wilton locks the doors and tears out the telephone. His mood swings from violence to complacency but after Helen gets a message to the police via a telephone repairman, she finds he is still in the house. …Beware, My Lovely.
Starring Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Taylor Holmes & Barbara Whiting.
Premier Blu-ray release worldwide.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 2021 4K scan
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NEW Audio commentary with professor and film scholar Jason Ney
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NEW Interview with author and programmer Pamela Hutchinson
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH subtitles
Jennifer (1953)
Agnes Langsley (Ida Lupino) gets a job, through Jim Hollis (Howard Duff), as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner’s cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jim, whom she has fallen in love with, is responsible.
Starring Ida Lupino, Howard Duff & Robert Nichols.
Premier Blu-ray release worldwide.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 2021 4K scan
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
- Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH subtitles
