Crime wave ; Decoy
(DVD)

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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult DVD - Adult AudiovisualFictionOn Shelf
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Published
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007].
Format
DVD
Language
English
UPC
085391150244, 085391150206

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General Note
Crime wave from a Saturday Evening Post story by John and Ward Hoskins.
General Note
Crime wave originally released as a motion picture in 1954; Decoy originally released as a motion picture in 1946.
General Note
Special features: Commentaries by James Ellroy and film historian Eddie Muller on 'Crime wave' and writer Stabley Rubin and film historian Glenn Erickson on 'Decoy;' new featurettes: "Crime wave: the city is dark" and "Decoy: a map to nowhere;" 'Crime wave' theatrical trailer.
Participants/Performers
Crime wave cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk.
Participants/Performers
Decoy cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Marjorie Woodwarth.
Description
Crime wave: Three San Quentin escapees kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, one of the escapees flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey. Steve is paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and can't afford to be caught associating with old cronies. But homicide detective Sims wants to use Steve to help him catch the other 2 escapees, who in turn extort his help in a bank job.
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Decoy: Gangster Frank Olins is about to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby. Only Frank knows the location of $400,000. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies. She forces the prison doctor to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning to Olins. The revived Olins gives Margot half of a map showing the money location and Vincent, in a fit of jealousy, kills Olins and takes the other half. Because the doctor's plates on his car will get them through the police roadblocks, Vincent and Margot take him with them on the money hunt.
Target Audience
Not rated.
System Details
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
This DVD is copy protected and may be played only on licensed devices.
Language
English dialogue, French subtitles; closed-captioned, English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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