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Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Description
"Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating story cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It's late at night in Times Square, and everything's buzzing with nervous energy. But press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is oblivious to it all as he nervously waits for the early edition of The Globe. Whose career did gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)...
4) Impact
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
Series
Fox film noir volume 12
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cop Mark Dixon is in hot water with his bosses because of his rough style and tactics. He accidentally kills a murder suspect and tries to frame a known racketeer that he despises for the crime.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Noël, an aging crook who has long lived on the edge of society, now wants only a peaceful life, but agrees to take in Mickey, a criminal on the run. When the fugitive catches Noël talking to a police inspector, he is convinced that he has been betrayed and turns dangerous...
10) Scarlet Street
Series
Publisher
Kino On Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.
11) Out of the past
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Former private detective Jeff Bailey is trying to lead a quiet life, but his past comes back to haunt him and he finds himself framed for murder.
12) Naked city
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police investigate a woman's death in New York City.
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
14) Quicksand
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A law-abiding citizen "borrows" a few dollars to go out on a date. As fast as quicksand, his first minor criminal act turns into a tragedy.
15) Private eye
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1900s, Seoul, Korean Empire. Hong Jin-ho is a down and out detective. He makes his living mostly by catching cheating spouses, until a corpse is discovered in the woods. A rich man's son is dead and the killer must be found. Gwang-soo, a medical student, teams up with Jin-ho to solve the murder. But what they discover is a conspiracy far more evil and sinister than anything they imagined.
16) Slightly scarlet
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two sisters--one radiant and respectable, the other a kleptomaniac--both love the same man, an irresistible charmer with questionable scruples.
17) Murderous Trance
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones) and Josh Lucas (Ford v. Ferrari) star in MURDEROUS TRANCE. Based on a true story, this tense thriller follows a remarkable series of hypnosis crimes that took place in the 1950s.
18) Trouble in mind
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Description
In a down-and-out brick corner of Rain City, set in the vague future/past, hapless denizens are drawn to Wanda's cafe like moths to a flame. At the center of the film is a romantic triangle between ex-cop/con Hawk, young mother Georgia, and her husband Coop.
19) The enforcer
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A crusading District Attorney is 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.
20) The stranger
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Nazi (Welles) has escaped to a small town in Connecticut and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter (Robinson).
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