This is a great collection for the true fan as it includes not only Double Indemnity and a few other classic noir films, but also some good ones that everyone will enjoy, but few have seen.
Film Noir - the dark, suspenseful style of filmmaking from the 1940s and 1950s - has left an indelible imprint on the world of cinema as we know it. Whether it is the driven private eye, the flawed hero or the hapless schemer, these artistic films and unforgettable characters have come to define a genre laced with murder, jealousy, intrigue, corruption, forbidden romance and double-crosses. The Film Noir: 10-Movie Spotlight Collection showcases a selection of defining movies including Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil, This Gun for Hire, Criss Cross, The Killers and more. Starring Hollywood legends such as Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, these classic films represent one of the most intriguing eras in cinema history.
Some people consider this the greatest noir novel of all time. What is certain is that Raymond Chandler helped shape so much of what we know as noir today. The adaptation of this novel, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is also one of the best films, noir or otherwise, ever made.
The iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
Take Roman Polanski, Faye Dunaway, and Jack Nicholson and add one of the greatest screenplays of all time, and you have a classic.
Chinatown (DVD)
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown st ands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gitte s, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern Cali fornia. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of dou ble dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and politi cal scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in ...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Acad emy Award®-winning script by Robert Towne, Chinatown captures a lost era in a master fully woven movie that remains a timeless gem.
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Another Raymond Chandler adaptation, this 1973 film noir starring Elliot Gould and directed by Robert Altman is often overlooked. It shouldn't be.
Elliott Gould (Busting) gives one of his best performances as a quirky, mischievous Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's (Thieves Like Us) fascinating and original send-up of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story. Co-starring Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell and Henry Gibson with a screenplay Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep), The Long Goodbye is a gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood with an ending that's as controversial as is it provocative. Private eye Philip Marlowe (Gould) faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster and a suitcase of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, he soon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceit - only to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous... friendship is murder.
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Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. policeforce of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover aconspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patronsat an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough filmnoir crime films.