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Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
143 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm
Language
English
Description
Collecting 101 noir movie posters of, arguably, the greatest noir films ever made in the genre (including classics The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity). Reproduced in a stunningly designed, over-sized format that shows off the spectacular visual elan of Hollywood movie posters at their best, the book is not only a spectacular showcase of film noir art, but also establishes the crucial films, identifies their key characteristics, with critical...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Revised and expanded edition, First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the movies and artists of film noir, describing the social climate and artistic skills that contributed to the genre.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adventurer Mike O'Hara rescues beautiful Elsa Bannister from attackers in Central Park. Elsa induces Mike to sign up as a sailor on the yacht belonging to her husband, crippled millionaire criminal lawyer Arthur Bannister. In the West Indies, the cruise party is joined by Bannister's law partner, George Grisby. Disguised as a steward is private detective Sidney Broome, who has been hired by Bannister to spy on Elsa. During the voyage, a love affair...
10) The Stranger
Author
Language
English
Description
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
13) Scarlet Street
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Smash Up
Author
Language
English
Description
Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury which proves her downfall. Her potential alcoholism burgeons and Ken remains clueless concerning his responsibility for her problems.
15) Quicksand
Author
Language
English
Description
After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.
17) The scar
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Muller is a cunning criminal whose medical school specialty in mental disorders is about to come in handy. After being released from prison, he sets up a job to rob the local casino that is controlled by the mob. The job is bungled, and his identity becomes known. By chance he stumbles across a psychologist who has a striking resemblance to himself, except for a scar across his face. He concocts a diabolical plot to exchange identities, but he...
18) Three strangers
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
According to a ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol Kwan Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. Crystal Shackleford brings Johnny West and Jerome Arbutny to her apartment to fulfill the legend of the three strangers. They buy shares in a winning lottery ticket which changes their lives, but not in the ways they expected.
19) No sale
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Victor Cox, a professor of film history, the Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are more real than his daily life. When his wife is found drowned, Cox is the first murder suspect. He falls in love with a student who looks like the 1920s film star Louise Brooks, but she disappears at a Belgian seaside resort. Smeared in lipstick in their hotel room are the words "No Sale, " the same words Elizabeth Taylor wrote on a mirror in Butterfield...
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