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Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
Series
Language
English
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
3) Blade Runner
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Leona Stevenson 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, Leona pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered. Sorry, Wrong Number is a classic, extraordinary example of cumulative...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Series
Humphrey Bogart. The signature collection volume 1 to 3
Language
English
Description
In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. In Satan met a lady, Sam Spade is now PI Ted Shane,...
7) Notorious
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful young woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so, he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he's loved her all along.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Rev. Harry Powell is a religious fanatic and serial killer who targets women who use their sexuality to attract men. Serving time in prison for car theft, he meets condemned murderer Ben Harper, who confesses to hiding $10,000 in stolen loot. Released from jail, Powell is obsessed with finding the money, and he tracks down Harper's widow, Willa, and her two children, John and Pearl.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alvah Jesper, an American scientist, parachutes into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets about the atomic weapons being developed by the Germans. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes - especially when his involvement with a mysterious woman, Gina, catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal, and murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (420 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To have and have not: During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
The big sleep: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Dark passage: A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman...
11) Ransom!
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy business executive must try to rescue his kidnapped son.
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