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Published Friday, September 26, 2008 by Tatyanavvganqbjkvv.
Wow! I really loved the movie Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 1. The movie is absolutely stunning with top-notch graphics and visuals while Robert Ryan deliver some award-winning performances in this movie. I also think Audrey Totter was great! The visuals and graphics make for some very realistic on screen special-effects but that is the beauty of the movie.When the movie wants to be funny it is funny, the same is true for when the movie needs to deliver its scary aspects.
I think Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter worked wonderful in Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 1. The great supporting cast includes Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford.
You should see it, make no mistake this is a definite blockbuster!
I left some information, immages, and video previews of Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 1 below.
Summary of Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 1: Some boxed sets claim to be definitive, but are haphazardly selected. Not this one. Four of the five titles here can legitimately lay claim to being essentials in the film noir canon, and the fifth, The Set-Up, is a terrific boxing picture with a strong noir atmosphere. If you're a fan of noir--or have no idea what it's all about--this collection is a treat.
Of course, none of these movies were made as "film noir." The term was coined later by French critics to describe the moody, anxious feel of postwar American movies, especially the genre that highlighted duplicitous dames and susceptible men lost in the criminal jungle. Indeed, the title The Asphalt Jungle conveys the edgy urban arena of these pictures. That film is John Huston's masterly 1950 account of a heist, with Sterling Hayden the disenchanted, noirish hero. Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1949) is one of the most supercharged (and sexually perverse) of noir films, with John Dall and Peggy Cummins as young criminals in love. Murder, My Sweet (1944) is a straight adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely. Amid the film's shadowy chiaroscuro, former musical comedy star Dick Powell makes a career-changing transition as Chandler's private dick, Philip Marlowe. Out of the Past puts Robert Mitchum (perhaps the quintessential noir actor) in trouble with gangster Kirk Douglas, complicated by classic femme fatale Jane Greer. Jacques Tourneur provides the evocative direction. And The Set-Up plays out an ingenious boxing tale in "real time," superbly enacted by (former boxer) Robert Ryan. --Robert Horton
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