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Too Late for Tears (aka Killer Bait) : (2 disc set)
(1949) [M]
One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the Palmers are traced by... More
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Detour
(1945) [M]
After his girlfriend Sue has left for the West Coast, Al Roberts decides to join her and starts a journey hitchhiking westwards. When he finds a driver who'd given him a lift dead, he decides to get rid of the body and take the man's identity, fearing he'd be accused of murder if he would go to... More
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Phantom Lady
(1944) [PG]
Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to remember seeing the... More
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Criss Cross
(1949) [PG]
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous... More
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Black Angel
(1946) [PG]
In Los Angeles, when singer Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) is found dead in her apartment, Kirk Bennett (John Phillips) is accused of the murder, since he had been blackmailed by the victim. Kirk's wife Catherine Bennett (June Vincent) believes her husband is innocent and teams with Martin... More
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Black Widow
(1954) [M]
A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has... More
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Night and the City (1950)
(1950) [P]
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers star in Jules Dassin's Night and the City, a hard-boiled drama boasting all the benchmarks of a classic film noir.
Harry Fabian is a fast-talking hustler who is always on the make. When he happens upon Gregorious, a famous and frustrated... More
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Brute Force
(1947) [PG]
For the men of Westgate Penitentiary, life is lived on a knife's edge, ruled by violence and fear in a war fought between the guards and the toughest prisoners. Warden A.J. Barden is a weak man who is powerless compared to the chief guard, Captain Munsey, an ambitious and sadistic petty dictator... More
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The Woman in the Window
(1944) [PG]
Richard Wanley (Robinson) is no criminal, at least he wasn’t until he met “the woman in the window” (Bennet). From seeing her portrait in a storefront window to running into her in person, what begins as an innocent flirtation grows into something much more dangerous. More
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Body Heat (Blu-Ray)
(1981) [MA]
Attorney Ned Racine's life coasts along in neutral - until he meets a siren in white (with a well-to-do husband) named Matty Walker. Ned knows Matty is the kind of woman men would kill to be with. So he does. Kasdan's Body Heat, is a sexy, haunting tale echoing 1940's film noirs but charged with... More
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Pepe Le Moko
(1937) [PG]
Arguably one of the most influential films of all time, Julien Duvivier's masterpiece Pépé le Moko is a triumph of classical French cinema, and the break out role for superstar Jean Gabin.
Notorious gangster Pépé le Moko is a criminal mastermind. Having eluded the French... More
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The Unsuspected
(1947) [PG]
A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the girl? Why? And who is this mystery husband?
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Invisible Stripes
(1939)
Cliff and Chuck leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated... More
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House of Strangers
(1949) [M]
Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that his father had caused all the tension within the family and makes peace with his brothers. More
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Cry of the City
(1948) [M]
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between... More
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Violent Saturday
(1955) [PG]
A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son's eyes, a timid clerk who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to regain his wife's love, an Amish farmer faced with... More
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Johnny Apollo
(1940) [PG]
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr.is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father More
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Kansas City Confidential
(1952) [PG]
A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and... More
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The Big Knife
(1955) [M]
Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career, his marriage, his art & morality. In this screen adaptation of a Clifford Odets play, Castle is pressured by his studio boss and manipulated into a... More
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He Ran All the Way
(1951) [M]
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes back to her apartment with her and forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. More
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Johnny Allegro
(1949) [M]
Good crime - gangster film which, as Leonard Maltin notes, has similar elements to 'The Most Dangerous Game' throughout much of its second half.
George Raft plays the title character, a reformed hoodlum, who now runs a florist shop in a hotel. He encounters a mysterious blonde, of the... More
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Lost Highway (Blu-Ray)
(1997) [R]
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. More
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