Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics. II

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Call Number: DVD Film-Noir Columbia
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Human desire based on the novel by Émile Zola, La bête humaine.
Pushover adapted from two novels, The night watch by Thomas Walsh, and Rafferty by Bill S. Ballinger.
The brothers Rico based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Les frères Rico.
Nightfall based on the novel Nightfall by David Goodis.
Originally released as motion pictures by Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1954 (Human desire, Pushover ), 1957 (The brothers Rico, Nightfall), and 1959 (City of fear).
"Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and The Film Foundation partner once again to bring five films to DVD for the first time, fully restored and remastered"--Container.
Special features: Martin Scorsese on The brothers Rico ; Pulp paranoia with Christopher Nolan ; Terror and desire with Emily Mortimer ; original theatrical trailers.
Human desire, The brothers Rico, and City of fear are in b&w. Pushover and Nightfall are in color.
Human desire / screen play by Alfred Hayes ; produced by Lewis J. Rachmil ; directed by Fritz Lang (91 min., b&w, 1954) -- Pushover / screen play by Roy Huggins ; produced by Jules Schermer ; directed by Richard Quine (88 min., col., 1954) -- The brothers Rico / a William Goetz production ; screen play by Lewis Meltzer, Ben Perry ; produced by Lewis J. Rachmil ; directed by Phil Karlson (92 min., b&w, 1957) -- Nightfall / screen play by Stirling Sillphant ; a Copa production ; produced by Ted Richmond ; directed by Jacques Tourneur (79 min., col,. 1957) -- City of fear / written by Steven Ritch and Robert Dillon ; produced by Leon Chooluck ; directed by Irving Lerner (76 min., b&w, 1959).
[Human desire] Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case, Peggy Maley, Diane DeLaire, Grandon Rhodes .
[Pushover] Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone. E.G. Marshall, Allen Nourse,
[The brothers Rico] Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren, Atrgentina Brunetti, Lamont Johnson, Harry Bellaver, Paul Picerni, Paul Dubov, Rudy Bond, Richard Bakalyan, William Phipps.
[Nightfall] Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory, Frank Albertson, Rudy Bond.
[City of fear] Vince Edwards, John Archer, Steven Ritch, Patricia Blair, Kelly Thordsen, Lyle Talbot, Cathy Browne, Sherwood Price, Joseph Mell, ,
[Human desire] A Korean War veteran comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and becomes entangled with a violent co-worker and the man's alluring wife in a web of deception, suspicion, and murder .
[Pushover] A cop, staking out the apartment of a bank robber's girlfriend, makes a move on her to get information. But he makes the mistake of really falling for her, testing his loyalties with deadly results.
[The brothers Rico] A businessman and husband is contacted by his former organized crime boss, and is drawn back into the danger of the mob, putting his family on the line.
[Nightfall] A commercial artist is pursued by the police for a crime he didn't commit, and chased by criminals for money he didn't steal.
[City of fear] A convict steals a container from the prison infirmary, thinking it contains cocaine, and escapes, intending to sell the drug for a fortune. However, the powder is really a highly radioactive substance that will kill everyone who is exposed to it.
DVD ; Dolby digital ; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; region 1 encoding.
Contents: Bête humaine. -- Night watch. -- Rafferty. -- Frères Rico. -- Nightfall.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Nightfall submitted by rossorr on March 29, 2020, 10:25pm …is a standout in this set, for feeling unexpectedly contemporary. Aldo Ray is understated but still compelling, and flashback scenes put the chronology all out of order. Naturally later I read that Tarantino liked (and borrowed from) this film.