John Alton Film Noir Collection.

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Call Number: Blu-ray Film-Noir John
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"T-men" was originally released as a motion picture in 1947 ; "Raw deal" was originally released as a motion picture in 1948 ; "He walked by night" was originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
T-men / Reliance Pictures ; produced by Aubrey Schenck ; written by John C. Higgins ; directed by Anthony Mann -- He walked by night / Bryan Foy Productions ; written by Leopold Atlas, John C. Higgins ; directed by Anthony Mann. Raw deal / Reliance Pictures ; produced by Bryan Foy, Robert Kane ; written by Crane Wilbur, John C. Higgins ; directed by Alfred L. Werker.
"T-men": Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Charles McGraw, Wallace Ford ; "Raw deal": Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt ; "He walked by night": Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, James Cardwell.
"T-men": Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring. "Raw deal": Joe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him. "He walked by night": This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Blu-ray disc.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great on Blu Ray submitted by rossorr on October 13, 2020, 10:07am John Alton was a master of "Noir" cinematography—dramatic nighttime light and shadow—giving real style to this series of cheap B pictures from Eagle-Lion Films. But that company went bust and eventually the films fell out of copyright; so there are a lot of murky n-th generation versions floating around where you can barely appreciate the photography. This ClassicFlix release is dramatically clearer—just a few scenes with soft image or soundtrack weirdness.

Story-wise the standout here is "T-Men," which keeps the tension bubbling (undercover treasury agents in peril). But I was most astonished by the final sequence of "He Walked By Night," a film I'd never heard of. It features a dramatic chase through LA's storm sewers—released a year before the much more famous Vienna version from "The Third Man."