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Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 1 (The Asphalt Jungle / Gun Crazy / Murder, My Sweet / Out of the Past / The Set-Up) (1950)
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| Starring: | Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Sterling Hayden, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Jane Greer, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, Marc Lawrence, Rhonda Fleming, Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Wallace Ford |
| Director: | John Huston, Edward Dmytryk, Jacques Tourneur, Joseph H. Lewis |
| Genre: | Film Noir, Mystery/Thriller, Thrillers/Suspense |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 463 minutes |
| Released: | July 6, 2004 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), Spanish(Subtitled), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:
Gun Crazy (1949)
When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act, he's a dead-bang goner. He and she go together, as Bart ultimately says, "like guns and ammunition." The two become bank robbers on the run, eluding roadblocks and roaring into movie history as one of the benchmark film-noir works. Joseph h. Lewis directs this ferocious thriller selected for the National Film Registry and often cited as a forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde. Peggy Cummins and John Dall star, meeting in a charged carny shooting contest and soon driven by impulses of violence and arousal they don't fully understand. They're young, foolish, doomed - point blank in Gun Crazy's unforgiving sights.
BONUS FEATURE:
- Commentary by Author/Film-Noir Specialist Glenn Erickson
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist.
As in The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, director John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in The Asphalt Jungle, a renowned tale if dishonor among thieves whose cast includes Sam Jaffe as Doc and Sterling Hayden as Doc's unflappable gunsel. Louis Calhern portrays Emmerich, the shady lawyer for whom "crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." And rising star Marilyn Monroe grabs everyone's attention as the doxie who briefly provides Emmerich with the most gorgeous alibi ever to reach the screen. Welcome to the jungle, film-noir fans!
BONUS FEATURES:
- Introduction by John Huston derived from an Archival interview
- Commentary by Author/Film-Noir Specialist Drew Casper with Co-Star James Whitmore
- Theatrical Trailer
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Phillip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma.
Sharply directed by Edward Dymytrk, Murder, My Sweet is film at its most noir, creating a moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Casting against type, Dick Powell puts sunny crooner roles behind him, dishing hardboiled patter and wearing five-going-on-six-o'clock stubble so well that source author Raymond Chandler called Powell his favorite screen Marlowe. "I'm just a small businessman in a very messy business," the PI observes. With wit and trendsetting style to burn, it's never business as usual.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary by Author/Film-Noir Specialist Alain Silver
- Theatrical Trailer
The Set-Up (1949)
Boxing Wednesdays. Wresting on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight.
The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so-called sweet-science. Robert wise directs, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the stale-air venues, bloodthirsty fans, ring savagery and delusional dreams of boxing's palooka world. Robert Ryan embraces perhaps his finest screen hour as Stoker. Audrey Totter, like Ryan an icon of the noir genre, plays Stoker's steadfast wife. in a sport that would take their last flicker of dignity, the Thompsons are reclaiming theirs.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary by Director Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese
Out of the Past (1947)
Everything you want in a film noir you'll find in Out of the Past. A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good. A moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin. Plus double-crosses and fall guys. Shadowy rooms and bleak souls.
Mitchum solidified his tough-guy persona in this archetypal film noir directed with memorable style by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie). He plays Jeff Bailey, a one-time private investigator walking the straight and narrow of small-town life...until an acquaintance from his past pulls him back into the troubles he'd left behind. "Build my gallows high, baby," Bailey sneers as events stack up against him. With dialogue like that and much more, Out of the Past builds its reputation high.
BONUS FEATURE:
- Commentary By Author/Film-Noir Specialist James Ursini
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