Essential Film Noir Collection 3 (1946 – 1955)
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
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No Man Of Her Own
The Turning Point
The Desperate Hours
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to “good boy” Walter O’Neil, now district attorney. At first, Sam is more interested in displaced blonde Toni Marachek than in his boyhood friends; but they draw him into a convoluted web of plotting and cross-purposes.
This Film Noir classic is superbly directed by Lewis Milestone with an outstanding performance by Kirk Douglas in his film debut.
No Man Of Her Own
A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this classic Film Noir. Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck assumes another woman’s identity after surviving a train accident in this haunting drama based on a Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym, William Irish) novel, I Married a Dead Man. Eventually her past catches up to her when her crooked ex-lover (Lyle Bettger) arrives in town, demanding money to keep her true identity a secret.
Beautifully photographed by legendary cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp (The Big Clock). Directed by Mitchell Leisen (Midnight).
The Turning Point
Prosecutor John Conroy (Edmond O’Brien) is determined to bring down organized crime in his Midwestern town. He looks to his father, Matt (Tom Tully), a police officer, for help, but Matt refuses. John’s childhood friend Jerry McKibbon (William Holden), an investigative reporter, senses something fishy.
Premiere Blu-ray release worldwide.
The Desperate Hours
Director William Wyler’s suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you’d expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose, as his family is held hostage by Bogart. As the desperate hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.
Premiere Blu-ray release worldwide.
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Supplements
- NEW Audio commentary by Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode (2022)
- NEW Audio commentary by film historian Drew Casper (2022)
- NEW Audio commentary by Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode (2022)
- NEW Audio commentary by film historian Kevin Lyons (2022)
- Introduction with Kirk Douglas & Alan K. Rode
- NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on No Man of Her Own (2022)
- NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on The Turning Point (2022)
- NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on The Desperate Hours (2022)
- NEW Barbara Stanwyck: From Stage to Screen to Legend with Alan K. Rode (2022)
- The Screen Director’s Playhouse: No Man of Her Own – radio drama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Lyle Bettger (1950)
- Photo Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer
- NEW Domestic Terror: Barbara Stanwyck and the Gothic Noir – video essay by Kat Ellinger (2022)
- Theatrical Trailer
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line – documentary
- Theatrical Trailer