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Film Noir - The Dark Side of Hollywood (Sudden Fear / The Long Night / Hangmen Also Die / Railroaded / Behind Locked Doors)
Starring: John Ireland , Sheila Ryan , Hugh Beaumont , Jane Randolph , and Ed Kelly Director: Anthony Mann , Fritz Lang , and David Miller Manufacturer: Kino Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000GTJS8A Release Date: 2006-09-12 |
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Obscure noir.......2007-03-23
Beware noir fans of this Kino rip-off!.......2006-11-22
Remastered DVDs?.......2006-09-10
5 classic NOIRS from the studio vaults .......2006-07-24
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The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare / Behind Locked Doors (Something Weird)
Starring: Jack Jowe , Marlene Denes , Debra Page , Adela Rogers St. Johns , and Tom Signorelli Director: Sande N. Johnsen , and Charles Romine Manufacturer: Image Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002EJ7JE Release Date: 2004-08-31 |
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Unnerved after a trip to Northern Italy, Pete Abbott wallows in The Beautiful, The Bloody, and the Bare when he becomes a New York nudie photographer. Trouble is, the color red sometimes so upsets him that he starts killing his models! From the director of Teenage Gang Debs, here's one of the earliest films to mix nudity with then excessive bloodshed to create what would be best called a gory-nudie-cutie. Plus: When their car is deliberately drained of gas, sexy Ann Henderson and semi-lesbian friend Terry Wilson seek help at the house of creepy ex-mortician Dr. Bradley (a dead ringer for Henry Kissinger). But once Behind Locked Doors, the girls instead become the unwilling victims of Bradley's psychotic sex research: "I am looking for the perfect love mate!" Worse, if Ann and Terry don't cooperate, they'll join the women embalmed and on display in Bradley's "memorial exhibition room!" With sordid shocks and skin, here are two psychotic sickies direct from the demented vaults of Drive-In King Harry Novak (Axe)!Customer Reviews:
You want naked women, this DVD has naked women.......2005-08-06
Mixed Bag.......2004-09-21
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Behind Locked Doors
Starring: Lucille Bremer , Richard Carlson , Douglas Fowley , Ralf Harolde , and Thomas Browne Henry Director: Budd Boetticher Manufacturer: Kino Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: 6305950695 Release Date: 2000-07-18 |
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"I've told you a dozen times not to abuse the patients.".......2006-05-16
Short and Sweet B-Movie Thriller........2005-07-06
What kind of a joint is this?.......2004-08-01
Interesting grade B thriller.......2003-04-20
There's a gumshoe, Ross Stewart played by Richard Carlson, whom I recall most indelibly as Herbert A. Philbrick of TV's cold war espionage series "I Led Three Lives" from the fifties when HUAC had us all looking under our beds for commies. Lucille Bremer, near the end (which was also near the beginning) of a very modest filmland career, co-stars as Kathy Lawrence, a newspaper woman with a story idea. She needs a private eye to do the investigative dirty work.
Ross Stewart has just hung out his gumshoe shingle and had the frosted glass door of his office lettered and is paying the painter when Kathy Lawrence shows up. (I love all the private eye movies which begin with the dame showing up at the PI's office needing help. So logical, so correct; so like a noir "Once upon a time.") She wants him to pretend to be insane so that she can get him committed to a private sanitarium where she believes a corrupted judge is hiding, thus the locked doors in the title.
What I liked about this is the way the low-budget production meshed with the gloomy and aptly named "La Siesta Sanitarium," the scenes shot in rather dim light giving everything a kind of shady appearance. The story itself and the direction by Oscar "Budd" Boetticher defines "pedestrian," but there is a curious and authentic period piece feel to the movie that can't be faked. Postmodern directors wanting to capture late-forties, early fifties L.A. atmosphere would do well to take a look at this tidy 62-minute production.
Tor Johnson, the original "hulk" (perhaps) plays a dim-witted but violent punch drunk ex-fighter who is locked in a padded cell. He comes to life when the fire extinguisher outside his door is sadistically "rung" by one of the attendants with his keys, thereby springing the hulk into shadow boxing imaginary opponents. Could it be that he will get a live one later on...?
See this for Richard Carlson who made a fine living half a century ago playing the lead or supporting roles in a slew of low budget mystery, horror and sci fi pictures, most notably perhaps The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
MINIMALIST GEM OF A THRILLER.......2002-01-03
Detective Richard Carlson checks himself into an asylum in an attempt to find a crooked judge hiding from justice. But before he can nail the judge, his identity is uncovered and he becomes a prisoner of his own scheme. And the only person who can rescue him is the double crossing woman who sent him there! A hard-edged, bare-bones thriller from director Budd Boetticher ("The Killer is Loose," "Comanche Station," "Bullfighter And The Lady") who would later gain fame from a series of stark, existential westerns ("The Tall T," "Ride Lonesome," "Seven Men From Now" etc.) starring damaged, moral loner Randolph Scott adrift in an ambiguous amoral environment.
Personal note: In the 70's I got to know the late Budd Boetticher as a friend. We'd go riding in Griffith Park on his Andalusians and we made several trips to Mexico where he still practiced his dangerous and beloved craft of fighting bulls from horseback. In life and in films, he seemed obsessed with playing out the role of male antagonist in constant battle with his surroundings. Boetticher preceded director Sam Peckinpah in themes that made the latter famous. Boetticher was the real thing. It's great to see this early gem available on DVD. (Full Screen, B&W, 68 minutes, Not Rated.)
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