Lady in the Death House (1944) DVD [Remastered Edition]

Starring:Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones, Robert Middlemass, Cy Kendall, John Maxwell (IV), George Irving, Forrest Taylor, Sam Flint, Dick Curtis, Byron Foulger
Director: Steve Sekely
Studio: A2ZCDS.com
Product Type: DVD

Product Description

Jean Parker loved her work, and to this day, it still shows. The radiant young actress moved on to a film career lasting 35 years with over 80 films. Her roles spanned a broad range of feminine characters; from wide-eyed ingénues, to tragic heroines, from gypsies to country girls, from wisecracking amateur detectives to hard-boiled tough girls. While never a big star in films, Parker did considerably better on stage, appearing in the west-coast productions of such hits as Dream Girl and Born Yesterday. During the early Thirties, Atwill became synonymous with horror films following his performance in Michael Curtiz's DR. X. Working steadily from his stage debut at age 20, most often in the plays of Ibsen and Shaw. Establishing himself in America, Atwill continued his stage work, supplementing his income with silent film appearances. Atwill loved Hollywood and the films and didn't care who knew it, not really concerned one way or the other whether he could be Broadway's number one star again or not.

Customer Reviews:

Average movie and below average DVD quality........2007-01-18

The movie is somewhat average and predictable but with good performances. I just wanted to make a comment on the DVD quality of this release - it is very similar to that of Madacy of Alpha releases and the $19.99 price is simply a rip-off. The makers of this DVD claim that it's a 'remastered edition' - I would like to get their definition of the term. I doubt that they spent any amount of money of improving audio/video quality of the recording.

Jean Parker Classic .......2006-07-29

Jean Parker was a hollywood legend that for some reason time forgot. This is one of her earlier works and she looks simply beautiful as the girl wrongly accused of killing the man who was blackmailing her. It goes without saying that she gets sentenced to death but that she gets sprung at the last minute by a man who loves her and with whom she will obviously fall in love. Sure, it's a forumla holywood picture but it's a good one and the acting is top rate. It's also well edited and the tension builds nicely.

Classic Studio Production.......2006-05-03

I'm not sure why studios stopped making this genre of movie. The formula almost always works well. The basic deal is that someone has to be arrested and convicted of a murder they didn't commit, sentenced to the electric chair and then rescued at the last minute when the real killer is found out.

It works every single time. Yet, other than Eastwood's True Crime we almost never see it anymore.

This film is one of more than a dozen movies made on teh same theme in the 1930s and does the job very well, with good noir cinematography and a last minute surprise ending.

The remastering is very high end.

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