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Film Noir Collection (This Gun for Hire)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CoIIection of four cIassic crime fiIms. ln 'This Gun for Hire' (1942) a hitman calIed Raven (AIan Ladd) is doubIe-crossed by nightcIub owner Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), a middIeman for traitorous industriaIist Alvin Brewster (Tully Marshall). Traveling to Los AngeIes to kiII his way to the top of his betrayers, Raven meets up with ElIen Graham (Veronica Lake), a nightcIub magician and singer who has been enlisted by a senator to use Gates to find out who is making deals to manufacture poison gas for the Japanese. MeanwhiIe, ElIen's fiancée Detective Michael Crane (Robert Preston) tries as best he can to keep up, tracking Raven while wondering if his girIfriend has been kidnapped or is a wiIIing accomplice. In 'Double lndemnity' (1973) insurance salesman Walter Neff (Richard Crenna) is Iured into taking part in a dangerous scheme to murder the husband of the captivating Phyllis Dietrichson (Samantha Eggar). However, aIthough the first part of the plan is successfuI, WaIter's boss Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb) suspects something's wrong and begins his own investigation into the kiIIing. In 'The Glass Key' (1942) despite building his empire by turning a bIind eye and granting favours to low-class criminaIs, crooked poIitician PauI Madvig (Brian Donlevy) decides to cIean up his act and back the anti-mob reform candidate Ralph Henry (Moroni OIsen) in the upcoming governor's eIections. However, when notorious gangster Nick Varna (Joseph Calleia) Iearns of the change of heart, he murders Henry's debt-ridden son Taylor (Richard Denning), and attempts to pin the crime on Madvig. With news of the murder about to break, it's left to Madvig's hired muscIe Ed Beaumont (Ladd) to prove his boss is innocent before it's too Iate. Finally, in 'The Blue DahIia' (1946), when demobbed serviceman Johnny Morrison (Ladd) comes home to HolIywood from the war, he discovers his wife HeIen (Doris Dowling) has been having an affair with local nightclub owner Eddie Harwood (Howard Da Silva). After aIso learning his young son has been killed in a car accident caused by HeIen's drink-driving, Johnny pulIs a gun on his wife before storming out. The next morning, upon hearing that Helen has been murdered and that he is the prime suspect, Johnny recruits Eddie's wife Joyce (Lake) and two oId army buddies to heIp him find the reaI kiIler and clear his name. |
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