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Honest police detective Dave Bannion is investigating a brutal gang he believes has the police force in its grip. A fellow officer's suicide and the suspicious quiet of his colleagues convince him the corruption reaches into his own department. When a bomb intended for Bannion kills his wife instead, he turns into a relentless avenger, helped by Debby, the discarded girlfriend of a gangster. Drawn ever deeper into the underworld's vicious snare, the pair will do whatever it takes — even kill — to expose the truth.

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Honest police detective Dave Bannion is investigating a brutal gang he believes has the police force in its grip. A fellow officer's suicide and the suspicious quiet of his colleagues convince him the corruption reaches into his own department. When a bomb intended for Bannion kills his wife instead, he turns into a relentless avenger, helped by Debby, the discarded girlfriend of a gangster. Drawn ever deeper into the underworld's vicious snare, the pair will do whatever it takes — even kill — to expose the truth.

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Honest police detective Dave Bannion is investigating a brutal gang he believes has the police force in its grip. A fellow officer's suicide and the suspicious quiet of his colleagues convince him the corruption reaches into his own department. When a bomb intended for Bannion kills his wife instead, he turns into a relentless avenger, helped by Debby, the discarded girlfriend of a gangster. Drawn ever deeper into the underworld's vicious snare, the pair will do whatever it takes — even kill — to expose the truth.

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She searched through the dark corridors of the unknown, only to find… the unbearable. Available for the first time on a home entertainment format, the 1971 cult favorite Blood and Lace is a twisted tale of horror frequently cited as a precursor to the slasher films of the late 70s and early 80s.

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Step inside the Castle, a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife (Gloria Grahame). A colleague (Charles Boyer) with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife. Now add Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant and subplots of love, life and derangement and you have the entanglements of The Cobweb. Some critics gleefully skewered the film's labored storyline about patient involvement in the choice of library draperies, but pay no heed. With it's top cast and Vincente Minnelli's command of color and melodrama, this film is popcorn for fans of soaps.

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Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating a man's death by beating. The man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate," Finlay says, "is like a gun." Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects, and Robert Ryan plays a vicious bigot in a landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards , including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet) directs, draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood takes aim at injustice...and catches bigotry in a Crossfire.

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A startlingly dark, late film noir masterwork by director Fritz Lang, Human Desire reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria Grahame from the previous year's The Big Heat and the screenwriter of Lang's 1952 noir Clash by Night, Alfred Hayes. Like those two classics, Human Desire finds Lang casting a pitiless eye on all of the human weaknesses that define film noir: deception, infidelity, passion, and murder. Adapted from the same Émile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in La Bête humaine (1938), Lang's gripping thriller has Ford as train engineer Jeff, just home from the Korean War. He's instantly attracted to passenger Vicki (Grahame), not yet realizing that she's the abused wife of Jeff's alcoholic railroad yard superior Carl (Broderick Crawford) -- or that Vicki was just entangled in a jealousy-fuelled murder committed by Carl. As Jeff and Vicki embark on a steamy affair, she tells him about the crime, and Carl's blackmail hold on her. If only Carl could be taken out of the picture... The only thing that's not pitch black in this noir are the ethical shades of grey inhabited by all its characters. Yet its placid small-town setting also offers a unique perspective on the genre, with Lang uncovering sinister secrets on these quiet streets that could rival any big city immorality. The Masters of Cinema is proud to present one of this brilliant filmmaker's most underrated films for the first time ever on Blu-ray. DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL FEATURES 1080p presentation on Blu-ray (with a progressive encode on the DVD) LPCM Mono audio Optional English SDH subtitles A new and exclusive interview with film historian Tony Rayns PLUS: A Collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film alongside rare archival imagery PRESS " Lang's version of Zola's La Bête humaine is, like all his best '50s work, as cold, hard and steely grey as the railway tracks which here mark out the action. " Time Out " A gripping melodrama. " Chicago Reader

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When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca), in a revelatory, vulnerable performance becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbor (The Big Heat s Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. The emotionally charged In a Lonely Place, freely adapted from a Dorothy B. Hughes thriller, is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful noir and devastating melodrama, fueled by powerhouse performances. An uncompromising tale of two people desperate to love yet struggling with their demons and each other, this is one of the greatest films of the 1950s, and a benchmark in the career of the classic Hollywood auteur Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause). BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - New audio commentary featuring film scholar Dana Polan - I m a Stranger Here Myself, a 1975 documentary about director Nicholas Ray, slightly condensed for this release - New interview with biographer Vincent Curcio about actor Gloria Grahame - Piece from 2002 featuring filmmaker Curtis Hanson - Radio adaptation from 1948 of the original Dorothy B. Hughes novel, broadcast on the program Suspense - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

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Murder suspect Al Willis (Gene Barry, The War of the Worlds), released for lack of evidence, vows vengeance on the cops who brutalized him. When one of those cops turns up dead, his partner Chief Joe Conroy (Sterling Hayden, The Asphalt Jungle) hunts down Al who has skipped town for a border city. Both men end up in thrall to bad girl Marianna (Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place), whose unique sexiness is on full display in this film noir potboiler. Written by Lawrence Roman (A Kiss Before Dying) and directed by Jerry Hopper (Secret of the Incas). The strong supporting cast includes Marcia Henderson (Thunder Bay), Max Showalter (Niagara), Billy Chapin (The Night of the Hunter) and Chuck Connors (The Big Country).

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains the film in 1080p HD. The combo's special features include a commentary track with writer/critic Andy Marshall-Roberts, an audio interview with co-writer Daria Price, interviews with Robin Groves, Michael David Lally and producer Don Walters, 'The Sating of Desire' with author Stephen Thrower, 'The Nesting Outtakes', a preservation featurette, theatrical trailers, TV spots and an image gallery. Agoraphobic New York novelist Lauren Cochran heads out of the city hoping a change of scene will spark her next book. In the small town of Dover Falls she finds a run-down, isolated mansion that looks exactly like the house on the cover of her latest novel, feels drawn to it, and rents it so she can write. Before long she is troubled by vivid dreams and ghostly apparitions, and people around her begin dying in bizarre, gruesome ways — all of it tied to the house's murky past and a tragedy there decades earlier. Shot as Phobia and later re-released as Massacre Mansion, Armand Weston's only mainstream feature is a stylish supernatural slasher photographed by João Fernandes, with Gloria Grahame in her final screen role.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and HDR10, newly scanned and restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative. Agoraphobic New York novelist Lauren Cochran heads out of the city hoping a change of scene will spark her next book. In the small town of Dover Falls she finds a run-down, isolated mansion that looks exactly like the house on the cover of her latest novel, feels drawn to it, and rents it so she can write. Before long she is troubled by vivid dreams and ghostly apparitions, and people around her begin dying in bizarre, gruesome ways — all of it tied to the house's murky past and a tragedy there decades earlier. Shot as Phobia and later re-released as Massacre Mansion, Armand Weston's only mainstream feature is a stylish supernatural slasher photographed by João Fernandes, with Gloria Grahame in her final screen role.

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Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum, The Enemy Below), an ego-driven medical student, has one burning, passionate desire in life... to be a doctor. But his strong belief that a physician should be perfect has turned him into a demanding idealist. Lucas thinks anyone who deals in human life must be infallible, so as he completes his training and sets up practice in a small town, his relentless perfectionism continues to alienate the people closest to him... until a fatal mistake forces him to come to grips with his own imperfections. This compelling drama by the great Stanley Kramer (On the Beach, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg) features an amazing cast that includes Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress), Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate), Gloria Grahame (In a Lonely Place), Broderick Crawford (Night People), Lee Marvin (Prime Cut), Charles Bickford (The Big Country), Harry Morgan (TV's M*A*S*H) and Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man). Special Features: -Audio Commentary by Film Historian Troy Howarth -Original Theatrical Trailer

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Nerve-snapping suspense, gritty style and an unsparing look at racial tension unite this “thunderbolt of a film” (Los Angeles Examiner) from legendary director Robert Wise (The Set-Up, The Day the Earth Stood Still) and screenwriters Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil) and Nelson Gidding (The Haunting), based on the novel by William P. McGivern (The Big Heat). Acting greats Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley and Gloria Grahame deliver superb performances in this taut and absorbing crime melodrama, often cited as the first film noir to feature a black protagonist. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It’s too much to resist for bigoted ex-con Earl Slater (Ryan). He agrees to take part in a bank robbery with former cop Burke (Begley)—but hesitates when he finds out that one of his partners (Belafonte) is black. As tensions mount and the men get closer to their biggest score ever, Earl’s hatred erupts, resulting in violent consequences for the heist...and their lives. Special Features: • NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode • Theatrical Trailer • Optional English Subtitles

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One of the final films to come from the first film noir cycle, Robert Wise's crime thriller/race drama follows nightclub singer Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte), bigoted ex-con Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) and corrupt former cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) as they try to rob an upstate New York bank, only to have the caper fall apart due to bad luck and Slater's hatred of Ingram. With Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters; look quickly for Wayne Rogers and Cicely Tyson. 96 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.

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In this rediscovered masterpiece of film noir, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright who marries a mediocre actor (Jack Palance) with a troubling secret. She soon discovers that he not only married her for money but that he plans to murder her with the help of his lover (Gloria Grahame)