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During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner, Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

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Disc 2 of the Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XII set contains Outside the Wall (1950), directed by Crane Wilbur. Larry Nelson is paroled after serving nearly half of a thirty-year sentence and is determined to stay out of trouble, taking a quiet job at a country sanitarium. There he falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard — but she is something of a gold-digger, and he knows money is the only way to win her.

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In 1950s New York, Howard Prince, a small-time restaurant cashier and part-time bookie, agrees to front for his old friend Alfred Miller, a television writer blacklisted as an alleged subversive, submitting Alfred's scripts under his own name. Howard is soon fronting for other blacklisted writers and is lionized as television's most brilliant and prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown is blacklisted and agrees to keep Howard under surveillance, and Howard himself is summoned before the investigative committee, his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion.

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In 1950s New York, Howard Prince, a small-time restaurant cashier and part-time bookie, agrees to front for his old friend Alfred Miller, a television writer blacklisted as an alleged subversive, submitting Alfred's scripts under his own name. Howard is soon fronting for other blacklisted writers and is lionized as television's most brilliant and prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown is blacklisted and agrees to keep Howard under surveillance, and Howard himself is summoned before the investigative committee, his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion.

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Visiting her sister in a small Southern town, model Marsha Mitchell discovers her brother-in-law is a Ku Klux Klan leader implicated in a murder. Speaking out puts her own life in danger as the town closes ranks around him.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film in 1080p plus all of the set's supplements: an audio commentary by Ed Sikov, the featurettes "Sunset Boulevard: The Beginning", "Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back", "The Noir Side of Sunset Boulevard", "Sunset Boulevard Becomes a Classic", "Two Sides of Ms. Swanson", "Stories of Sunset Boulevard", "Mad About the Boy: A Portrait of William Holden", "Recording Sunset Boulevard", "The City of Sunset Boulevard" and "Franz Waxman and the Music of Sunset Boulevard", morgue prologue script pages, a deleted scene, a Hollywood location map, "Behind the Gate: The Lot", "Edith Head: The Paramount Years", "Paramount in the '50s", galleries, and the theatrical trailer. A darkly comic noir about Hollywood rot. Joe Gillis, a good-looking screenwriter with no money and a script the studios have just turned down, is hired by Norma Desmond, a forgotten star of the silent era, to write the film she believes will return her to the screen — a Salome vehicle. Desperate for the work, he accepts, but Desmond insists he live in her decaying mansion while he writes, and he gradually becomes a captive of the deluded actress and her gloomy household.

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Disc 1 (4K Ultra HD) contains the film in 4K UHD; there are no extras on this disc — all supplements are on the Blu-ray disc (Disc 2). A darkly comic noir about Hollywood rot. Joe Gillis, a good-looking screenwriter with no money and a script the studios have just turned down, is hired by Norma Desmond, a forgotten star of the silent era, to write the film she believes will return her to the screen — a Salome vehicle. Desperate for the work, he accepts, but Desmond insists he live in her decaying mansion while he writes, and he gradually becomes a captive of the deluded actress and her gloomy household.