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Starring screen idol Doris Day (Calamity Jane, Pillow Talk), The Ballad of Josie is a rousing western-comedy about a feisty widow who's determined to make a better life for herself and her young son. Strong-willed and self-sufficient, Josie decides to raise sheep, despite her little town of Arapaho, Wyoming, being in the middle of cattle country. Defying tradition, she purchases herds of sheep, renovates a dilapidated ranch, dons a pair of Levi's and challenges the resistance of enraged cattlemen. With all her pluck and courage, amidst fights, gunfire and an all-out riot, Josie organizes the ladies of Arapaho to come to her aid, even against their own cattle-owning husbands. Quick-draw Doris lights up the screen in this Technicolor trailblazer directed by Andrew V. McLaglen (Shenandoah, The Way West) and co-starring Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Audrey Christie, Andy Devine, Don Stroud and William Talman.

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Film Noir veterans John H. Auer (Hell's Half Acre) and Steve Fisher (I Mobster) directed and wrote this police thriller in the vein of the popular Detective Story of two years earlier. The film juggles around five characters through a particularly bad night in a Chicago police precinct - Johnny Kelly (Gig Young), a stressed out cop ready to crack; Sally "Angel Face" Connors (Mala Powers), a lounge singer looking for a way out; Hayes Stewart (William Talman), a thug-for-hire who's dying to move up in the syndicate; Penrod Biddel (Edward Arnold), a smooth and corrupt district attorney; and Sgt. Joe (Chill Wills), an honest cop trying to keep Joe on a straight path. Beautiful black-and-white cinematography by John L. Russell (Psycho) and another great bad-girl performance by film noir goddess Marie Windsor (Force of Evil).

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Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they are both living in a corrupt new world on both sides of the law, efficient green-eyeshade types who run a crime ring like a corporation. They will not mind if Scanlon and Tom McQuigg square off . if they bring each other down. Ryan and Mitchum, who co-starred in the ground-breaking Crossfire return for another tense, character-driven, twist-laden film noir. Who'll stab you in the back? You'll be surprised. Making its Blu-ray debut, newly remastered from a 4K scan of the original nitrate negative, THE RACKET this new presentation draws the audience into this Film Noir classic as never before.