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Originally Posted by JohnRa
That is a great list of suggestions for Noir 5, ted:r. I have only seen "They
Won't Believe Me" and "Party Girl" (long ago). Could you get a job with Warner and see that it gets done? :-) |
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Originally Posted by ted:r
I'm hardly against releases of PD movies (the recent upgrade of "Kansas City Confidential" was much appreciated) but I'd prefer they concentrate on movies not yet available first. Two of my favorite noirs (and favorite films ever) , "Sweet Smell Of Success" and "Kiss Me Deadly" absolutely deserve upgrading and special editions, but I'm willing to wait for those until the never released see the light of DVD.
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Originally Posted by Peter M Fitzgerald
I'd like to see these 10 in the next WB "Film Noir" set--
Peter Lorre double-feature: STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940, RKO) THREE STRANGERS (1946, WB) "I'm not lying!" double-feature: THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (1947, RKO) THE WINDOW (1949, RKO) Anthony Mann double-feature: DESPERATE (1947, RKO) THE TALL TARGET (1951, MGM) Richard Fleischer double-feature: FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949, RKO) ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950, RKO) Felix Feist double-feature: THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE (1947, RKO) THE THREAT (1949, RKO) |
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Originally Posted by rich_d
Finally got around to watching HIS KIND OF WOMAN.
To say that it's film noir is a major stretch other than the first 15 minutes of a 120 minute film. Just a suspense film with a happy ending and strong comedic moments when it wasn't "borrowing" from Casablanca. Bad/dark lighting by itself does not a film noir make. |
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Originally Posted by rich_d
Finally got around to watching HIS KIND OF WOMAN.
To say that it's film noir is a major stretch other than the first 15 minutes of a 120 minute film. Just a suspense film with a happy ending and strong comedic moments when it wasn't "borrowing" from Casablanca. Bad/dark lighting by itself does not a film noir make. |
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Originally Posted by ChrisPearson
I enjoyed it in spite of (or perhaps because of) its uneven tone. I agree that its noir status is questionable, but the same could be said of Clash By Night and Dillinger in Volume 2, both of which I also enjoyed very much.
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| Finally got around to watching HIS KIND OF WOMAN. To say that it's film noir is a major stretch other than the first 15 minutes of a 120 minute film. Just a suspense film with a happy ending and strong comedic moments when it wasn't "borrowing" from Casablanca. Bad/dark lighting by itself does not a film noir make. |
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Originally Posted by Richard--W
The depth and breadth of John Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE continues to astonish me whenever I return to it. The screen play has an emotional range like no other noir. And what a bunch of characters to spend two hours with. I love these people; they're honorable and corrupt, bold and desperate, courageous and vulnerable, streetwise and just plain dumb. It's as if Huston envisioned the asphalt jungle as a world of contradictions and directed his actors to play two opposites at once. Every performance is a complete, finished person inseparable from the actor playing him, or her. They all have asphalt in their veins. Huston and his dp Harold Rosson make us feel the city underneath the city with the lighting and composition. I can't begin to describe how brilliant THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is. The Warner Home Video is necessary, like sex and food.
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Originally Posted by Deepak Shenoy
This movie along with a couple others left a bad taste in my mouth when it came to WB Set 3. Thankfully all the selections in Set 4 were much better...
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| I was lukewarm about most of set 3 as well, and am looking forward to 4, which I just ordered. |
| However, On Dangerous Ground is a gem and Lady in the Lake was very enjoyable. |
| Also, the commentaries add a lot of depth and extra dimension and I get a lot more out of them when I watch the 2nd time with the commentary. Even His Kind of Woman was interesting. |
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Originally Posted by Craig Beam
On Dangerous Ground is not only one of my favorite noirs, it's one of my favorite films period. Warner is my favorite studio when it comes to DVD, but I was (and still am) sorely disappointed in this particular transfer.
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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
The third boxset has a 3-4 of my personal favorites in it. Every Christmas season for the last 20 years or so I watched a select few films because of some kind of connection to the holiday season. The film, "Lady in the Lake" is one of them. It was one of those films that I used to see late at night alot on channel 2's "Late Show" out of NYC back in the 1960s. Two of my other favorites are "On Dangerous Ground" and "The Racket". As been stated earlier by some, Robert Ryan was very good and he probably was one of the most underrated actors of all-time. Furthermore, I've been a big fan of Robert Mitchum all my life due to a personal connection between us so that explains my affinity for "His Kind of Woman" and also "The Racket" again. IMO, the only entry in that boxset that is not among my favorites is "Border Incident" which is a good film, but I don't have the affection for it like I do the others.
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Originally Posted by Deepak Shenoy
Universal has been getting some praise this year for starting to delve into their immense catalog of classic titles but I really hope they turn their attention to their unreleased film noir titles. While Warner, Fox (and now MGM) are putting quite a bit of effort into releasing even lesser known titles (given that they have already released all the essential titles), Universal is sitting on a whole bunch of film noir gems. Wouldn't it be nice if they followed Warner's example and released a box set of double features (but no DVD-18s or multi-disc digipak monstrosities please !). Here's just a small sampling of the unreleased titles
Accused, The (1948) Alias Nick Beal (1949) Blue Dahlia, The (1946) Dark Mirror, The (1946) File on Thelma Jordon, The (1950) Glass Key, The (1942) I Walk Alone (1948) Ministry of Fear (1944) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Phantom Lady (1944) Sleeping City, The (1950) Under The Gun (1950) -D |
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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
You do realize this is an old RKO film and its been stated time after time that the film elements of RKO films are in terrible shape. Perhaps, this is the best they could do with it under these circumstances and budget limitations.
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Originally Posted by rich_d
Perhaps the elements of that specific film (On Dangerous Ground) is in bad shape. However, I don't know if it is fair to generalize on RKO film elements. For example, I thought that the Val Lewton boxset of RKO films looked pretty darn good. And a film like CAT PEOPLE is ten years older than ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
It's too bad that Universal wouldn't release both versions of "The Glass Key". That would be perfect. Also, "Desert Fury" would be a nice with a "I Walk Alone" release.
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