Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema V - BLU-RAY

Three-disc set includes Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)Former intelligence officer Captain Webster Carey (Alan Ladd) returns to post-WWII Italy to find the traitor who divulged a secret OSS mission to the Nazis, resulting in the deaths of his men and the Italian resistance fighter (Wanda Hendrix) he loved. Shocked to learn she is alive and married to a local nobleman, Carey undertakes a deadly quest to learn the truth. Exotic suspenser, which also marked the Oscar-winning debut of the song InchMona Lisa,Inch co-stars Francis Lederer, Joseph Calleia. 83 min. BW/Rtg NR Appointment With Danger (1951)Alan Ladd's last film noir casts him as Al Goddard, a postal inspector looking into the murder of a colleague. The trail leads him to the killing's sole witness, a nun (Phyllis Calvert) able to identify the assassin. All that remains is for Goddard to bust up the evildoer's gang before they can pull off an elaborate mail heist. Future InchDragnetInch co-stars Jack Webb and Harry Morgan play two of the thugs. 89 min. BW/Rtg NR Make Haste To Live (1954)Crystal Benson (Dorothy McGuire) was trying to live as normal an existence as a single mother could have in a small New Mexico town. That would end with the reappearance of her abusive gangster ex-husband Steve Blackford (Stephen McNally), who just finished an 18-year bit for murder after she refused to exonerate him... and who'd start insinuating himself into her new life as her InchbrotherInch until he gained his vengeance. Disquieting Republic noir co-stars John Howard, Edgar Buchanan, Carolyn Jones. 90 min. BW/Rtg NR Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.

Three-disc set includes The Boss (1956)World War I veteran Matt Brady (John Payne) is given a cushy government job by his politician brother. After his brother dies, Brady assumes control of his local political machine, rising to a position of such power that he nearly manages to take over an entire state. William Bishop, Gloria McGehee, Doe Avedon, Roy Roberts also star in this tale of corruption and greed, loosely based on Kansas City InchbossInch Tom Pendergast. 89 min. BW/Rtg NR Chicago Confidential (1957)Based on the bestseller by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, this noirish thriller stars Brian Keith as Jim Fremont, an Illinois state attorney who is determined to bring down corrupt unions in Chicago. When crooked union members who are in cahoots with an evil gambling syndicate plan on framing a man who won't go along with their illegal ways, Fremont attempts to clear his name and bring the bad guys to justice. With Beverly Garland, Dick Foran. 73 min. BW/Rtg NR The Fearmakers (1958)A Korean War veteran (Dana Andrews) returns home after a harrowing experience being brainwashed as a POW and returns to his job at a Washington, D.C., public relations firm. He soon discovers that his partner has been mysteriously murdered and the company taken over by communists. Intriguing Cold War tale features Marilee Earle, Dick Foran, and Mel Tormé; directed by Jacques Tourneur (InchCat PeopleInch). 84 min. BW/Rtg NR Standard and Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.

Three-disc set includes Rope Of Sand (1949)Burt Lancaster stars as Mike Davis, an American who's tortured and nearly killed in South Africa by a mining company official (Paul Henreid) who wants the location of a stash of diamonds he found in the desert. Davis refuses to talk and returns to the region two years later to claim the ice, but this time he'll have to contend with a gorgeous nightclub singer (Corinne Calvet) recruited by the local diamond syndicate boss (Claude Rains) to seduce and double-cross him. Peter Lorre also stars in this taut action yarn. 104 min. BW/Rtg NR Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)Jimmy Cagney is in fine fettle in this intense thriller, playing Ralph Cotter, a violent hood who kills his fellow escapee in the course of their prison breakout and takes up with the dead man's sister. Cotter then blackmails a pair of corrupt cops into helping him on his savage crime spree. With Ward Bond, Barton MacLane, William Frawley, Helena Carter, and Cagney's brother William as his screen sibling. 102 min. BW/Rtg NR Never Love A Stranger (1958)Based on the novel by Harold Robbins (who co-scripted and co-produced), this compelling gangster drama stars John Drew Barrymore as an embittered, orphaned delinquent who falls in with mobsters and goes on to become the ruthless head of a crime syndicate. With Lita Milan, Robert Bray, and Steve McQueen in his first featured role. 93 min. BW/Rtg NR Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.