The Strange Woman - DVD

The first picture on this double bill is one of the rare instances where InchBInch film director Edgar Ulmer was given a grade InchAInch cast to work with� and he doesn't disappoint. THE STRANGE WOMAN Screen vixen Lamarr gives one of her finest performances as a strong-willed young lady in 19th-Century Maine, who affects the lives of three very different men. RT 100 min, B&W, 1.33 1, NR, 1946 DISHONORED LADY A taut little thriller, Lamarr plays a glamorous but neurotic art director for a leading women's magazine who finds herself under suspicion of murder.

The Second Woman is a 1950 film noir mystery-suspense film featuring Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton and Florence Bates. Parts of the film were shot in the coastal areas of Monterey, California. This movie is a psychological thriller which tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Robert Young). Cohalan is a successful architect who is tormented by the mysterious death of his fiancee the night before their wedding. Cohalan blames himself for her death and spends his time alone at the beautifully designed cliff-top home which he had designed for his bride-to-be. Ever since the accident Cohalan seems to be followed by bad luck - his horse ends up being injured and he must put it down, his dog is poisoned and dies, and Cohalan begins to wonder if he has been cursed. Eventually Cohalan meets Ellen (Betsy Drake), and they are immediately attracted to one another. Ellen soon learns about Jeff's turbulent misfortunes and begins to suspect that he may be much more in danger then he himself ever realized. This is a great film noir mystery with lots of twists and turns and an unexpected story plot A film you will want to watch time and again! (91 minutes - 1950 - Black & White - 4 3)

This classic 1946 American film noir stars Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles. It was the first Hollywood film to depict footage of the Holocaust. Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) is hunting a Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a war criminal who has erased all evidence of his identity except his hobby which is a mania about clocks. Wilson releases Kindler's former associate hoping the man will lead him to Kindler, but Wilson loses Kindler's associate. Meanwhile, Kindler has taken on a new identity as a school teacher, and is involved in repairing the town's 400-year-old clock which crowns the belfry of a church in the town square. When Meinke (Kindler's former associate) eventually meet up, Kindler kills Meinke for fear of being exposed. Kindler's wife begins to suspect her husband of being a murderous monster, but is torn between this truth and the idea of helping him create a new life for himself. Mr. Wilson convinces Mary (Kindler's wife) that Kindler is a war criminal by showing her graphic footage of Nazi concentration camps and explains how Kindler developed the idea of genocide, and that Kindler plans to kill her. In the end, Kindler's passion for clocks is his undoing as he meets his own death. This is a superb classic movie with lots of twists and turns which leaves you on the edge of your seat all the way through. (95 minutes - 1946 - Black & White - 4 3)