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Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 1 (The Killer That Stalked New York / Two of a Kind / Bad for Each Other / The Glass Wall) (2010)

Charlton Heston , Lizabeth Scott , Earl McEvoy , Henry Levin  |  Unrated |  DVD
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  • Actors: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, Dianne Foster
  • Directors: Earl McEvoy, Henry Levin, Irving Rapper, Maxwell Shane
  • Writers: Harry Essex, Horace McCoy, Irving Wallace
  • Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: February 9, 2010
  • Run Time: 313 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002YNQEF6
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,714 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Special Features

  • Terry Moore on Two of a Kind
  • The Payoff-All Star Theatre Episode

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    Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/09/2010

     

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Four more noirs/dramas from the Columbia vaults, December 5, 2009
    This review is from: Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 1 (The Killer That Stalked New York / Two of a Kind / Bad for Each Other / The Glass Wall) (DVD)
    This set of films includes:

    The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) directed by Earl McEnvoy - Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes) smuggles diamonds into the U.s knowingly and smallpox unknowingly. People she is in both casual and close contact begin to fall sick and die while Sheila remains on her feet. Her mission - to stay alive long enough to even the score with her faithless husband while doctors make a mad search through New York City for "patient number one".

    Two of A Kind (1951) directed by Henry Levin - Edmund O'Brien plays the body double of the long missing son of a rich couple. He's recruited by a con-artist couple to impersonate the son and thus inhert their money. However, the couple reveals they have no intention of leaving any money to the man they think is their son.

    Bad for Each Other (1953) directed by Irvin Rapper - Charleton Heston stars in a rather predictable tale of a doctor returning from Korea who must both choose between serving humanity and riches in his profession and between a wealthy self-involved girl and a dedicated nurse in his private life. The production code gave this film only one option on outcome, and you see it coming at you a mile away. Weakest film in the bunch.

    The Glass Wall (1953) directed by Maxwell Shane - Tale of an immigrant to the U.S. after WWII who needs the testimony of a particular soldier to insure legal entry into this country. He battles time and an unfamiliar land to try to find him. It's not really a film noir, in my opinion, but it's a pretty good film. The imagery of New York City right after the war ended is entertaining in its own right.

    BONUS FEATURES:
    Terry Moore on Two of a Kind
    The Payoff-All Star Theatre Episode
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    15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars What's the world - if one man cannot walk free where he wants?, February 24, 2010
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    This review is from: Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 1 (The Killer That Stalked New York / Two of a Kind / Bad for Each Other / The Glass Wall) (DVD)
    "THE GLASS WALL" IS WORTH THE WHOLE PRICE OF THE COLLECTION. IT'S WONDERFUL.

    And so one man, a person unwanted in America, screams his words in the empty chambers of the United Nations - demanding international justice, demanding a small opportunity for freedom. The man is "Mr. Kaban," a concentration camp survivor without a nation to belong to...so he slips without papers into a passenger ship heading for crowded New York City. When the ship docks, the uncaring Immigration Authorities don't believe his story that he saved an American parachutist in Europe - They intend to send him back to Hungary, notwithstanding his desperate plea for fair treatment after suffering under the Nazi torture machine. Denied entry, though technically qualified for entry to America, Kaban jumps overboard and plunges into a gritty, raffish, jazzy Times Square world of the early 1950's.

    The film is not only about fundamental justice...but about the difference between appearances and reality, the difference between the legitimate and the illegitimate citizen, in the people we encounter in the city. Those on the very bottom rung of the economic ladder - thieves and strippers - are the ones who understand hard knocks, poverty, injustice the best, and try to give comfort to the escaped man. But the ordinary, comfortable man on the street is hard edged, indifferent, if not mean-spirited. As for the police trying to track Mr. Kaban down, the man justifiably is terrified of anyone in uniform. Years of experience teach him that uniforms mean death or imprisonment.

    Not only does this film boast a lively story, but the film noir photography is sensational. It is a labor of love by the cinematographer Joseph Biroc - who obviously knows the raw edges of a confusing metropolis of darkness and bright lights.

    Those willing to try this film will wonder - why, why, why has this gem been overlooked. It's just about as good a film noir as you are likely to see.
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    14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars film noir?, May 25, 2010
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    This review is from: Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 1 (The Killer That Stalked New York / Two of a Kind / Bad for Each Other / The Glass Wall) (DVD)
    In my opinion most of these films were not true film noir and thus somewhat disappointing. The girls were not all that bad (the type to stick a knife in your back and make you love it not so). Most had a soft side but the stories were worth seeing. Heston vastly over rated. His grimace wears thin after you`ve seen several of his movies. Love Lizabeth Scott. If not for her, the series wouldn`t have been worthwhile.
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