 | The Big Sleep (Snap case)
Buy used from: $3.97 All style and menace, and sad when the little guy drinks the drink to protect a woman he loves.
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 | Black Angel (Universal Noir Collection)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $5.75 The B noir as programmer. Well crafted with a fine performance by Dan Duyea.
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 | The Chase
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.35 A surreal pulp noir from Cornell Woolrich, but with a poor DVD transfer.
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 | Gilda
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.35 A misogynistic menage a trois, starring a gorgeous Rita Hayworth and George Macready's swordcane.
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 | Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.95 Probably David Lean's best directorial job, with characters just as you pictured them when you read the book.
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 | The Harvey Girls
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.79 It's hard to beat Judy Garland, plus a young, knowing Angela Lansbury and the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
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 | I See a Dark Stranger
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.39 An Irish Deborah Kerr will fight the English, but then she meets Trevor Howard in this fine romantic adventure.
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 | A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
One of the greatest of the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger films. It deserves an exceptional DVD treatment.
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 | My Darling Clementine
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.75 An iconic western. Fonda was never better. Neither, for that matter, was Walter Brennan.
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 | Notorious - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $25.00 One of the great films. Claude Raines, as usual, is superb.
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 | Scandal in Paris
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $33.10 Sophisticated, amusing and not completely amoral, with George Sanders becoming chief of police in Paris.
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 | Somewhere in the Night (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.87 A well-crafted noir. Although John Hodiak makes for a slightly dull hero, Richard Conte makes up for it.
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 | The Spiral Staircase
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.45 Creepy and atmospheric. You don't want to go down to the cellar for that dusty bottle of wine.
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 | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.97 Noir as melodrama, but nice performances from Stanwyck, Heflin and Douglas.
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 | Wanted for Murder
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $20.98 Eric Portman makes a fine serial strangler of young women in London. He meets his match in another fine actor, Roland Culver.
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