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Forgotten Noir Vol. 8 – Mr. District Attorney (’47)/Ringside/Hi-Jacked
Mr. District Attorney (1947) – From Phillips H. Lord’s popular NBC radio series comes an intriguing “legal film noir” filled with double-crosses and unusual twists.
Ringside – Middleweight boxer works his way up to a title fight, and loses it and his eyesight when the champion seeing that his opponent is blind in one eye goes to work on the other one!
Hi-Jacked – Parolee/truck driver Jim Davis now wants to stick to the straight-and-narrow, but finds himself riding a highway of terror when his truck is hijacked and police suspect him because of his past record.
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Forgotten Noir Vol. 7 – David Harding Counterspy/Danger Zone/Big Chase
“David Harding, Counterspy”
“Danger Zone”
“The Big Chase”
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I’ll Get You – An F.B.I. agent illegally enters England following the disappearance of several noted atomic scientists. He promptly “disappears” himself and is dogged by trouble and the Scotland Yard.
Fingerprints Don’t Lie – The identity of the murderer of a town’s mayor is decided by fingerprints on the weapon…case closed. But is it? A reporter sets out to prove otherwise.
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F.B.I. Girl – A state governor with a hidden criminal past wants a file card with his prints stolen from FBI headquarters. Not so fast!: guardians of the law Cesar Romero and George Brent are there to make America secure!
Tough Assignment – Newspaper reporter Don Barry gets on the trail of a gang of beef bootleggers who terrorize local butchers and force them to buy uninspected meats. Posing as an itinerant farm worker, he even begins assembling evidence that the crooks are also cattle rustlers!
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The Man From Cairo – A $100 million gold cache, hidden in the North African desert during World War II, is at the center of the crime mystery plot. George Raft, mistaken for an American detective working for French Intelligence, is drawn into the hunt for the missing gold–and quickly finds himself a suspect in the strangulation murder of beautiful Irene Papas.
Mask of the Dragon – An American soldier in Korea agrees to deliver a porcelain dragon to a curio shop in L.A.’s Chinatown–but soon after his return to the States, he is murdered.
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Shadow Man (Street of Shadows) – The ex-girlfriend of a London pinball joint (Cesar Romero) is found stabbed to death in his quarters, so naturally the bobbies come looking for Romero.
Shoot to Kill – The film opens with the crash of a police-pursued automobile in which the newly-elected district attorney, Lawrence Dale, gangster Dixie Logan are found dead, and Dale’s wife Marian is critically injured. But the flashback reveals that Marian is actually the wife of Logan and that her marriage to Dale is strictly platonic.
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Loan Shark – 1930s gangster great George Raft is an ex-convict now on the right side of the law in this tight-knit crime drama. When a loan-sharking mob preys on tire company workers, dishing out brutal beatings to the men who cannot repay their debts due to the huge interest payments, Raft goes undercover to find and expose Mister Big.
Arson, Inc. – Los Angeles fireman Robert Lowery is assigned to the company’s Arson Detail and begins checking into recent fires of suspicious origin–and the mysterious death of the investigator who had the job before him.
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Portland Expose – In the 1950’s LIFE Magazine printed a blistering exposé on the rampant sin, crime and Teamsters-controlled corruption that at the time had a stranglehold on Portland, Oregon. Although the film crew was threatened with physical violence, the result is a dark and gritty filmed-on-location crime drama that contains considerable violence for a 1950’s movie, most notably a violent rape scene with the Frank Gorshin character and a teenage girl.
They Were So Young – Five beautiful European models arrive in Rio under contract to a fashion house secretly owned by a wealthy Brazilian (Raymond Burr), and quickly learn that their duties have more to do with “entertaining men” than modeling.
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9 movies/3 DVDs
- Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
- Radar Secret Service,
- Motor Patrol
- Mr. District Attorney” (1941)
- Western Pacific Agent,
- Highway 13
- The Treasure of Monte Cristo
- Skyliner
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9 movies/3 DVDs
- David Harding, Counterspy,
- Danger Zone
- The Big Chase
- Mr. District Attorney
- Hi-Jacked
- Ringside
- Scotland Yard Inspector
- Pier 23
- The Case of the Baby-Sitter
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Six movies/3 DVDs –
- The Man From Cairo
- Mask of the Dragon
- F.B.I. Girl
- Tough Assignment
- I’ll Get You
- Fingerprints Don’t Lie
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A 3 disc six-pack of murder, mystery and scandal.
- Portland Exposé
- They Were So Young
- Loan Shark
- Arson, Inc.
- Shadow Man
- Shoot to Kill
Action/Adventure
THE NYLON NOOSE – Stockbrokers get necks broken in an Edgar Wallace Krimi-style crime thriller complete with old-dark-house setting, fiendish serial killer and intrepid Scotland Yard sleuth. A shadow-strewn mansion is the backdrop for macabre melodrama with blackmail leading to murder, plus a hulking man-monster haunts the dank caves below the house!
ESCAPE FROM SAHARA – It’s a nightmare at 20,000 feet when three French Foreign Legion paratroopers decide to desert, and force their plane’s pilot to take them to Spain. There are run-ins with military patrols, a trip on a merchant ship–and romance–until the deserters find themselves in the country they fear more than any other–France!
Drama
Intrigue and danger follow the International Police on their rounds in post-WWII Vienna in this suspenseful made-on-location drama. The city is divided between the U.S., England, France and Russia, and each Jeep patrol is comprised of one sergeant from each country. The beautiful Franziska wants to leave the Russian zone with her husband, an escapee from an interment camp. (Director’s Cut)
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Down-and-out Canadian Dane Clark is soused in a London club the night he’s approached by a beautiful stranger (Belinda Lee) offering him £500 to marry her. The too-good-to-be-true offer turns sour when Lee goes missing and her wealthy father is found murdered. With only hazy memories of that unusual night, Clark doesn’t know himself if he is the killer. From Hammer Films.
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Tony Wright is a prizefighter who goes from the ring to a fling with his promoter’s wife, played by the baddest of ’50s bad blondes, Barbara Payton. When Payton comes up pregnant, Wright realizes that only by eliminating one unneeded husband will Baby Make Three. Murder and mayhem ensue in this film noir takeoff on The Postman Always Rings Twice.