Forgotten Noir & Crime Collection Vol. #4 (9 Movies)
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
9 movies/3 DVDs
COUNTERSPY MEETS SCOTLAND YARD – When enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile reservation, the chief of America’s counterspy division (Howard St. John) and Scotland Yard’s top sleuth (Ron Randell) get on an investigative trail which quickly leads to a reservation secretary (Gunsmoke’s Miss Kitty, Amanda Blake). “Suspense and excitement”–Harrison’s Reports. 1950|67 min|B&W|1.33:1|NR
RADAR SECRET SERVICE – It’s science versus crime when agents of a foreign power working with local gangsters (including Tom Neal) steal a truck loaded with secret atomic materials, and the members of the Secret Service’s new “radar unit” (including John Howard and Ralph “Dick Tracy” Byrd) use the “latest technology” to run down the lawbreakers. MOTOR PATROL: Roaring down America’s highways in the pursuit of justice, motorcycle policemen put the heat on a car theft ringleader who uses a legitimate garage as a front. When Officer Bill Henry is killed in the line of duty, rookie Don Castle, the fiancé of Henry’s sister, gets him assigned to the case and infiltrates the gang. 1950|60 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1941): When Harvard Law School graduate P. Cadwallader Jones (Dennis O’Keefe) bungles his first assignment in the D.A.’s office, he is next assigned the make-work job of reviewing the closed case of a crooked city official (Peter Lorre) who vanished with a stolen $100,000. The cold case suddenly gets hot when the money begins to reappear, and a series of brutal murders ensues! There’s plenty of fast-moving action in this crime melodrama laced with humor. 1941|69 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
WESTERN PACIFIC AGENT – A “modern Western,” set in the year it was released (1951). The railroad assigns its top agent Kent Taylor to investigate a payroll robbery and the murder of a paymaster. Meanwhile, the felon’s father (Morris Carnovsky) is also desperately trying to convince the wayward boy (Mickey Knox) to forsake his life of crime. 1950|64 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
HIGHWAY 13 – It’s murder on wheels when a trucking company loses several vehicles in a series of mysterious crashes–and a company honcho dies in a road accident that is equally inexplicable. Truck driver Robert Lowery soon finds himself enmeshed in the whodunit, which involves a café truck stop, an ex-gangster mechanic and indications of sabotage. This film was produced in 3 days! 1948|60 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
THE TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO – A web of death, intrigue and daring love entwines merchant seaman Glenn Langan, a descendent of the Count of Monte Cristo, as he searches modern-day San Francisco for the fortune in long-missing jewels to which he is the rightful heir. Crooked lawyers, a murder and a frame-up are among the obstacles thrown in his path. Great location photography. 1949|79 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
ROARING CITY – Private eye Dennis O’Brien (Hugh Beaumont) will do anything for a dame or a dollar, tackling two more assignments filled with pistol-point suspense. The first involves a “fixed” fight, double-crosses and, of course, murder. Later, his reward for hiring out to pose as a young beauty’s husband is a knockout blow to the head and a false murder charge! 1951|59 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SKY LINER – Attention, Homeland Security! It’s GRAND HOTEL in the air as the usual wild assortment of travelers (movie actress, eloping couple, child singer, spinsters, crooks, more) board a LaGuardia Airport flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counter-spies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage! 1949|63 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURE: Vintage Trailer Collection
ActorsCOUNTERSPY MEETS SCOTLAND YARD: Howard St. John, Ron Randell, Amanda Blake, Lewis Martin, June Vincent, Charles Meredith
RADAR SECRET SERVICE: John Howard, Adele Jergens, Tom Neal, Myrna Dell, Sid Melton, Ralph Byrd
MOTOR PATROL: Don Castle, Jane Nigh, Reed Hadley, William Henry, Sid Melton, Richard Travis
MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1941): Dennis O’Keefe, Peter Lorre, Florence Rice, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Charles Arnt
WESTERN PACIFIC AGENT: Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, Mickey Knox, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lowery, Sid Melton
HIGHWAY 13: Robert Lowery, Pamela Blake, Michael Whalen, Dan Seymour, Clem Bevans
TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO: Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie, Robert Jordan, Michael Whalen, Margia Dean
ROARING CITY: Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Joan Valerie, Wanda McKay
SKY LINER: Richard Travis, Pamela Blake, Rochelle Hudson, Steven Geray, Greg McClure
Directed byCOUNTERSPY MEETS SCOTLAND YARD: Seymour Friedman
RADAR SECRET SERVICE: William Berke
MOTOR PATROL: Sam Newfield
MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1941): William Morgan
WESTERN PACIFIC AGENT: Sam Newfield
HIGHWAY 13: William Berke
THE TREASURE OF MONTE CRISTO: William Berke
ROARING CITY: William Berke
SKY LINER: William Berke
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Forgotten Noir Vol. 6 – I’ll Get You/Fingerprints Don’t Lie
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. 1953|79 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
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. 1951|56 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: MORE ON GEORGE RAFT Video by Stone Wallace; Fingerprints Don’t Lie Commentary by Joel Blumberg, Bios, Trailers and Photo Gallery
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Forgotten Noir Vol. 9 – Scotland Yard Inspector/Pier 23/Case of the Baby-Sitter
SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR – Cesar Romero stars in this Hammer Films mystery as a Yank newspaperman in London who sets out to solve a murder, American style. The rest of the typically tangled plot includes assaults, a mysterious tape recording, a visit to an asylum and even a plot to steal an inventor’s secrets! Lois Maxwell, the James Bond series’ “Miss Moneypenny”, co-stars. 1952|73 mins.|B&W|1.33:1
PIER 23 – Two more “brushes with crime” for ace private detective Dennis O’Brien (Hugh Beaumont). In the first, he gets mixed up with a crooked wrestling referee, an equally corrupt arena owner and murderous grappler Mike Mazurki. Next is a case involving a murdered cop and film noir’s ultimate femme double-crosser, the unforgettable Ann Savage (Detour). 1951|59 min.|B&W|NR
THE CASE OF THE BABY-SITTER – Jewel thieves, operating in the guise of a Duke and Duchess, hire the Ace Detective Agency to “baby sit” the infant they are using as a blind for their thefts. A rival mob dopes the detective’s dumb aide and make off with a valuable diamond. 1947|43 min.|B&W|NR
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Hammer Noir Vol. 2 – A Stolen Face/Blackout
A STOLEN FACE – Plastic surgeon Paul Henreid molds the face of a woman (Lizabeth Scott) who rejected him onto the mug of a horribly scarred prison inmate (also played by Scott), and proceeds to wed the parolee despite her social-misfit status. Now, of course, the original gal reappears, and Henreid has one Scott too many–the “new” one dangerously psychotic! 1952|73 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
BLACKOUT (Murder By Proxy) – 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. 1954|88 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Comments on Hammer Noir, A Stolen Face and Blackout by Richard M Roberts; Bios; Trailers; Photo Gallery
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Forgotten Noir Vol. 3 – Shadow Man/Shoot to Kill
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. His luck gets worse when he turns for help to a crippled employee–the man who committed the crime! “The suspense element is well established by the direction and the mood.”—Variety. 1953|76 min.|B&W|1.33:NR
SHOOT TO KILL – The film opens with the crash of a police-pursued automobile in which the newly-elected district attorney, Lawrence Dale (Edmund MacDonald), gangster Dixie Logan (Robert Kent as Douglas Blakeley) are found dead, and Dale’s wife Marian (Luana Walters as Susan Walters) is critically injured. But the flashback reveals that Marian is actually the wife of Logan and that her marriage to Dale is strictly platonic. And then it gets very complicated. Notable as the return to the screen of Luana Walters (billed as Susan Walters) and Robert Kent now appearing under his new screen name of Douglas Blakely. 1947|63 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: INSIDE LIPPERT Part 2 as told by Robert L, Lippert Jr.: SHOOT TO KILL: Schedule, Luana Walters Wardrobe Plot, Day Player and Stuntman Contracts, Original Script, Sample pages with Director’s Notes, Original Theatrical Trailers.
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