Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THISummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAMSummary: "Whirlpool" (98 min.) : A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Reservoir dogs: After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY QUESummary: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KEYSummary: A gangster escapes from prison to take revenge on the people that murdered his mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PULSummary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER ALF1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD THRILLER ALF
Summary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000