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Dangerous Women in Pivotal Roles: Infamous Femme Fatales
LAUREN BACALL
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The Big Sleep 1946- Warner Home Video 0012569502628 Check our catalog
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is thrust into a world of drugs, sex, blackmail, and murder when he agrees to protect a rich man's reckless, uncontrollable daughter. Includes both the 1945 pre-released version and the 1946 theatrical version. …More |
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Dark Passage 1947 - Warner Home Video 9781419817656 Check our catalog
A San Francisco art student hides a fugitive recovering from underworld plastic surgery. Directed by Delmer Daves. …More |
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Key Largo 1948- Warner Home Video 0012569501027 Check our catalog
A gangster holds a GI and others hostage in a run-down Florida Keys hotel. Directed by John Huston. Best supporting Oscar for Claire Trevor. …More |
JOAN BENNETT
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Scarlet Street 1945 - Kino International 0738329042028 Check our catalog
A box-office hit in its day (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is perhaps legendary director Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) finest American film.When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson -- Double Indemnity, Little Caesar) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett -- The Reckless Moment) from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial backlot Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge …More |
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The Woman in the Window 1944 - Tcfhe/MGM 0027616081070 Check our catalog
A sober professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder when his family goes away. Directed by Fritz Lang. …More |
AVA GARDNER
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The Killers 1946 - Criterion Collection 9781559409315 Check our catalog
A sober professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder when his family goes away. Directed by Fritz Lang. |
GLORIA GRAHAME
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The Big Heat 1953 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396065321 Check our catalog
A gun moll helps a detective hunt gangsters who have killed his wife. Directed by Fritz Lang. …More |
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In a Lonely Place 1950 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 9780767882910 Check our catalog
A bungalow neighbor alibis a boozing Hollywood screenwriter accused of murder. Directed by Nicholas Ray. …More |
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Sudden Fear 1952 - Kino Video 0738329011529 Check our catalog
A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.. …More |
RITA HAYWORTH
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Gilda 1946 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396289994 Check our catalog
A Buenos Aires casino owner hires a gambler who once had an affair with his alluring wife. …More |
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The Lady from Shanghai 1948 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396048591 Check our catalog
Rita Hayworth plays the beautiful blonde femme fatale Rosalie Bannister, who weaves a murderous web of lies and deceit around a naive sailor played by Orson Welles in this film noir. …More |
VERONICA LAKE
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This Gun for Hire 1942 - Universal Home Video 9781417011612 Check our catalog
A marked hit man flees with a nightclub singer and stops a fifth-column poison-gas plot. …More |
BARBARA STANWYCK
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Double Indemnity: 1944 - Universal Home Video 9781417072514 Check our catalog
This crackling adaptation of James Cain's shady tale of an insurance man lured into murder was brilliantly cast with the usually nice guy MacMurray as the slick agent in love with calculating Stanwyck. …More |
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946 - Gaiam Americas 0018713504289 Check our catalog
Martha and her husband, who saw her kill her aunt, fear a childhood friend saw her too. Directed by Lewis Milestone. …More |
GENE TIERNEY
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Laura 1944 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543060826 Check our catalog
An arrogant New York columnist taunts a detective obsessed with a slain woman's portrait. Directed by Otto Preminger. …More |
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Night and the City 1950 - Home Vision Entertainment 155940955X Check our catalog Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.. |
LANA TURNER
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The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 - Warner Home Video 0012569585829 Check our catalog
Adapted from James M. Cain's story, the film relolves around the destructive relationship of two lovers whose troubles mount after they do away with her husband. …More |