First comes one of a string of films with Columbia noir leading man Glenn Ford, Framed, which came in the immediate wake of his star-making success in Gilda. As usual these are all postwar thrillers with only one made before the 1950s, all with that unmistakable Columbia combination of sun-blasted bright sets and conflicted characters committing dark deeds involving organized crime, domestic murder plots, and other various antisocial behavior. limited 6,000-unit set of Columbia crime classics, all making their domestic HD debuts and half of the six on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere. Indicator (Blu-ray) (UK RB HD), Sony (DVD) (US R0 NTSC) / WS (1.85:1) (16:9)įollowing swiftly on the heels of its robust and essential Columbia Noir #1, Indicator returns with another U.K. Starring Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel, Michael Granger Indicator (Blu-ray) (UK RB HD), Turner Classic Movies (DVD) (US R0 NTSC) / WS (1.85:1) (16:9) MURDER BY CONTRACT
Indicator (Blu-ray) (UK RB HD), Mill Creek (Blu-ray) (US RA HD), Sony (DVD) (US R0 NTSC) TIGHT SPOT Starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis Indicator (Blu-ray) (UK RB HD), Turner Classic Movies (DVD) (US R0 NTSC) / WS (1.85:1) (16:9) AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD Starring Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley, Otto Hulett, Neville Brand, Ernest Borgnine Indicator (Blu-ray) (UK RB HD), Kit Parker Films (Blu-ray) (US RA HD) THE MOB Starring Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley Indicator (Blu-ray) (UK RB HD), Imprint (Blu-ray) (Australia R0 HD), Sony (DVD) (US R0 NTSC) 711 OCEAN DRIVE They bring this judge back to the Express, who identifies Chapman as the groom, but under a different name.Starring Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley McCleary and Allison take a trip to Connecticut to find the judge who had married the murdered woman, and the man seen in profile in a photograph from the suitcase. Barnes threatens to take the story to a competitor, the Daily Leader, which leads to his getting killed by Chapman. He calls Allison and McCleary, but McCleary thinks that Barnes is too drunk. Barnes claims the item, which turns out to be the dead woman’s suitcase, in which he finds proof that Chapman is the murderer. Chapman gives Barnes a cash handout accidentally included with the money is the receipt. McClearly is joined by feature writer Julie Allison (Donna Reed), to whom he’s attracted.Ĭhapman goes to the Bowery to redeem the pawn shop receipt, and on his way, he stumbles upon Charlie Barnes, a former reporter for the Express who has become alcoholic. When her body is discovered, the paper’s star reporter, Steve McClearly (John Derek), begins investigating the murder. He retrieves from her purse money and a pawn shop receipt. The two physically fight and he accidentally kills her, then covers it up. It is based on the novel The Dark Page by Samuel Fuller, who worked as a newspaper reporter before he embarked on a screen career.īroderick Crawford plays ambitious newspaper man Mark Chapman, who takes over a the New York Express and revitalizes it by staging some publicity stunts.Ĭhapman’s wife Charlotte Grant (Rosemary DeCamp), whom he had deserted and left penniless, reappears and threatens to tell everyone who he really is and how he had almost driven her to suicide. Phil Karlson directed Scandal Sheet, a film noir about the ruthlessness of tabloid papers.
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