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Film Noir Classics Collection, Vol. 2, The

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"Film Noir Collection, Volume 2" contains "Born To Kill," "Clash By Night," "Crossfire," "Dillinger" and "Narrow Margin." "Born To Kill" - Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married her wealthy foster sister. He's a remorseless killer. And yet she finds his brash confidence, square-shouldered good looks and constant aura of menace completely irresistible. Versatile director Robert Wise ("The Day The Earth Stood Still," "The Sound Of Music" and "West Side Story") shows his film-noir chops with this dark gem whose mix of heiress sisters, stone-hearted men, needy hangers-on and inexplicable but inevitable love plays like a soap opera that refuses to wash itself clean. Walter Slezak portrays the verse-quoting shamus. And Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney portray the illicit lovers who play with fire and burn their names forever into film-noir lore. "Clash By Night" - Mae Doyle is a good-time girl, but now times are bad. Weary of too much booze and too many men, she returns to her girlhood home, the fishing village of Monterey, California. There she finds security as the wife of a devoted and dull fisherman and passion in the arms of his provocative best friend. Film noir master Fritz Lang ("The Big Heat," "Ministry Of Fear") directs four towering talents - Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and rising star Marilyn Monroe - in a stark tale of lives burnished by human emotion and shattered by human failings. Intense and powerfully realistic, "Clash By Night" (from a Clifford Odets play) is about many towns, many families. Serene on the surface. Roiling with desperation underneath. "Crossfire" -Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate," Finlay says, "is like a gun.

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