Film Noir Masterpieces: Out-of-Print DVD-BOX - Kinokuniya Bookstore

Thank you for viewing.

Film noir, a general term for crime films made in Hollywood from the 1940s to the 1950s. In monochrome images with extreme contrasts of light and shadow, the morals of good and evil are broken, and a nightmarish world of sweet perversion takes the lead, where femme fatales who seduce men and lead them to ruin run rampant. Three masterpieces that allow you to enjoy that charm have appeared. Otto Preminger's unreleased film "Where the Sidewalk Ends" features a detective (Dana Andrews) who relentlessly pursues a gang boss, but he struggles with his love for the wife of a thug he killed (Gene Tierney) and his obsession with his father being a thief, resulting in a torn, neurotic character portrayal that is amazing. "The Big Combo" (released in theaters as "The Syndicate") by Joseph H. Lewis, known for "Gun Crazy," also features a detective (Cornel Wilde) who has an obsessive love for a crime boss's mistress, and eventually drives a dancer who has feelings for him to her death, a kind of corrupt detective story. The indescribable, immoral allure of this genre lies in the depressing, distorted character portrayals and the absurd contrast of a tacked-on happy ending. And finally, "Kiss Me Deadly." Robert Aldrich's masterful work, which transforms Mickey Spillane's sensational hard-boiled novel, overwhelmingly read in the 1950s when McCarthyism was raging, and perfectly sublimates it as a metaphor for the bottomless fear of the Red Scare, is breathtaking. From the opening, legendary shot of Cloris Leachman running on a late-night highway in a raincoat, to the apocalyptic ending where Pandora's box is opened and a seaside villa burns down (evoking "Dr. Strangelove"), it is truly a masterpiece without fault. (Toshio Takasaki) --- January 2006 issue -- Contents (from "CD Journal Review")

■Included Works■
"Kiss Me Deadly"
"The Big Combo"
"Where the Sidewalk Ends"

After purchasing as a used item, I have watched all three works only once.
There are some scratches on the box. The disc surfaces have no noticeable stains, but please understand that these are used items. These are out-of-print and valuable works.

Kinokuniya Bookstore
Out of print
Rare
DVD
DVD-BOX