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I had the privlege of borrowing this boxed residence from a critic-pal of mine, as it hasn’t hit the street yet. My copy is already on order.
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After delivering one of the best boxed sets of 2004 with their first FILM NOIR COLLECTION, Warner Brothers once again hits the bell with a aesthetic collection of 5 stellar noirs, with grand transfers and dazzling packaging.
Noir hero Lawrence Tierney stars in two entries here, the underrated BORN TO Slay, and the rarely seen Monogram programmer DILLNGER. He had an improbable conceal persona, which makes it doubly shadowy that his personal problems set aside the kabosh on his shroud career. But in these two films, he is at his best, especially in his breakthrough role in DILLINGER, which most certainly is a hard-boiled film noir that had to be made at B-studio Monogram, because the major studios weren’t allowed to “glorify” criminals in that era.
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My current film in the pack is Richard Fleischer’s THE NARROW MARGIN, which moves along at a break-neck promenade, and is presented here not only in a graceful print, but with comments on the audio track from the director.
One of the greatest of all directors, Fritz Lang, created a tense and brooding drama of lust and betrayal with CLASH BY NIGHT, boosted by terrific performances by noir legends Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan, and an early, but memorable performance by Marilyn Monroe who looks as dazzling as ever.
Last, but certainly not least, is the heralded classic CROSSFIRE, with Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan, in a smoldering yarn that deals with hatred, assassinate, and anti-Semitism. This was a breakthrough film, and comes with a broad commentary track that features comments from its tedious, immense director Edward Dmytryk.
No serious cinephile will be disappointed in this fine collection.
The first area of the Film Noir Classic Collection was chock plump of immense movies, so I was naturally looking forward to the second situation. Volume 2, happily, is also a pleasurable collection, not quite at the par of the first place but calm with five decent-to-great movies. And if they play a tiny faster and looser with the definition of film noir in this dwelling, that doesn’t deprive the collection of its value.
First viewed (I tried watching them in chronological order) is Dillinger, a fictional biography of the real-life criminal John Dillinger. This movie stars Lawrence Tierney as the title character, a generally cold-hearted killer who is a cunning bank robber. For those most familiar with Tierney from his role as a crime boss in Reservoir Dogs, this is a showcase for the actor in his prime. The movie itself is more of an worn gangster movie (similar to the ones in the Warner Gangster Collection) than a apt noir movie, but it is nonetheless genuine, though too great the B movie to be colossal.
Second is Crossfire, a more suitable noir film dealing with anti-Semitism. Starring three Roberts – Ryan, Young and Mitchum – it gets somewhat preachy towards the waste which makes it merely grand instead of tall. Although the focus of the epic shifts from character to character, the legal star is Ryan as a hateful psychopath. Mitchum is ample but underutilized and Young is competent but relatively unimaginative.
The gem of the collection is Born to Ruin, with Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor in a fable of classic film noir complete with femme fatales, abolish and plenty of shady characters. Tierney plays a man on the lam after killing his girlfriend and her date (an ill-conceived attempt to salvage Tierney jealous) . Soon he meets Trevor, but finding her engaged, woos and marries her wealthy step-sister. That doesn’t close Trevor and Tierney from their fill star-crossed romance and soon enough there is more death. Directed by Robert Wise (also responsible for The Set-Up, and in other genres, The Day the Earth Stood Composed, West Side Tale and Sound of Music), this is one of the classics of the noir genre.
Almost as obliging is Narrow Margin, the one movie with lesser stars such as Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor. The fable is about a cop escorting a reluctant search for on a bid plug from Chicago to Los Angeles; also aboard the boom are killers who don’t know what the scrutinize looks like, but are clear that McGraw is protecting her. This leads to mix-ups and site twists that are ironic but rarely funny. This is one of the enormous “squawk thrillers,” a shapely sub-genre that includes such classics as The Lady Vanishes and North by Northwest.
Finally, there is Clash by Night. Although the exercise of lighting and dialogue is noirish, this movie is not film noir but rather a soap opera with a romantic triangle of Barbara Stanwyck as the woman with the past, Paul Douglas as her benevolent but rather simple husband and Robert Ryan as the callous friend who insinuates himself into her life. Marilyn Monroe has a cramped role but as always, steals her scenes. Playing her boyfriend is Keith Andes, a guy who was supposed to be the next tremendous thing but never made it.
All the discs advance with commentaries that are often illuminating. Born to Waste and Narrow Margin are five-star flicks; the others are four stars. That averages to 4.4, but I will round up because of the extras. Even if these are not all truly film noir, this is a broad collection and well-worth the viewing if you luxuriate in classic movies.
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