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Price: $19.98 - $9.06
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Dark Film Mysteries is a robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s. Viewers were eager to venture into the darker attitude of crime fiction that developed around the Great Depression two decades earlier and finally emerged on film during WWII. Film noir stories generally developed around suspicious male characters that maintained unsympathetic and doom-filled attitudes that would manifest when they encountered beautiful woman of questionable character (femme fatale). She would use her feminine sexuality to manipulate him into an unsuspecting fall guy – generally involving a murder. After the betrayal, the femme fatale would frequently be destroyed as well, often at the cost of the hero’s life. Shot in a low-key black-and-white, gloomy visual style with roots in German Expressionist cinematography, these films showed the dark and callous side of human nature, and were filled with an oppressive atmosphere of pessimism, fatality, and doom that was enhanced with shadowy characters and locations swirling with both moody dialogue and cigarette smoke. In addition to 10 other film noir classics, included on Dark Film Mysteries is an excellent example of one of the moodiest, blackest thrillers ever made… Fritz Lang’s steamy and fatalistic Scarlet Street (1945).
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 7.52 ounces
Item model number : FC-521
Director : Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Norman Foster, Irving Pichel, Edgar G. Ulmer
Media Format : NTSC, Multiple Formats, Box set, Black & White
Run time : 16 hours and 8 minutes
Release date : November 17, 2015
Actors : Edward G. Robinson, Anne Sheridan, Mickey Rooney, Tom Neal, Charles Russell
Studio : Film Chest
ASIN : B015XD7IHQ
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 3
Customers say
Customers enjoy these classic noir films, praising their excellent picture quality and noting they’re worth the price. They find the movies pleasurable to watch, with one customer describing it as guilt-free entertainment.
Amazon Customer –
Great quality
If you love old Hollywood movies get this!
Bob Steinman –
a real treat
a great set of movies at an excellent price. the best part is that the picture quality and sound is very acceptable. this set is so good that I bought the other sets as well.
Ricardo –
A “MUST HAVE” IF YOU’RE A NOIR FAN
One or two “clinkers”, but Strange Love of Martha Ivers alone is worth the price of the set. I won’t insert a spoiler here, but this is a movie worth watching even if you’re not a noir fan.The only issue that I have is that there is no CC for any of the films. Not a big deal, but it would be nice to have for older folks (like me) who have some hearing issues and have to crank up the volume.
GirlyGirl –
Great Movies!
These sets have a lot of really good movies in them! Many you can’t find anywhere else. I recommend getting all 3 of this series (Dark film mysteries).
Judy Tinney –
Not the Best
I really had to work just to sit through half of the movies. Wouldn’t be a good buy at half the price.
Charles Boatwright –
Surprised
I do enjoy film noir. So I bought this one and expected kind of a run-of-the-mill for it but I was surprised most of them I havenât seen and I really did get into it and enjoy the different movies. I canât talk about one without talking about all of them, they were just good entertainment And mixing enjoyable evening to watch one or two at a time just sit back and relax
a. parr –
Clear video
I do wonder sometimes when multi movies are on one disc if quality will be poor. No worries. A pleasure to watch. Audio is excellent.
Retro nutter –
Thrilled when this arrived a couple of days ago
I’ve yet to even open this collection but am already stoked . Big time . I’d already seen about six of the eleven films here . I own Quicksand and Kansas City Confidential on DVD . I’d have owned more of these features by now but it was cost prohibitive for me prior to this Dark Film Mysteries collection release . I gather these are wonderful prints and consider myself very fortunate to have been availed of this super reasonably priced triple disc set . Great thanks to Amazon for the recommendation and my fellow writers here for cluing me in to its merits . If you’re a noir fan don’t hesitate . Automatic .
Amazon Customer –
excellent
Claude Couillard –
to entertain myself
Bogus Tripper –
Very good but most are black and white movies. Very old movies that Ive seen decades ago.
Jackvmb –
Great value. Reasonable viewing quality considering age of original films.