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  1. Murder, My Sweet (1944)

    aka: Farewell, My Lovely

    Director
    Edward Dmytryk
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

    Raymond Chandler’s celebrated novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was turned into a classic film noir in 1944 with Dick Powell as the private eye Philip Marlowe.

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  2. Macbeth Film Trailer (2006 Multimedia)

    Series
    60 Second Shakespeare

    60-Second Shakespeare is a BBC project to encourage UK students to create their own 60-second interpretations of Shakespeare using audio, video, animation and IT skills. This film is presented as a trailer...

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  3. Human Desire (1954)

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    Adapted from the same Emile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in La BETE HUMAINE (1938), Lang’s startlingly dark, late film noir reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria...

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  4. Ear, The (1970)

    Director
    Karel Kachyna
    Subject
    Czech studies; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 95 minutes), £19.99

    A high-ranking Communist official and his wife begin to suspect that their home has been put under surveillance by the Party. Over one night, the growing tension exposes a bitter fault-line in their...

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  5. American Cinema. Vol 2: Romantic Comedy / Film Noir (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 105 min., 1997 sale: £11.99 (inclusive)

    A 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema, released in five volumes.

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  6. Killers, The (1946)

    Director
    Robert Siodmak
    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £12.99

    This adaptation of the celebrated short story by Ernest Hemingway, about a man calmly waiting for the hitmen sent to assassinate him, is now considered a noir classic for its chiaroscuro cinematography,...

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  7. Woman in the Window, The (1944)

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 99 minutes), £14.99

    Richard Wanley, a successful psychiatrist biding his time while his wife and children are on vacation, encounters beautiful Alice, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the subject of a portrait he had just...

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  8. Nightfall (1957)

    Director
    Jacques Tourneur
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 79 minutes), £18.00

    During his long and varied career, Jacques Tourneur tackled a breadth of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. With NIGHTFALLi, he returns to the noir genre. Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction...

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  9. Touch of Evil (2011)

    Director
    Orson Welles
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD, £22.99

    Five versions of Orson Welles’ film noir classic: the 1998 reconstruction (111 min); the 1958 preview version rediscovered in the mid-1970s (109 min); and the 1958 theatrical version (96 min) - each...

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  10. Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru (1960 Film)

    aka: The Bad Sleep Well

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka

    Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...

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