The Film Chest announced
this past week that it will be back with a second volume of film noir treasures on May 1 with the
three-disc DVD presentation of Dark Film Mysteries II.
The SRP is just $19.98
for 12 films … and that’s before discounts being offered at retail.
So what does the set
include, for starters, director Rudolph Maté Atomic Age thriller, D.O.A.,
starring Edmond O’Brien as a man who has been murdered and has but a very short
time to solve the mystery of who and why.
Cast members in this film noir
masterpiece include Pamela Britton, Lynn Baggett, William Ching, Luther Adler,
Neville Brand and newcomer Beverly Garland (in her film debut).
Next up in the Dark
Film Mysteries II collection is director Arthur Lubin’s 1949 twisted
crime tale, Impact, which has Brian Donlevy surviving his own murder … at
the hands of his wife’s lover. The
twist is that his wife (played by Helen Walker) is charged with his murder …
the police are convinced that the burned beyond recognition body (Tony Barrett)
is him.
Meanwhile, the dazed and
disillusioned Donlevy has settled town in a small Idaho town and has fallen in
love with a lonely widow (Ella Raines) and is content to let his wife
hang. You know that it just can’t be
that easy in a “twisted” film noir thriller!
Impact and D.O.A., and we are just getting
started. The collection also includes director
André De Toth’s 1948 film adaptation of the Jay Dratler novel, Pitfall,
starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott and Jane Wyatt, filmmaker Ida Lupino’s
1953 edge-of-your-seat thriller, The Hitch-Hiker, starring Edmond
O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy and William Talman and the 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer film noir tale, Strange Illusion, with
Jimmy Lydon as a young man out to stop his mother (Sally Eilers) from marrying
a psychopath (Warren William).
Rounding out the Dark
Film Mysteries II collection are Club Paradise (1945, with Robert
Lowery and Doris Merrick), Hollow Triumph (1948, directed by Steve
Sekely and teaming Paul Henreid with Joan Bennett), Cause for Alarm (1951,
starring Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan and Bruce Cowling), Suddenly (1954, with Frank
Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and Nancy Gates), He Walked By Night (1948 starring
Richard Basehart), They Made Me a Criminal (1939 all-star Warner Bros. production
with John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Claude Raines and The Dead End Kids) and Port
of New York (1949, with Scott Brady, Richard Rober and Yul Brynner).
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