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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This anthology collects nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction.
Chicago, city of darkness. With more murders per capita than any other city its size, it is also a city of extensive crime writing, from the pulps to modern day. This anthology collects nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Description
A noir classic about a police lieutenant who comes under pressure from a gang headed by a vicious thug. He is helped by the gangster's wife, jealous at her husband's affair with another woman, who supplies him with information to help him close the net on his foe. "*Where the usual noir takes place in a nightmare world, this one seems to inhabit a dream: there's no longer fear in the images, but rather a distanced, idealized beauty.*" - Dave Kehr,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
Français
Description
A classic detective thriller, Quai des Orfevres centres on the efforts of Inspector Antoine (Jouvet) and his investigation into the murder of an elderly businessman. An early, more traditional work from Clouzot, who would later direct *Wages of Fear*, but shot through with his characteristically dark sense of humor. Winner of Best Director at the **Venice Film Festival**. *"Clouzot is able to reveal a complex and interactive working-class world in...
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress… Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson Welles...
7) D.O.A
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Series
Criterion collection volume 150
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Mystery of Marie Roget: A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress.
Chicago Deadline: On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Iron Man: An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler...
10) Scarlet street
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A box-office hit (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is one of legendary director Fritz Lang's finest American films. When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross rescues streetwalking bad girl Kitty from the rain-slicked gutters of an eerily artificial back-lot Greenwich Village, he plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris' obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted,...
11) Film noir
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Collection of seven classic hard-boiled American crime movies.
12) The stranger
Language
English
Description
Charles Rankin, responsible for unspeakable brutality in the Holocaust, is now living as a history professor in a small American town, with plans to wed Mary, the daughter of a local judge. When an old comrade escapes prison and comes looking for refuge, Rankin quickly sees that it's a plot to find him and kills the man.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
The Stratton story: The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright Hailed as the father of black literature in the twentieth century, Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W.E.B. Du Bois. The collection captures Wright's immense power, which has made him a beacon for writers across decades, from the civil rights era to today. Individual essays examine Wright's art as central to his intellectual...
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