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• Noir Luxe Purple Leather Slimline Case for Apple iPad
• Super slimline design but still offering ultimate protection
• Hand stitched from fine quality leather
• Opens and closes via magnetic clasp
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Noir Luxe Purple Leather Slimline Case for Apple iPad

Bad Girls of Film Noir 1 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

The Film Noir Collection – Quicksand [DVD] [1950]

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British Film Noir [DVD] [US Import]

Force Of Evil [VHS] [1948]

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This 1941 melodrama is memorable both for its strong central performances and their intimations of how the previous decade’s crime dramas would evolve into film noir–no accident, given the solid direction of veteran Raoul Walsh and the hand of screenwriter John Huston, who teamed with the author of its novelistic source, WR Burnett (Little Caesar). In the central character of Roy “Mad Dog” Earle, a fictional peer to John Dillinger, Humphrey Bogart finds a defining role that anticipates the underlying fatalism and moral ambiguity visible in the career-making roles soon to follow, including Sam Spade in Huston’s directorial debut, The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Earle suggests a prescient variation on the enraged sociopaths that were fixtures of the gangster melodramas that shaped Bogart’s early screen image. Pardoned from a long prison stretch, the weary robber is clearly more eager to savour his new freedom than immediately swing back into action. But his early release has been engineered by a mobster who wants Earle to pull off a high-stakes burglary, setting in motion a plot that is a prototype for doomed heist capers–a small, yet potent sub-genre that would later include Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956).

What gives High Sierra its power, however, isn’t the crime itself but Earle’s collision with the younger, brasher confederates picked to help him, and the hard-edged but vulnerable taxi dancer they’re competing for, played forcefully by Ida Lupino, who actually received top billing. Her attraction to the reluctant Earle is complicated by a convoluted sub-plot designed to showcase then starlet Joan Leslie, but the movie finally moves into its most gripping moments when the wounded Earle, pursued by police, flees ever higher toward the mountains. His final, suicidal showdown would become a clich&éacute; of sorts in lesser films, but here it provides a wrenching climax sealed by Lupino’s vivid final scene. –Sam Sutherland

High Sierra [VHS] [1941]

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Film Noir Collection Two [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Film Noir Collection – Gilda/In A Lonely Place/The Killers/Double Indemnity [DVD]

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He Walked By Night [VHS] [1948]

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Even under the heavy censorship of 1946 Hollywood, Lana Turner and John Garfield’s libidinous desires burn up the screen in Tay Garnett’s adaptation of James M. Cain’s torrid crime melodrama. Platinum blond Turner is Cora, a restless sexpot stuck in a roadside diner married to mundane middle-aged fry cook Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) when handsome drifter Frank (Garfield) blows her way. It’s lust at first sight, a rapacious desire that neither can break off, and before long they’re plotting his demise–but in the wicked world of Cain nothing is that easy. Garnett’s visual approach is subdued compared to the more expressionistic film noir of the period, but he’s at no loss when he films the luminous Turner in her milky-white wardrobe. She radiates repressed sexuality and uncontrollable passion while Garfield’s smart-talking loner Frank mixes street-smart swagger and scrappy toughness with vulnerability and sincere intensity. Co-star Hume Cronyn cuts a cold, calculating figure as their conniving lawyer, a chilly character that only increases our feelings for the murderous couple, victims of an all-consuming amour fou that drives their passions to extremes. –Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

The Postman Always Rings Twice [1946] [DVD]

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