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Call Number: DVD00888 Copy 1

DVD00888 Copy 2

by: Humphrey Bogart; Mary Astor; Gladys George; Peter Lorre; Barton MacLane; Lee Patrick; Sydney Greenstreet; Lauren Bacall; Martha Vickers; Dorothy Malone; Ray Milland; Grace, Princess of Monaco; Robert Cummings; John Williams; Lana Turner; John Garfield; Cecil Kellaway; Hume Cronyn; Leon Ames; Audrey Totter; Alan Reed; Max Steiner; Dimitri Tiomkin; John Huston; Howard Hawks; William Faulkner; Leigh Brackett; Jules Furthman; Frederick Knott; Alfred Hitchcock; Carey Wilson; Harry Ruskin; Niven Busch; Tay Garnett; Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler; James M Cain; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); First National Pictures, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2009.

Notes: Films Released between 1941 and 1955, (432 mins. Black and White); The Maltese Falcon is based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, The Big Sleep is based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, The Postman Always Rings Twice is based on the novel by James M. Cain; Special features: Disc 1, Side A: Commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax; Warner Night at the Movies 1941 short subjects gallery: vintage newsreel, Technicolor musical short “The gay Parisian,” “Hiawatha’s rabbit hunt” classic cartoon, “Meet John Doughboy” classic cartoon; 2 trailers. Side B: “The big sleep comparisons 1945/1946” featurette with UCLA archivist Robert Gitt analyzing differences between the movie’s 2 versions; theatrical trailer. Special features: Disc 2, Side A: “Hitchcock and Dial M” featurette; “3-D: a brief history” featurette; theatrical trailer. Side B: “The John Garfield story” documentary profile; introduction by historian Richard Jewell; behind-the-scenes image gallery; trailers of both 1946 and 1981 versions

Summary: Disc 1: The Maltese Falcon: Some high-living lowlifes want to get their hands on a bejeweled falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why and find out who will take the fall for his partner’s murder.

The Big Sleep: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and ends up wearing out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.

Disc 2: Dial M for Murder: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her, but when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer.

The Postman Always Rings Twice: Illicit lovers botch their first attempt to bump off her husband. They finally pull it off and end up betraying each other at trial. Amorous attractions never proved so fatal.

OCLC #: 436094191

Added: March 17, 2011