FORGOTTEN NOIR COLLECTOR'S SET VOL 3

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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Short, Sports, War
• Plot: Eight film noirs not to be misses: DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY; DANGER ZONE; THE BIG CHASE; MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY - 1947; RINGSIDE; HI-JACKED; SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR; PIER 23; THE CASE OF THE BABY-SITTER Bonus Features: Scene Selection; Trailers; SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR - Featurette by Joel Blumberg; PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE - Radio program and source for PIER 23; LORD OF THE RADIO Part 2 - Jean Lord Greenlaw interview, with Richard Roberts; Mr. District Attorney - Radio Program, THE BIG CHASE: Robert L. Lippert Jr. interview with Tom Weaver (reenactment), LORD OF THE RADIO Part 1 - Jean Greenlaw interview, with Richard Roberts; Product Specs: 3-DVD9s; Dolby Digital; 554 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954.; ; DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY (1950):; Based on the long-running radio program created by Philips H. Lord, the film opens with a radio commentator blasting the U. S. government for the manner in which a certain foreign power has obtained secret information during WWII. The commentator is brought to the secret headquarters of 'David Harding, Counterspy' where he learns that the story was deliberately planted with the commentator to fool the enemy. Harding them tells, in flashback, a specific story to illustrate how counter-espionage works. Jerry Baldwin, a U.S. Navy officer is brought to a city where torpedoes are manufactured for the Navy, and his assignment is to find out information is leaking out to the enemy.; ; DANGER ZONE (1951):; Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. O'Brien then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of 'Professor' Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her co-conspirator lover, Edgar Spadely---another private-detective who had gotten O'Brien involved to begin with---and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.; ; THE BIG CHASE (1954):; Plot has Korean-War vet Grayson returning and joining the L.A. Police Academy, which we learn in a flashback told by Police Lt. Ned Daggert to story-hunting reporter Milton Graves We also learn that Pete's wife Doris is pregnant and concerned about her husband's safety.Meanwhile, in the state prison, inmates Brad Bellows and Jim Meggs are planning a big heist as soon as Brad gets out of prison. The caper they pull, and the resultant chase, all over Hollywood, Los Angeles and a large portion of Southern California, involving Grayson shows that his wife's concern was more than warranted.; ; MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1947):; Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same name. Adolphe Menjou plays the title role, DA Craig Warren, though top billing is bestowed upon Dennis O'Keefe as Warren's assistant Steve Bennett. Resenting his boss' constructive criticism and presumed interference, Bennett goes astray, ultimately getting mixed up with trouble-prone Marcia Manning (Marguerite Chapman). Warren quickly realizes that Marcia is a no-good, but Bennett refuses to listen. Eventually, two men meet their deaths at Marcia's manicured hands, and by the last reel it looks as though Bennett will be third on her list. A money spinner upon its first release, Mr. District Attorney did indeed spawn a brief series, as intended.; ; RINGSIDE (1949):; Joe O'Hara, a hard fighter, wants the championship title for the money to finance the concert pianist career of his brother Mike, who also could be a good fighter. When Joe fights the title bout someone tells his opponent, Tiger Johnson, that one of his eyes is bad and Johnson works on it until Joe loses the fight and his eyesight. Mike is enraged and starts training for the ring. He works himself up to the title bout with Tiger Johnson.; ; HI-JACKED (1950):; A truck driver stops on a rainy road at night to help a stranded motorist, but it turns out to be a ruse--he is attacked, knocked out and his truck stolen. Since he has a criminal record, the police immediately suspect he's involved in the hijacking, and their suspicions are reinforced later when he is discovered--unknown to him--to be hauling stolen merchandise. He realizes he is being set up as a fall guy by the organization behind the truck hijackings, and he and a friend set out to determine who is trying to set him up, and why.; ; SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR (1952):; English woman asks an American detective visiting London to help find her brother's killer. The working title of this film was Lady in the Fog. Although actor Alastair Hunter is not included in the opening credits, his name is listed above Mary Mackenzie's in the closing credits. Assistant director Basil Keys's surname was spelled 'Keyes' in the onscreen credits. The film was shot in London, with an British production crew, American coproducer and one American star.; ; PIER 23 (1951):; In the first of two separate stories, Private-Detective Dennis O'Brien becomes involved with a gang that uses a rigged wrestling match as a means for murder. In the second story O'Brien tries to discourage a convict from making an escape-attempt from Alcatraz. Later O'Brien mistakes another man for the convict, and winds up charged with a murder.
• Cast: Ray Nazarro
• Director: Ray Nazarro
• Runtime: 9:14
• Company: Columbia Pictures, Lippert Pictures, Screen Guild Productions, VCI Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie