Jeff Donnell
Series
Criterion collection volume 555
Language
English
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Description
A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating story cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It's late at night in Times Square, and everything's buzzing with nervous energy. But press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is oblivious to it all as he nervously waits for the early edition of The Globe. Whose career did gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)...
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Language
English
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Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing him...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The black room: "In a tiny European nation, a baron has fathered twin sons--Anton and Gregor--but a local legend has it that one will someday kill the other, so Anton is sent into exile while Gregor remains. Decades later, Gregor has become a tyrant; sensing revolution in the air, he summons Anton back to take over. But is that really what he has in mind?"--Container.
The man they could not hang: "In the first of his celebrated 'mad doctor' series,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Before I hang: The mysterious Dr. Garth kills a man while experimenting with a serum intended to alter the aging process. Sentenced to die, Garth goes to prison where he continues his bizarre work with Dr. Howard, the prison doctor. Suspense lingers when on the day of execution, Garth inoculates himself with a new serum made from the blood of a murderer. Just as he slips into unconsciousness, word is passed that his sentence has been changed to life...