20th Century Fox Film Noir refers to a collection of films released on DVD by 20th Century Fox. The series, a spinoff of the earlier Fox Studio Classics line, premiered in March 2005.
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Nominated for five Academy Awards, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations.
Street date: 3/15/2005
UPC: 024543060826
Catalog: 01
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In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case.
Street date: 3/15/2005
UPC: 024543130192
Catalog: 02
03
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Clint Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers and their associates.
Street date: 3/15/2005
UPC: 024543148586
Catalog: 03
04
In Tokyo a ruthless gang holds up U.S. ammunition trains. Ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But, Eddie isn't quite what he seems.
Street date: 6/7/2005
UPC: 024543148623
Catalog: 04
05
In one of his most chilling performances, Richard Widmark stars as Stiles, an up and coming crime boss trying to stake his claim in the criminal underworld.
Street date: 6/7/2005
UPC: 024543173199
Catalog: 05
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In this engaging melodrama, Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena (Joan Blondell), then tosses her aside.
Street date: 6/7/2005
UPC: 024543173151
Catalog: 06
07
College grad Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI and is assigned to a New York spy ring stealing atom-bomb secrets. Can he track down the mysterious "Christopher" before his ruthless associates unmask and kill him?
Street date: 9/6/2005
UPC: 024543191094
Catalog: 07
08
George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in os Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Street date: 9/6/2005
UPC: 024543191131
Catalog: 08
09
The wife of a psycho-analyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter.
Street date: 9/6/2005
UPC: 024543177302
Catalog: 09
10
Lucille Ball has a change of pace role as the loyal secretary of a private eye in this brooding film noir about a man being set up for a murder rap.
Street date: 12/6/2005
UPC: 024543169185
Catalog: 10
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Henry Hathaway's directorial skills brought a heightened sense of realism to crime dramas in this classic 1947 original that marked Richard Widmark's Oscar -nominated debut.
Street date: 12/6/2005
UPC: 024543183532
Catalog: 11
12
Otto Preminger's follow-up to his massively successful LAURA, WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS is a film noir set in postwar New York, where corruption and violence run rampant.
Street date: 12/6/2005
UPC: 024543215608
Catalog: 12
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When a white patient in a hospital dies under the care of a black intern (Sidney Poitier), the victim's racist brother (Richard Widmark) seeks to destroy the doctor's career.
Street date: 3/7/2006
UPC: 024543214571
Catalog: 13
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June Mills (Alice Faye) and her sister Clara live a quiet life in a small coastal town until Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), a smooth-talking con man, comes into their lives.
Street date: 3/7/2006
UPC: 024543227786
Catalog: 14
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House On Telegraph Hill is an intriguing cliffhanger set in a spooky Victorian mansion below Coit Tower in San Francisco.
Street date: 3/7/2006
UPC: 024543227816
Catalog: 15
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Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent arrest and trial of a jobless drifter, and the efforts of young state's attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to uncover the truth.
Street date: 9/2/2008
UPC: 024543244486
Catalog: 16
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Edward G. Robinson's ill-gotten gains embroil his entire family in scandal and murder. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Street date: 6/6/2006
UPC: 024543244516
Catalog: 17
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A great surprise ending marks this film noir classic, filled with taut suspense. Starring Betty Grable in a change-of-pace role.
Street date: 6/6/2006
UPC: 024543244547
Catalog: 18
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Jean Peters stars as New York cover girl Vicki Lynn, whose fame came fast and hard, and so does her murder.
Street date: 8/29/2006
UPC: 024543263579
Catalog: 19
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This post-World War II suspense thriller sets off an emotional roller coaster after the psychologically fragile wife of a POW (Anabel Shaw) witnesses a brutal murder from a hotel window while waiting to be reunited with her husband (Frank Latimer).
Street date: 8/29/2006
UPC: 024543263609
Catalog: 20
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This compelling suspense drama spends its time with a tormented young man (Richard Basehart) as he teeters on a New York hotel's 15th floor window ledge, deciding whether or not to jump.
Street date: 8/29/2006
UPC: 024543263630
Catalog: 21
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Nancy Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her.
Street date: 3/11/2008
UPC: 024543446613
Catalog: 22
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Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford) is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men - one she loves but cannot have and one who's love she cannot return.
Street date: 3/11/2008
UPC: 024543446644
Catalog: 23
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Ruth Bowman is a new bride glowing with delight as she and her charming new husband John set sail on the S.S. Monrovia for a transatlantic honeymoon...
Street date: 3/11/2008
UPC: 024543446675
Catalog: 24
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Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde.
Street date: 9/2/2008
UPC: 024543528609
Catalog: 25
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide.
Street date: 9/2/2008
UPC: 024543528593
Catalog: 26