| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Ann Savage, Tom Neal |
| Event |
Originally produced by NYX Channel in 1945. |
| Summary |
From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run--a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. "*It lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it.*" - Roger Ebert, ***Chicago Sun-Times*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Crime.
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Film noir.
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Motion Pictures.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
G. Ulmer, Edgar, film director.
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Savage, Ann, actor.
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Neal, Tom, actor.
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NYX Channel (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6901773 Kanopy |
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