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"Now where and what is Chuck-a-Luck? Nobody knows and the dead won't tell..." Rancho Notorious hasn't weathered well despite the fact that it has two of Germany's greatest filmic exports working together.

Alexander Scourby was born in Brooklyn on Nov. 13, 1913, son of Greek immigrants Constantine Scourby and Betsy Scourby.

DIRECTORS such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann and Christopher Nolan are on hand in DVD extras in this deluxe package to testify to the worth of the film noir genre, if you require such expert testimony.

The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" , based on the novel by William P. McGivern.

'THE TAKING of Pelham 123" and "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" hit DVD this week - two titles that will not be on the expanded list of 10 Oscar best-picture nominees.

Arriving at the Film Forum on Friday is a new, impressively restored print of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's classic 1948 film The Red Shoes , about a tenacious ballerina torn between a lover and her art.

The Sniper 1952 // 88 Minutes // Not Rated The Big Heat 1953 // 91 Minutes // Not Rated 5 Against The House 1955 // 83 Minutes // Not Rated The Lineup 1958 // 86 Minutes // Not Rated Murder By Contract 1958 // 80 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Sony Reviewed by Appellate Judge James A. Stewart // November 4th, 2009 View Appellate Judge Stewart's ...

Warren Clements Published on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 4:58PM EDT T he Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 In this remake of the 1974 thriller that starred Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau, John Travolta plays the guy who takes over a New York City subway car and holds it for ransom, and Denzel Washington plays the dispatcher who has to serve as negotiator.

More noir: the Columbia Noir Classics on DVD 0 After writing the onerous article on " Boston Noir " and attending the "Boston Noir" book launch/reading at the Boston Book Festival I thought I'd fill in the gaps in my noir knowledge by checking out the Columbia Film Noir Classics I box set of five 50s B-ish films from that genre, to be released by ...

Collection Includes: The Big Heat and Available on DVD for the First Time: The Sniper , 5 Against the House , Murder by Contract , The Lineup .

They called Gloria Grahame, that most enigmatic and evocative of screen presences, a suicide blonde because "she dyed by her own hand." The compulsively watchable, Grahame -- Oscar winner for The Bad and the Beautiful but more widely known as the vamping Violet in It's a Wonderful Life and Ado Annie in Oklahoma! -- is the star du jour Thursday ...

We've all used the expression "they just don't make 'em like they used to," but in the case of Happy Birthday to Me , it's more than just a cliche.

A scene from "Thieves' Highway," one of the revenge-themed films included in the "Vengeance!" festival.