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Crime wave [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 115024 | Warner Home Video115020 | Warner Home Video (set)Language: English Summary language: English, French Original language: English Series: Film noir classic collection double featurePublication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]Description: 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1419851225
9781419851223
1419856596 (set)
9781419856594 (set)

Other title:

Decoy
Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4
Title on set container: Film noir classic collection. Vol. 4 : 10 timeless supsense thrillers

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.43/75 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.F54 C7564 2007

Contents:

Crime wave (74 min.) -- Decoy (76 min.)

Crime wave cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk.Decoy cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Marjorie Woodwarth.Summary: Crime wave: Three San Quentin escapees kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, one of the escapees flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey. Steve is paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and can't afford to be caught associating with old cronies. But homicide detective Sims wants to use Steve to help him catch the other 2 escapees, who in turn extort his help in a bank job.Summary: Decoy: Gangster Frank Olins is about to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby. Only Frank knows the location of $400,000. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies. She forces the prison doctor to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning to Olins. The revived Olins gives Margot half of a map showing the money location and Vincent, in a fit of jealousy, kills Olins and takes the other half. Because the doctor's plates on his car will get them through the police roadblocks, Vincent and Margot take him with them on the money hunt.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 1014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050121362

Run time: approx. 150 min.

Title from container.

Crime wave originally released as a motion picture in 1954; Decoy originally released as a motion picture in 1946.

Special features: Commentaries by James Ellroy and film historian Eddie Muller on 'Crime wave' and writer Stabley Rubin and film historian Glenn Erickson on 'Decoy;' new featurettes: "Crime wave: the city is dark" and "Decoy: a map to nowhere;" 'Crime wave' theatrical trailer.

Crime wave from a Saturday Evening Post story by John and Ward Hoskins.

Crime wave (74 min.) -- Decoy (76 min.)

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.

This DVD is copy protected and may be played only on licensed devices.

English dialogue, French subtitles; closed-captioned, English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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