Forgotten Noir Collector's Set Vol 3 (DVD)
Forgotten Noir Collector's Set Vol 3 (DVD)
SKU:KPF600
A Hammer Films Noir, plus 8 fast-paced co-features
Hammer Films' SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR - Cesar Romero stars as a Yank newspaperman in London who sets out to solve a murder. DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY - Based on the popular 1942-1957 network radio series created by Phillips H. Lord. Howard St. John is the Washington DC-based David Harding, head of a covert counter-espionage organization, charged with preventing top-secret scientific information from reaching the hands of America's enemies. DANGER ZONE - A private eye first cracks a case involving smuggling ring, then tackles an assignment that involves blackmail, murder and film noir's top bad guy, Tom Neal. THE BIG CHASE - As his expectant wife enters the hospital in anticipation of the blessed event, her cop husband is off to the races, trailing payroll robbers on a mad chase that goes from cars to rowboat to motorboat to helicopter. The chase sequence, captured in all its bullet-to-bullet glory, comprises a third of the movie. MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1947) - From Phillips H. Lord's popular NBC radio series comes an intriguing 'legal film noir' filled with double-crosses and unusual twists--starting in the opening reel when a woman is slain in her apartment to an escaped killer, and the paper prints that the alive-and-well girlfriend of a local crime boss was the victim. RINGSIDE - Middleweight boxer works his way up to a title fight, and loses it and his eyesight when the champion seeing that his opponent is blind in one eye goes to work on the other one. HI-JACKED - Parolee/ truck driver now wants to stick to the straight-and-narrow, but finds himself riding a highway of terror when his truck is hijacked and police suspect him. PIER 23 - Two more 'brushes with crime' for ace private detective Dennis O'Brien. THE CASE OF THE BABY-SITTER: Jewel thieves, operating in the guise of a Duke and Duchess, hire the Ace Detective Agency to 'baby sit' the infant they are using as a blind for their thefts.
Bonus Materials
- Lord of the Radio - Jean Lord Greenlaw Interview by Richard Roberts
- Scotland Yard Inspector Featurette - by Joel Blumberg
- Pat Novak for Hire Radio Program
- The Big Chase - Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Interview by Tom Weaver
Cast & Crew
Actors:- DAVID HARDING
- COUNTERSPY: Willard Parker
- Audrey Long
- Howard St. John
- Raymond Greenleaf
- Harlan Warde
- Alex Gerry DANGER ZONE: Hugh Beaumont
- Edward Brophy
- Richard Travis
- Virginia Dale
- Ralph Sanford THE BIG CHASE: Glenn Langan
- Lon Chaney Jr.
- Adele
Director: DAVID HARDING
Director: COUNTERSPY: Ray Nazarro DANGER ZONE: William Berke THE BIG CHASE: Arthur Hilton MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Robert B. Sinclair RINGSIDE: B. Reeves Eason HI-JACKED: Sam Newfield SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR: Phil Jackson & Sam Newfield PIER 23: Willia
Additional Details
Label: Kit Parker Films
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 554 mins
Release Date: 04/29/08
UPC: 089859060021