Crime wave / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; produced by Bryan Foy ; directed by Andre de Toth ; screen play by Crane Wilbur ; adaptation by Bernard Gordon and Richard Wormser. Decoy / Monogram Pictures Corporation ; Pathe Pictures, Ltd presents ; a Bernhard-Brandt production ; produced by Jack Bernhard and Bernard Brandt ; directed by Jack Bernhard ; screenplay by Ned Young ; original story by Stanley Rubin.

Format:

• Video

Author/Creator:

• Hawkins, John, 1910-1978, author.
• Hawkins, Ward, 1912-1990, author.

Contributor:

• De Toth, André, 1912-2002, director.
• Foy, Bryan, 1896-1977, producer.
• Gordon, Bernard, 1918-2007, adapter, screenwriter.
• Wormser, Richard, 1908-1977, adapter, screenwriter.
• Wilbur, Crane, 1886-1973, screenwriter.
• Hayden, Sterling, 1916-1986, actor.
• Nelson, Gene, 1920-1996, actor.
• Kirk, Phyllis, 1927-2006, actor.
• Buttolph, David, 1902-1983, composer.
• Bernhard, Jack, 1914-1997, director, producer.
• Brandt, Bernard, producer.
• Young, Nedrick, screenwriter.
• Rubin, Stanley, 1917-2014, screenwriter.
• Gillie, Jean, 1915-1949, actor.
• Norris, Edward, 1910- actor.
• Armstrong, Robert, 1890-1973, actor.
• Rudley, Herbert, 1910-2006, actor.
• Leonard, Sheldon, 1907-1997, actor.
• Woodworth, Marjorie, 1919-2000, actor.
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), producer.
• Monogram Pictures Corporation, producer.
• Pathé Pictures, producer.
• Warner Home Video (Firm), distributor.

Series:

• Film noir classic collection

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Hawkins, John, 1910-1978--Film adaptations.
• Hawkins, Ward, 1912-1990--Film adaptations.
• Hawkins, Ward, 1912-1990.
• Hawkins, John, 1910-1978.
• Treasure troves.
• Antidotes.
• Gangsters.
• Criminal behavior.
• Escapes.
• United States.
• Escapes--United States--Drama.
• Criminal behavior--United States--Drama.
• Gangsters--United States--Drama.
• Antidotes--Drama.
• Treasure troves--United States--Drama.

Genre:

• Film adaptations.
• Film noir.
• Crime films.
• Prison films.
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Feature films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (74 min, 76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
• monochrome

Edition:

Standard version.

Place of Publication:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]

Language Note:

• English soundtrack; optional French subtitles.
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

• DVD, Region 1; full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.
• digital
• optical
• mono
• Dolby
• video file
• DVD video
• region 1

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.
• 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.

Participant:

• Crime wave: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk.
• Decoy: Jean Gille, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Marjorie Woodworth.

Credits:

• Crime wave: director of photography, Bert Glennon; editor, Thomas Reilly; music, David Buttolph.
• Decoy: director of photography, L. W. O'Connell; editor, Jason Bernie; music, Edward J. Kay.

Notes:

• Crime wave is based on a Saturday Evening Post story by John and Ward Hawkins.
• Aspect ration 1.33:1.
• Videodisc release of the motion pictures produced in 1954 (Crime wave) and 1950 (Decoy).
• Title on set container: Film noir classic collection, vol. 4 : 10 timeless suspense thrillers.
• 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"; original theatrical trailer for Crime wave.

Contains:

Decoy

ISBN:

• 1419851225
• 9781419851223
• 1419856596
• 9781419856594

OCLC:

235286514

Publisher Number:

• 085391150244
• 085391150206 (series, v. 4)
• 115024 Warner Home Video
• 115020 Warner Home Video (series, v. 4)