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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime.
- Film noir.
- Motion pictures.
- Drama.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) 1945
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2019
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- 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***
- Participant:
- Ann Savage, Tom Neal
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1945
- OCLC:
- 1119529550
- Publisher Number:
- 6793493 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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