All-Time Sales Rank: 2374
| Overall Rating:    4.25 out of 5, including 1 review Add your comments on this Title. |
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Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict.
In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril.
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Features:
| COMMENTARY - by authors and historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
THEATRICAL TRAILER | Video:
| | Standard 1.33:1 B&W | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
| Subtitles:
| | English, Spanish
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| Studio: 20th Century Fox Production Year: 1950 Release Date: 3/15/2005
Length: 96 mins Rating: NR
| Includes: Audio Commentary
Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: 2224858 UPC Code: 024543148586
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Overall Rating:    4.25 out of 5, including 1 review Add your comments on this Title. |
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Customer Review
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One of the best movies of 1949 - 4.25 out of 5 (3/21/2005)
I remember catching this movie on TV about 15 years ago, and I immediately fell in love with it, despite the fact that I wasn't particularly crazy about any of the stars, or even 'film noir'.
This amazing gritty documentary-style film just jells perfectly; the setup of the plague, Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas' dilemma, the sleazy New Orleans waterfront dives and characters.
Director Elia Kazan used real locations and often real local people; some of the cops were New Orleans cops, etc.
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