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Series
The Criterion collection volume 1208
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Public enemy (1931): A story of two brothers, one an honorable war veteran, the other a high-class gangster that sold alcohol during the prohibition. Roaring twenties(1939): Three WWI buddies work for a bootlegging racket after returning to New York City.
5) Moontide
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker, gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon awakening, he is convinced by his mercenary 'pal' Tiny that he has killed a man. Despairing at the thought of having committed a murder, not to mention being blackmailed for the rest of his life by the treacherous Tiny, Bobo is able to find a few fleeting moments of happiness with Anna, a suicidal young girl whom he has saved from a watery grave.
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...
