Home

Film Noir Sale

Whirlpool (Directors Suite)
Otto Preminger

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

From one of cinema's most talented artists - Otto Preminger -comes Whirlpool, a hypnotic and dazzling film noir starring the stunning Gene Tierney.

Beautiful housewife Ann (Tierney) lives in upper-middle-class opulence w... Buy or find out more 


 

The Naked City (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

The artistic eye of Jules Dassin turns to the mean streets of Manhattan in The Naked City, one of the first films ever to be shot on location. When an attractive blonde model is murdered in her apartment, homicide detect... Buy or find out more 



 

Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

Psychotic playboy Robert Walkers proposes "exchange murders" to tennis pro Farley Granger in one of Alfred Hitchcock's most gripping thrillers. Buy or find out more 


Fallen Angel (Directors Suite)
Otto Preminger

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

A thrilling and absorbing drama from one of the leading lights of the film noir style, Otto Preminger!

When petty conman Eric Stanton meets the gorgeous waitress Stella, he falls instantly in love. However his lack of fi... Buy or find out more 



 

The Lodger (Directors Suite)
Alfred Hitchcock

$34.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

One of Hitchcocks classic early silent films, The Lodger is aesthetically influenced by German Expressionism, a movement the great auteur came to love during his time in Germany. Based on the story of Jack the Ripper, Th... Buy or find out more 


 

Rififi (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$34.95$29.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

Tony (Jean Servais), a veteran Parisian thief who's just been released from prison, is approached by two of his underworld friends, Jo (Carl Mohner) and Mario (Robert Manuel) who are planning a smash-and-grab raid on a j... Buy or find out more 



 

The Killers (1946)
Robert Siodmak

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme

Ernest Hemingways terse, tense dialogue marks the unnerving opening sequence that introduces Burt Lancaster (From Here to Eternity) in his film debut as doomed protagonist The Swede, a star crossed boxer hunted by hired ... Buy or find out more 


 

The Big Sleep
Howard Hawks

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and a trail peopled with murderers, porographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Boart plays Raymond Chandlers' legendary gumshoe and di... Buy or find out more 



Ministry Of Fear (Directors Suite)
Fritz Lang

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

From German auteur Fritz Lang comes Ministry of Fear, a stylish and thrilling film noir which has been adapted from Graham Greene's novel of the same name. Stephen Neale is released from an insane asylum after two years ... Buy or find out more 


 

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Tay Garnett

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more than one meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Based on the sam... Buy or find out more 



 

The Maltese Falcon
John Huston

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc /

After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941 - or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial deb... Buy or find out more 


Night and the City (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers star in Jules Dassin's Night and the City, a hard-boiled drama boasting all the benchmarks of a classic film noir.

Harry Fabian is a fast-talking hustler who is always on ... Buy or find out more 



 

Scarlet Street
Fritz Lang

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc /

Chris Cross (Edward G Robinson) doesn't strike the viewer as a tough guy at all. Matter of fact, he's a 25 year old cashier who paints in his spare time, and the last thing he expects is to wind up scamming his boss. But... Buy or find out more 


Where The Sidewalk Ends (Directors Suite)
Otto Preminger

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

From master film noir director Otto Preminger comes Where the Sidewalk Ends, a story of violence and lust, morality and redemption.

Detective Sergeant Mark Dixon is a man struggling with his place within the law and his ... Buy or find out more 



 

Brute Force (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

For the men of Westgate Penitentiary, life is lived on a knife's edge, ruled by violence and fear in a war fought between the guards and the toughest prisoners. Warden A.J. Barden is a weak man who is powerless compared ... Buy or find out more 


 

The Roaring Twenties
Raoul Walsh

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

The speakeasy era never roared louder than in this gangland chronicle that packs a wallop under action master Raoul Walsh's direction. Against a backdrop newsreel-like montages and narration, it follows the life of joble... Buy or find out more 



 

The Petrified Forest
Archie Mayo

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc /

A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage. As trapped as his captives... Buy or find out more 


 

Gaslight
George Cukor

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc /

Beautiful and trusting, Paula Anton is slowly tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspect is her devoted husband. But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is diff... Buy or find out more 



 

Dark Passage
Delmer Davies

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc /

Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Dark Passage, Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry who, framed fo... Buy or find out more 


 

Criss Cross
Robert Siodmak

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film

"I didn't come back on account of her, it had nothing to do with that." Prophetic words from Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster), a tough guy with a heart that wants better. It's the voice-over that sets the story of Thompso... Buy or find out more 



 

Black Angel
Roy William Neill

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film

Singer Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) is found dead in her apartment. The most logical suspect is the man she had been blackmailing, Kirk Bennett (John Phillips), and he just happens to find the body. There's a thread... Buy or find out more 


 

This Gun For Hire
Frank Tuttle

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc /

One of the most influential noir works of the 1940s, This Gun for Hire is based on the 1936 Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale. W.R. Burnett and Albert Maltz's screenplay focuses on the exploits of psychotic hitman Phili... Buy or find out more 



 

Call Northside 777
Henry Hathaway

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Shock Dvd

When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb), he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears tha... Buy or find out more 


 

Kansas City Confidential
Phil Karlson

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Shock Dvd

A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence - after having been beaten up and tortured by the police - he sets out to discover who set him up,... Buy or find out more 



 

They Drive By Night
Raoul Walsh

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in They Drive by Night, a feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise.

Ann Sheridan plays a truck-stop waitress who can di... Buy or find out more 


 

Key Largo
John Huston

$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren... Buy or find out more 



 

The Woman In The Window
Fritz Lang

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Shock Dvd

Richard Wanley (Robinson) is no criminal, at least he wasnt until he met the woman in the window (Bennet). From seeing her portrait in a storefront window to running into her in person, what begins as an innocent flirtat... Buy or find out more 


 

Odds Against Tomorrow
Robert Wise

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film

Dave Burke (Ed Begley), and ex-cop with an ax to grind plans to rob a small bank 100 miles out of New York. He needs some very specific help. He knows that Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte), a singer in a local gin mill, n... Buy or find out more 



 

He Ran All The Way
John Berry

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film

Nick Robey (John Garfield) panics during a robbery, and kills a cop. As he escapes the scene, he finds himself at a public swimming pool. He needs very badly to get off the streets, and he meets a lonely young girl, Peg ... Buy or find out more 


 

High Sierra
Raoul Walsh

$19.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid

Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino star in this tragic study of an American gangster whose hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side - a side that will ultimately be his downfall. Buy or find out more 



Copyright © 2012 Readings Pty Ltd. | Site designed and developed by Inventive Labs.