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Preston Sturges – The Filmmaker Collection (Sullivan’s Travels/The Lady Eve/The Palm Beach Story/Hail the Conquering Hero/The Great McGinty/Christmas in July/The Great Moment) (1940)
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Preston Sturges was a 20th-century Renaissance man who, at Paramount Pictures between 1940 and 1943, wrote and directed eight original movies unlike anything before or since. All but one were high-energy, brilliantly detailed, and very, very funny comedies that became instant classics. No one ever dreamed [...]
Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 3 (Border Incident / His Kind of Woman / Lady in the Lake / On Dangerous Ground / The Racket) (1951)
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Two peak achievements by as many top noir directors … a customized vehicle for one of noir’s premier icons … an oddball experiment in making a truly “private eye” movie … and a Howard Hughes remake of his earliest contribution to the gangster genre. Such are [...]