Noir Collection DVD

Collection of four classic crime films. In 'This Gun for Hire' 1942 a hitman called Raven Alan Ladd is double-crossed by nightclub owner Willard Gates Laird Cregar, a middleman for traitorous industrialist Alvin Brewster Tully Marshall. Traveling to Los Angeles to kill his way to the top of his betrayers, Raven meets up with Ellen Graham Veronica Lake, a nightclub magician and singer who has been enlisted by a senator to use Gates to find out who is making deals to manufacture poison gas for the Japanese. Meanwhile, Ellen's fiance Detective Michael Crane Robert Preston tries as best he can to keep up, tracking Raven while wondering if his girlfriend has been kidnapped or is a willing accomplice. In 'Double Indemnity' 1973 insurance salesman Walter Neff Richard Crenna is lured into taking part in a dangerous scheme to murder the husband of the captivating Phyllis Dietrichson Samantha Egga