It happened in Hollywood. Adventure in Sahara. Power of the press. Shockproof. Scandal sheet. Crimson kimono. Underworld U.S.A.
Notes:
It happened in Hollywood, or Once a hero: Richard Dix, Fay Wray, Victor Kilian, Charlie Arnt, Victor Pangborn. Adventure in Sahara: Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray, Robert Fiske. Power of the press: Guy Kibbee, Gloria Dickson, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory. Shockproof: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti, Howard St. John, Russell Collins. Scandal sheet: Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Rosemary DeCamp, Henry O'Neill, Henry Morgan. The Crimson kimono: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee. Underworld U.S.A.: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay. Originally produced as motion pictures, 1949-1953. Scandal Sheet is based on the novel "The Dark Page" by Samuel Fuller.
Contents:
Disc 1. It happened in Hollywood (67 min., 1937) / Columbia Pictures ; screenplay, Ethel Hill, Harvey Fergusson, Samuel Fuller ; story, Myles Connolly ; director, Harry Lachman -- Disc 2. Adventure in Sahara (56 min., 1938) / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay, Maxwell Shane ; story, Sam Fuller ; director, D. Ross Lederman -- Disc 3. Power of the press (64 min., 1943) / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay, Robert D. Andrews ; story, Sam Fuller ; director, Lew Landers -- Disc 4. Shockproof (80 min., 1949) / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay, Helen Deutsch, Samuel Fuller ; director, Douglas Sirk -- Disc 5. Scandal sheet (82 min., 1952) / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay, Ted Sherdeman, Eugene Ling, James Poe ; producer, Edward Small ; director, Phil Karlson -- Disc 6. The crimson kimono (81 min., 1959) / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; written, produced, and directed by Samuel Fuller -- Disc 7. Underworld U.S.A.(98 min., 1961) /Columbia Pictures Corporation ; written, produced, and directed by Samuel Fuller.
Summary:
It happened in Hollywood: A silent screen cowboy can quite adjust to talkies, the death of westerns or to playing a moder-day gangster. Adventure in Sahara: thriller set in a French Foreign Legion outpost whose sadistic captain is eventually cast out by his men, led by an American. Power of the Press: Drama about a corrupt newspaper publisher who uses wartime security as an excuse to promote his personal agenda, which include murder. Shockproof: Film noir about a parole officer whose latest charge just served five years for murder to protect her sleazy lover. Scandal Sheet: An egotistical newspaper editor torn between his fear of discovery and his pride in his protege and star reporter, whose investigation into a "lonelhearts" murder may uncover his boss' secret past. The Crimson Kimono: Thriller about two L.A. cops, one Caucasian and one Japanese-American, who fall into an interracial love triangle with the woman they are protecting from a killer. Underworld U.S.A.: Drama about a young boy who witnesses his father's murder by gangsters and then joins the gang as an adult to exact revenge on the killers.
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