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I Wake Up Screaming (Fox Film Noir)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543244547
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: Portuguese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2234454
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 06, 2006
Running Time: 82 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1941
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Editorial Review:
Promoter Frankie Christopher being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn recalls in flashback: First meeting her as a waitress Frankie decides to parlay her beauty into social acceptance and a lucrative career. He succeeds only too well: she's on the eve of deserting him for Hollywood...when someone kills her. Now Frankie gets the feeling that Inspector Ed Cornell is determined to pin the killing on him and only him. He's right. And the only one he can turn to for help is Jill the victim's sister who's been cool toward him...System Requirements:Running Time: 82 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE UPC: 024543244547 Manufacturer No: 2234454
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Something worth screaming about
I Wake Up Screaming is one of quite a few films that give the lie to the notion that Victor Mature couldn't act, with his likeable press agent very different in tone and delivery from many of his roles. But good as he is, it's Laird Cregar's creepy cop patiently and cheerfully (well, as cheerfully as he can manage) shadowing him and turning up everywhere like a bad penny who dominates the film - this is a guy who makes Hank Quinlan look like a poster boy for acceptable face of law enforcement without ... Read More
Rating:  - awful music
Following my film noir search I have to admit I really enjoy this movie, I only regret listening as love theme the main theme from Over The Rainbow by Harold Arlen. Very interesting collection this Fox Film Noir, 5 new other titles are on the way.
Rating: - Among the Earliest "Gritty" Noirs, A Film That Paved The Way For More Memorable Examples of the Style
As it originally emerged, Film Noir was as glossy as it was tough, a genre photographed in a remarkable visual style of light and shadow and offering cynical and often witty tales of slick anti-heroes and dangerous dames--and films like THE MALTESE FALCON, THIS GUN FOR HIRE, MILDRED PIERCE, THE BLUE DAHLIA, and DOUBLE INDEMNITY remain great classics of their kind. At the same time, however, 20th Century Fox was releasing a stream of "pulp" crime dramas. Often overlooked or flatly dismissed by critics, ... Read More
Rating:  - I Wake Up Screaming
One of the first Hollywood whodunits to build an atmosphere of torment and menace around its two protagonists, Humberstone's enthralling psychological thriller opens with two police interrogations that quickly establish character, motives, and the events leading up to the murder via flashback. Mature and Grable give complex performances as a pair thrown together by circumstance and drawn into a love affair, but the film really belongs to Cregar, whose brutish portrayal of an unscrupulous policeman was a ... Read More
Rating: - Orson Welles watched this one for sure
Nobody seemed to have noticed the striking common points between Ed Cornell, the big, fat, rotten policeman, and Hank Quinlan from Touch of Evil (1958). Orson was a genius, but he used the good old classics to inspire him.
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