9 Film Noir Classics for $8!!!!

[Mr_Misanthropy]

Hello all,
I went to Sam Goody's today and found something interesting. They had a rack with a bunch of these different DVD sets. They had an I Love Lucy set, a Sherlock Holmes set, cult horror classics, and a few more. But what really caught my eye was the Film Noir Classics. 9 films on 3 discs, over 13 hours. Now, i'm new to the genre, so, I've never heard of ANY of these movies. They sound good though!! Here are the ones I got in the set..

-Too Late For Tears
-The Man Who Cheated Himself (with Jane Wyatt and Lee J. Cobb)
-The Stranger (directed by Orson Welles)
-Strange Love of Martha Ivers (with Barbara Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas' first on screen role)
-The Hitchhiker (directed by Ida Lupino)
-Quicksand (with Mickey Rooney)
-Detour
-The Scar
-D.O.A.

So are these any good? Or did they just scrape the bottom of the barrel and toss the findings on three discs?

The special features are pretty sweet too. There's a film noir poster gallery, a featurette about film noir, and some old classic movie trailers.

All in all, $8 was a great deal, and even if they're all terrible movies, i'm only out $8. So has anyone seen or heard of any of these? Are there any especially good/bad ones?

Gracias,
Jeremiah

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

At less than a buck a movie,........

......how could ya go wrong? I'm sure they all have some merit, even if they aren't all oscar winning flicks. Just the imagery in all those films is well worth the $8.

 

[Mr_Misanthropy]

Yeah, that's the way I see it. I mean, I doubt all nine of them are terrible movies. I read the synopses of each, and they all sound pretty interesting!! One in particular, The Scar, is about a convicted thief who attempts to steal the identity of a doctor that is pretty much his double. Except, the doctor has a scar. So, the thief has to scar himself to complete the image. But... the image he had of the doctor to work off of was a reverse negative, so, he scars the wrong side of his face! And thats just the synopsis on the back of the case. So, there's more???!?!?!

 

[John in Covina]

Both DOA and Detour are pretty nightmarish, and I seem to recall the Hitchiker was pretty good.

 

[mysterygal]

I saw the same sort of deal at the local Walgreens except the movies were ten dollars each and picked over pretty good...got a Alfred Hitchcock one...can't wait to see them

 

[The Wolf]

I liked "Strange Love of Martha Ivers" when i saw it years ago.
It is sufficiently "noirish".

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[DancingSweetie]

D.O.A is excellent and I just rented Detour and that is pretty good too.