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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LAKE,VERONICA
EAN: 9781417011612
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1417011610
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 12013
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: May 13, 1942
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-JUL-2004
Media Type: DVD
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Rating:  - This Gun is Good
A very good film, and with very slightly better direction and a bit more depth to the bit parts it would have been up there with Casablanca among the great black and white films of the early '40s. As it is, it seems to have become almost forgotten. I'd never seen it before, and those who'd told me about it didn't seem wildly enthusiastic. Seeing it was therefore a very pleasant surprise. It zips along at a great pace; the story is intricate and exciting, yet easy to follow, and keeps you guessing, ... Read More
Rating: - Pre-Dates Classic American Noir Era
American film noir is generally considered to have started post WWII (1946 to be exact). That's when the cycle kicks in and ending somewhere in the mid-1950s. There were a few noir films that pre-date the era, and my vote for the first is the terrific "This Gun For Hire." Three additional films, "Laura," "Farewell My Lovely," and "Double Indemnity" (all 1944) also come to mind. "The Maltese Falcon," as good as it is, still belongs in the 1930s Thin Man era.
"Gun" is pure 1940s and directed in ... Read More
Rating: - Classic Film Noir...5 stars!!!!
While this film is justly famous for introducing us to Alan Ladd & giving us another reason to love Veronica Lake, do not overlook it's impact as a classic film noir!! The tale of vengeance, crime, & corruption is one that really drives the point home in several areas without sacrificing any of the other plot points. Alan Ladd gives one of his most powerful performances, second only to SHANE, perhaps. His cold-blooded killer who has a soft spot in his heart for stray cats is both chilling ... Read More
Rating: - An Era When Style Compimented Sustance
Lately I've been discovering the films of the forties. Some of american cinema's best efforts came from that decade, immediately following the color splash of Gone With The Wind which clearly foreshadowed the coming death of Black and White for mainstream films. Hollywood had spent it's whole history til then bringing B&W cinematography and lighting to wonderful heights of light and shadows capped by Casablanca in it's utterly inadvertent perfection (just watch Bogie's shadow play on the wall while ... Read More
Rating: - .........A Hat....a...Trench Coat....a...Gun... and...a...Itchy Trigger-Finger............
I saw this picture when it was released...now, reviewing it after many decades, it smacks of classic [noir] which Hollywood manufactured like piece-work during WW2 days...Alan Ladd is electric in his breakthrough to big time stardom after mundane debuts co-features [a real mean SOB...in this flick]....watch for the Corporate America wheel/bound mogul who gets his just due from 20 stories high, Robert Preston is clock/work as a street smart Detective, throw in sexy/blonde Veronica Lake is a nice piece of sweet ... Read More
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