Sterling Hayden
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Language
English
Description
The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays" constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality...
Language
English
Description
Consists of three classics film noir films: The red house featuring Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra's Suddenly and the absolute film noir gem, Kansas City confidential with John Payne.
The red House: A farmer tries to keep the curious away and protect the secret of the sinister decaying old house deep in the woods.
Suddenly: A gang of hired assassins plans to murder the President, during his stopover in a small, sleepy town called Suddenly.
Kansas...