Lights out! Questar presents five killer examples of film noir, the shadow-drenched genre of middle-class crime, anxiety, and desperation that blackened American movie screens in the 1940s and 50s. Each of these thrillers comes in a crisp archival print on a separate DVD, which includes riveting bonus features on some of the people and ideas behind this darkest—and most enduringly popular—of all movie genres.

Disc #1: D.O.A. - On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant (Edmund O’Brien) unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him—and why. Directed by Rudolph Mate.

Disc #2: Detour - Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend, the film’s hero encounters two sinister characters—one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

Disc #3: The Stranger - Orson Welles directs and stars in this thriller about a monstrous Nazi official who’s hiding out as a small-town American college professor. A war crimes detective turns up determined to expose him—even if it means endangering the Nazi’s innocent wife.

Disc #4: Scarlet Street - Homely, henpecked Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with the dangerously seductive young Kitty (Joan Bennett). Directed by Fritz Lang.

Disc #5: Killer Bait - A bickering couple find a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea—and she will do anything to realize it. Directed by Byron Haskin.

Disc #6: Special Features - Black and Blue: The History of Noir; Hot-Blooded and Cold-Hearted: The Dames of Film Noir; Classic Lines Quiz; Over thirty-five Film Noir Trailers including Double Indemnity, 1944; Reservoir Dogs, 1992; Sunset Blvd, 1950.

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