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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

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Date: 3 Apr 2015 13:08:00
Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Double Feature]
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:22:05 + 01:32:42 | 7,57 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary tracks | Subtitles: English SDH, French
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir

Act of Violence (1948) is the real film noir McCoy, albeit so meticulously directed by Fred Zinnemann in postwar-European style that it's virtually an art-film noir. Van Heflin plays a model small-town citizen suddenly confronted with a guilty WWII past, in the dark, limping, permanently trenchcoated figure of Robert Ryan. The film systematically dismantles the domestic security of Heflin's life till he's forced to flee his own home, which has become a trap, and escape into the nightworld of the big city. Mary Astor is superb as one of its few sympathetic denizens. Co-featured with Act of Violence is Mystery Street (1950), a hard-edged movie about a B-girl's murder and some of the proto-CSI techniques the police use to solve the crime. Directed by John Sturges, from a script by Richard Brooks and Sydney Boehm, the picture is enhanced by atmospheric Boston and Cape Cod settings and camerawork by Mr. Film Noir himself, John Alton.

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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Act of Violence (1948)

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh

This grim melodrama stars Van Heflin as former World War II pilot Frank Enley, a respected contractor and family man, whose wife is played by Janet Leigh. When his troubled, crippled bombardier (Robert Ryan) shows up with a gun and a score to settle, it becomes apparent that perhaps neither man is what he seems to be. Director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal) guides a searing Act of Violence, “the first postwar noir to take a challenging look at the ethics of men in combat”.

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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

A terse, twitchy revenge story with Crossfire's Robert Ryan as trench-coated killer Joe Parkson, who limps into a sleepy California town in order to kill his old army buddy, Frank Enley (Van Heflin). Yet, the brooding gunman and the clean-cut father may not be all that they seem in the topsy-turvy morality of noir. Something happened between the two in a Nazi prison camp, something Enley is not willing to talk about, and bad enough to make him run the second he lays eyes on his old comrade.

Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Director Fred Zinnemann (Day of the Jackal) cuts Act of Violence so that it's all forward motion. It opens with Robert Ryan retrieving a gun and getting on a bus headed for his bloody destination, and it doesn't stop until that gun goes off. Perhaps more interesting than the men, though, are the women who love them. Frank's wife Edith (Psycho's Janet Leigh) and Joe's girl Ann (Phyllis Thaxter) are the ones who must suffer the real consequences for this male machismo and ego. How they deal with the hidden crimes and the angry choices their lovers make is really what gives Act of Violence its soul. Joe and Frank are beasts who can only settle their grievances one way (the film's title tells it like it is), and it's up to the women to pull them back from the brink.

Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Act of Violence also has Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon) as a woman of the world that Frank meets on the wrong side of it. In contrast to the other women, she walks amongst the kind of men Edith and Ann are trying to save their mates from. She takes Frank to meet more killers, pushing him into doing the wrong thing again even as she tries to warn him away. In the noir color scheme, these three women are just as identifiable for their shade of hair as they are their actions. Though Leigh is not yet the bright blonde she's most remembered as, her hair is the lightest (strawberry blonde?), as she represents motherhood and the stable, safe home environment. Ann is the middle, with light brown hair, the city girl who wants the home in the country. Whereas Mary Astor's locks are dark brown. There is no safety where she lives.

Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

As an existential parable, Frank is the least noble because he acts without being prepared to take full responsibility for the fallout. He's letting his prior bad acts define him rather than really taking charge of himself and honestly atoning. Joe may be out for blood, but he's fully aware of the penalties pulling the trigger will bring, and he'll answer for them. Indecision is Frank's fatal flaw. When the two men meet at last on a rain-drenched railway yard, the open space resembles the wide open streets of a Western town (High Midnight?), and Zinnemann places the new American iconography of noir next to the old iconography of the cowboy story. This showdown is full of both ironies and redemptive acts, with both men making divergent decisions that will ultimately determine who they are.
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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Commentary by Dr. Drew Casper
- Featurette: Act of Violence: Dealing With the Devil (5:06)
- Theatrical Trailer

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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Mystery Street (1950)

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett

Murder lives on Mystery Street. John Sturges (The Great Escape) directs a revealing-“CSI”-type film about a Boston cop (Ricardo Montalban) called upon to solve the mystery surrounding a skeleton found on a Cape Cod beach with the help of a Harvard forensic expert (Bruce Bennett).

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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Less of a film noir, more of a police drama. It's pretty easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys, and there is nothing of the gnarled ethics that make most good noir films such philosophical riddles. The main thing to recommend Mystery Street is its early look at forensic science. Police detective Peter Morales (Ricardo Montalban) teams up with Harvard professor Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) to try to figure out who the skeleton they found on the beach belongs to, and how she ended up washed up on shore.

Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

There is little mystery to the case of who killed the sexy call girl (Jan Sterling, Ace in the Hole), since rather than backtracking from the discovery of the body, director John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock) leads with the girl and her murder. This means we know that the fingered patsy (Marshall Thompson) is just a dummy who doesn't lie too well, and the real killer is kind of a nothing character that barely gets any screen time.

Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Still, Montalban manages to mix charm with hubris, and it's enjoyable watching him dogmatically pursue the wrong track. The CSI stuff also has a kind of wide-eyed, naïve appeal, and even in this formative stage is more fascinating than the overly flashy modern take TV viewers can't seem to get enough of.
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Act of Violence (1948) + Mystery Street (1950) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Commentary by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward
- Featurette: Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard (4:53)
- Theatrical Trailer

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