FILM NOIR:DARK SIDE OF CINEMA 15[FLAME/CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS/HELLS HALF ACRE] (Blu-ray)

This collection features three film noir classics from Republic Pictures and director John H. Auer (A Man Betrayed). THE FLAME (1947) George MacAllister (John Carroll, Flying Tigers) is the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance and lives in constant resentment of his rich, terminally-ill half-brother Barry (Robert Paige, Tangier). So George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval (vivacious Vera Ralston, The Lady and the Monster), a job as Barrys nurse with the plan that she will eventually marry him for his money and then dispose of him. But the scheme turns complicated when Carlotta finds that she is really in love with Barry. Co-starring Broderick Crawford (Human Desire), Henry Travers (Shadow of a Doubt) and Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind). CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953) The Creeps, the Hoods, and the Killers Come Out to War with the City! In the vein of William Wylers popular Detective Story of two years earlier, this gritty noir