FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXIII (Blu-ray)

This collection features three gripping film noir classics. Rope of Sand (1949) A Sand-Swept Saga of Savage Greed, Sultry Love and Wild Adventure! Produced by Hal B. Wallis (Casablanca, Desert Fury) and directed by William Dieterle (The Accused), this suspense-noir classic brings the dynamic Burt Lancaster (I Walk Alone) and dazzling Corinne Calvet (Peking Express) together with three great co-stars of Casablanca: Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre. To claim a cache of diamonds, Mike Davis (Lancaster) returns to the same remote South African city where he was tortured and left for dead at the hands of a sadistic police commandant (Henreid). He recruits the assistance of a mysterious stranger (Lorre) and the doctor who had helped him back to health (Sam Jaffe). But the scheming head of the diamond syndicate (Rains) recruits a femme fatale (Calvet) to seduce and betray Mike as an alternative to brute force. An exotic gem of noirRope of Sandboasts striking Charles Lang (A Foreign