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Femme Fatales Collection

Ava Gardner (Actor), George Raft (Actor), n/a (Director) Rated:
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4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
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Genre Feature
Format NTSC, Multiple Formats, Black & White
Contributor George Raft, Hedy Lamarr, n/a, Constance Towers, Barry Sullivan, Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Ava Gardner See more
Language English
Runtime 8 hours
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1. Whistle Stop
Cast: Ava Gardner, George Raft
A small town girl (Gardner) returns home as a glamorous femme fatale and ignites a deadly love triangle between a small-time hood (Raft, B&W) and an unsavory nightclub owner (McLaglen). (1 hr 23min, B&W)

2. Algiers
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer
An alluring tourist (Lamarr) steals the heart of an infamous master thief (Boyer), but puts his life at risk when his mistress betrays him to the French authorities. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Cinematography! (1 hr 35 min, B&W)

3. Dishonored Lady
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe
A gorgeous, hard-partying fashion editor (Lamarr), headed for a nervous breakdown, gets a makeover with a new identity and a new love (O'Keefe), but ends up as a murder suspect when her past returns to haunt her. (1 hr 25 min, B&W)

4. The Strange Woman
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Gene Lockhart
A tantalizing Jezebel (Lamarr), abused by her alcoholic father, takes lustful revenge on the men who love her until a touring evangelist reveals her evil ways. (1 hr 40 min, B&W)

5. Cause for Alarm!
Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan
A neurotic husband (Sullivan) believes his luscious wife (Young) is having a steamy affair with the family physician and plots to frame her for his own murder! (1 hr 14 min, B&W)

6. The Naked Kiss
Cast: Constance Towers, Michael Dante A high-class call girl's (Towers) transformation to respectability takes a lurid, shocking turn when she discovers the perverse truth about her millionaire fiancé (Dante). This raw, explosive noir is regarded among Samuel Fuller's most brilliant efforts! (1 hr 32 min, B&W)

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Multiple Formats, Black & White
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 8 hours
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 8, 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ava Gardner, George Raft, Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Dennis O'Keefe
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Pop Flix
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002ID094E
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
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Mary Ellen Heath Castello
5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Compilation
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2013
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These are older movies that can be difficult to locate otherwise. The selection was good, and the price more than reasonable. A great way to spend a cold, rainy day in bed with the flu . . . or not.
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Dr René Codoni
4.0 out of 5 stars Contact can be fatal
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2012
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Femmes fatales (Sixpack, 1946-64) -

Whistle stop
Algiers
Dishonored lady
The strange woman
Cause for alarm
The naked kiss.

As one reviewer already remarked: the title is a French plural, so two ending-s's (and not femme fatales). A pack of six as listed on the dvd wrapping. I have added IMDb ratings. Film #2 - Algiers, by the way. would today get its producer in jail, as it fully plagiarises Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937, 94'). Details there as my review #195 went on amazonUK a week ago. Overall -

Actresses: Heddy Lamarr, of Czech Extase fame (Gustav Machatý, 1933), is not only an attractive woman, but a (suprisingly) gifted actress. Same level as Loretta Young, who also never seems to disappoint. Ava Gardner is a lot better than also seen before, but may it be that her male partners gave her the kick? Constance Towers by far the weakest.

Directing: I disagree with the rankings, which put Fuller's film highest: Though I share some of the Nouvelle Vague enthusiasm for "Sam Fuller", Naked Kiss is nowhere near his best. Also, note that except for Algiers, the films are below 90 minutes running time - something nice at a time where anything below two hours tends to be taxed as lacking skill, rather than discipline ..

Best of pack: Cause for Alarm by Tay Garnett. Garnett is an old B-hand, and Miss Young I already praised. A compact chamber drama, where the rather silly representatives of the US Post Office - an external nemesis - teach you how to go by the book. The rest of the films, especially if seen as a sixpack, deserve a four out of five.

1 Whistle Stop by Léonide Moguy (1946, 83)
Cast: Ava Gardner, George Raft, Victor McLaglen
A small town girl (Gardner) returns home as a glamorous femme fatale and ignite a deadly love triangle between a small-time hood (Raft) and an unsavory nightclub owner (McLaglen).
Ratings: 5.7/10 from 391 users
Reviews: 21 user | 5 critic

2 Algiers by John Cromwell (1938, 98')
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Chales Boyer, Gene Lockhart
An alluring tourist (Lamarr) steals the heart of an infamous master thief (Boyer), but puts his life at risk when his mistress betrays him to the French authorities. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Cinematography.
Ratings: 6.9/10 from 1,162 users
Reviews: 36 user | 7 critic

3 Dishonored Lady by Robert Stevenson (1947, 85')
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, Margaret Hamilton
A gorgeous, hard-partying fashion editor (Lamarr), headed for a nervous breakdown, gets a makeover with a new identity and a new love (O'Keefe), but end up as a murder suspect when her past returns to haunt her.
Ratings: 6.3/10 from 336 users
Reviews: 13 user | 3 critic

4 The strange woman by Edgar G Ulmer (1946, 98')
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Gene Lockhart, George Sanders, Louis Hayward
A tantalizing Jezebel (Lamarr), abused by her alcoholic father, takes lustful revenge on the men who love her until a touring evangelist reveals her evil ways.
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5 Cause for Alarm by Tay Garnett (1951, 74')
Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
A neurotic husband (Sullivan) believes his luscious wife (Young) is having a steamy affair with the family physician and plots to frame her for his own murder!
Ratings: 6.3/10 from 720 users
Reviews: 45 user | 6 critic

6 The Naked Kiss by Samuel Fuller (1964, 89')
Cast: Constance Towers, Michael Dante, Anthony Eisley, Virginia Grey
A high-class call girl's (Towers) transformation to respectability takes a lurid, shocking turn when she discovers the perverse truth about her millionaire fiancé (Dante). This raw, explosive noir is regarded among Samuel Fuller's most brilliant efforts!
Ratings: 7.4/10 from 2,928 users
Reviews: 106 user | 44 critic

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200us - Femmes fatales (Sixpack, 1946-64) -Contact can be fatal - 25/10/2012
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Cynthia T Cannon
5.0 out of 5 stars The Original Blueprints for what a Femme Fatale is.
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015
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Really enjo7ed these old movies, not sure if they were restored, but the picture and sound quality were quite good, especially considering the age of the movies. Great product. Deliciously naughty ladies!
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CMaximus
3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Ladies but Femme Fatales?
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2019
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This compilation has a low budget feel but is worth buying if you enjoy classic films for the leading ladies and few extra twists too. My only real complaint is the grainy dull picture. Its advertising claims “Digitally Re-Mastered,” and while I’m certainly no expert I don’t see it.

Terms such as “film noir” and “femme fatale” carry some amount of subjectivity, however these leading ladies’ characters are much less femme fatale then the classic portrayals such as Barbara Stanywck in Double Indemnity or Claire Trevor in Murder, My Sweet.

First, Loretta Young’s Ellen Jones in Cause For Alarm! is in no way a vamp or seductress who manipulates men into compromising, even deadly situations. This role is closer to her part in Orson Welles’ The Stranger. She plays a panicked housewife but not hysterical the way Joan Crawford would have played it. The film needed a different twist at the end.

Ava Gardner, famed as the most beautiful woman in the world, was often known more for her off-screen relationships than movie roles. In Whistle Stop with George Raft, she isn’t so much a femme fatale as the unwitting center of a love triangle. The ending is too happy-disappointing really.

Hedy Lamarr is another actress of this era who’s considered by many critics and fans alike to be the most beautiful woman to ever appear on film. She stars in 3 of the films in this collection, and I consider The Strange Woman one of her best roles, a very “Scarlet O’Hara”-like performance. Lamarr’s character Jenny, determined to escape her impoverished and alcoholic father, becomes a scheming gold digger practically from birth. The costumes and overwrought dialogue surely ape Vivian Leigh.

Charles Boyer headlines Algiers, notable as Hedy Lamarr’s first Hollywood film. The film is most notable for back alley Casbah locations as well as the seductive Lamarr. Boyer comes off as somewhat of a cliché.

Dishonored Lady, set in the present, stars Lamarr as a hard-charging fashion editor who attempts to ditch the rat race for a quieter life, but just like Godfather III, they pull her back in. Pretty good plot, but reportedly Hays Code problems led to editing that prevented Dishonored from becoming really sensational. If you look closely you see Margaret Hamilton and Natalie Shafer of The Wizard of Oz and Gilligan’s Island fame respectively.

Samuel Fuller’s The Naked Kiss, released well after the others-in 1964, is a melodrama that feels closer to low-budget gratuitously lurid. It is not noir at all but does handle shockingly controversial material pretty deftly and is a star turn for Constance Towers.

In summary you do get some beautiful ladies here, but the films are mostly second rate.
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Emme
5.0 out of 5 stars Oldie Junkie
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014
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I love these collections and have bought several including the Midnight Mysteries and Dangerous Dames. I'm an old movie junkie and these totally satisfy my craving for watching an old movie when I need it.
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spanishmayne
4.0 out of 5 stars Femme Fatales have not lost their attraction
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2013
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Here is a good mix of beautiful women acting well.
An instant draw for the older viewer. We used to go to the cinema to see these films and they still have the same appeal.
Be aware that the films are in black and white and not of the current digital quality but still worth a look. Younger viewers will be interested to see why we used to flock to the cinema
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Carole Stewart
1.0 out of 5 stars Forget about these package "deals."
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2013
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Never buy a collection like this. The worst, most boring movies are selected, some of the biggest flops of these big-name actors are scraped together into a package deal. Seldom is anything in the collection worth watching.
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Francois Choquette
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2016
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dale h
5.0 out of 5 stars femme fatales pretty good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2014
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although the sound and picture arent brilliant given there age the films are very entertaining having dangerious dames and screen greats as well well worth the money and a lot better than some so called modern crime thrillers
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Giovanni Bucci
4.0 out of 5 stars Femme Fatales Collection
Reviewed in Italy on December 29, 2012
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Il prodotto è pervenuto nei tempi da voi indicati. Ottima scelta di sei film interpretati da attrici meritatamente famose. Da consigliare agli amanti del Cinema degli anni '40/'50
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J. R. WINROW
4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Viewable Collection
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2010
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Apart from "Algiers", I hadn't seen any of the movies in this collection before, and really bought it for Ava Gardner in "WHISTLE STOP", which is the film she made immediately before the one that really brought her to public attention, "The Killers". The 23-year old Ava, already with more than 20 film parts to her credit, is an assured actress, and gorgeously seductive in the role of Mary in this crime drama which, although not particularly well written, is definitely worth watching, and the musical score by Dimitri Tiomkin catches the ear too.
Next comes "ALGIERS", with Charles Boyer in the role of master criminal Pepe le Moko (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award) and Hedy Lamarr as Gaby, an alluring socialite with whom he falls in love, with unhappy consequences. An absorbing and atmospherically lit and photographed movie well worth repeated viewing.
"DISHONOURED LADY" features Hedy Lamarr again, this time as a glamourous fashion editor on the edge of a breakdown, who tries to start a new life after falling foul of a wealthy advertiser, but is implicated in murder. A pleasant-to-watch old style melodrama. Look out for Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz") as the landlady.
"THE STRANGE WOMAN" is another Hedy Lamarr movie. Set in 1820's Maine, it tells the story of Jenny Hager, who in the full knowledge of her own desirability to men, uses this to move up in society from her impoverished and abused childhood with a complete lack of conscience. A rather gloomy drama, I thought, but well acted by the star.
A loving wife, convincingly played by Loretta Young, desperately tries to avoid being taken for the murderer of her husband, in "CAUSE FOR ALARM", an exciting thriller on a small scale.
And finally, "THE NAKED KISS". Written and directed by Samuel Fuller, one of the most individualistic of film-makers, this is a little gem. Constance Towers (not credited on the front of the box, where she fully deserves to be) gives an excellent performance as a prostitute who tries to start a new life, but is almost overwhelmed by circumstance, and eventually accused of murder. To say more would be to spoil the story. Watch it!
The print quality is variable, the poorest being "Whistle Stop" which has one or two repairs which result in breaks in continuity, but at this price, who's complaining!
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Ramesh
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2013
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Some of these are very good: I am hoping that more films of the past will be made available for us in the future
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