DVD Spotlight By Kim Newman Audrey Long as a young widow dominated by a spy ring in DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY.
This slipcased three-disc set includes three “Kit Parker Triple Features” released individually at $14.99 a pop as FORGOT-
TEN NOIR VOLUMES 7, 8 and 9. Dipping into the Columbia vaults, these B pic exhumations are al- most exclusively from the stable of producer Rob- ert L. Lippert—best-remembered for pioneering science fiction (ROCKETSHIP X-M), his associa- tion with Sam Fuller (THE STEEL HELMET) and a longstanding distribution/production agreement with the pre-horror Hammer Films. The three- films-a-disc format ups the value from previous
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VCI FILM NOIR COLLECTOR’S SETS, which of- fered double bills; the titles available in earlier sets are ARSON INC., LOAN SHARK, PORTLAND EX- POSE, SHADOW MAN, SHOOT TO KILL, THEY WERE SO YOUNG, MAN FROM CAIRO, MASK OF THE DRAGON, FBI GIRL, TOUGH ASSIGNMENT, I’LL GET YOU and FINGERPRINTS DON’T LIE. The umbrella title is slightly misleading: the
term “film noir” would scarcely have sprung from the lips of busy hustlers like Lippert in the early ’50s, since it was then a new coinage unheard outside France. Not until Paul Schrader (who wrote
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