New on Blu-ray: MY FRIEND IRMA (1949) Starring John Lund, Diana Lynn and Don DeFore

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Product Description: When My Friend Irma hit the silver screen in 1949, the course of movie comedy was changed forever with the film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Dean and Jerry serve up their fresh mix of hilar ity and song as juice-bar operators Steve and Sey mour. After a shifty talent manager hears Steve’s golden voice, it seems like the two pals may get a shot at showbiz . But before they do, they’ll have to survive a merry-go-round of laughs, romance and misadventure along with their manager ’s zany girlfriend Irma and her straitlaced roommate. See where the legend of Martin and Lewis began.. with My Friend Irma.

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DVD & Blu-ray: NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES (1948) Starring Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell & John Lund

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Product Description: From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Five Came Back, Wake Island, The Big Clock, Alias Nick Beal and Hondo, comes this supernatural film noir about a tormented magician played by Hollywood great Edward G. Robinson (Scarlet Street). When heiress Jean Courtland (Gail Russell, Calcutta) attempts suicide, her fiancé Elliott Carson (John Lund, A Foreign Affair) probes her relationship to stage mentalist John Triton (Robinson). In flashback, we see how Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland (Jerome Cowan, The Maltese Falcon), uses Triton’s talent to make money; but Triton’s inability to prevent what he foresees causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief and inexorable fate? Noir stalwarts Barré Lyndon (The Lodger) and Jonathan Latimer (The Glass Key) penned the screenplay based on the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window).

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New on Blu-ray: A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948) Starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and John Lund

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Product Description: From Billy Wilder, the legendary director of Five Graves to Cairo, Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes comes this classic comedy that mixes romance with hard-boiled wit in a story about stiff-necked Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur, Easy Living) mired in jaded postwar Berlin. As she investigates the morale of American troops, she is cynically wooed by fellow Iowan Captain John Pringle (John Lund, The Mating Season), who is trying to cover up his affair with Nazi-tainted chanteuse Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution). In this often amusing and forever endearing film, Wilder peppers the love story with tart dialogue and satiric jabs at Midwestern naïveté. A Foreign Affair features the wonderful character actor Millard Mitchell (Singin’ in the Rain) as Colonel Rufus J. Plummer.

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