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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305189350 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6305189358 Label: Kino Video Manufacturer: Kino Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino Video Release Date: November 11, 1998 Running Time: 84 minutes Studio: Kino Video Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 1929 Sales Rank: 4158 Related Items:
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 Rating: - There's no excuse for bad behaviorIn director Roland West's early talkie ALIBI, a recently paroled prohibition-era mobster named Chick Williams (Morris) is suspected of murdering a cop despite the excuse that he was watching a movie with the slain man's daughter at the time. The police plant a spy (Toomey) in the Williams gang who tries to get evidence against him, but the man ends up being murdered. His extended death scene is full of histrionics and odd dialogue. A camera mounted on the front bumper of a car privides ... Read More Rating: - Amazing early talkie.The number of early sound films that can hold interest beyond historical curiosity are few; Roland West is able to do more in the first reel of "Alibi" than even Hitchcock could accomplish in "Blackmail." Menzies' sets give an incredible sense of solitude and menace, and the gradual twists in the plot would not be duplicated until the 1940's. (As a footnote, one of the songs performed in the gangster's speakeasy, "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours," served as the inspirational background for ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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