Samuel Fuller: Storyteller - Volume Two (UK-import)
SHOCKPROOF (Douglas Sirk, 1949) SCANDAL SHEET (Phil Karlson, 1952) Two Columbia noirs from the pen of Samuel Fuller. Directed by the great Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) and based on an original screenplay by Fuller, Shockproof is a story of forbidden love between a parole officer and a young woman recently released from jail (played by real-life couple Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight). Based on Fuller’s quasi-autobiographical novel The Dark Page, and set on his ‘beloved Park Row’ (New York’s equivalent of Fleet Street), Phil Karlson’s Scandal Street remains an effective, and entertaining slice of noir.
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