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New on Disc: 'Cry Danger' and more …

7 Apr, 2014 By: Mike Clark

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Cry Danger

Street 4/8
Olive, Mystery, $24.95 DVD, $29.95 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman.
1951. Like a lot of noirs from the era, this one affords some welcome location work, which often times did turn out to be of L.A. — sometimes one that no longer exists.
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Conrack (Blu-ray)

Available via ScreenArchives.com
Twilight Time, Drama, $29.95 Blu-ray, PG.
Stars Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews.
1974. Conrack’s feel-good message steers clear of white-guy-helps-a-bunch-of-black-kids clichés. A lot of the film is devoted to the entertaining, event-packed classroom scenes, while the cinematography makes the grand outdoors a major character that looms just outside these glorified bull sessions.
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