One of the best Fifties crime films, and one of my all-time favorite movies, is coming on DVD — 5 Against The House (1955).
Directed by Phil Karlson — an absolute master of this sort of gritty, nasty stuff — it stars Brian Keith, Kim Novak and Guy Madison. It's all about some Korean War vets who rent a camper trailer and head to Reno for a big casino heist.
It's one of the films in the upcoming DVD set Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1. The other pictures are The Big Heat (directed by Fritz Lang), The Lineup (from Don Siegel), Murder By Contract and The Sniper.
You can't go wrong with this thing, people.
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