Two Films By Douglas Sirk (A Scandal in Paris/Lured)

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Two Films By Douglas Sirk Blu-ray PRE-ORDER



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U.S. label Cohen Media will bring to Blu-ray two films from director Douglas Sirk: A Scandal in Pairs (1946), starring George Sanders, Signe Hasso, and Carole Landis, and Lured (1947), starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, and Charles Coburn. The two-disc Blu-ray set will be available for purchase on September 27.

A Scandal in Paris

Before the dazzling colors, forbidden romances, and unavoidably tragic ends of Douglas Sirk's better-known melodramas, there was A Scandal in Paris . Taking place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this period piece recalls the life of actual con man and womanizer Eugène François Vidocq from his birth in a dingy prison cell to his rise as France's Chief of Police and his life as a criminal in between. After escaping yet another stint in jail, Vidocq and his right-hand man, Emile, make it to Paris, where they end up lodging with a friendly (and wealthy) family whose patriarchal head happens to be the Minister of Police. With dollar signs in their eyes, Vidocq and Emile see plenty of thievish opportunity. But what Vidocq doesn't see is the moral battle he'll have to engage in when he falls in love with the Minister's daughter. George Sanders acts the part of this criminal Casanova with perfect droll charisma and the driest of wit, while Akim Tamiroff emphasizes blundering comic relief as his money-hungry sidekick. A Scandal in Paris is equal parts a whodunit comedy and a romance—but not, of course, without flourishes of Sirkian melodrama, ending with murder and a final fight on a spinning carousel. (SIFF screening of Cohen's NEW 2K RESTORATION).

Lured

Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple (Charles Coburn), a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help. But complications arise when Sandra becomes engaged to a nightclub owner. NEW 2K RESTORATION.

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