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Iconic stories from the age of Noir, (1930's–1950's), from the ‘Lonely Hearts Killers' to ‘Murder Incorporated', delivered in the cynical, pitiless hard-boiled voice of the great crime novelists of the era – Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, James M Cain and Patricia Highsmith… and with the visual flair and blackly comic drama of the Cohen Brothers.Our uniquely restored colour footage sets the epic stage. Stabilised, frame rate corrected, it is sharpened in a way that turns grainy super 8 and 16 mil into a crisply detailed 4K window on the real mean streets of New York more than seventy years ago.
The dialogue and scenes will be lifted and adapted straight from contemporary police and court statements, testimony and newspaper accounts. Real stories, real drama performed by real actors.All interspersed with other ‘evidence' screened for us by our publisher /photographer/writer in his ‘office' – (there is no shortage of contemporary newsreel of these infamous crimes- we'll intercut restored B+W archive and Weegee style photographs with our colour archive and drama).
Colm Meaney presents a programme investigating real-life crimes in the age of film noir, beginning with triple homicide suspect Robert Irwin, a wax sculptor who sold his story to finance his defence and escape the death penalty.
The 1927 murder of Albert Snyder by his wife, Ruth Brown Snyder, and her lover, corset salesman Henry Judd Gray. Brown Snyder had a double indemnity insurance policy on her husband's life worth $100,000. She had tried to kill her spouse several times, but was unsuccessful. She ultimately turned to Gray for help in the murder plot.
American serial killer couple Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who teamed up to con lonely women across the nation, posing as siblings to rob them of their riches.
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