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The Flanagan Boy (1953) More at IMDbPro »

Collection of 6 low budget, shadowy crime thrillers made by the nascent Hammer Films studios in Britain with minor American star headliners for American distribution. Terence Fisher, soon to be the studio's premiere director, began his Hammer career on these noir-ish thrillers and three of them are featured in the set: Man Bait (1952) with George Brent and Brit bombshell Diana Dors, A Stolen Face (1952) with Paul Henreid and Lizabeth Scott, and Blackout (1954) with Dane Clark and Belinda Lee. Also features Bad Blonde (1953) with Barbara Payton, The Gambler and the Lady (1952) with Dane Clark and Naomi Chance, and Heat Wave (1954), written and directed by Ken Hughes and starring Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke. Originally released in separate double-feature sets.

Double feature of low budget, shadowy crime thrillers made by the nascent Hammer Films studios in Britain for American distribution. Barbara Payton is the Bad Blonde (1953), the wife of a boxing manager who conspires with her prizefighter lover (John Slater) to murder her husband. Sid James co-stars and Reginald Le Borg directs. Brit bombshell Diana Dors is Man Bait (1952), a sexy bookstore clerk who blackmails the store owner (George Brent) in the first film Terence Fisher directed for Hammer. Fisher later became the studio's top director and defined their horror style.