Blu-ray Review Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[t1g3r5fan]

The initial volume of the Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema collection of Blu-rays has been brought back into print by Kino, giving those who had missed out the first time a chance to get reacquainted with these 5 noir gems from the MGM/UA vaults. Deception and murder (Witness to Murder), gangsters and foreign espionage (A Bullet for Joey), robberies gone wrong and hostage taking (He Ran All the Way), rural hideouts and smoldering passions (Storm Fear) and hidden loot and prison breaks (Big House, U.S.A.) make up the heady ingredients of these noirs brought back from the out-of-print dead.



Witness to Murder (1954)



Released: 15 Apr 1954
Rated: Approved
Runtime: 83 min




Director: Roy Rowland
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir



Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
Writer(s): Chester Erskine, Nunnally Johnson...

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[Flashgear]

Thank you Mychal for your your epic and thorough reviews of these KL reissues! Your insight and obvious passion for Noir Cinema is infectious, and a pleasure to read. And also appreciated in reminding me to not miss out again on some of these inaugural 'Dark Side of Cinema' Blu-rays as I try to backfill my collection of their sets, now a formidable undertaking with KL having released or announced all of 15 of these three film sets! Honestly, It's hard to keep up with the wealth of cinematic gems that KL has given us (or has in the pipeline).

 

[John Lloyd]

I hope they release the titles individually too. I am only missing Big House U.S.A.