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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
It seems like we've been waiting on this release so long. They keep showing it on Fox Movie Channel.
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Does it look like a new transfer?
Maybe they can't figure out how to market it on DVD? They could just use it as a Fox Film Noir. I think it is closer to noir than Black Widow.
Apparently it was just a B film in its day; Fleischer says in his memoir that it was the first CinemaScope film Fox made for under $1 million. But it sold so well that Zanuck signed him to a 5 year deal.
It is also a great example of the Fleischer paradox - the less money he had to work with the better a film turned out - see The Narrow Margin.