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Originally Posted by Simon Howson
This sounds like an interesting film, but I think Fox will release Fleischer's Violent Saturday first. Fox made a new print of it last year, which suggests that it has been preserved to a new IP. If that is the case, they surely would've made a HD transfer.
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Seems likely. Violent Saturday is a strong muscular crime noir, but nobody in it generates the heat that Juliette Greco does in Crack In the Mirror. Nor does it have Orson Welles to give the film some soul. Crack In the Mirror is the more interesting film by far.
As an aside, I was in Bisbee recently and the thought occurred to me that this small mining town has changed very little in the 53 years since Violent Saturday was filmed. All the locations are still recognizable.
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Fleischer is well represented on DVD, especially by Fox which has released about 8 of his films. I hope Warner puts Armored Car Robbery in a future Noir set.
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So do I, but 8 is not enough when several of his principle films remain unavailable. When Banjo (1947), Bodyguard (1948), Follow Me Quietly, Trapped, The Clay Pigeon (all 1949), Armored Car Robbery (1950), Arena (1953), Violent Saturday (1955), Bandido (1956), Crack In the Mirror (1960), The Big Gamble (1961), Che! (1969), The Last Run (1971), The New Centurions (1972), The Spikes Gang (1974), and Ashanti (1979) are released to region 1 in proper transfers, I will consider the director well-represented on DVD.
Of the above, Crack In the Mirror and The Last Run are signature works.