Hangmen Also Die! coming out BD! (1 Viewer)

A very good Fritz Lang film is being released by Cohen Media Group onto BD, release date is 09-09-14.


http://www.amazon.com/Hangmen-Also-bluray-Brian-Donlevy/dp/B00KZKWQA2/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1405362159&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=hangmen+also+die%21

My pre-order is in.....Cohen also has Hitch's "Jamaica Inn", which according to their website underwent a 4k restoration and was premiered at Canne this year. Hopefully a BD of it will show up soon (it's the 75th anniverary).

Looking forward to receiving this film tomorrow.

Also hoping that it includes the missing graveyard epilogue which clears up some plot details left hanging (no pun intended) in previous releases:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s137jc7.html

Close to $40.00 - thats Criterion league That being said I think they have Behind Locked Doors, The Old Dark House and Railroaded.. Id like for those to get HD treatment

David Steigman said:

Close to $40.00 - thats Criterion league That being said I think they have Behind Locked Doors, The Old Dark House and Railroaded.. Id like for those to get HD treatment

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The price has gone up drastically since it was put on Amazon for pre-order. I got it for $27.99 on the first day it was up. I've never been able to figure out the price yo-yo at Amazon so I just pre-order as soon as I can since I get the lowest price anyway with their price guarantee.

DVD Planet has it for 23.99.

As well as being a superb film, Hangmen Also Die is essential viewing for all fans of Walter Brennan who, cast against type, gives an excellent performance.

Family Video has it for $21.99 and they just shipped it last week. Hopefully I get it tomorrow.

Blowitoutofhere video have it for 24 shipped

Can anyone tell me if this will be an all-region Blu-ray? I live in the UK, and am hesitating to order this in case I can't play it. Thanks in advance.
Alistair

Fritz Lang has no bigger fan than myself - he is, for me, one of the greatest directors in all of cinema, but I especially love his American films, even the ones that are not that highly thought of. Somehow, I'd missed Hangmen Also Die - I even had the DVD and never watched it. But after watching the marvelous Man Hunt a week ago I snapped this new Blu-ray up right away.

Well, I know the film obviously has its fans as is clear from Mr. Crawford's starting this thread. And I wish I could say I was one of them but after watching this interminable and speechy movie I don't think I've seen a worse Lang film. His work, visually, is of his usual high standard (James Wong Howe photographed), but the majority of the performances are right out of the silent era - overdone, cartoonish and bad - and the dialogue is all speeches and just terrible, too. John Wexley wrote some good films, so maybe the propaganda and the polemic nature of the script is really Bertolt Brecht (here billed as Bert Brecht!). It just lumbered along for 136 endless minutes - I stuck with it, and the last twenty minutes perked up a bit, but it's not a film I ever need to see again. Man Hunt, made the year before, was fantastic, and The Woman in the Window, which would come the following year, is my favorite Lang film.

The transfer? Obviously taken from several different sources and extremely spotty - some of it looks very good and some doesn't.

It is a bit of a mixed bagel a film, not bad though. I will say the audio hiss that on the audio is some of the worst I've ever heard. Keep in mind my speakers pronounce bad audio even more so than regular speakers.

This is as definitive a "version" of Hangmen as you'll ever get. The ending is now complete and the source for that footage looks surprisingly good. I am overall delighted with the "restoration" of the film Cohen has used, I have over the years owned no less than four DVD versions of it, none of them ideal, even the German Koch DVD with the final tombstone shot (but not other final shots) intact still wasn't complete.


Brecht had a big hand in it, and is also largely responsible for the OTT portrayal of Heydrich and his performance as a raging vicious queen by the great character actor, Hans Heydrich von Twardowski (Scarlet Empress, the original Caligari, much more) is a high point for me .It's so high pitched it simply doesn't become offensive. As a wartime picture, I actually prefer this nowadays, along with Ministry of Fear (despite Lang's own bleatings about how unhappy he was with it) to something like Man Hunt.

david hare said:

This is as definitive a "version" of Hangmen as you'll ever get. The ending is now complete and the source for that footage looks surprisingly good. I am overall delighted with the "restoration" of the film Cohen has used, I have over the years owned no less than four DVD versions of it, none of them ideal, even the German Koch DVD with the final tombstone shot (but not other final shots) intact still wasn't complete.


Brecht had a big hand in it, and is also largely responsible for the OTT portrayal of Heydrich and his performance as a raging vicious queen by the great character actor, Hans Heydrich von Twardowski (Scarlet Empress, the original Caligari, much more) is a high point for me .It's so high pitched it simply doesn't become offensive. As a wartime picture, I actually prefer this nowadays, along with Ministry of Fear (despite Lang's own bleatings about how unhappy he was with it) to something like Man Hunt.

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David, I'm glad that I happened to see your post listed in Recent Topics. The way you described the completeness and quality of this version of Hangmen, has made it an easy choice for me to go ahead and put in an order for it. BTW, 2 other Fritz Lang films that I think are quite strong are 1941's Man Hunt, with Walter Pidgeon, as well as, 1936's Fury, starring Spencer Tracy. Many Tracy fans, I think, will be surprised how strong Fury is, not seeming at all watered down, or sentimental, despite its age.