Blu-ray Review Border Incident Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

Anthony Mann’s 1949 Border Incident is a chilling tale with the postwar ugliness and violence that we have come to expect from films noir of that era.



Border Incident (1949)



Released: 28 Oct 1949
Rated: Passed
Runtime: 94 min




Director: Anthony Mann
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir



Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva
Writer(s): John C. Higgins, George Zuckerman



Plot: Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.



IMDB rating: 7.0
MetaScore: N/A





Disc Information



Studio: MGM
Distributed By: Warner Archive
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC



Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: English 2.0...

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[ahollis]

Thank you for a wonderful review. I’m looking forward to replacing my DVD.

 

[Robert Crawford]

This Blu-ray does have excellent audio and video presentations. On a podcast, George Feltenstein mentioned they lost the OCN many years ago to a fire, so they had to use the fine grains for their 4K scan. Thank you for your fine review. I have to listen to Polan's audio commentary the next time I watch this Blu-ray.

 

[Garysb]

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[mskaye]

This Blu-ray does have excellent audio and video presentations. On a podcast, George Feltenstein mentioned they lost the OCN many years ago to a fire, so they had to use the fine grains for their 4K scan. Thank you for your fine review. I have to listen to Polan's audio commentary the next time I watch this Blu-ray.

Just watched this tonight. Awesome, suspenseful film. Beautiful transfer and super powerful sonics too! I recommend this to any fans of tight, suspenseful, nasty films. Great casting. Director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton were an inspired team. They are not capable of staging a boring shot. Everything is visually elevated. Highly recommended. My heretical take - This is the only era of MGM cinema - the Dore Schary era - that feels authentic and hard hitting and without putting a glossy, wholesome smile on everything. This film and The Asphalt Jungle are films that could have been made at Warner Bros. at it's peak. That's saying a lot - to me at least.