Press Release Warner Archive Collection Press Release: Side Street (1950) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

COMING TO BLU-RAY FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION ON APRIL 29th!
NEW 2025 1080pHD MASTER FROM 4K SCAN OF BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS

SIDE STREET (1950)
RUNNING TIME: 83 Minutes
B&W
BD-50
NOT RATED
Aspect Ratio 16x9 1.33.1
Audio DTS HD-MA 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH

Special Features: Feature Commentary by Richard Schickel, Featurette "Where Temptation Lurks", Crime Does Not Pay Short "The Luckiest Guy in the World", Classic Cartoons: "Goggle-Fishing Bear” (HD) and “Polka Dot Puss” (HD), Original Theatrical Trailer

Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig

Directed by Anthony Mann

This thrilling Anthony Mann-directed film noir classis follows a part-time postal clerk who, in a moment of desperation, takes what he thinks is $200 but finds himself wanted by the police and the underworld for stealing a $30,000 intended blackmail payment. New York City postal worker Joe Norson (Farley Granger) wants nothing more than to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife (Cathy O'Donnell), who is pregnant. Out of frustration he steals $30,000 from the shady lawyer Victor Backett (Edmon Ryan). However, the theft has higher stakes than Joe could have imagined: Backett extorted the money from Emil Lorrison (Paul Harvey), an innocent man whom he framed in a sex scandal and later murdered. Trying to hide the money from his wife, Joe gives it to his friend Nick Drumman (Edwin Max) for safekeeping. When Joe attempts to retrieve the money and return it to Backett, he finds himself caught up in a murderous web. A spectacular car chase brings a climax to the film, which was largely shot at various iconic New York locations, including Central Park, Stuyvesant Town, Battery Park, the Bellevue Hospital morgue, the Polyclinic maternity ward, Wall Street, Bowling Green Park, the Fulton Fish Market, the Queensboro Bridge and a Greenwich Village nightclub. SIDE STREET is a must-see noir, now looking better than ever as it does on this new blu-ray release!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[ahollis]

If anyone has the double feature DVD of this with They Live By Night, should investigate their copy. For that pressing was in the bad batch of Warner Home Video pressings. This will make a nice replacement and it's a great Film Noir. Also They Live By Night is on Blu-ray Criterion.

 

[cda1143]

If anyone has the double feature DVD of this with They Live By Night, should investigate their copy. For that pressing was in the bad batch of Warner Home Video pressings. This will make a nice replacement and it's a great Film Noir. Also They They Live By Night is on Bluffton Criterion.

Yes. My DVD from this set went bad.

 

[PatrickDA]

The car chase through an empty Wall Street still packs a punch today!

 

[Robert Crawford]

The car chase through an empty Wall Street still packs a punch today!

That's the sequence that always bothered me about this fine film.

 

[Douglas R]

If anyone has the double feature DVD of this with They Live By Night, should investigate their copy. For that pressing was in the bad batch of Warner Home Video pressings. This will make a nice replacement and it's a great Film Noir. Also They Live By Night is on Blu-ray Criterion.

My DVD of They Live by Night and Side Street still plays. The only disc in that Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 4 which died on me was the double feature Crime Wave and Decoy but I was able to replace that disc with the Archive release.