Official Film Noir on Blu-ray Thread

[playingphysicist]

Originally Posted by BlueRagtop

Say what?

Laura, Fallen Angel, Boomerang!, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Edge of Doom, While the City Sleeps, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt...

That's 7 right there.

A couple of those are more like police procedurals. I also think Laura (although considered a classic) sort of predates noirs in style.

[bonehica]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Meant to say Humphrey Bogart and Robert Ryan (speaking of which, Dead Reckoning and Act of Violence are major noir films still AWOL on the format.)

Here, here! Also, while not quite up to par with those two, I would love The Woman on the Beach on blu. Ryan and Bennett directed by the great Jean Renoir.

[playingphysicist]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Same with quasi-pal/frequent costar Kirk Douglas...it's wild actually how much of their early careers consist of film noir, especially since their film debuts were the same year, and in noir.

Noirs were cheap to make, alot of guys got started out in them - Vincent Price and Raymond Burr are a couple other names that were heavy in noirs early in their careers.

[lemonski]

If you haven't seen it, check out Robert Ryan in Beware My Lovely - he will absolutely make your skin crawl.

It's in one of Imprint's Essential Film Noir collections, they have a standard edition out as well.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by lemonski

If you haven't seen it, check out Robert Ryan in Beware My Lovely - he will absolutely make your skin crawl.

It's in one of Imprint's Essential Film Noir collections, they have a standard edition out as well.

I just watched that one a couple of days ago. Fun little movie.

[Taylor3978]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Dead Reckoning and Act of Violence are major noir films still AWOL on the format.

Act of Violence is such a great film! Early Fred Zinnemann (he had lost his parents in the Holocaust), great nighttime scenes of Bunker Hill, and Mary Astor playing a prostitute at a time when she could mostly just get roles playing mothers. Someone please release this on BD!

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Dead Reckoning and Act of Violence are major noir films still AWOL on the format.)

Dead Reckoning has two blu-ray releases, and the French release is Region A compatible:

[Noir Black Schwarz]

Originally Posted by Gunsnroses092789

It's out of print, unfortunately.

Well that doesn't exactly help me. Why tell me it is available internationally if it really isn't available?

Anyway, finally had time to tackle another movie, this time Undercover Girl. I am amazed that there was a movie that starred a female lead going undercover. The movie was a tad slow moving, but it was very well done and different from others.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by playingphysicist

I also think Laura (although considered a classic) sort of predates noirs in style.

Laura is 1944, right in the thick of the classic noir period. It doesn’t predate noirs; it >is< one.

[WaverBoy]

My most wanted classic noirs on Blu:

Stranger on the Third Floor
Three Strangers
The Mask of Dimitrios
The Gangster
The Narrow Margin
Follow Me Quietly
Mystery Street
Deadline at Dawn
The Dark Corner

[Taylor3978]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

My most wanted classic noirs on Blu:
Three Strangers
The Mask of Dimitrios

Let's add in The Verdict and call it a Greenstreet & Lorre boxset.

The Mask of Dimitrios would be the highlight, though.

It is kind of perplexing that the classic Narrow Margin is not on BD but its lesser-known remake is. This is how the industry rolls.

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

Who are your two favorite noir stars?

Two?

I cr*pped out trying to get my list below 20....!

[Mattmck99]

Imprint have announced their next essential noir set: https://viavision.com.au/shop/essent...ction-262-265/

Island Of Doomed Men (1940)

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Special Features TBC
• Audio LCPM 2.0 Mono
• Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

The Red Menace (1949)

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray, from a 4K Scan of the 35mm Nitrate Original Negative (2013)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan
• Hollywood on Trial – 1976 feature documentary, narrated by John Huston
• The Hollywood 10 – 1950 Short film
• Audio LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

The Burglar (1957)

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Introduction by Martin Scorsese
• Behind the Scenes Photos & Publicity Stills
• Theatrical Trailer
• More Special Features TBC
• Audio LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
• Optional English Subtitles

13 West Street (1962)

Special Features & Technical Specs:

• 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
• Special Features TBC
• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
• Optional English HOH Subtitles

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

My most wanted classic noirs on Blu:

Stranger on the Third Floor
Three Strangers
The Mask of Dimitrios
The Gangster
The Narrow Margin
Follow Me Quietly
Mystery Street
Deadline at Dawn
The Dark Corner

10 classic noirs i still want on BD

DOA (1949)
Act Of Violence (1948)
Tension (1949)
Crime Wave (1954)
Highway 301 (1950)
Impact (1949)
The Steel Trap (1952)
Quicksand (1950)
The Scarf (1951)
Stark Fear (1962) (maybe slightly past the classic noir era & probably more psycho thriller but still quite noirish, very amazing & very very strange)

[Gunsnroses092789]

Originally Posted by Noir Black Schwarz

Well that doesn't exactly help me. Why tell me it is available internationally if it really isn't available?

They probably didn't realize it was OOP...

Originally Posted by Mattmck99

Imprint have announced their next essential noir set: https://viavision.com.au/shop/essent...ction-262-265/

Interesting set. I haven't seen two, and the two I have seen The Burglar and The Red Menace are great and pretty bad, respectively. I wonder if Imprint will do individual releases for these films like they did for the last set.

[filmlover22]

If I could get this for B1G1 from JBhifi then I will get this and Tales of Adventure 2. Otherwise, this is far too expensive for these films, imho

[koberulz]

They'll both be long sold out by the next B1G1.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Mattmck99

Imprint have announced their next essential noir set: https://viavision.com.au/shop/essent...ction-262-265/

I’ve only seen The Island of Doomed Men, but I’ll be more than happy to upgrade my old Sony MOD DVD-R of it! Great news!

[playingphysicist]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Laura is 1944, right in the thick of the classic noir period. It doesn’t predate noirs; it >is< one.

The thick of noirs? 1944 is the year of the first actual everyone-agrees-is-a-noir, Double Indemnity. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it peaked (in terms of number of noirs made) in 1948?

I am not alone in thinking that in some ways its more of a proto-noir, even this site's reviewer thought that, based on its brighter visual style.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by playingphysicist

The thick of noirs? 1944 is the year of the first actual everyone-agrees-is-a-noir, Double Indemnity. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it peaked (in terms of number of noirs made) in 1948?

I am not alone in thinking that in some ways its more of a proto-noir, even this site's reviewer thought that, based on its brighter visual style.

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is generally considered to be the first full-fledged film noir, and then there’s the first noir giant, The Maltese Falcon (1941), which no noir scholar would call a proto-noir, and that predated Laura by three years. Laura is firmly lodged in the classic noir period, like Double Indemnity.