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Columbia Noir #4 (6-Disc Blu-ray Box Set)

Columbia Noir #4 (6-Disc Blu-ray Box Set)

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Limited Edition, bonus-packed Blu-ray box set showcasing 6 classic noirs from Columbia

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Six classic films noir produced by Columbia Pictures in the 1940s and '50s.

In Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) FBI agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) and Detective Philip Grayson (Louis Hayward) team up to investigate a leak concerning a communist spy ring in a Californian atomic research plant.

In Walk East On Beacon (1952) FBI agent Jim Belden (George Murphy) investigates a communist spy ring operating in Boston.

In Pushover (1954) the wife of a bank robber has an affair with a police officer whom she draws into her plot to take the stolen money for herself.

In A Bullet Is Waiting (1954) a sheriff hunts down a criminal who escapes custody after their plane crashes in a remote part of California.

Chicago Syndicate (1955) follows accountant Barry Amsterdam (O'Keefe) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a branch of the Chicago Mafia.

Finally, in The Brothers Rico (1957) a former accountant for the Mob is forced to return to his criminal past when he learns that two of his brothers have disappeared.

Extras

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES

WALK A CROOKED MILE
  • High Definition remaster
  • Original mono audio
  • Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard (1946, 23 mins): short film following the day-to-day work of a Scotland Yard detective in the pursuit of a case
  • The March of Time: ‘Policeman’s Holiday’ (1949, 20 mins): dramatised instalment of the famed newsreel series, featuring an American detective who assists Scotland Yard while in the UK, echoing but reversing the plot of Walk a Crooked Mile
  • Dunked in the Deep (1949, 17 mins): the Three Stooges inadvertently find themselves mixed-up with a foreign spy ring and smuggling top-secret material out of the country
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • World premiere on Blu-ray
WALK EAST ON BEACON!
  • High Definition remaster
  • Original mono audio
  • Audio commentary with In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity author and academic Frank Krutnik (2021, 69 mins)
  • The March of Time: ‘G-Men Combat Saboteurs’ (1941, 21 mins): documentary short from the famed newsreel series created by Walk East on Beacon! producer Louis de Rochemont
  • The March of Time: ‘G-Men at War’ (1942, 20 mins): documentary short from the newsreel series, focusing on the efforts of the FBI to apprehend spies and fifth columnists
  • Commotion on the Ocean (1956, 17 mins): the Three Stooges once again find themselves mixed-up with a foreign spy ring and smuggling top secret materials in this ‘Fake Shemp’ reversion of Dunked in the Deep
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • World premiere on Blu-ray
PUSHOVER
  • High Definition remaster
  • Original mono audio
  • Audio commentary with film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (2021)
  • Partners in Crime and Comedy (2021, 19 mins): author and critic Glenn Kenny discusses the careers and collaborations of director Richard Quine and actor Kim Novak
  • Blunder Boys (1955, 16 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio play detectives assigned to the case of a justice-evading bank robber
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • World premiere on Blu-ray
A BULLET IS WAITING
  • High Definition remaster
  • Original mono audio
  • Audio commentary with writers Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman (2021)
  • From Cricklewood to Hollywood (2021, 21 mins): archivist and historian Josephine Botting discusses the early career of actor Jean Simmons and her transition from British to American cinema
  • The Yoke’s on Me (1944, 16 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio protect their isolated farmhouse from unwanted guests
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • World premiere on Blu-ray
CHICAGO SYNDICATE
  • High Definition presentation
  • Original mono audio
  • Audio commentary with film historian Toby Roan (2021)
  • From Nurse to Worse (1940, 17 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio attempt to make big money through an insurance scam
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • World premiere on Blu-ray
THE BROTHERS RICO
  • High Definition remaster
  • Original mono audio
  • Audio commentary with professor and film scholar Jason A Ney (2021)
  • Introduction by Martin Scorsese (2010, 4 mins)
  • A Bracing Brutality (2021, 30 mins): author and critic Nick Pinkerton considers the tough, no-nonsense cinema of director Phil Karlson
  • A Merry Mix-Up (1957, 16 mins): the Three Stooges play three sets of brothers, creating all manner of chaos, confusion, and violent misunderstandings
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • World premiere on Blu-ray 
  • Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Beth Ann Gallagher, Bob Herzberg, Sophie Monks Kaufman, Omar Ahmed, Jen Johans, Monica Castillo, and Jeff Billington, archival articles and interviews, and film credits
  • Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units
Additional Information
More Information
SKU 5060697921519
Catalogue Number PHILTD318
Product contents 6 Discs
Year 1948 - 1957
Director Gordon Douglas, Alfred L. Werker, Richard Quine, John Farrow, Fred F. Sears, Phil Karlson
Format Blu-Ray
Publisher(s) Powerhouse Films
Countries USA
Subtitles English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Language(s) English
Running time 543 mins
Blu-ray region B
Certificate 12
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