The Film Detective has selected Oct. 25 as the street date
for a newly-restored (with original 35mm film elements) Blu-ray presentation of
director Lewis Allen’s 1954 film noir
political thriller, Suddenly!, starring Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and Nancy
Gates.
This will be the first time that Suddenly! has been
released on Blu-ray in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.75:1 (as
opposed to the standard TV crop of 4:3 or 1.33:1).
The film would have a devastating impact upon Frank Sinatra,
as it — along with his 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate — would
foreshadow the assassination of president John F. Kennedy in November of
1963. So much so that Suddenly!
was disowned and he forbid the home video distribution of The Manchurian Candidate
until the late 1980s.
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