Kit Parker Films, with
sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has not one
or two — or even a half-dozen — but nine classic film noir films on Blu-ray this coming Apr. 9.
In what promises to be a
series of collections on Blu-ray, Apr. 9 brings collectors the first in the
series, Noir Archive Volume 1: 1944-1954. Making the journey for the first time to Blu-ray
are film selections from the vaults of Columbia Pictures.
Kicking off the
proceedings is director William Cameron Menzies’ 1944 film noir release of Address Unknown, starring Paul Lukas
as an art dealer who succumbs to the siren song of the Nazis and betrays his
friends and family in the process.
The following year, 1945,
brings us director Budd Boetticher’s Escape in the Fog, featuring Nina
Foch, Otto Kruger and William Wright.
The little seen 1947 film
release of The Guilt of Janet Ames is the next up in the series
chronologically … direction is by Henry Levin and the film stars Rosalind
Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Nina Foch and Sid Caesar. This is followed by two entries from
1949 — director Anthony Mann’s The
Black Book (aka: The Reign of Terror) and Johnny
Allegro, direction by Ted Tetzlaff with a cast that includes George
Raft, Nina Foch and George Macready.
Rounding out this
stunning nine-film film noir collection are 711 Ocean Drive (1950), directed by Joseph M. Newman and
starring Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru and Otto Kruger; The Killer That Stalked New York
(also 1950), Earl McEvoy served as the director and the film starred Evelyn
Keyes, Charles Korvin and William Bishop; director Earl McEvoy’s 1952 release
of Assignment
Paris — featuring Dana Andrews, George Sanders and Marta Toren — and
finally, the 1954 film noir, The
Miami Story, starring Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler and John Baer with
directing honors going to Fred F. Sears.
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