Friday, September 9, 2022

Essential Film Noir: Collection 3 BLU RAY REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu | ViaVision Imprint


Reviewing and unboxing the Essential Film Noir Collection 3 on Blu-ray. 

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The Essential Film Noir Collection 3 is not available on 4K Ultra HD (UHD). This edition does not include the DVD or Digital HD.


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Via Vision Entertainment/Imprint has provided us with a promotional video for its upcoming Essential Film Noir - Collection 3 four-disc set, which will be available for purchase on August 31. 


Essential Film Noir Collection 3 includes four more acclaimed and much sought after classics including The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), No Man Of Her Own (1950), The Turning Point (1952) & The Desperate Hours (1955).


The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)


In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil, now district attorney. At first, Sam is more interested in displaced blonde Toni Marachek than in his boyhood friends; but they draw him into a convoluted web of plotting and cross-purposes.


This Film Noir classic is superbly directed by Lewis Milestone with an outstanding performance by Kirk Douglas in his film debut.


Special Features and Technical Specs:


NEW 4K RESTORATION COMPLETED BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES

NEW Audio commentary by Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode (2022) 

NEW Barbara Stanwyck: From Stage to Screen to Legend with Alan K. Rode (2022)

NEW Domestic Terror: Barbara Stanwyck and the Gothic Noir – video essay by Kat Ellinger (2022)

Introduction with Kirk Douglas & Alan Rode 

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line – documentary

Theatrical Trailer

Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English subtitles

No Man Of Her Own (1950)


A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this classic Film Noir. Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck assumes another woman's identity after surviving a train accident in this haunting drama based on a Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym, William Irish) novel, I Married a Dead Man. Eventually her past catches up to her when her crooked ex-lover (Lyle Bettger) arrives in town, demanding money to keep her true identity a secret.


Beautifully photographed by legendary cinematography by Daniel L. Fapp (The Big Clock). Directed by Mitchell Leisen (Midnight).


Special Features and Technical Specs:


High-definition presentation by Paramount Pictures 

NEW Audio commentary by film historian Drew Casper (2022)

NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on No Man of Her Own (2022)

The Screen Director's Playhouse: No Man of Her Own – radio drama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Lyle Bettger (1950)

Theatrical Trailer

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo

Optional English HOH subtitles

The Turning Point (1952)


Prosecutor John Conroy (Edmond O'Brien) is determined to bring down organized crime in his Midwestern town. He looks to his father, Matt (Tom Tully), a police officer, for help, but Matt refuses. John's childhood friend Jerry McKibbon (William Holden), an investigative reporter, senses something fishy.


Special Features and Technical Specs:


High-definition presentation on Blu-Ray by Paramount Pictures

NEW Audio commentary by Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode (2022)

NEW Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on The Turning Point (2022)

Photo Gallery

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English HOH subtitles

The Desperate Hours (1955) Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose, as his family is held hostage by Bogart. As the desperate hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.


Special Features and Technical Specs:


High-definition presentation

NEW Audio commentary by film historian Kevin Lyons (2022)

NEW, Writer, broadcaster and journalist Barry Forshaw on The Desperate Hours (2022)

Theatrical Trailer

Audio English LPCM 2.0 

Optional English subtitles

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