Spies, stakeouts, corrupt cops, and crime syndicates. It can only mean that September for Indicator will return with it’s Columbia Noir series. COLUMBIA NOIR #4, Set for release on 20th September the fourth box set will present six world premieres on Blu-ray – WALK A CROOKED MILE (1948), WALK EAST ON BEACON! (1952), PUSHOVER (1954), A BULLET IS WAITING (1954), CHICAGO SYNDICATE (1955) and THE BROTHERS RICO (1957).
Like all Indicator releases it will have a wealth of bonus materials, including expert commentaries, critical appreciations, short films, a theme-sharing dose of the Three Stooges, and a 120-page book.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES
- High Definition remasters of all six films
- Original mono soundtracks
- Audio commentary on Walk East on Beacon! with In a Lonely Street author Frank Krutnik (2021)
- Audio commentary on Pushover with film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (2021)
- Audio commentary on Chicago Syndicate with film historian Toby Roan (2021)
- Audio commentary on The Brothers Rico with professor and film scholar Jason A Ney (2021)
- Introduction to The Brothers Rico by Martin Scorsese (2010)
- Glenn Kenny on Richard Quine (2021): the author and critic examines the eclectic career of the director of Pushover
- Josephine Botting on Jean Simmons (2021): the film historian discusses the early American career of the British actor
- G-Men Combat Saboteurs (1941) and G-Men at War (1942): two March of Time documentaries produced by Louis De Rochemont (Walk East on Beacon!), focusing on the FBI’s efforts to apprehend spies and fifth columnists
- Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard (1946): short film examining the day-to-day work of the Scotland Yard detective, much like the one in Walk a Crooked Mile
- Policeman’s Holiday (1949): short film in which an American detective comes to England to assist Scotland Yard, echoing but reversing the plot of Walk a Crooked Mile
- Six comedy shorts starring the Three Stooges, each lampooning the tropes and themes of the films in this set: From Nurse to Worse (1940), The Yoke’s on Me (1944), Dunked in the Deep (1949), Blunder Boys (1955), Commotion in the Ocean (1956), and A Merry Mix-Up (1957)
- Original theatrical trailers
- Image galleries: promotional and publicity materials
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Beth Ann Gallagher, Bob Herzberg, Sophie Monks Kaufman, Omar Ahmed, Jen Johans, and Monica Castillo, archival articles and interviews, and film credits
- World premieres on Blu-ray
- Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units
- MORE EXTRAS TO BE ANNOUNCED
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