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Directed by Abner Biberman
USA 1955
Five desperate men...and a girl who didn’t care...trapped on a mountain of gale-lashed rock! Rory Calhoun (Marco Polo), Julie Adams (Horizons West) and Ray Danton (The Night Runner) star in this rollicking, noir-tinged adventure from director Abner Biberman (The Price of Fear, Behind the High Wall). When a plane crashes in the snow-capped Rocky Mountains of Colorado, two mountain-climbing mercenaries, Pete and Jesse (Danton and Calhoun), set out on their trail with the intention of rescuing the survivors. But Pete is lured by the $250,000 in cash they find among the plane’s debris—and plans a real robbery against the survivors…with final elimination of all witnesses. Co-starring character actor greats Thomas Gomez (Force of Evil) and Frank Faylen (The Lost Weekend). *** An expert mountain climber and his partner find a plane wreck in the Rockies, but the partner conspires with one of the plane's survivors to stop at nothing to steal a large amount of cash found on board. |
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Theatrical Release: May 1955
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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:27:37.333 | |
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Audio English 1556 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1556 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1.85 :1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 24,730,157,015 bytesFeature: 22,669,400,064 bytes Video Bitrate: 30.92 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
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On their
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Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Surprisingly with its plot The Looters
has few aggressive moments (a distant plane crash, lone rifle shot)
until the finale with some dangerous military explosions. There is very
little depth exported. The, uncredited, score was by Heinz Roemheld (The
Roaring Twenties,
The
Scarlet Letter,
O.S.S., Four
Frightened People,
Ruby
Gentry,
I,
Jane Doe, Dangerous,
The
Monster that Challenged The World, The
Land Unknown,
The Mole People, 1933's
The Invisible Man) and Eric Zeisl (At Gunpoint,
The Purple Mask) sounding clean with consistent dialogue
in the lossless transfer. Kino offer optional English (SDH)
subtitles on their Region 'A'-locked
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
Actor-turned-director Abner Biberman's The Looters
has an intriguing premise with survivors of a mountain plane crash and
the robbery of a quarter million in stolen cash. The story was written
by Paul Schneider - who had mostly TV credits including two
well-remembered episodes of the original, 1966,
Star Trek series: "Balance of Terror" (the introduction
of Romulans) and "The Squire of Gothos" with
Venita Wolf. The Looters
does seem to have awkward dialogue and characterizations. I couldn't
help but sense some homo-eroticism between the characters Jesse (Rory
Calhoun) and Pete (Ray Danton) in the beginning of the film. This
evaporates once plane crash survivor Sheryl Gregory (Julie Adams) enters
- btw, at the age of 19, Adams she was crowned "Miss Little Rock". So, The Looters
was a good story - not so well realized on film although I appreciated
the greed motivation theme - and superficialities exposed; men liking Sheryl for her looks and the
money being an assumption of relationship enticement. There certainly
are positives including that this is the film's first appearance on home
video. The Kino Blu-ray
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