Image quality looks quite good - heavy dirt/grain but anamorphic and highly detailed. Contrast is, as usual with CTSHV, exceptionally strong. Progressive transfer, and again, on a single layered DVD. There is some flickering and speckles near the end. It has appeal as the film doesn't appear to be on DVD anywhere else. So if you want to see the film with Gloria Grahame in that famous sweater you are going to have to buy this Boxset (none of the discs are sold separately - it contains The Big Heat, Gilda, Lady From Shanghai and Tight Spot from 1955), but if you are like most you have the first 3 already in your collection from region 1. Human Desire is commercially available in a poor edition from Spain.

NOTE: Tight Spot is scheduled for releases in the UK - both in the Ginger Rogers Screen Goddess Collection and individually later in the year HERE.

As a nice touch this DVD contains English subtitles (along with a Japanese option). The menus are in Japanese but there are limited screens and it takes only moments to access your desired choice through trial and error. The English 2.0 channel is both clear and consistent with easily audible dialogue.

The film is a noir must although not at the standard of The Big Heat  (with repeat of stars Ford and Grahame and helmsman Lang). A bit hokey at times but Ford carries it and Grahame maintains her status as one of my favorite femme fatales. The music in the film is quite powerful. Being a noir  junkie, it (and Tight Spot if you don't own it) may be worth the indulgence. One can EBay the doubles although it is no crime to have 2 duplicates of the classics The Big Heat, Gilda and Lady From Shanghai on the shelf. 

Gary W. Tooze