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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIX
[3 X Blu-ray]No Man of Her Own (1950) Dark City (1950)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
No Man of Her Own (1950) – Every Door Closed Against Her…A Woman Faces the
Age-Old Problem of Her Sex! The incandescent Barbara Stanwyck (Double
Indemnity,
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers) shines as a woman torn between a
comfortable lie and the painful truth in this heart-wrenching noir classic.
Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck), penniless, pregnant and dumped by her slimy boyfriend
Steve (Lyle Bettger,
Union Station), assumes the identity of a pregnant woman
who was killed in a train crash. Eventually Helen’s sordid past catches up to
her when Steve arrives demanding money to keep her true identity a secret from
the man who loves her (John Lund,
Night Has a Thousand Eyes.) Gorgeously shot by cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp (The Big Clock,
The Great Escape) and directed by Hollywood ace Mitchell
Leisen (Death Takes a Holiday,
Murder at the Vanities), this pitch-black
masterpiece of harrowing melodrama was adapted from the book
I Married a Dead Man
by crime-writing king Cornell Woolrich (The Chase,
Rear Window). |
Posters
Theatrical Release: May 3rd, 1950 - August 29th, 1952
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Runtime |
No Man of Her Own (1950): 1:37:40.062 Dark City (1950): 1:37:37.768 Beware, My Lovely (1952): 1:16:56.945 |
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Video |
No Man of Her Own: 1. 37:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 23,011,626,618 bytesFeature: 21,634,775,040 bytes Video Bitrate: 25.94 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
Dark City: 1. 37:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 24,282,596,617 bytesFeature: 22,669,363,200 bytes Video Bitrate: 27.53 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
Beware, My Lovely: 1. 37:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 22,289,765,388 bytesFeature: 21,276,561,408 bytes Video Bitrate: 33.20 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio |
DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1556 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1556 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -31dB |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Kino
Edition Details: • NEW Audio Commentary for No Man of Her Own by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith • NEW Audio Commentary for No Man of Her Own by Film Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Writer/Filmmaker Peter Hankoff • NEW Audio Commentary for Dark City by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode • Audio Commentary for Beware, My Lovely by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney • Theatrical Trailers (No Man of Her Own - 2:20 / Dark City - 2:14 / Beware, My Lovely - 2:01 low-res)
Standard Blu-ray Case inside hard case Chapters 9 / 9 / 9 |
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NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
captures were taken directly from the
Blu-ray
disc.
NOTE: We have added 146 more large
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On their
Blu-ray,
Kino uses DTS-HD Master dual-mono tracks (24-bit) in the
original English language for all three films. There is the anticipated
violence that come with the cycle; guns, a train crash, police raid
etc.) but nothing extraneous in terms of bass response. The score for No Man Of Her Own was by
Hugo Friedhofer (Plunder
of the Sun,
One-Eyed
Jacks
Two
Flags West, Man
in the Attic,
Ace in the Hole,
Body and Soul,
Gilda,
The Bishop's Wife.)
The score for Dark City was by
Franz Waxman (The
Devil Doll,
Bride
of Frankenstein,
Fury, Untamed,
Rebecca,
Dark
Passage,
Rear Window,
Sunset Boulevard etc.)
and there are a few numbers 'performed' by Lizabeth Scott (dubbed by
Trudy Stevens); I Don't Want to Walk without You, A Letter
from a Lady in Love, That Old Black Magic, I Wish I Didn't
Love You So and If I Didn't Have You. I found these numbers
kind of a filler in the film and they sound okay in the lossless. The score for Beware, My Lovely was by Leith Stevens (Crashout,
When
World's Collide,
I
Married a Monster From Outer Space,
Great
Day in the Morning,
The
Gun Runners,
Syncopation,
World Without End, The
Night of the Grizzly,
20 Million Miles to Earth,
The Garment Jungle)
No flaws - the
audio comes through authentically flat for all three, plus consistent
and clean with clearly audible dialogue. Kino offer optional English
(SDH)
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
Kino's Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema #19 Blu-ray is an all around excellent trifecta of important Noir cinema starring the likes of Barbara Stanwyck, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Ida Lupino, and Robert Ryan. Their characters are navigating stories involving murder, mistaken identity, presumed amnesia, illegal gambling, unrequited love, and mental illness including paranoia. Beware, My Lovely is the big attraction never having been on physical disc previously. It's with Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan who had co-starred in Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground, also released in 1952. Beware, My Lovely is a tension-building 'suburban damsel-in-distress noir' with excellent performances. No Man Of Her Own is a fabulous film with Stanwyck at her most vulnerable and compelling. While I love the title of "Dark City" I've only recently gained a further appreciation for the film as noir-crime cinema territory although I will continue to question the DUB'ed torch singer character played by Lizabeth Scott and her abundance of performance numbers utilized in the film. Meh. But I think this is one of the best Kino Blu-ray Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series groupings in years. Great flics - including a must-own for devotees of the cycle and a desirable assemblage of Noir mainstay actors. Very much recommended. |
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No Man of Her Own
Dark City
Beware, My Lovely
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Jack Webb and Harry Morgan who would go on to famously co-star in television series Dragnet, 17 years later.
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