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S E A R C H D V D B e a v e r |
(aka ' The 7th Victim')
Directed
by Mark Robson
USA 1943
The 2024 Criterion 4K UHD and Blu-ray of The Seventh Victim is reviewed / compared HERE
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The Seventh Victim (1943). Producer Val Lewton has misleadingly been called a master of horror when in fact he mainly made cheap, noirish art movies that were marketed as horror items. The first three, justly celebrated (and sometimes genuinely scary), were directed by the great Jacques Tourneur—Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) The Leopard Man (1943)—but the greatest and most densely plotted of them, directed by Mark Robson, came right after these. Packing an inordinate number of vivid characters into 71 minutes, this doom-ridden tale about a cult of devil worshipers in Greenwich Village—-including a lonely girl looking for her lost sister, a resurrection of the shrink from Cat People, a couple of lesbian characters, a detective, a lawyer, and a poet—-has a moment that anticipates the shower murder in Psycho, and an overall feeling for desolate city streets at night that was virtually Lewton’s signature. From Jonathan Rosenbaum's article 'Ten Overlooked Noirs' on DVDBeaver HERE |
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Theatrical Release: May 8th, 1943
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DVD Review: Warner (Val Lewton Box) - Region 1 - NTSC
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Comes in the Val
Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I
Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The
Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)
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Warner Region 1 - NTSC |
| Runtime | 1:10:48 |
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1.33:1
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NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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| Audio | English (Dolby Digital 2.0) . |
| Subtitles | English, French, Spanish, None |
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Release Information: Studio: Warner Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details:
• Featurette: Shadows
in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (53:20) Chapters 22 |
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The 2024 Criterion 4K UHD and
Blu-ray of The Seventh Victim is
reviewed / compared
HERE The transfer looks quite acceptable with some minor speckles throughout. For the most part detail is strong with some occasional lapses into haziness. I can state with assurance that it is superior to the French edition HERE . The film is pure Noir magic and is one of my favorite in the entire Lewton package - there are some amazingly well-crafted scenes. At present, the only way to obtain this NTSC edition is on the Lewton Boxset - but it is just another valid reason to purchase as far as I am concerned. A must-own DVD package. |
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Comes in the Val
Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I
Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The
Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)
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