NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (September 2022): Kino have transferred James P. Hogan's The Last Train from Madrid to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "Brand New 2K Master". The 1080P image is quite good - very textured with decently layered contrast, not significant marks or speckles and a fairly consistent HD presentation. The short-ish feature is on a single-layered disc with a high bitrate. The pleasing image also shows some infrequent depth.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the original English language. The Last Train from Madrid has aggressive moments with modest depth and credit to Boris Morros who was musical director on such films as The General Died at Dawn, Internes Can't Take Money and Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow. Audio quality is a function of the production era but it stands up consistently via the lossless. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers a new commentary by Bryan Reesman who references Carmen Guiralt Gomar's essay entitled First Approach of Hollywood to The Spanish Civil War Last Train to Madrid (1937), wrote in 2016. He discusses a lot of the politics of the time the film was produced, the causes of the Spanish civil war as well as the diverse ethnicity of the cast. It's quite good and he has researched the production extensively. There is also a trailer for the film and a six other movies that relate to the cast. 

James P. Hogan's The Last Train from Madrid is interesting for being a Hollywood rarity about the Spanish Civil War and may have some parallels to George Marshall's Love Under Fire with Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Frances Drake. That film was also in production during the civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939... without taking sides one way or another. The Last Train from Madrid follows multiple story-lines that occasionally intersect with a fair amount of melodrama - definitely a product of its time but it has an recognizable cast with Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Lionel Atwill, Robert Cummings, Anthony Quinn and even, briefly, Alan Ladd. The Kino Blu-ray does it usually strong job with the a/v and includes an educational commentary. Vintage era film fans may be interested.

Gary Tooze