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

ADDITION: Imprint Blu-ray (December 2023): Imprint have transferred Ralph Murphy's The Man in Half Moon Street to Blu-ray. It is cited as being a "1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a NEW 2K Scan". The 1080P image quality is quite decent - no flagrant damage, consistent contrast and detail. There are some textures and modest depth is spots. It has slight imperfections (a brief vertical scratch and one cue blip in the conclusion) but nothing that deterred my enjoyment of the film. It looked a full notch above SD.

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On their Blu-ray, Imprint use a linear PCM dual-mono track (24-bit) in the original English language. The Man in Half Moon Street has most of its aggression supported by the occasionally intense score by Miklós Rózsa (Time Out of Mind, The Green Cockatoo, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, The Killers, The Lost Weekend, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Double Indemnity) supporting the film's moods adding atmosphere. Imprint offer optional English subtitles on their Region FREE Blu-ray.

The Imprint Blu-ray offers a new commentary by, our favorite, film historian Tim Lucas. Tim talks about the score by Rozsa - who was at the height of his abilities, and the film's love theme. He discusses the careers of actor Paul Cavanagh (as Dr. Henry Latimer - not Gavin Elster), Edmund Breon, Danish born but Swedish-raised Nils Asther, extensively about the life of Helen Walker, Reinhold Schünzel, playwright Barré Lyndon, art directors Hans Dreier + Walter H. Tyler, the remake, The Man Who Could Cheat Death - he describes how they created the aging effects and eventually he reads from the Pressbook of The Man in Half Moon Street and discusses rejuvenation experiments. It's another excellent commentary from Tim.

Ralph Murphy's The Man in Half Moon Street has never even been released on DVD to date. The idea of seeking a medical solution to become ageless is not new from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to The Wasp Woman. The Man in Half Moon Street is based on a 1939 West End play of the same title by Barré Lyndon. I enjoyed Helen Walker (my favorite Impact, plus Heaven Can Wait, Lucky Jordan, Cluny Brown and of course, another favorite Nightmare Alley.) There are science-fiction, noir, crime and romance elements in The Man in Half Moon Street. Eternal youth is not what it's cracked up to be as it always seems to go hand-in-hand with murder. I enjoyed this Imprint Blu-ray of a film I would never have seen if not for this release. Very dark atmosphere abounds. I'm keeping it.

Gary Tooze