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directed by Anatole Litvak
USA 1941
Working-class dreamers Jonah (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf (John Qualen) fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster (John Garfield) puts the squeeze on the few bucks they ve saved and puts the moves on Jonah s daughter (Ida Lupino), a restless good girl who d just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder. Garfield inhabits his role with the amiable cruelty of a top rodent in a rat-eat-rat world, dominating this early-noir gem based on an Irwin Shaw play originally produced by Garfield s Group Theatre colleagues. On screen it s polished diamond hard by trenchant performances, Anatole Litvak s sure-handed direction and moody cinematography by the great James Wong Howe. |
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Theatrical Release: 14 June 1941 (USA)
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DVD Review: Warner Home Video (Warner Archive Collection) - Region 0 - NTSC
Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for the Review!
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Warner Home Video Region 0 - NTSC |
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Runtime | 1:25:06 | |
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1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio |
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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 | None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Warner Home Video Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 9 |
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The progressive transfer used for this release has a very good contrast, although damage on the print and some marks show that the image was not fully restored.
The sound is good and we get a bonus in the form of an original theatrical trailer. As usual for Archive Collection discs, there are no subtitles or closed captioning. |
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