Edition Details:
• Audio commentary by filmmaker Guy Maddin

• First Radio programme (29:21)
• Second Radio Programme (26:49)
• Trailers: A Bullet For Joey, He Ran All the Way and Witness to Murder
 

Standard Blu-ray case

Blu-ray Release Date: May 24th, 2016

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

ADDITION: Kino Lorber (2024) - Region 'A' - Blu-ray June 2024': This new 1080P image is still from the 2012 restoration - mastered in HD from 35mm elements preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive. What is different is that it has a more robust transfer; dual-layered, 50% upgrade from the 2016 Blu-ray bitrate (which is now max'ed out.) If you toggle between the large linked captures, the improvement (richer black levels, uptick in sharpness) is easily discernable. Same marks, speckles, rounded corners and weak spots (see samples below) exist but this is easily a welcome, superior, video presentation.

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This 2024 rendering also offers optional English (SDH) subtitles (none on the 2016 edition.) Audio gets an uptick, too, at DTS-HD Master (24 bit as opposed to 16) dual-mono. This would be notable in the depth of the score by Michel Michelet (Fritz Lang's Indian Epic , Douglas Sirk's Lured, Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid, Joseph Losey's M) and the haunting lone piano segments. Similar menus and the same extras with Guy Maddin's loving commentary. Since doing it in 2016 - yes, Guy, Face Behind the Mask did eventually get a Blu-ray release in 2012 by Imprint. He gushes about director Arthur Ripley, writers Philip Yordan and especially Cornell Woolrich. The Canuck director loves The Chase. Me too. Still a wonderful, enthusiastic, commentary. There are also the repeated hour's worth of two radio adaptations of Cornell Woolrich's source novel, The Black Path of Fear, starring Brian Donlevy and Cary Grant plus eight (instead of three) trailers; The Accused, Saigon, Force of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, I Walk Alone, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Port of Shadows and The Bride Wore Boots, although none for The Chase. Ohh and we get a new slipcase.

Wonderful Arthur Ripley Noir adapted from Cornell Woolrich's The Black Path of Fear novel. Dreams, flashbacks, PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder,) gangsters, a kept woman, and a penniless drifter taking his shot. The Chase is in the public domain and this new 2024 Blu-ray, although based on the same 2012 restoration by UCLA Film and Television Archive, is quite easily the superior a/v. Still a few warts but I'd watch this unique 'Dark Cinema' cracker multiple times a year. It tends to improve upon repeat viewings. Double-dipping is your call but, personally, I prefer to have this one in the best home theater package available - this is it.