Excerpt of review from Britmovie located HERE

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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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Edition Details:
� Theatrical trailer (2:05)

DVD Release Date: February 16th, 2015
Slim Case

Chapters 12

Network studio's "The British Film" imprint have been a great source for little known UK-produced movies, including British noirs that prove once and for all - film noir cinema was not exclusive to Hollywood studios. We already covered some of their releases, like Circle of Danger, Home at Seven, The Man Who Finally Died and a treasure trove of suspense cinema that is The Edgar Wallace Anthology's All Seven Volumes. Occasionally, they also journeyed to blu-ray territory with Waterfront and Mine Own Executioner or Hitchcock titles, Sabotage and Young and Innocent. Hopefully, more titles will be covered in the near future.

Silent Dust is a work of Lance Comfort (Bang! You're Dead, Eight O'Clock Walk), a prolific director whose noir filmography according to various reference books is in low 20s. There are no big names in the cast that would be immediately recognized by American viewers, but each one give first-rate performances - Stephen Murray (Four Sided Triangle), Nigel Patrick (Sapphire), Sally Gray (Green for Danger, They Made Me a Fugitive), Derek Farr (Murder Without Crime), Beatrice Campbell (Last Holiday), that elevate this small scale drama, adapted from a stage play, to a tense noir thriller. An innovative cinematography by Wilkie Cooper, who would lens Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, found an interesting way to show blind man's memories by inverting blacks and whites (see the first capture), that reminds of nightmare sequences in Blind Alley and its remake, The Dark Past. The atmospheric score is by French composer Georges Auric - It Always Rains on Sunday, Dead of Night, The Innocents, Lola Montes, Rififi, Wages of Fear and many more on both sides of the English Channel.

The new progressive transfer starts with a StudioCanal logo. The overall image looks very good, with very fine contrast and deep black that help to experience the dark cinematography in all its glory. The source materials used for the transfer has its share of specs, lines and cue marks, but they are brief and never intrusive. The mono soundtrack is decent, with no damage or distortion. The film is in PAL format and the single-layered DVD is coded for region 2. There are no subtitles, but the disc has an original theatrical trailer as an extra. Silent Dust is one of the better representations of British noir and the disc from Network is well worth seeking out.

  - Gregory Meshman

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