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(aka "Fox Fire")

 

Directed by Joseph Pevney
USA 1955

 

I don't care what they call you! I only know that you're all man... and all mine! While vacationing in Arizona, beautiful socialite Amanda Lawrence (Jane Russell, The Outlaw) meets handsome Jonathan Dartland (Jeff Chandler, War Arrow), an engineer at the local copper mine. The whirlwind courtship is culminated in a marriage hotly contested by Amanda s mother (Frieda Inescort, The Alligator People), who has learned that Dartland is a half-breed Apache Indian. To complicate matters, Amanda impulsively turns for sympathy to Dr. Hugh Slater (Dan Duryea, Scarlet Street), a life-long friend of Dartland's, who falls in love with her. Stylishly directed by Joseph Pevney (Female on the Beach), Foxfire features a top-notch cast that includes Mara Corday (Tarantula!) and Barton MacLane (The Maltese Falcon).

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Privileged Amanda (Jane Russell) meets and falls in love with half-Apache, half-Caucasian miner Jonathan Dartland (Jeff Chandler), while traveling through Arizona. What's significant about the relationship is that Amanda has always disliked Native Americans. She gets past her old feelings and the couple marries. But racial tension continues to intrude from both whites and Native Americans. Amanda also grows close to a local doctor, Hugh (Dan Duryea), sending Dartland into a fit of jealousy.

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Theatrical Release: July 13th, 1955 (New York City, New York)

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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

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Distribution Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:31:53.508        
Video

2.00:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 21,443,544,983 bytes

Feature: 20,541,548,544 bytes

Video Bitrate: 26.44 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate Blu-ray:

Audio

DTS-HD Master Audio English 1554 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1554 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Commentary:

Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Subtitles English, None
Features Release Information:
Studio: Kino

 

2.00:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 21,443,544,983 bytes

Feature: 20,541,548,544 bytes

Video Bitrate: 26.44 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger
 • Theatrical Trailer (2:16)


 Blu-ray Release Date: December 11th, 2018
 Standard Blu-ray Case

Chapters 8

 

 

Comments:

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

As Kat Ellinger reminds us in the commentary - Foxfire was shot in Technicolor (3-strip) and Kino Lorber's Blu-ray in 1080P with a supportive bitrate exports those colors brilliantly. It is the best feature of the presentation which can tend to look a bit fragmented in reproducing the grain. But the depth and detail are strong elements to the visuals. Without analyzing under a microscope this easily towers above SD/   

The audio is transferred in 2.0 channel mono via a 16-bit DTS-HD Master track sounding consistent. The film features a few effects and a supportive score by Frank Skinner (Madame X, Magnificent Obsession, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, All That Heaven Allows, and The Naked City) comes across well via the lossless. The audio quality is strong. There are optional English (SDH) subtitles on this Region 'A' Blu-ray.

Kino offer up a new audio commentary by go-to gal Kat Ellinger who talks a lot of racism involving native Americans, the story, Jane Russell as tomboy and her characterizations as a brash independent women within constraints of the sexist studio system. It is, again, excellent and probing. There is also a trailer.

Foxfire is a very interesting adventure-romance with a desert setting and keen support by Dan Duryea. Jane Russell's outfits look great in Technicolor but my eyes were on sassy Mara Corday (The Giant Claw). Chandler was superb as the half-Apache mining engineer although the story doesn't evolve too briskly. The Blu-ray transfer is pleasing from a surface standpoint and most viewers will be pleased with the visually-appealing appearance. The value is augmented by the Ellinger commentary and, alone, this encourages a recommendation. This is an attractive, engaging film experience to celebrate its era.

Gary Tooze

 

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