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Directed by Michael Gordon
USA 1950
Newlywed Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino, Road House) discovers on her honeymoon that her husband (Stephen McNally, Winchester ’73) may have murdered her father for business reasons… and now wants to kill her. After surviving an attempt on her life, she disappears, moving to another town and changing her name. She meets a drifter and ex-GI named Keith Ramsey (Howard Duff, The Naked City) who may know more than he’s letting on. Woman in Hiding marks the first pairing of Lupino and co-star Howard Duff, who would marry in 1951 and appear in four more features together including While the City Sleeps and as guest villains on the hit Batman TV series. Beautifully shot by legendary DP William H. Daniels (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and directed by Michael Gordon (Portrait in Black). *** So far as the rest of the world is concerned, Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband (Stephen McNally), Deborah had intended to commit suicide. Now she is the "woman in hiding" of the title, living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. Howard Duff, Ida Lupino's husband-to-be, co-stars as a returning GI who turns out to be the hero of the piece. One particularly suspenseful sequence takes place during a noisy convention, with Joe Besser scoring as an obnoxious reveller. Woman in Hiding would make an interesting companion piece to Julia Roberts' Sleeping with the Enemy. Excerpt from B+N located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: January 6th, 1950
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Comparison:
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Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for the DVD Review!
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Distribution | Universal / TCM - Region 1 - NTSC | Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray |
Runtime | 1:32:21 | 1:32:23.120 |
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Audio | Dolby Digital Mono (English) |
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48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
Subtitles | None | English, None |
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Edition Details: Chapters 11 |
Release Information: Studio: Kino
1. 33:1 1080P Sing.-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 21,895,207,983 bytesFeature: 20,042,004,480 bytes Video Bitrate: 25.59 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger• Theatrical Trailers
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On their
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English language. There are some effects with depth (train etc.) and no
credited score with 'stock' music used to accentuate tension. Kino offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
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Woman in Hiding is a wonderful
Noir that does make one think that Julia Roberts'
Sleeping with the Enemy was somewhat of a remake. Woman in
Hiding
has some of the best cinematography - by the renowned William H. Daniels
(Harvey,
How the West Was Won,
Thunder Bay) with mirror shots, shadows etc.. It's a 'dark
cinema; favorite that I am thrilled
to own on Blu-ray.,
with another excellent Kat Ellinger commentary. It gets our highest recommendation!
***
ON THE "Women
in Danger" DVD set (reviewed
HERE): Universal
has not released a film noir in region 1 ever
since their quartet of releases back on 2004 (to be
fair, they did license a number of noirs to Criterion).
It's really unfortunate, since besides their own
library, they also own a number of Paramount essential
noirs that are sorely missing on DVD. Thankfully, they
finally released four crime dramas as part of "Women
in Danger - 1950s Thrillers" Collection, exclusive
to Turner Classic Movies shop and Movies Unlimited. Like
the title says, the set features four lead actresses,
past their prime, in different degrees of predicament
and danger. Only the first film, Woman in Hiding
with Ida Lupino, can be considering true film noir.
Other titles in the set are Female on the Beach
with Joan Crawford, The Unguarded Moment with
Esther Williams and The Price of Fear with Merle Oberon.
One of the real disappointments is that Universal did
not include one of their best woman-in-distress noirs -
The Woman on the Run with Ann Sheridan that is
currently only available in poor 16 mm public domain
transfers (now available on
Blu-ray!
SEE HERE). Universal
Studios joined forces with Turner Classic Movies for
this release. Four single-layered discs are housed in a
digipack, with one film per disc. All transfers are
progressive, but a real disappointment is The
Unguarded Moment. The only color film in a set, it
is presented in a letterboxed aspect ratio, quiet muddy
and soft. In 2012 this is inexcusable that an old
transfer, probably from laserdisc days, was utilized for
this release. All other black-and-white transfers are
very good, with The Price of Fear being presented
in original aspect ratio of 2.00:1, anamorphically
enhanced. There is very little damage on the prints and
mono audio is good. Extras include a short into for the
whole set by Ben Mankiewicz on the Woman in Hiding
disc, a TCMDb article on said disc and all discs
include a number of stills, posters and lobby cards. All
films are good examples of their sub-genre, especially
Woman in Hiding. It's really disappointing that
they dropped a ball on one of the films in the set -
otherwise this set would have been highly recommended.
-Gregory Meshman
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