Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go - The Film Noir Thread

[Inspector Abberline]

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a couple of blu releases in July.Soz if mentioned already.



Victor Mature is Nick Bianco another loser petty criminal who gets shot by the police after a bungled robbery on xmas eve.Brian Donlevy (Mr Quatermass) is Assistant District Attorney Louis D'Angelo who tries to get nick to grass on his accomplices for a lighter sentence.There's lots of arm bending by Donlevy to try and get Mature's Bianco to testify its only when he finds out that his wife and two kids were not looked after by his lawyer and the rest of the gang in fact his wife commits suicide worrying over money and the kids are put into a home.Bianco meets Tommy Udo( Richard Widmark) a rather disturbed and violent gangster.I have to say the plot is thicker than my old mum's gravy and just as bleak.Poor old Nick Bianco is really put through the ringer and especially when Udo is looking to kill Bianco for suspecting him off betraying him.Kiss of Death has an unusual feel almost documentary in style due to all the locations including interior shots being in real locales.Both Mature and Widmark are very good and Donlevy is his usual gruff self but none the worse for that.Overall a great film,and slightly different in style to most noirs's.Checkout the killing of the old woman in the wheel chair by Tommy Udo,a total nuter.

[Inspector Abberline]

anybody purchased any of these Blu yet.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

anybody purchased any of these Blu yet.

They're all on my wish list.

The only one that's been released so far out of those is Kiss of Death I think.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

They're all on my wish list.

The only one that's been released so far out of those is Kiss of Death I think.

yeah September 19th for the Arrow disc,Cry of the City August 22nd and Kiss of Death out now,shame that Big Sleep has not had a uk blu release,same for Maltese Falcon,although the French blu ray is very good.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

yeah September 19th for the Arrow disc,Cry of the City August 22nd and Kiss of Death out now,shame that Big Sleep has not had a uk blu release,same for Maltese Falcon,although the French blu ray is very good.

The Maltese Falcon has had a nice UK steelbook release:



A lot of Warner's Noir catalogue is being released on their 'Warner Archive' imprint so it's doubtful they'll be released anywhere else sadly.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

The Maltese Falcon has had a nice UK steelbook release:



A lot of Warner's Noir catalogue is being released on their 'Warner Archive' imprint so it's doubtful they'll be released anywhere else sadly.

yeah but it was going for silly money,I mean its the same film but it in metal case,unless of course you scratch the lead of the tin and there is gold underneath,The Maltese Steelbook,

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

yeah but it was going for silly money,I mean its the same film but it in metal case,unless of course you scratch the lead of the tin and there is gold underneath,The Maltese Steelbook,

Might be scratch n' sniff?

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Might be scratch n' sniff?

I always hope the Maltese Falcon smelt of Maltesers .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

I always hope the Maltese Falcon smelt of Maltesers .

Do Maltesers smell?

I just tend to pick up the little chocolate balls and suck em'.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

yeah but it was going for silly money,I mean its the same film but it in metal case,unless of course you scratch the lead of the tin and there is gold underneath,The Maltese Steelbook,

It was going quite cheap not long after release (about a tenner I think). Due to the limited nature of steelbooks they do tend to sell out and fetch silly money pretty quick. I regret not picking up The Treasure of the Sierra Madre steel when it was going for a reasonable price.