New on Blu-ray: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942) Starring Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt & Karen Verne

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Product Description: When noted gambler Alfred Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) makes a trip to his local bakery to see why his cheesecake hasn't been delivered, he sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) leaving the bakery, and finds that his favorite baker has been murdered. Donahue becomes the prime suspect in the case, so he has to take matters into his own hands to clear his name. Things take a shocking turn when he discovers that a Nazi spy ring may have had a hand in the poor baker's death.

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New on Blu-ray: BRIT NOIR - COLLECTION III (Nowhere to Go, The Man Upstairs & Payroll)

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Product Description: Unearth these hidden treasures of late-period Brit noir, each fully loaded with raw realism and stark suspense.

Nowhere to Go (1958) – A Canadian criminal (George Nader) busts out of a London jail and attempts to retrieve his stashed loot, but he has nowhere to go except into the arms of a disillusioned socialite (Maggie Smith in her first screen credit). This stylish thriller, Ealing Studios' penultimate production, was dubbed "the least Ealing film ever made" by its director, Seth Holt (Blood from the Mummy's Tomb).

The Man Upstairs (1958) – Richard Attenborough hauntingly portrays a man slowly losing his mind while living in a dingy London boardinghouse. Plagued by the belief that he was responsible for a man’s death, his unstable mental state soon leads to a dangerous and potentially disastrous situation. A nerve-shattering character drama directed by Don Chaffey (Jason and the Argonauts) from the novel by Graham Greene (The Third Man).

Payroll (1961) – Traversing the seedy side of northeast England some ten years before Get Carter, a streetwise scoundrel (Michael Craig) and his cohorts plan and execute a high-risk wages heist. However, with the authorities and a vengeful widow (Billie Whitelaw) in close pursuit, the gang quickly spirals out of control. A cracking cult caper directed by suspense specialist Sidney Hayers (Circus of Horrors).

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New on Blu-ray: CRIME WAVE (1953) Starring Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson & Phyllis Kirk

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Product Description: Reformed ex-con Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) has built an honest life with his devoted wife, Ellen (Phyllis Kirk). But that fragile American dream shatters one night when a wounded former cellmate crashes into his home after a deadly gas-station holdup. Lacey is terrorized by a pair of escaped San Quentin thugs who extort his help for a high-stakes bank heist. On their trail is the cynical Detective Lt. Sims (Sterling Hayden), who's more than willing to use the terrified newlyweds as bait.

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New on Blu-ray: FILM NOIR CLASSICS DOUBLE FEATURE - BORDERLINE & D.O.A. (1950)

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Product Description: Two hard-hitting examples of the Film-noir genre, with newly restored HD versions, for the price of one!

Borderline- Two undercover agents embed themselves inside a Mexican drug-smuggling operation--each completely unaware that the other is working the same case.

D.O.A. -D.O.A. is the classic drama of suspense with Edmond O'Brien giving one of his finest performances. O'Brien plays, Frank Bigelow, a real-estate salesman whose life suddenly turns into a bizarre nightmare after he is mistakenly poisoned while on a business trip.

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New on Blu-ray: FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949) Starring William Lundigan and Dorothy Patrick

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Product Description: This is the film that, above all, increased by knowledge of the trade. I learned how to organize a film. Director Richard Fleischer said about Follow Me Quietly. The filmmaker learned well: his subsequent works included the film noir gems Armored Car Robbery and The Narrow Margin. William Lundigan stars in Follow Me Quietly as a cop on the trail of an elusive serial killer who strikes when darkness and rain fall. Slip into the shadows. Embrace the night. Follow into classic noir.

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New on Blu-ray: BRIT NOIR - COLLECTION I (1950-1961) - Cage of Gold, The Ringer and The Frightened City

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Product Description: CAGE OF GOLD

Cage of Gold is a 1950 British drama from Ealing Studios directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Jean Simmons, David Farrar, and James Donald. A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.

THE RINGER

In the 1952 British thriller The Ringer, directed by Guy Hamilton, a notorious master of disguise known as "The Ringer" seeks vengeance against Maurice Meister (Herbert Lom), an unscrupulous lawyer believed to have caused the death of the chameleon's sister. Despite police surveillance, the chameleon infiltrates Meister's circle to execute his plot.

THE FRIGHTENED CITY

A cool British noir set in 1960s gangland London, THE FRIGHTENED CITY follows the story of a low-level criminal (Connery) who gets embroiled in a dangerous racketeering syndicate when he accepts a job from local mobster Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks). A year before he was thrust into stardom as James Bond in "Dr. No", Sean Connery gave a spell-binding performance as the brooding, muscular Irish enforcer Paddy Damion with a streak of rakish charm, with electrifying support from Yvonne Romain as the beautiful gangster's moll Anya and from Herbert Lom as criminal mastermind Waldo Zhernikov.

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New on Blu-ray: CRACK-UP (1946) Starring Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor & Herbert Marshall

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Product Description: George Steele (Pat O'Brien), an expert in detecting forged paintings, is caught breaking into an art museum one night, and seeks the help of psychiatrist Dr. Lowell (Ray Collins) hoping to find some explanation for his irrational actions. With the aid of reporter Terry Cordell (Claire Trevor), George retraces his steps and discovers he's been set up. Soon the forgery expert is sought as a murder suspect and must find the mastermind behind the plot to ruin his name before it's too late.

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New on Blu-ray: THE NARROW MARGIN (1952) Starring Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor & Jacqueline White

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Product Description: Film noir favorite Charles McGraw plays a cop guarding a gangster's moll (fellow genre icon Marie Windsor) as she travels west to testify before a grand jury. Also riding the Pullmans: determined hitmen who know the moll is on the train, but don't know what she looks like. All aboard!

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KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) - Blu-ray Release of Film Noir Crime Drama - Newly Restored Archive Collection

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Product Description: In Kansas City Confidential, four robbers hold up an armored truck, getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck delivery driver who is accused of involvement in the heist, sets out to discover who set him up and to exact revenge. He follows a trail that leads him to a web of hired killers and corrupt police in Mexico.

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THE RED HOUSE (1947) - Newly Restored Blu-ray of Film Noir Thriller Starring Edward G. Robinson & Lon McCallister

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Product Description: The Red House stars Edward G. Robinson as Pete Morgan who, with his spinster sister Ellen (Judith Anderson) has raised Meg (Allene Roberts) as their own on a secluded farm. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath (Lon McCallister) to come help with chores on the farm. Despite Pete's warning of terrors within an abandoned red house in the woods, Meg and Nath explore deep into the forest and discover troubling secrets.

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OUT OF THE FOG (1941) - Blu-ray Release of Film Noir Crime Drama Starring Ida Lupino & John Garfield

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Product Description: John Garfield and Ida Lupino star in the big-screen adaptation of Irwin Shaws play The Gentle People, a pre-World War II allegory warning of the seductive allure and danger inherent in pretending the looming danger of fascism could be ignored. A small fishing town is relentlessly threatened by the local thug, Harold Goff, who extorts cash each week for protection. Everything changes when the town tailor's daughter becomes attracted to Goff as a way to escape her dull, small town life.

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THE BEAST OF THE CITY (1932) - Blu-ray Release of Pre-Code Gangster Classic Starring Walter Huston & Jean Harlow

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Product Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took a page from Warner Bros.' playbook with this gritty, pre-code, gangster classic which provided a major step in the career of its leading lady, Jean Harlow. Walter Huston leads the cast as a respected police captain who leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief. Adapted from a story by W.R. Burnett, whose Little Caesar broke new ground for the genre a year before, THE BEAST OF THE CITY is a gripping and exciting tale, now remastered and restored for its Blu-ray debut.

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I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES (1955) - Blu-ray Release of Noir Crime Thriller Starring Jack Palance & Shelley Winters

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Product Description: Based on the Humphrey Bogart star-making classic High Sierra, I Died a Thousand Times brings the enveloping expanse of CinemaScope and a new color restoration to the gritty saga of old-timer Roy Mad Dog Earle (Jack Palance), just released from prison and leading nervous small-timers (Lee Marvin and Earl Holliman) on a resort heist fated not to go like clockwork. Soft-hearted Earle is so drawn to a crippled girl (Lori Nelson) that he pays for curative operation. But when things go wrong, it's a brassy dime-a-dance girl (Shelley Winters) who stands beside him. Veterans Lon Chaney and Mae Clarke and newcomers Dennis Hopper and Richard Davalos are featured in the top-flight cast. With a taut script by High Sierra novelist W.R. Burnett and a heart-pounding manhunt finale, I Died a Thousand Times is a rousing, memorable thriller. Newly remastered in High Definition for this Blu-ray release from 4K scans of the original camera negative.

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FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXVI - New on Blu-ray (Dr. Broadway, Smooth as Silk, The Great Gatsby)

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Product Description: This collection features three unsung gems of classic film noir:

DR. BROADWAY (1942) – An Apple a Day Couldn’t Keep This Doctor Away! Macdonald Carey (Shadow of a Doubt) stars as hot-shot city physician Timothy “Doc” Kane, also known as Dr. Broadway, in a rollicking mystery film which marked the directorial debut of Anthony Mann (T-Men, Raw Deal, The Naked Spur). Under the bright lights of the Great White Way, Doc knows everyone and everyone knows him. He’s no ordinary practitioner; when he’s not doling out medical advice, he’s rounding up racketeers and saving a beautiful blonde (Jean Phillips, Among the Living) from a window ledge—twice. Based on a novel by Borden Chase (Winchester ’73, Bend of the River), the plot throws Doc into a zippy gangster mystery set against a glittering backdrop of 1942 Times Square. The lively cast includes J. Carrol Naish, Richard Lane, Eduardo Ciannelli and Joan Woodbury.

SMOOTH AS SILK (1946) – He Takes What He Wants… A Lady’s Lips, A Lover’s Life! A slick lawyer attempts to get away with murder in Smooth as Silk, a fast-paced noir thriller starring Kent Taylor (Tangier) and Virginia Grey (Portrait in Black). When Paula Marlowe (Grey) learns her boyfriend Mark Fenton (Taylor) represents the nephew of theatrical producer Stephen Elliott (John Litel, Woman in Hiding), the ambitious actress two-times the attorney and begins seeing his client so she can score a role in his uncle’s play. Successfully landing a part, Paula quickly trades up to Stephen, who announces their engagement at a party on opening night. Determined to get even, Fenton plans to use his advanced legal knowledge to pull off the perfect diabolical crime. Smoothly directed by the versatile Charles Barton (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein).

THE GREAT GATSBY (1949) – A Great Cast… A Great Novel… A Great Motion Picture! This 1949 retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel takes us back in time to The Roaring Twenties, an age of hot jazz and cold champagne. The great Alan Ladd (Shane) stars as Jay Gatsby, formerly Jake Gatz, who works his way from poor fisherman to extravagant Long Island millionaire and then risks it all to woo back his former love, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan (Betty Field, The Shepherd of the Hills). Shot with noir style by director Elliott Nugent (The Cat and the Canary), this rare and ravishing Paramount adaptation was made long before the book became canonized as The Great American Novel. The first-rate cast features Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Howard da Silva, Ed Begley, Elisha Cook Jr. and Shelley Winters.

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THE BIG HEAT (1953) - New Criterion Collection Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD

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Product Description: Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.

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CONVICT'S CODE (1939) - New on Blu-ray (Newly Restored Archive Collection)

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Product Description: A man with a past fights for the right to love in this thrilling drama from a long gone era. In Convict's Code (1939) Dave Tyler (Robert Kent) is being released from prison after serving three years for a crime he didn't commit. His plan is to find the people responsible for framing him. It won't be easy because any parole violation could send him back to the penitentiary. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with a woman (Anne Nagel) whose brother may have set him up. Distributed by Monogram Pictures and directed by Lambert Hillyer, Convict's Code is a prime example of the quick and easy Poverty Row movies that entertained film goers during the 1930s. Newly restored in HD.

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MYSTERY STREET (1950) - Blu-ray Release of Oscar-Nominated Film Noir Thriller Starring Ricardo Montalban and Sally Forrest

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Product Description: Ricardo Montalban is the leading man in this noir-influenced police procedural directed with style and panache by the great John Sturges. This M-G-M production unwinds the tale of a wealthy, married, socially prominent Bostonian, a woman of loose morals pregnant with his child, the hapless bar patron she seduces so she can steal a car ... and the female skeleton that washes ashore on Cape Cod sometime later. Enter Lieutenant Peter Morales (Montalban), the detective assigned to the case. With few leads and little evidence, Morales finds an ally in Harvard-based forensic criminologist Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) to help find the murderer. Striking cinematography from the legendary John Alton, and the exceptional screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Richard Brooks (based on a story by Leonard Spigelgass) make Mystery Street a taut, dark exciting thriller.

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SIDE STREET (1950) - Blu-ray Release of Noir Crime Drama Starring Farley Granger & Cathy O'Donnell

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Product Description: This thrilling crime drama follows a part-time postal clerk who, in a moment of desperation, takes what he thinks is $200 but finds himself wanted by the police and the underworld for stealing a $30,000 intended blackmail payment. New York City postal worker Joe Norson (Farley Granger) wants nothing more than to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife (Cathy O'Donnell), who is pregnant. Out of frustration he steals $30,000 from the shady lawyer Victor Backett (Edmon Ryan). However, the theft has higher stakes than Joe could have imagined: Backett extorted the money from Emil Lorrison (Paul Harvey), an innocent man whom he framed in a sex scandal and later murdered. Trying to hide the money from his wife, Joe gives it to his friend Nick Drumman (Edwin Max) for safekeeping. When Joe attempts to retrieve the money and return it to Backett, he finds himself caught up in a murderous web. A spectacular car chase brings a climax to the film, which was largely shot at various iconic New York locations, including Central Park, Stuyvesant Town, Battery Park, the Bellevue Hospital morgue, the Polyclinic maternity ward, Wall Street, Bowling Green Park, the Fulton Fish Market, the Queensboro Bridge and a Greenwich Village nightclub.

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FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXV - Collection Featuring John H. Auer's The Flame (1947), City That Never Sleeps (1953) And Hell's Half Acre (1954)

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Product Description: This collection features three film noir classics from Republic Pictures and director John H. Auer (A Man Betrayed):

THE FLAME (1947) – George MacAllister (John Carroll, Flying Tigers) is the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance and lives in constant resentment of his rich, terminally-ill half-brother Barry (Robert Paige, Tangier). So George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval (vivacious Vera Ralston, The Lady and the Monster), a job as Barry’s nurse with the plan that she will eventually marry him for his money and then dispose of him. But the scheme turns complicated when Carlotta finds that she is really in love with Barry. Co-starring Broderick Crawford (Human Desire), Henry Travers (Shadow of a Doubt) and Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind).

CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953) – The Creeps, the Hoods, and the Killers Come Out to War with the City! In the vein of William Wyler’s popular Detective Story of two years earlier, this gritty noir gem juggles around five characters through a particularly bad night in a Chicago police precinct: stressed-out cop Johnny Kelly (Gig Young, Wake of the Red Witch); lounge singer Sally “Angel Face” Connors (Mala Powers, Outrage); thug-for-hire Hayes Stewart (William Talman, Crashout); corrupt district attorney Penrod Biddel (Edward Arnold, Johnny Eager); and Sgt. Joe (Chill Wills, Giant), an honest cop trying to keep Johnny on a straight path. Striking urban cinematography by John L. Russell (Psycho) and another great bad-girl performance by noir goddess Marie Windsor (Force of Evil).

HELL’S HALF ACRE (1954) – City of Sin…Toughest Spot in the Pacific! This Hawaii-set noir tells the twisting tale of ex-racketeer Chet Chester (Wendell Corey, Desert Fury), who is being blackmailed by his former partners-in-crime. When Chester’s gal Sally (Nancy Gates, Suddenly) kills one of his enemies, he assumes that he has enough clout to get a lighter sentence and takes the rap. Meanwhile, a visitor from L.A. (Evelyn Keyes, 99 River Street) comes to believe that Chester is the husband she thought she had lost at Pearl Harbor. Written by Steve Fisher (I Wake Up Screaming) and shot by ace D.P. John L. Russell (Moonrise), this offbeat crime yarn features standout support from Elsa Lanchester (Bride of Frankenstein), Jesse White (Witness to Murder), Leonard Strong (The Naked Jungle), Keye Luke (Gremlins), Philip Ahn (Macao) and the great Marie Windsor (The Killing).

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THE GLASS WEB 3D (1953) - Blu-ray Release of Film Noir Starring Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe and Marcia Henderson

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Product Description: Gorgeously remastered for the very first time in 3-D by 3-D Film Archive! Film noir legend Edward G. Robinson (Scarlet Street, Night Has a Thousand Eyes) spins The Glass Web—the ultimate in shocking 3-D suspense! Television writer Don (John Forsythe, In Cold Blood) has been having an affair with ice-cold actress Paula (Kathleen Hughes, Three Bad Sisters) while working on the weekly authentic TV show Crime of the Week. When Paula demands a ransom to keep the affair from Don’s wife (Marcia Henderson, All I Desire), he agrees. However, as he arrives to deliver the money, he finds Paula dead. Soon, the show’s researcher, Henry (Robinson), proposes that their next episode should reenact Paula’s murder…and that he has incriminating evidence against Don. This twist-filled noir classic was filmed in three glorious dimensions by legendary director Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Tattered Dress).

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