Columbia Noir #1 Blu-ray Movie

Overview

Columbia Noir #1 (1945-1958)

Six tough, no-nonsense noirs from six of the genre’s toughest, no-nonsense directors: Budd Boetticher’s Escape in the Fog, in which a nurse and a war veteran take on Nazi spies in San Francisco; Joseph H Lewis’ The Undercover Man, inspired by the real-life case against Al Capone; Richard Quine’s Drive a Crooked Road, which finds Mickey Rooney moving away from comedies and musicals to a tougher persona; Phil Karlson’s 5 Against the House, starring Kim Novak as a nightclub singer embroiled in a casino heist; Vincent Sherman’s The Garment Jungle, from which Kiss Me Deadly director Robert Aldrich was famously fired; and Don Siegel’s police procedural The Lineup, based on the radio and television series, and as brutal a film as he ever made.

Specifications

• Video

  Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  Video resolution: 1080p
  Aspect ratio: 1.33:1, 1.85:1
  Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1, 1.85:1
  

• Audio

  See individual releases
  

• Subtitles

  English SDH
  

• Discs

  Blu-ray Disc
  Six-disc set (6 BDs)
  

• Playback

  Region B (locked)

Review

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		4.0
Overall		4.0

Columbia Noir #1 Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Dr. Svet Atanasov November 28, 2020

The films in Indicator/Powerhouse Films' Columbia Noir #1 box set have been reviewed individually. To read these reviews, please click on the links below:

1. Escape in the Fog

2. The Undercover Man

3. Drive a Crooked Road

4. 5 Against the House

5. The Garment Jungle

6. The Lineup

Columbia Noir #1 Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of these releases is discussed in the individual reviews, linked above.

Columbia Noir #1 Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of these releases is discussed in the individual reviews, linked above.

Columbia Noir #1 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material accompanying each of these releases is discussed in the individual reviews, linked above.

Columbia Noir #1 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Final words for each of the six films in the box set can be found in the individual reviews, linked above.