British distributors Network Releasing will add two more titles to their Blu-ray catalog in 2015: Lawrence Huntington's
Warn That Man (1943), starring Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie, Philip Friend, and Jean Kent, and Michael Anderson's
Waterfront a.k.a.
Waterfront Women (1950), starring Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, and Avis Scott.
Warn That Man
This intriguing wartime thriller adapts Vernon Sylvaine s stage play imagining a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill a plotline famously revisited more than three decades later in The Eagle Has Landed. Blending keen suspense and defiant humour in equal measure, Warn That Man sees "professional Cockney" and Box Office favourite Gordon Harker starring alongside Canadian-born Raymond Lovell and British film stalwart Finlay Currie. Made in 1943, the film is presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany...
Special Features:
- Original Theatrical Programme PDF
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 16TH.
Waterfront
This outstanding 1950 drama traces the turbulent life of a seaman brutalised by a life of hard work and hard drinking, and the challenges facing the three children he abandons as they struggle to make their way in Depression-era Liverpool. Featuring powerful performances from Robert Newton, Susan Shaw, Kathleen Harrison and a young Richard Burton appearing here in only his third film Waterfront is presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
When ship s fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated and bent on revenge...
Special Features:
- Image Gallery
- Original Pressbook PDF
STREET DATE: MARCH 2.