Kino Lorber have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray Howard W. Koch and Edmond O'Brien's noir thriller
Shield for Murder (1954), starring Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Marla English, Carolyn Jones, Claude Akins, and William Schallert. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market early next year.
Synopsis: When a brutal police detective Lt. murders a bookmaker's runner for $25,000 in cash, a deaf mute sees him do it, and now he finds he must kill again to try and cover his tracks. Cinematography by Gordon Avil ( Howard W. Koch's
Big House, U.S.A., W. Lee Wilder's
The Big Bluff). Music by Paul Dunlap (Sam Fuller's
Shock Corridor,
The Naked Kiss).