Kino Lorber have dated and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Henry Hathaway's film
The House on 92nd Street (1945), starring William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, and Leo G. Carroll. The release will be available for purchase on November 15.
Synopsis: Set in New York during World War II, The House On 92nd Street is a riveting spy thriller. Reporting to FBI counterterrorist agent George Briggs (Lloyd Nolan), William Dietrich (William Eythe) becomes a double agent in order to infiltrate a cell of German spies gathering information about construction of the atom bomb. Hoping to identify its highest-level operatives, the FBI allows the spy ring to continue operations in their 92nd Street headquarters. As the Nazis close in on the bomb, the tension explodes in this gripping film!
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Noir Historian Eddie Muller
- Film Noir Trailer Gallery
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The distributors have also dated their upcoming Blu-ray release of dierctor Charles Crichton's comedy
The Battle of the Sexes (1960), starring Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Donald Pleasence, Michael Goodliffe, and Ernest Thesiger. The release will be available for purchase on November 1.
Synopsis:
The Battle of the Sexes deals with James Turber's favorite theme -- the endless war between man and women. Peter Sellers is hilarious as the meek accountant in a Scottish kilt factory who is finally driven to several zany murder attempts on his favorite adversary, an attractive American efficiency expert. Cinematography by Freddie Francis (
The Innocents,
The Elephant Man).