Network: First Look at New Restoration of The Vise and Blu-ray
Posted May 30, 2022 04:19 PM by Webmaster
British label Network Releasing has provided us with a promotional trailer for its upcoming Blu-ray release of The Vise: Volume One (1954). The release will be available for purchase on June 6.
Label description: Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger, producers extraordinaire – native New Yorkers, they set up shop in Britain in 1952 and, for a decade, became arguably the world's most prolific independent supplier of television shows and 'B' movies, creating nearly 100 films and in excess of 300 TV episodes for the British and American market. Their longest-running creation was one-armed detective Mark Saber, who sleuthed his way through more than 150 episodes of murder, blackmail and conduct unbecoming!
But before Saber appeared on the scene, there was The Vise – an anthology series that nailed its colors to the mast in the opening sentence of each episode: "The story we're going to tell is about people caught in the jaws of a vise – in a dilemma of their own making!". Over 65 episodes a rotating cast played out a succession of noir-tinged morality tales, with each show bookended by a monologue from moody Australian actor Ron Randell.
Featuring screenplays from a very young Brian Clemens among others, this volume showcases 21 episodes from the first series of The Vise – unseen for over fifty years they have been newly transferred from original film elements especially for this release!