I’ve talked about these film noir sets from Kino Lorber on multiple occasions. I’m always surprised they keep making them. I’m always surprised there are that many film noirs to release. But I love them just the same. I hope they keep making them forever.
This set includes a mostly great spy thriller, a surprisingly thoughtful thriller with a mentally ill killer, and a really rather good remake of a Hitchcock film.
You can read my full review here.
I’ve reviewed so many of these sets I don’t know what else to say about them. This one has three films from Republic Pictures directed by John H. Auer, whom I’d never heard of before.
The films are The Flame (1947) a melodramatic Double Indemnity-esque caper with too many characters and a couple of blondes I couldn’t tell apart. City That Never Sleeps (1953) is a docu-style drama filled with loads of interesting characters and some terrific noir cinematography. Hell’s Half Acre (1953) is an exotic noir set on the mean streets of Honolulu.
They are all pretty good, actually, and you can read my full review over at Cinema Sentries.
Alan Ladd was one of the great film noir actors. He had a star-making turn as a contract killer in This Gun For Hire alongside Veronica Lake. He made three more noirs with her and continued to star in various noirs throughout his career. Kino Lorber presents two of those films in this set (Captain Carey, USA & Appointment with Danger) and then there is one film without him (Make Haste to Live).
The two films with Ladd are pretty good and the other – not so much. But I continue to love this noir sets from Kino. You can read my full review here.
Edward G. Robinson is one of my favorite actors. He became famous for portraying snarling, and deadly gangsters, and he’s great in that type of role in films like Little Ceasar and Key Largo (1948). But he made all types of other films from film noirs to comedies to heartfelt dramas. One of my favorite roles of his was his very last, the bookish best friend of Charlton Heston in Soylent Green (1973).
This edition of Kino Lorber’s long-running noir series stars Robinson during a dark period of his career. He’d been blacklisted by HUAC and could only find jobs with poverty row studios in low-budget b-pictures. These are certainly not his best films, but I just love that they are getting the Blu-ray treatment. You can read my full review here.
Kino Lorber has been putting out these film noir sets for a few years now. I love them. I’ve watched most of them and reviewed more than a few. The thing with them is that they are collecting the b-sides of film noir. The best films in the genre get their own single releases. They get special editions. These films get packaged together in a set of three.
Naturally, not all of them are going to be good. In fact, I only liked one film in this entire set – Crashout (1955). But the other thing about these sets is that I love that they keep putting them out. I love that these mostly forgotten films are getting nice little Blu-ray releases even if they don’t get a lot of special features and come in sets of three.
You can read my full review of this set here.
I’ve reviewed a bunch of these film noir sets from Kino Lorber over the last few years. Not all of the films are great, some of them are pretty lousy if I’m being honest, but I love that these films are getting released in HD.
This set features stars such as Charlton Heston, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, and Ida Lupino (those last two are in Beware, My Lovely a film I reviewed last Noirvember).
All three films are pretty good if not exactly true classics. You can read my full review here.
Kino Lorber, the boutique Blu-ray label has been releasing these sets of three relatively obscure film noirs for a few years now. I’ve reviewed quite a few of them, and while not every film is a classic, or even that good, I always enjoy watching them.
You can read my full review of this set over at Cinema Sentries.
Kino Lorber released two of their film noir sets in October which seemed weird to me since Noirvember was just a month later. But maybe they wanted to get them on the shelves a few weeks before the holiday so that fans would be ready to watch once November rolled around.
I watched these so long ago I had to read my own review just to remember if I liked this one (I did). You can do the same here.
I’ve fallen behind in posting links to my reviews over at Cinema Sentries. I wrote this one for Kino Lorber’s latest film noir boxed sets back in October, but what better time to share it than the tail end of Noirvember? To be honest this set was probably my least favorite one they’ve done. Mostly because the three films are boxing movies and not really noir. But whatever, you can read my review here.
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