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Brand New HD Master from a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original 2-Color Negative & Positive Separations! After serving in the Civil War, an ex-Confederate captain (John Payne, 99 River Street, The Crooked Way) is ready for a quiet life as a lawyer in peacetime El Paso, Texas. However, with a corrupt sheriff, a drunken judge and a crooked landowner running the town, he decides to form a vigilante group to combat them. Hollywood veteran Lewis R. Foster (Those Redheads from Seattle) directed this action-packed western which co-stars the beautiful Gail Russell (Angel and the Badman), Sterling Hayden (The Lost Command), George ‘Gabby’ Hayes (The Cariboo Trail), Dick Foran (Fort Apache), Henry Hull (Lifeboat) and Mary Beth Hughes (The Ox-Bow Incident). Special Features: -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Toby Roan -Reversible Art -KLSC Trailers

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Product Description A small-town fable about violence and redemption, MOONRISE is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's most neglected masters. Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny (Dane Clark) is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancée (Gail Russell), a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. With this postwar comeback, Borzage recaptured the inspiration that had animated his long and audacious early career, marrying the lyrical force of his romantic sensibility with the psychological anguish of film noir, in a stunning vindication of faith in the power of love. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES -New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack -New conversation between author Hervé Dumont (FRANK BORZAGE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF A HOLLYWOOD ROMANTIC) and film historian Peter Cowie -PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp Review A small-town fable about violence and redemption, Moonrise is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood’s most neglected masters. Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny (Dane Clark) is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée (Gail Russell), a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. With this postwar comeback, Borzage recaptured the inspiration that had animated his long and audacious early career, marrying the lyrical force of his romantic sensibility with the psychological anguish of film noir in a stunning vindication of faith in the power of love. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New conversation between author Hervé Dumont (Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic) and film historian Peter Cowie PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp

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From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Five Came Back, Wake Island, The Big Clock, Alias Nick Beal and Hondo, comes this supernatural film noir about a tormented magician played by Hollywood great Edward G. Robinson (Scarlet Street). When heiress Jean Courtland (Gail Russell, Calcutta) attempts suicide, her fiancé Elliott Carson (John Lund, A Foreign Affair) probes her relationship to stage mentalist John Triton (Robinson). In flashback, we see how Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland (Jerome Cowan, The Maltese Falcon), uses Triton’s talent to make money; but Triton’s inability to prevent what he foresees causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief and inexorable fate? Noir stalwarts Barré Lyndon (The Lodger) and Jonathan Latimer (The Glass Key) penned the screenplay based on the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window). Special Features: -Brand New 2K Master -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith -Theatrical Trailer -Optional English Subtitles

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Captain Ralls clashes with a ruthless shipping magnate in a high-seas adventure involving lost gold, bitter rivalry, and deadly danger above and below the waves.