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[United States] : The Criterion Collection
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2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #754
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Title from web page
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason (Lolita) as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows
Originally released as a motion picture in 1947
Special features: Postwar poetry, a new short documentary about the film; New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill; New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score; Home, James, a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown; Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy; Plus: an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
Cinematographer, Robert Krasker
James Mason, Kathleen Ryan
DVD; mono