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. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker (who would collaborate again on The Fallen Idol and The Third Man) create images of stunning depth for this intense, spiritual depiction of a man's ultimate confrontation with himself.
Set Contains:
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- 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
