ODD MAN OUT (1947) coming soon from Criterion

[silentfilm]

http://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out

Odd Man Out
Carol Reed

Odd Man Out (Criterion Blu-Ray)

14 Apr 2015
Blu-Ray

1 Disc
SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store price:$31.96

Film Info

SYNOPSIS
CAST/CREDITS

United Kingdom
1947
116 minutes
Black and White
1.37:1
English

Spine #754

Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed’s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason 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.
Disc Features

New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
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

New cover by Eric Skillman

[George O'Brien]

Can't wait to get this one, though I wish they had tried a little harder on some interesting extras.

"Home, James" is a dreary, rather grainy 70's throw away in which Mason revisits the dull town of Huddlesfield. It's been available for years on a dvd of "The Seventh Veil".

[SilentsPlease]

The Region-B Network Blu-ray edition from 2 years ago has the same hour-long "Home James" documentary, but also has a PDF copy of a 378-page post-production shooting script (black-and-white scan of typewritten pages), 8-page PDF of the original press book, and a 4-page PDF of a 1980 flyer advertisement. This kind of thing is rarely done because this kind of content can only be accessed on a computer with a Blu-ray drive, and not many people have Blu-ray drives. Even the reviewer at Blu-ray.com didn't know about this content because he didn't have a Blu-ray drive. The film's video quality on the Blu-ray is good but the disc is single-layer only. Knowing Criterion, they will probably use dual-layer and bump up the bit rate. And Criterion never puts any kind of DVD-ROM or BD-ROM features on their discs.

[George O'Brien]

"Home, James" is defintely not worth watching.

If only they had included Mason's amazing 1960's TV commercial for Thunderbird! "Thunderbird wine has an unusual flavor" he begins, as one's jaw drops. Johnny MacQueen would have agreed.

[George O'Brien]

The new restoration was broadcast on TCM tonight.

[Zool]

The new restoration was broadcast on TCM tonight.

Yeah, and it looked great!