DVD Format: Thinpak, Academy , 1.33:1, Black and White
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Supplements
Border Incident (1949)
Commentary by film historian Dana Polan
Theatrical Trailer
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Commentary by film historian Vivian Sobchack
Lady in the Lake (1946)
Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
Theatrical Trailer
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Commentary by film historian Glenn Erickson
Theatrical Trailer
The Racket (1951)
Commentary by film historian Eddie Mueller
Theatrical Trailer
Bonus Disc (exclusive to set)
Documentary: Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Vintage Shorts
Woman in Hiding
You, the People
Forbidden Passage
The Luckiest Guy in the World
A Gun in his Hand
Review
Six disc box set of five features, all exclusive to this box set. The highlight of the set is Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1952), starring Robert Ryan as a tightly-wound cop and Ida Lupino as a blind woman who makes him question his unforgiving certainty in street justice. Anthony Mann's Border Incident (1949), starring Ricardo Mantalban and George Murphy as undercover agents investigating illegal human traffic in slave labor, places his noir sensibility in the barren California/Mexico border. Robert Montgomery directs and stars as Philip Marlowe in Lady in the Lake (1947), a Raymond Chandler adaptation directed almost entirely in a first person style. Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell star in the offbeat His Kind of Woman (1951), co-starring Vincent Price and Tim Holt, and Mitchum and Ryan are cop and crook (respectively) in The Racket (1951), co-starring Lizabeth Scott. Also exclusive to this box set is the feature-length documentary Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light on a disc that also features 5 vintage "Crime Doesn't Pay" short subjects.