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1. Tony said,”This month’s Warner Archive new releases include these never-on-dvd-before.noirs:

   •BERLIN EXPRESS (1948) I have watched the 1948 film Berlin Express on many occasion…
   •KILLER MCCOY (1947)****
   •I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES (1955)****
   •THE TALL TARGET (1951) I watched this one…great cinematography…Thanks, to you, I pay close attention to the cinematography now…
   •PAY OR DIE (1960)****
   •SUSPENSE (1946) This will be coming my way shortly, along with the film Hunted
   •HIGHWAY 301 (1950)****
   •LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)****
   •THE SEARCH (1948)****
   •TERM OF TRIAL (1963)****
   The film with the asterisk beside them I have never watched. Therefore,I must seek them out to watch for the first-time…I hope!
   Thanks, for sharing!
   DeeDee ;-D

   Comment by DeeDee — October 1, 2009 @ 7:55 pm

2. Another most interesting batch here.

   I know my friend Angelo will be having a seizure when he finds out that PAY OR DIE is on the way. He is a huge fan. But Anthony Mann’s THE TALL TARGET is the big one here!

   Comment by Sam Juliano — October 2, 2009 @ 6:20 am

3. “Pay or Die” is a terrific little film. Actually saw this when it came way back when. “The Tall Target” is another excellent film.

   Comment by John Greco — October 7, 2009 @ 4:28 am

4. This is an RKO thriller picture. Their films I will nwever want to outgrow from what I have seen.Anti fascist heroes and a rescue with suspense fraught in the very strands of the film. I could watch such films. Thwey are perennial cultural expressions with Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon. I am going to order and see this one, for sure.Classic directing and cinematography.

   Studio: RKO RADIO PICTURES
   Screen Aspect: 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
   Packaging Type: Amaray Case
   Synopsis:
   Board the Berlin Express and speed into danger, mystery and intrigue! Four postwar heroes – a veritable United Nations from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. – battle a cadre of diehard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman in this tense espionage thriller starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas. The setting is as riveting as the action: Berlin Express was the first American movie filmed in post-World War II Germany. Director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past) and cinematographer Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch) capture the ruin of a bombed and devastated nation that just a few years earlier threatened to rule the world.

   Comment by Edward Yablonsky — October 24, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

5. Thanks Edward!

   Comment by Tony D'Ambra — October 24, 2009 @ 11:04 pm

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