Laird Cregar is The Lodger (1944) (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) in the third screen adaptation of the thriller by Marie Belloc Lowndes (the most famous was the 1926 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock) set in London during the reign of Jack the Ripper. While the city panics in the wake of another murder of […]
Boomerang (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) from 1947 picked up the semi-documentary strain of American crime drama that was born in the 1945 The House on 92nd Street (also from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) and improved upon the original. It’s also produced by Louis de Rochement and features the disembodied voice of narrator Reed […]
