The Big Heat (Blu-Ray, #1269)

Noir doesnt get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood stylestripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangsters moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin,The Big Heathits with raw, unstoppable force.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
• New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
• Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
• Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem

  New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde