Four Film Noir Classics: The Dark Mirror / Secret Beyond the Door / Force of Evil / The Big Combo (BOX) [4DVD]+[4Blu-Ray] [Region Free] (English audio)

Even though in this box set these are not the best films from the directorsAll are quite good and all are important to the story of film noir, a visual and emotional style not genre as some call it, noir films can be in many different genre, Westerns, Musicals, melodrama, even comedies, so these 4 films are all different in the genre but the same in the style, Force Of Evil is most definitely the prize winner for acting and storytelling, visually the prize goes to the Big Comb, John Alton at his best for his superb lighting, “The Dark Mirror” gets the prize for Mystery, and Secret Beyond the Door gets the prize for suspenseIt is a great box set with many supplements and commentaries for all 4 films, beautifully transfer in high definition

Splendid package of four movies from a Hollywood now long gone, each a classic and presenting a different aspect of noir.Headed up (in my opinion, as this was the film I most wanted) is “The Big Combo”, a gritty, violent crime drama, falling foul of the censor at the time of its release, in which police lieutenant Cornel Wilde is determined to bring mob boss Richard Conte to justice; “Secret Behind The Door” is director Fritz Lang in Hitchcock territory as newly wed Joan Bennett has doubts about husband Michael Redgrave’s past and that room he keeps locked; another dark theme comes with “The Dark Mirror” in which both psychologist Lew Ayres and police detective Thomas Mitchell try to fathom which identical twin sister (Olivia de Havilland in a dual role) committed the murder; and back in underworld territory “Force Of Evil” finds John Garfield in a taut situation as, while planning to make a fortune in the numbers (betting) racket, he also wants to protect his brother Thomas Gomez who refuses to get involved in the scheme.All films are beautifully restored and come in separate cases, packaged together in a sturdy outer box together with a 58 page, hardcover book and a poster. Each film has a soundtrack commentary and a stack of Special Features, several specially produced for this collection and, if working out prices for each movie, they’d cost less than many individual BluRay/DVD releases. In fact I purchased the set from one of Amazon’s sellers (Speedyhen) which was a few quid cheaper than the Amazon price – and delivered just as promptly!

I've just finished watching this classic collection off film noirs. These film noirs look amazing on blu ray and the boxset is packed with great extras. Plus the boxset contains a hard back informative book, which features a wealth of information about the film's contained on this boxset. Highly recommended boxset for all film fans.

Excellent picture quality, along with substantial commentaries, makes for a compelling package.One detail in Amazon's description that could be clearer is that all the discs, both DVD and Blu-ray, are region-free.

All four movies, including extras were just great!! Excellent Noir collection!

in good condition