Spies, stakeouts, corrupt cops, and crime syndicates. It can only mean that our Columbia Noir series is back for its latest instalment. Columbia Noir #4, released 20 September 2021, presents six world premieres on Blu-ray – Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, 1948), Walk East on Beacon! (Alfred Werker, 1952), Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954), A Bullet is Waiting (John Farrow, 1954), Chicago Syndicate (Fred F Sears, 1955) and The Brothers Rico (Phil Karlson, 1957) – as well as a wealth of bonus materials, including expert commentaries, critical appreciations, short films, a theme-sharing dose of the Three Stooges, and a 120-page book.

Featuring Kim Novak, Fred MacMurray, Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Abbe Lane, Louis Hayward, and Richard Conte – not to mention gangsters, G-men, foreign spies, criminals on the run, and corrupt cops – Columbia Noir #4 continues the series in fine style.

Comunbia Noir #4 will be released on UK Blu-ray as a six-disc Limited Edition box set on 20 September 2021, with an Indicator store price of £49.99.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY BOX SET FEATURES:

• High Definition remasters of all six films
• Original mono soundtracks
• Audio commentary on Walk East on Beacon! with In a Lonely Street author Frank Krutnik (2021)
• Audio commentary on Pushover with film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (2021)
• Audio commentary on Chicago Syndicate with film historian Toby Roan (2021)
• Audio commentary on The Brothers Rico with professor and film scholar Jason A Ney (2021)
• Introduction to The Brothers Rico by Martin Scorsese (2010)
• Glenn Kenny on Richard Quine (2021): the author and critic examines the eclectic career of the director of Pushover
• Josephine Botting on Jean Simmons (2021): the film historian discusses the early American career of the British actor
• G-Men Combat Saboteurs (1941) and G-Men at War (1942): two March of Time documentaries produced by Louis De Rochemont (Walk East on Beacon!), focusing on the FBI’s efforts to apprehend spies and fifth columnists
• Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard (1946): short film examining the day-to-day work of the Scotland Yard detective, much like the one in Walk a Crooked Mile
• Policeman’s Holiday (1949): short film in which an American detective comes to England to assist Scotland Yard, echoing but reversing the plot of Walk a Crooked Mile
• Six comedy shorts starring the Three Stooges, each lampooning the tropes and themes of the films in this set: From Nurse to Worse (1940), The Yoke’s on Me(1944), Dunked in the Deep (1949), Blunder Boys (1955), Commotion in the Ocean (1956), and A Merry Mix-Up (1957)
• Original theatrical trailers
• Image galleries: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Beth Ann Gallagher, Bob Herzberg, Sophie Monks Kaufman, Omar Ahmed, Jen Johans, and Monica Castillo, archival articles and interviews, and film credits
• World premieres on Blu-ray
• Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units
• MORE EXTRAS TO BE ANNOUNCED