Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 24, 2016
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber
Arthur Ripley’s 1946 film noir The Chase takes the classic “wrong man” noir premise to unexpected extremes.
Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan in The Chase
Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder) stars as Chuck Scott, a down-on-his-luck veteran who lands a job as a chauffeur to a sadistic millionaire (Steve Cochran, Private Hell 36) and his reptilian bodyguard (Peter Lorre, The Man Who Knew Too Much). Scott plays white knight to his boss’s suffering wife (Michele Morgan, Remorques), stealing her away to Havana. But when she is fatally stabbed in a crowded nightclub, Scott is accused of murder, and must flee the shadowy streets of Cuba in a reckless attempt to prove his innocence.
Adapting a novel by Cornell Woolrich (author of Rear Window and The Bride Wore Black), screenwriter Philip Yordan (The Big Combo) introduced a number of twists to the original story, including a third-act surprise that transforms a seemingly conventional story of an ill-fated love into something truly unique and—to utilize an over-used term—surreal.
Mastered in HD from 35mm elements preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, Kino’s DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film include a commentary by filmmaker Guy Maddin (The Forbidden Room), a major fan of the film; two radio adaptations of Cornell Woolrich’s source novel, The Black Path of Fear, starring Brian Donlevy and Cary Grant; and a selection of film noir trailers
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