Blu-ray Release: The River’s Edge

Blu-ray Release Date: March 19, 2019
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time


Director Allan Dwan (Sands of Iwo Jima) directs 1957’s The River’s Edge, a sensational film noir adventure in DeLuxe color and and presented in CinemaScope.

Anthony Quinn (The Secret of Santa Vittoria) and Debra Paget (Stars and Stripes Forever) star as a young couple struggling with the rough life on a New Mexican ranch; as if they needed more troubles, her former lover, a sleazy bank robber on the run – played by Ray Milland (Ministry of Fear) with shocking ferocity – turns up, forcing them to escort him across the border to Mexico with his ill-gotten gains.

Twilight Time’s Blu-ray edition of the film includes the following special features:
-Isolated Music & Effects Track
-Audio Commentary with Film Historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
-Original Theatrical Trailer

As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, be sure to head over to the Twilight Time site or that of distributor Screen Archives NOW so you can put in your order!

About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.