Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Damned

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 13, 2013
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Cohen

The Damned movie scene

Henri Vidal is taken for an underwater ride in The Damned.

The 1947 noir-ish French drama The Damned by René Clément (Purple Noon) makes its first-ever appearance on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S.

Set in the closing days of World War II, the movie focuses on a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general, an SS leader and his “assistant”, an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general’s lover, a French collaborator) on board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find shelter. While they sail off the shores of liberated Royan, they manage to kidnap a French doctor to have him look after a wounded passenger. And then things  get even tenser…

The 1947 Cannes winner for Best Adventure and Crime Film, The Damned (or Les Maudits in its native French) stars Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal and Florence Marly and features stunning cinematography by the renowned Henri Alekan (Roman Holiday, Wings of Desire).

The movie, which is presented in French with English subtitles, has been remastered by Cohen Media for its debut on disc.

As bonus features, the discs includes an audio commentary by film scholars Judith Mayne and John E. Davidson and the 2010 documentary René Clément or The Cinema of Sketches.

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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.