Blu-ray Release: Hell and High Water

Blu-ray Release Date: June  13, 2017
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time


Director Samuel Fuller (The Naked KissShock Corridor) uncorks a mad Cold War adventure with Hell and High Water (1954), shot in CinemaScope even as it takes place mostly on a submarine commanded by Richard Widmark (Night and The City) at his toughest.

He and his cohorts are bound for the Arctic, hoping to uncover and thwart a plot to start a nuclear war with an atomic incident that will be blamed on the United States. Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, and Cameron Mitchell also star; super-cinematographer Joe MacDonald is behind the camera; and the score is by the one and only Alfred Newman.

Special features on this Twilight Time edition include the following:
-Isolated Music Track
-Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
-Original Theatrical Trailers

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 prebook 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.