Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Blu-ray)
Working with his fiancee's father, a newspaper publisher, a novelist frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost...
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.00:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 13, 2018
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dana Andrews & Joan Fontaine | |
Performer: | Sidney Blackmer, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick, Barbara Nichols, Arthur Franz, Edward Binns, Robin Raymond, Dan Seymour, Joyce Taylor & Carleton Young | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Gene Fowler, Jr. | |
Screenplay by | Douglas Morrow | |
Composition by | Herschel Burke Gilbert | |
Art Direction by | Carroll Clark | |
Produced by | Bert Friedlob | |
Director of Photography: | William E. Snyder |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
While perhaps overdependent on coincidence and contrivance, this deft thriller guards its secret right to the end and proved a fitting swan song to Fritz Lang's Hollywood career.
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Radio Times
It is a film of great economy and precision (it lasts only 80 minutes), with the terrifying inevitability of Greek tragedy and a pervading sense that man is his own worst enemy.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
What this tense thriller lacks in action is more than made for by unpredictable twists in the plot, as well as an eerie atmosphere created by the gothic looking buildings and black and white film.
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Empire Magazine
Once he's raised the standard social issues, Lang destroys them all with a shatteringly nihilistic conclusion.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
Says a prosecutor, during the trial: 'Beneath his intellectual and cultured exterior, he was moved by brutal impulses.' Is this also Lang's self-indictment? Or an indictment of any artist who trucks in sexual titillation and murder-as-entertainment?
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
While the purpose may be exemplary, the method the gentlemen employ is highly dubious as a practical exposition. And once it is revealed to prove their point, it should certainly put them in a pickle for conspiring to subvert justice and fool the courts.
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New York Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
There's little denying that this one of Lang's lesser films, perhaps not helped by the impoverished budget.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy DA (Philip Bourneuf). Tom will plant clues indicating that he is the murderer of a nightclub dancer, then stand trial for murder; just as the jury reaches its inevitable guilty verdict, Spencer will step forth to reveal the set-up and humiliate the DA. Somewhat surprisingly, Tom eagerly agrees to this subterfuge. Unfortunately, an unforeseen event renders their perfectly formed scheme useless.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 12,445
- UPC: 888574624095
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