The Big Heat 4K UHD + Blu-ray

Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.
 
Film Info
 
United States 
1953
89 minutes
Black & White
1.37:1
English 
Spine #1269
 
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
 
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem

New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde