Black Tuesday Limited Edition Blu-Ray

With a screenplay by Sydney Boehm (The Big Heat) and directed by Hugo Fregonese (Man in the Attic), Black Tuesday is an explosive crime drama starring one of Hollywood's most beloved tough guys: Edward G. Robinson, the star of Little Caesar, The Last Gangster, I am the Law, and Key Largo. Vincent Canelli (Robinson) is a violent gangster serving his sentence on death row—but he has no intention of ending up in the electric chair. According to a plan devised by his mistress Hatti (Jean Parker, Dead Man's Eyes), Canelli stages an escape from prison the night before his execution and takes several hostages in the process. Canelli is joined by another death row inmate, Peter Manning (Peter Graves, Stalag 17), and hopes to find out where Manning hid his stolen loot before he was sentenced. But is Manning willing to pay the price for freedom and look the other way when the psychopathic Canelli revels in murder and destruction?Hollywood gangster films were most successful in the early 1930s, but reemerged in the 1940s and the following decade when crime films became popular again in the postwar period. Black Tuesday ranks highly alongside Key Largo, White Heat, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye and is one of the finest gangster films from this later cycle—when old-fashioned wiseguys met film noir sensibility. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present this important crime film from the 1950s on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from an astonishing new restoration.

LIMITED EDITION BONUS FEATURES:

Limited edition of 2000 copies | Limited edition O-Card case with new artwork by Scott Saslow | 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray from a 2K scan of 35mm fine-grain film | Optional English subtitles | All-new audio commentary with film noir expert Sergio Angelini, host of the Tipping My Fedora podcast | From Argentina to Hollywood - A brand new interview with film historian Sheldon Hall about director Hugo Fregonese | No Escape - A brand new video essay by Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City | A brand new video interview with critic and co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato Ehsan Khoshbakht | Trailer for the film | PLUS: A collection of new texts on Black Tuesday by critic Barry Forshaw and film writer Craig Ian Mann

PRESS

”Edward G. Robinson as gangster Vincent Canelli in Black Tuesday ... displays a sadistic streak that only James Cagney in White Heat can match" - Alain Silver, film historian and critic