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• Black Gravel | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sohnen is a town built on vice for the occupying American forces in post-war Germany. Robert, a local truck driver who sells off gravel from the site he works on as a side hustle, runs into an old flame, Inge, who is now respectably married to American officer John. When the pair are driving in Robert's truck, tragedy strikes and they find themselves covering up a terrible secret From Helmut Käutner, Black Gravel was reviled on its release in Germany for its frank depiction of anti-semitism and savage depiction of a country on its knees after the war. Now newly restored, its status as an important and powerful work of European noir is becoming firmly established. SPECIAL FEATURES 2K restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Includes both the uncensored original cut (114 mins) and the re-edited distribution cut (113 mins), featuring alternate ending Audio commentary with film historian Olaf Möller (2020) New interview with writer and programmer Margaret Deriaz (2024, 19 mins) Newsreel footage from the film set featuring behind-the-scenes images and an interview with Käutner (1960, 4 mins) Trailer Optional English subtitles

• World Noir Vol 2 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  AS THE 1960S BEGAN, THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF FILM NOIR CAME TO AN END IN HOLLYWOOD. BUT FILMMAKERS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FIRST-RATE EXAMPLES OF THE GENRE, WITH THREE SUPERB EXAMPLES COLLECTED HERE. IN HELMUT KÄUTNER'S BLACK GRAVEL AN ILLICIT COUPLE FIND THEMSELVES HAVING TO COVER UP A PAIR OF DEAD BODIES IN POST-WAR GERMANY. IN JACQUES DERAY'S SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE FIVE GANGSTERS BUY A CACHE OF DRUGS, BUT ONE OF THEM IS PLANNING A DOUBLE CROSS. IN TAKUMI FURUKAWA'S CRUEL GUN STORY A GANGSTER (JOE SHISHIDO) EXECUTES A DARING HEIST ON AN ARMOURED VEHICLE.