Network DVD/BD - NEW RELEASES
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 8:55 am
British label Network Releasing has announced that it will add six new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. They are: Man on the Run (1949), Some People (1962), What a Crazy World (1963), The Man in Grey (1943), The Intruder (1953), and The Card (1952).
Man on the Run
Synopsis: A key post-war British Noir unseen since the late 1940s, Man on the Run stars Derek Farr as an army deserter unjustly accused of murdering a policeman during an armed robbery. Co-starring Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey and Kenneth More, it is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
A prison escapee, army deserter Peter Burdon makes a new life for himself in London. Short of cash, he tries to pawn his old service revolver and is caught up in an armed robbery, during which a constable is shot and killed. Suspected of being part of the gang, Burdon must go on the run to prove his innocence.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 6.
Some People
Synopsis: A lively musical tale of teen rebellion, Some People stars BAFTA winner Kenneth More alongside a group of young actors on the cusp of bursting onto the Swinging London film scene. Ray Brooks, Annika (Anneke) Wills and David Hemmings play the young, bored rebels "living for kicks" in this key British film from the early 1960s. Some People is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Young and bored, Johnnie, Bill and Bert are teenage tearaways whose only interests are motorbikes and rock music. When they are banned from riding and fined heavily, they become convinced that society has no use for them. But a choirmaster finds them playing rock on a church organ and, for some of them at least, there seems to be a way out of a no-hope situation.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 6.
What a Crazy World
Synopsis: Joe Brown stars as a likeable young dreamer who finds himself with a hit on his hands in this wonderfully endearing musical drama. Also starring Harry H. Corbett and featuring songs from Joe and his Bruvvers, Marty Wilde, Susan Maughan and Freddie and the Dreamers, What a Crazy World is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Alf Hitchins is an unemployed East End lad whose life revolves around dance halls, amusement arcades and cafés – any place to escape from the family home. Alf's cynical but cheerful acceptance of life expresses itself in the song he casually composes one night – and the results take everyone by surprise!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 13.
The Man in Grey
Synopsis: The definitive Gainsborough Melodrama, The Man in Grey stars James Mason in a career-defining role as the despicable Lord Rohan, alongside memorable performances from co-stars Phyllis Calvert, Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger. This quintessential "bodice ripper" is featured here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Forced into an arranged marriage with the sadistic Marquis of Rohan, Clarissa Richmond is caught in a loveless relationship in order to provide Rohan with the heir he craves. When Clarissa's friend Hesther takes Rohan's fancy, things take a turn for the worse.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
James Mason: The Man they Loved to Hate - Featurette
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 13.
The Intruder
Synopsis: An excellent early feature from future Bond director Guy Hamilton, this tense drama boasts outstanding performances from Jack Hawkins, as a distinguished former officer, and Michael Medwin, as the wartime hero he endeavours to save from a life of crime. Featuring strong support from Dennis Price, and George Cole, The Intruder is presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Wolf Merton, a London stockbroker with a fine war record as colonel of a tank regiment, returns to his Belgravia home to find that there is an intruder in the house – a young armed thug called Ginger Edwards, who he remembers well as one of the most fearless and spirited troopers under his leadership. But why has Ginger taken up housebreaking? And will Merton be able to help him to return to a more honorable way of life?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 20.
The Card
Synopsis: A gentle, Oscar-nominated comedy featuring a memorably charming performance from Alec Guinness, The Card co-stars Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns and Petula Clark in an early performance. Stylishly directed by Ronald Neame, it is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
A precocious child who has grown into a cheeky charmer, ambitious Denry Machin relishes the challenge of surmounting social and other barriers with his amiably affectionate personality. He soon becomes the youngest ever mayor of his home town, but he soon meets his match when it comes to women!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 20.
***
The following release has also received a new street date.
Cottage To Let
Synopsis: Leslie Banks stars alongside Alastair Sim, John Mills and a very young George Cole in this thrilling wartime espionage drama from award-winning director Anthony Asquith. Adapted from Geoffrey Kerr's smash West End play (which also starred Banks, Sim and Cole), Cottage to Let is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Working in secret for the Air Ministry at his remote country house laboratory, John Barrington is key to the ongoing war effort against the Nazis. Barrington's household, however, has been infiltrated by enemy agents - who plan to take him back to Berlin as prisoner.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW RESTORATION
Image galley
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: MARCH 16.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=26502
Man on the Run
Synopsis: A key post-war British Noir unseen since the late 1940s, Man on the Run stars Derek Farr as an army deserter unjustly accused of murdering a policeman during an armed robbery. Co-starring Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey and Kenneth More, it is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
A prison escapee, army deserter Peter Burdon makes a new life for himself in London. Short of cash, he tries to pawn his old service revolver and is caught up in an armed robbery, during which a constable is shot and killed. Suspected of being part of the gang, Burdon must go on the run to prove his innocence.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 6.
Some People
Synopsis: A lively musical tale of teen rebellion, Some People stars BAFTA winner Kenneth More alongside a group of young actors on the cusp of bursting onto the Swinging London film scene. Ray Brooks, Annika (Anneke) Wills and David Hemmings play the young, bored rebels "living for kicks" in this key British film from the early 1960s. Some People is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Young and bored, Johnnie, Bill and Bert are teenage tearaways whose only interests are motorbikes and rock music. When they are banned from riding and fined heavily, they become convinced that society has no use for them. But a choirmaster finds them playing rock on a church organ and, for some of them at least, there seems to be a way out of a no-hope situation.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 6.
What a Crazy World
Synopsis: Joe Brown stars as a likeable young dreamer who finds himself with a hit on his hands in this wonderfully endearing musical drama. Also starring Harry H. Corbett and featuring songs from Joe and his Bruvvers, Marty Wilde, Susan Maughan and Freddie and the Dreamers, What a Crazy World is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Alf Hitchins is an unemployed East End lad whose life revolves around dance halls, amusement arcades and cafés – any place to escape from the family home. Alf's cynical but cheerful acceptance of life expresses itself in the song he casually composes one night – and the results take everyone by surprise!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 13.
The Man in Grey
Synopsis: The definitive Gainsborough Melodrama, The Man in Grey stars James Mason in a career-defining role as the despicable Lord Rohan, alongside memorable performances from co-stars Phyllis Calvert, Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger. This quintessential "bodice ripper" is featured here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Forced into an arranged marriage with the sadistic Marquis of Rohan, Clarissa Richmond is caught in a loveless relationship in order to provide Rohan with the heir he craves. When Clarissa's friend Hesther takes Rohan's fancy, things take a turn for the worse.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
James Mason: The Man they Loved to Hate - Featurette
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 13.
The Intruder
Synopsis: An excellent early feature from future Bond director Guy Hamilton, this tense drama boasts outstanding performances from Jack Hawkins, as a distinguished former officer, and Michael Medwin, as the wartime hero he endeavours to save from a life of crime. Featuring strong support from Dennis Price, and George Cole, The Intruder is presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Wolf Merton, a London stockbroker with a fine war record as colonel of a tank regiment, returns to his Belgravia home to find that there is an intruder in the house – a young armed thug called Ginger Edwards, who he remembers well as one of the most fearless and spirited troopers under his leadership. But why has Ginger taken up housebreaking? And will Merton be able to help him to return to a more honorable way of life?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 20.
The Card
Synopsis: A gentle, Oscar-nominated comedy featuring a memorably charming performance from Alec Guinness, The Card co-stars Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns and Petula Clark in an early performance. Stylishly directed by Ronald Neame, it is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
A precocious child who has grown into a cheeky charmer, ambitious Denry Machin relishes the challenge of surmounting social and other barriers with his amiably affectionate personality. He soon becomes the youngest ever mayor of his home town, but he soon meets his match when it comes to women!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: APRIL 20.
***
The following release has also received a new street date.
Cottage To Let
Synopsis: Leslie Banks stars alongside Alastair Sim, John Mills and a very young George Cole in this thrilling wartime espionage drama from award-winning director Anthony Asquith. Adapted from Geoffrey Kerr's smash West End play (which also starred Banks, Sim and Cole), Cottage to Let is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Working in secret for the Air Ministry at his remote country house laboratory, John Barrington is key to the ongoing war effort against the Nazis. Barrington's household, however, has been infiltrated by enemy agents - who plan to take him back to Berlin as prisoner.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW RESTORATION
Image galley
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: MARCH 16.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=26502