The Film Noir Collection – Guest In The House [DVD] [1944]

M. Bijlsma

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Review by M. Bijlsma for The Film Noir Collection – Guest In The House [DVD] [1944]
Rating: (1 / 5)
There are sevral independent companies that release (rare) movies which have not been released on DVD by the major companies that originally distributed the movies in cinemas. Some of these companies treat us with gemms in good quality, like Optimum (the best I think), Eureka and Metrodome. Others, like Delta and Alpha, release movies in such poor quality that you only buy their movies if you really need to own them, no mather what quality. I’m afraid Glass Key is one of those companies.

The artwork is very nice. But the quality of the movie “Guest in the house” is one of the worst I ever purchased. Especially the sound is very bad. Several times it’s impossible to uderstand what is being said.

For this DVD they used a copy that was used for a television broadcast in the 60’s, not a copy that was used in cinemas, let alone the original negative.

So, only if you’re fan of one of the actors in this movie and you haven’t seen this movie before, you could purchase it to be able to mark it as ‘have seen this one’ on your movielist. Otherwise you’d better buy one of the film noirs that are available by other companies in far superior quality.