The Masters Of Cinema Adds Black Tuesday starring Edward G. Robinson

He was one of Hollywood’s nicest tough guys and November, Black Tuesday starring Edward G. Robinson is ing The Masters Of Cinema family in November. Eureka Entertainment  set to release the gritty crime drama brilliantly restored and on Blu-Ray for the first time.

Written by Sydney Boehm (The Big Heat) and directed by Hugo Fregonese (Man in the Attic). In Black Tuesday,  Vincent Canelli (Robinson) is a violent mobster serving time on Death Row – but he has no intention of going to the electric chair. Following a plan put together by his moll, Hatti (Jean Parker, Dead Man’s Eyes), Canelli orchestrates a jailbreak on the night before his execution and takes several hostages in the process. Canelli is ed by fellow Death Row inmate Peter Manning (Peter Graves, Stalag 17), and hopes to discover the location of a stash of stolen loot Manning hid away before his conviction. But is Manning willing to pay the price for freedom and look the other way as the unstable Canelli revels in murder and mayhem?

While the Hollywood gangster movie was at the height of its success in the early 1930s, it resurged in the 1940s and into the next decade as crime pictures found a new popularity in the post-war period. Standing tall alongside Key Largo, White Heat and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Black Tuesday is one of the finest gangster films to emerge from this later cycle – as old-fashioned wiseguys met with film noir sensibilities.

Check out the newly created Trailer…

“Edward G. Robinson as gangster Vincent Canelli in Black Tuesday… exhibits a sadistic bent rivalled only by James Cagney in White Heat” – Alain Silver, film historian and critic

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES*:
Limited edition of 2000 copies | Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow | 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray from a 2K scan of the 35mm fine grains | Optional English subtitles | A brand 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 on director Hugo Fregonese | No Escape – A brand new video essay by Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City | Brand new video interview with critic and codirector of Il Cinema Ritrovato Ehsan Khoshbakht | Theatrical trailer | PLUS: A collector’s booklet featuring new writing on Black Tuesday by critic Barry Forshaw and film writer Craig Ian Mann

USA |1954 | TBC | 80 MINS | 1.85:1 OAR | CRIME/FILM NOIR | USA | B&W

Black Tuesday will be released on Blu-ray on 18th November, get your copy at Eureka Video Store.