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                           The River's Edge (1957)
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STARS...........: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget
DIRECTOR........: Allan Dwan
WRITERS.........: Harold Jacob Smith, James Leicester
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Western, Noir
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050903
RUNTIME.........: 1h 27mn
SIZE............: 5.25 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English AAC 2.0 200kbps
AUDIO2..........: English AAC Mono 1.0 165kbps
AUDIO3..........: Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
AUDIO4..........: Isolated Music and Effects
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Twilight Time Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-02-13


Director Allan Dwan – an auteur theory favorite – brings us The River’s Edge (1957), a sensational film noir in DeLuxe color and CinemaScope. Anthony Quinn and Debra Paget star as a young couple struggling with the rough life on a New Mexican ranch; as if they needed more troubles, her former lover, a sleazy bank robber on the run – played by Ray Milland with shocking ferocity – turns up, forcing them to escort him across the border to Mexico with his ill-gotten gains.

“Director Allan Dwan fills the sunbaked landscape with an acrid haze of moods and a suffocating tangle of emotions, which he conjures with sharp, stark images of stifled frenzy...in a few slashing brushstrokes, Dwan captures the ecstatic horror of life on the edge.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Yet another example of Dwan’s enterprise under pressure. He gets a scathing performance out of Milland [and] proves characteristically at home with the expanses of CinemaScope.”
– Trevor Johnston, Time Out Film Guide