El Vampiro Negro (The Black Vampire) - BLU-RAY

Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark Black Test Car, which launched a series of similarly themed InchBlackInch films. In a bitter, take-no-prisoners corporate war between the Tiger Motorcar Company and their competitors, the Yamato Company, undercover spies have infiltrated both sides. As Tiger prepares to launch it's newest InchPioneerInch car and a prototype bursts into flames, Toru (Hideo Takamatsu, The Last Emperor) heads a secretive task force to root out Yamato's spy, and find out what they can about the competitor's familiar-looking new model. Making it's worldwide Blu-ray debut, Black Test Car is paired here with the English-language video premiere of it's follow-up The Black Report, also directed by Masumura.

Three-disc set includes Because Of You (1952)Naive Christine Carroll (Loretta Young) had gone to jail as an unwitting accessory of hood boyfriend Mike Monroe (Alex Nicol), but made good on her nursing studies and sought a fresh start. Tending to wounded combat pilot Steve Kimberly (Jeff Chandler), the two fell hard and married-but what's her play when the sprung Mike tries to re-enter her life? Noirish melodrama also features Frances Dee, Alexander Scourby, and the theme song that was Tony Bennett's first hit. 95 min. BW/Rtg NR Outside The Law (1956)Bitter Army parolee John Conrad (Ray Danton) was given the chance to expunge his record if he took an undercover murder investigation in Berlin, and be answerable to the federal agent father (Onslow Stevens) he resented. The job would prove even dicier, as the trail leads to a ruthless gang of international counterfeiters. Crackling crime story co-stars Leigh Snowden, Grant Williams, Raymond Bailey; Jack Arnold directs. 81 min. BW/Rtg NR The Midnight Story (1957)After the priest who helped raised him was found stabbed to death, San Francisco traffic cop Joe Martini (Tony Curtis) wanted to be on the investigation... and quit after his request was denied. Checking matters out on his own, he finds circumstances pointing toward restaurateur Sylvio Malatesta (Gilbert Roland)-but what's his move when he starts falling for Sylvio's cousin (Marisa Pavan)? Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia also star. 90 min. BW/Rtg NR Standard/Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.

This collection features three film noir classics. SPY HUNT (1950) - The manhunt that rocked the world! Noir great Howard Duff (Johnny Stool Pigeon, Woman in Hiding, Shakedown) stars with the beautiful Marta Toren (One Way Street, Deported, Sirocco) in this compelling Cold War thriller. Steve Quain (Duff), escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on a train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a secret agent, Catherine Ullven (Toren), has concealed an incriminating microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy spies hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Steve. Directed by George Sherman (Larceny, The Sleeping City, The Raging Tide) from the novel Panther's Moon by Victor Canning (Golden Salamander, Family Plot, Masquerade). THE NIGHT RUNNER (1957) - Are mental patients turned loose too soon? Ray Danton (Outside the Law, The Big Operator, The Longest Day) stars as Roy Turner, a man with a violent past who is prematurely released from an overcrowded institution. Realizing that he cannot handle the pressures of big-city life, he moves into a small-town beachside motel and falls in love with Susan Mayes, warmly played by Colleen Miller (Four Guns to the Border, Man in the Shadow, Step Down to Terror), the daughter of the motel's owner. When her father finds out about Roy, he threatens to have him recommitted unless he leaves his daughter alone. Roy snaps, and commits a crime from which there is no turning back. Abner Biberman (The Price of Fear, Behind the High Wall, Gun for a Coward) directs this black-as-night yet sympathetic look at mental illness. STEP DOWN TO TERROR (1958) - Step by step he made a career out of love, and murder! Based on the same source material as Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, this suspens