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ALL MY SONS
(Irving Reis, 1948, 94 mins)
Release date: 26 January 2026
Limited Edition Blu-ray (UK premiere)

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Irving Reis (The Big Street) directs a stellar cast including Edward G Robinson (Night Has a Thousand Eyes) and Burt Lancaster (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands) in the film noir classic All My Sons.

Joe Keeler (Robinson) frames his business partner Herb (Frank Conroy, The Snake Pit) when a shipment of faulty aeroplane components leads to the death of several pilots. After the war, his son Chris (Lancaster) is engaged to Herb’s daughter Ann (Louisa Horton, Walk East on Beacon), and family tensions begin to rise...

Adapted from the hit Broadway play by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman), and photographed by the great Russell Metty (Undertow), All My Sons is a fascinating exploration of betrayal and guilt.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with critics and writers Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme (2026)
• Screen Directors Playhouse: ‘All My Sons’ (1949): radio adaptation of Chester Erskine’s screenplay, starring Edward G Robinson, reprising his role from the film, and Jeff Chandler
• Lux Radio Theatre: ‘All My Sons’ (1949): a second radio adaptation of Chester Erskine’s screenplay, starring Burt Lancaster, reprising his role from the film, and Edward Arnold
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
• New English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Philip Concannon, archival interviews on the film’s production, a look at Arthur Miller’s original play, and film credits
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK
• All features subject to change

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BBFC cert: TBC
REGION B
EAN: 5060697925104

domino harvey wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:09 pm I’m surprised you didn’t mention Edward G Robinson, as I think [Key Largo] is his best performance and a great reminder that he could be called upon to do more than just show up and deliver his iconic presence in a film. 1948 was a good year for Robinson, too, as I just watched the turgid Arthur Miller adaptation All My Sons and while the rest of the cast are various degrees of awful (especially Burt Lancaster, who I’ve never seen give a worse performance— and it stretches even Hollywood credibility to buy him as Robinson’s son in the first place!), Robinson is incredible and single-handedly threatens to save the film by sheer will. It’s another textbook contender for best performance in a bad film, and just the range he showed in these two films hints at an alternate history where he was one of our most respected actors and not merely an easily-imitated icon with a funny voice (though generally I enjoy his presence in films even when he does phone it in solely to generate funds for his notorious art habit)

EDIT: And I just looked it up and Robinson’s other 1948 film is Night Has a Thousand Eyes, which is also a great (and starkly downbeat) noir with a moving perf from Robinson as a fake psychic who develops real powers and must use them to save the life of an innocent. What a shame the Academy couldn’t even throw him a nomination for any of these this year