- Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary DeCamp
- Directors: Vincent Sherman
- Writers: Jack Sobell, N. Richard Nash, Paul Webster
- Producers: Jack L. Warner, William Jacobs
- Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Warner Archives
- DVD Release Date: 7 July 2009
- Run Time: 111 minutes
- ASIN: B002TOL4AU
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 109,974 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing quality for such an inventive film noir
10 Dec 2009
Format:DVD
This is a top notch noir from Warner Brothers that has been issued on DVD-R. The only extra is a trailer in this case, and as in all other Warner Archive entries there are no chapter stops - you can only go forwards and backwards in ten minute increments.
The above paragraph is my standard disclaimer. When I first started playing the film I was somewhat disappointed that a post-war title such as this would have the same so-so contrast and scratches that the early talking film Archive entries had, but I could have lived with that. What makes this unacceptable is that the film periodically freezes and pixelates. At one point the DVD stopped playing entirely. I tried several other players and I got the same result. At first I thought it was just this particular disc, but over at digitalbits the review for this disc indicates that the reviewer had the same problem I did leading me to deduce that at least a batch of the DVD-R's for this film are defective. At such a high price this is completely unacceptable.
I've been waiting for Nora Prentiss to come out on a pressed disc as part of the Warner Noir series for three years, and it's inconceivable to me that such a fine film should receive such a lack of respect in its treatment. If you get a chance to catch Nora Prentiss on TCM, please do. It is the odd tale of a married San Francisco doctor (Kent Smith) who fakes his own death in order to run away to New York with singer Nora (Ann Sheridan) without having to confess to his family that he wants to leave them. Later the doctor is involved in a car crash that leads to plastic surgery that completely alters his appearance. Unrecognizable as his true self, the police of San Francisco follow a paper trail that leads them back to the now renamed and refurbished doctor - and he is promptly charged with his own murder.
In short, I highly recommend this film, but stay away from this product until the manufacturer defects are addressed.
The above paragraph is my standard disclaimer. When I first started playing the film I was somewhat disappointed that a post-war title such as this would have the same so-so contrast and scratches that the early talking film Archive entries had, but I could have lived with that. What makes this unacceptable is that the film periodically freezes and pixelates. At one point the DVD stopped playing entirely. I tried several other players and I got the same result. At first I thought it was just this particular disc, but over at digitalbits the review for this disc indicates that the reviewer had the same problem I did leading me to deduce that at least a batch of the DVD-R's for this film are defective. At such a high price this is completely unacceptable.
I've been waiting for Nora Prentiss to come out on a pressed disc as part of the Warner Noir series for three years, and it's inconceivable to me that such a fine film should receive such a lack of respect in its treatment. If you get a chance to catch Nora Prentiss on TCM, please do. It is the odd tale of a married San Francisco doctor (Kent Smith) who fakes his own death in order to run away to New York with singer Nora (Ann Sheridan) without having to confess to his family that he wants to leave them. Later the doctor is involved in a car crash that leads to plastic surgery that completely alters his appearance. Unrecognizable as his true self, the police of San Francisco follow a paper trail that leads them back to the now renamed and refurbished doctor - and he is promptly charged with his own murder.
In short, I highly recommend this film, but stay away from this product until the manufacturer defects are addressed.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
disappointing quality for such an inventive film noir
13 Sep 2009
This is a top notch noir from Warner Brothers that has been issued on DVD-R. The only extra is a trailer in this case, and as in all other Warner Archive entries there are no chapter stops - you can only go forwards and backwards in ten minute increments.
The above paragraph is my standard disclaimer. When I first started playing the film I was somewhat disappointed that a post-war title such as this would have the same so-so contrast and scratches that the early talking film Archive entries had, but I could have lived with that. What makes this unacceptable is that the film periodically freezes and pixelates. At one point the DVD stopped playing entirely. I tried several other players and I got the same result. At first I thought it was just this particular disc, but over at digitalbits the review for this disc indicates that the reviewer had the same problem I did leading me to deduce that at least a batch of the DVD-R's for this film are defective. At such a high price this is completely unacceptable.
I've been waiting for Nora Prentiss to come out on a pressed disc as part of the Warner Noir series for three years, and it's inconceivable to me that such a fine film should receive such a lack of respect in its treatment. If you get a chance to catch Nora Prentiss on TCM, please do. It is the odd tale of a married San Francisco doctor (Kent Smith) who fakes his own death in order to run away to New York with singer Nora (Ann Sheridan) without having to confess to his family that he wants to leave them. Later the doctor is involved in a car crash that leads to plastic surgery that completely alters his appearance. Unrecognizable as his true self, the police of San Francisco follow a paper trail that leads them back to the now renamed and refurbished doctor - and he is promptly charged with his own murder.
In short, I highly recommend this film, but stay away from this product until the manufacturer defects are addressed.
The above paragraph is my standard disclaimer. When I first started playing the film I was somewhat disappointed that a post-war title such as this would have the same so-so contrast and scratches that the early talking film Archive entries had, but I could have lived with that. What makes this unacceptable is that the film periodically freezes and pixelates. At one point the DVD stopped playing entirely. I tried several other players and I got the same result. At first I thought it was just this particular disc, but over at digitalbits the review for this disc indicates that the reviewer had the same problem I did leading me to deduce that at least a batch of the DVD-R's for this film are defective. At such a high price this is completely unacceptable.
I've been waiting for Nora Prentiss to come out on a pressed disc as part of the Warner Noir series for three years, and it's inconceivable to me that such a fine film should receive such a lack of respect in its treatment. If you get a chance to catch Nora Prentiss on TCM, please do. It is the odd tale of a married San Francisco doctor (Kent Smith) who fakes his own death in order to run away to New York with singer Nora (Ann Sheridan) without having to confess to his family that he wants to leave them. Later the doctor is involved in a car crash that leads to plastic surgery that completely alters his appearance. Unrecognizable as his true self, the police of San Francisco follow a paper trail that leads them back to the now renamed and refurbished doctor - and he is promptly charged with his own murder.
In short, I highly recommend this film, but stay away from this product until the manufacturer defects are addressed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A 5* Movie Deserves Better
2 Aug 2010
Format:DVD
I'm not sure what they are doing when they slap together the entries for the Warner Archives Collection, but it is insulting to pay a premium price for something that I can watch on TCM and discover that the quality isn't any better.
The print is old and dirty. There are no chapters. You can only move scenes in 10 minute increments. The sound quality is mediocre. For what it's worth, I might just as well DVR this movie straight off TCM and save myself money.
All of this is a shame because NORA PRENTISS is one really good film. Ann Sheridan does what she does best.....sizzle intelligently and convincingly. Kent Smith delivers a great performance as a doctor making some ill-advised and life altering changes that lead him down a path to ultimate disaster. This film noir offering deserves a new audience, but not looking like someone had left it in a dust collecting cannister slowly rotting.
The print is old and dirty. There are no chapters. You can only move scenes in 10 minute increments. The sound quality is mediocre. For what it's worth, I might just as well DVR this movie straight off TCM and save myself money.
All of this is a shame because NORA PRENTISS is one really good film. Ann Sheridan does what she does best.....sizzle intelligently and convincingly. Kent Smith delivers a great performance as a doctor making some ill-advised and life altering changes that lead him down a path to ultimate disaster. This film noir offering deserves a new audience, but not looking like someone had left it in a dust collecting cannister slowly rotting.
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