On Blu-ray - David Hare finds irresistible the new 4K scan of CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (Anatole Litvak, USA, 1939)

The screens above and below are from the irresistible Confessions of a Nazi Spy directed by Anatole Litvak and released by Warner First National in 1939, just a short time before Borzage's comparably anti-Nazi film for Metro, Mortal Storm which he was only barely able to complete and release under the unspeakable Louis B Mayer later in 1939. Interestingly this might be the first American feature movie to run the credits at the end of the picture.

First screen above is George Sanders sporting an extremely short buzzcut, albeit kinkily fetching, but a look that features heavily these days in the current Australian White Supremacist meetings and Biker gang revivals. Second screen below is the sublimely named Hans von Twardowsky, here an active Nazi in New York, and just a few years down the road from his brief but unforgettable turn as one of the screaming nelly queens in the court of Sternberg's Scarlet Empress. Twardowsky was one of the genuinely bad boys of American cinema, and here he looks it.

The new Warner Archive Blu disc is another 4K scan from a nitrate O-neg and you can feel the image breathing on the screen.

They don't get any better than this.