The Bloody Brood 1959 on Blu-ray

Actor: Barbara Lord, Jack Betts, Peter Falk, Ron Hartmann, Ron Taylor, Robert Christie, W.B. Brydon, Michael Zenon, Anne Collings, George Sperdakos
Director: Julian Roffman
Genre: Action / Adventure
Year: 1959
Studio: Kino Classics
Length: 72
Released: 10/15/2019
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

Two years before directing the 3-D cult favorite The Mask (1961), Julian Roffman made his feature directorial debut with this early canuxploitation film, The Bloody Brood (1959). When his brother turns up dead after eating a hamburger laced with ground glass, Cliff (Jack Betts) sets out to investigate the murder, venturing into the underground world of beatnik culture and its sinister underbelly of drugs and vice. Peter Falk (TV’s Columbo) makes his feature debut as Nico, sinister mentor and drug-dealer to the tuned-in kids of the beat generation. This 60th anniversary release has been newly mastered from archival 35mm elements, and showcases the moody cinematography of d.p. Eugen Schüfftan, who would two years later win an Academy Award® for his cinematography of The Hustler (1961, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White).