Joseph H. Lewis is best known for his expressionist noir masterpiece, Gun Crazy (1950), and for The Big Combo (1955), a crime noir which is possibly the most beautifully photographed film in black and white ever made (of course, John Alton was its cinematographer). As a cult director working in B-films and on low-budget genre pictures, Lewis has developed a following for My Name Is Julia Ross (1945), So Dark the Night (1946), The Undercover Man (1949), and A Lawless Street (1958). However, there are still rediscoveries to be made in the Lewis canon.
Each of the three obscure Lewis titles revived in this triple bill should reveal, if only partially or in key episodes, additional evidence of Lewis' forceful black vision and stylistic inventiveness.
