Imprint Films 40s - 50s - August 2026 Bundle Pack

We Were Strangers (1949) - Limited Edition Blu-ray - Imprint Collection #653

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

From director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) comes the 1949 historical thriller We Were Strangers, which takes us deep underground and into the heart of a revolution.

China Valdés (Jennifer Jones) is a Havana bank clerk whose world shatters when her brother is gunned down by the secret police. Hell-bent on revenge, she joins American expatriate Tony Fenner (John Garfield) and his underground revolutionaries in a daring plot - tunnelling beneath a cemetery to plant a bomb and wipe out the president and his officials in one blow. But as the police close in and tensions between China and Tony rise, will the revolution detonate before it’s buried?

Huston established his own company, Horizon Pictures, to finance the film, drawing on the true story of a plot to assassinate dictator Gerardo Machado. It was controversial upon release, and a bold answer to the anti-Communist witch hunts which then had Hollywood gripped, and even saw star John Garfield himself under suspicion.

1500 copies only.

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Ladies In Retirement (1941) - Limited Edition Blu-ray - Imprint Collection #654

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

The Great Broadway melodrama comes to flaming life on the screen!

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper and companion to her old friend Leonora Fiske, a wealthy retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder. Though the death is carefully covered up, will the murderer get away with her crime, or will she be brought to justice?

Directed by Charles Vidor (Gilda), this adaptation of the hit 1939 Broadway play was described by the New York Times as “an exercise in slowly accumulating terror… painstakingly done, beautifully photographed and tautly played”, earning Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score.

1500 copies only.

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Home of the Brave (1949) - Limited Edition Blu-ray - Imprint Collection #655

From producer Stanley Kramer (The Defiant Ones) and director Mark Robson (Valley of the Dolls) comes one of Hollywood’s first films to confront racism head-on, adapted by legendary screenwriter Carl Foreman (High Noon) from the play by Arthur Laurents (West Side Story).

Private Peter Moss returns from a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island paralysed - yet doctors can find nothing physically wrong with him. As an army psychiatrist probes his memories of jungle terror, lost friends, and a lifetime of prejudice, one question remains: can Moss confront the true source of his paralysis and walk again?

Starring James Edwards (The Steel Helmet) in a landmark leading performance, alongside Lloyd Bridges (High Noon), Frank Lovejoy (In a Lonely Place), and Jeff Corey (True Grit), the film was shot in secrecy in just thirty days and named one of the ten best films of 1949 by the National Board of Review.

1500 copies only.

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The Men (1950) - Limited Edition Blu-ray - Imprint Collection #656

Marlon Brando makes his stellar screen debut in this powerful drama from Academy Award-winning director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon), written by Carl Foreman (The Guns of Navarone), and produced by Stanley Kramer (On The Beach).

Ken Wilocek, a young infantry lieutenant, is left paralysed from the waist down by a sniper’s bullet in the final days of World War II. Embittered and withdrawn in the paraplegic ward of a veterans’ hospital, Ken refuses to see his devoted fiancée Ellen - until a straight-talking doctor and his fellow patients begin the long, painful work of pulling him back to life.

Teresa Wright (The Best Years of Our Lives), Everett Sloane (Citizen Kane), and Jack Webb (Dragnet) star alongside Brando, as do dozens of real paraplegic veterans - patients of the very ward where Brando famously lived for a month to prepare for the role, and filming took place.

1500 copies only.