Wicked Games: Three Films By Robert Hossein LE (Blu-ray) ***Preorder*** 11/18

A prison break, femme fatales and a genre-defining western: Robert Hossein, one of French cinema's great unsung stylists directs & stars in 3 classics

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A prison break, femme fatales and a genre-defining western: Robert Hossein (Rififi) was, both behind and in front of the camera, one of French cinema's great unsung stylists. Three of his finest genre exploits are collected here:

In The Wicked Go to Hell, two inmates (Henri Vidal, A Kiss for a Killer, and Serge Reggiani, The Leopard) join forces to stage a daring escape. In Nude in a White Car, a drifter (Robert Hossein, also director) is tempted into a night of passion by a pair of mystery blondes (Marina Vlady, 2 or 3 Things I know about Her, and Odile Versois, Passport to Shame). In The Taste of Violence a revolutionary kidnaps the daughter (Giovanna Ralli, The Mercenary) of a dictator to negotiate a prisoner swap with his two lieutenants Chamaco (Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection) and Chico (Hans H. Neubert, Der Richter von London).

Bonus Materials

• LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:
• 2K restorations by Gaumont for each film, presented on three discs
• Original uncompressed mono audio for each film
• Audio commentary on each film by critic and author Tim Lucas (2025)
• Picking Strawberries - A newly created ‘making of’ featurette with historian Lucas Balbo, featuring archive interviews with Hossein and Jean Rollin (2025)
• Behind Marked Eyes: The Cinematic Stare of Robert Hossein - A newly created featurette by Howard S. Berger about Hossein and his work (2025)
• Interview with actor Marina Vlady (2014)
• The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Classic French Cinema - A visual essay by critic Samm Deighan (2025)
• The Taste of Violence appreciation by filmmaker and Western authority Alex Cox (2025)
• Interview with author C. Courtney Joyner on The Taste of Violence and the Zapata Western subgenre (2025)
• Trailers
• Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and newly translated archival archival writing by Lucas Balbo
• Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings