Good news for film noir fans. Glass Key is releasing 54 of the shadowy, paranoid thrillers that constituted the genre, mostly from the mid-1940s to the mid-50s, when European refugees and hard-drinking, hard-boiled crime writers collaborated to radical effect.

Sadly, Woman on the Run is let down by poor picture quality, but otherwise it's a sharp, obscure little film with Ann Sheridan tailed by police after her husband, witness to a murder, goes missing. There's lots of sour, wisecracking dialogue and mainly location shooting, giving you a tourist trip around the familiar delights of San Francisco, as it was in 1950. And, as ever, a strong lead performance from Ann Sheridan.

In a similar vein, Trapped! and Quicksand, which boasts Peter Lorre and Mickey Rooney, are released simultaneously.