They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) Blu-ray

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well?, Dead of Night), They Made Me a Fugitive is a prime example of British film noir.

Trevor Howard (Who?, The Missionary) plays Clem Morgan, an RAF officer during the war, now unemployed since demobilisation. Turning to the black market, he finds himself embroiled in a life of crime that will lead to prison, a daring escape, and a deadly manhunt.

Boasting striking cinematography by Otto Heller, whose later credits would include Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and classic Cold War thriller The Ipcress File, this UK Blu-ray premiere of They Made Me a Fugitive is accompanied by two rare short films, made during Howard's own time in the RAF during WWII, featuring his earliest known on-screen appearances.

Extras 

High Definition remaster

Original mono audio

The John Player Lecture with Alberto Cavalcanti (1970): archival audio recording of the celebrated director in conversation at London's National Film Theatre

Neil Sinyard on `They Made Me a Fugitive` (2019): new appreciation by the author and film historian

Squaring the Circle (1941): dramatised Royal Air Force training film, starring Trevor Howard in his earliest known film role

The Aircraft Rocket (1944): extract from a multi-part RAF technical film, featuring Howard

Image gallery: promotional and publicity material

New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing