That film is newly available on Blu-ray from Warner Archive, and itвЂ™s a thoroughly entertaining example of resourceful no-budget filmmaking the tight budget is evident in the limited coverage and cramped interiors, but director William Nigh turns his disadvantages into strengths by using the tight spaces to create a pervasive sense of claustrophobia and entrapment.

MirischвЂ™s first solo Monogram production was an adaptation of WoolrichвЂ™s Fall Guy in 1947 he followed it up with the 1948 screen version of the authorвЂ™s short story I WouldnвЂ™t Be in Your Shoes! a year later. He kept the studio in the black with his Bomba the Jungle Boy series, but before establishing that franchise he produced a pair of noir movies based on material by Cornell Woolrich, the suspense writer who would hit paydirt with HitchcockвЂ™s Rear Window.

Walter Mirisch is best remembered today as the producer of studio prestige releases like In the Heat of the Night, The Apartment, and the original West Side Story, but before he became one of HollywoodвЂ™s most reliable sources of вЂњAвЂќ pictures he toiled away in the вЂњBвЂќ trenches of Poverty Row company Monogram. 1408, I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes, Mikael Hafstrom, Sam Raimi, Stephen King, The Gift, Walter Mirisch

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