On Dangerous Ground [Blu-ray]

Why do you make me do it? New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless.

Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists.

And the experience has cost him his soul.

Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.

Directed with intensity by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, They Live by Night) and featuring a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann (Psycho), On Dangerous Ground is a taut, rapid-paced manhunt with two fine stars at its tortured heart.

Noir master Robert Ryan captures Jim's agonized self-hatred.

And Ida Lupino burnishes the screen as the sightless angel whose compassion gives him one last chance at life.