In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty's faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's employees. But Visser is no more up-front with Marty than with anyone else; he makes some slight modifications of the original plan so that it better serves his own best interests. After a surprise double-cross and the murder of one of the important players, matters spiral out of control, and the plot gyrates through a complicated string of darkly humorous events. False assumptions, guilt, and fear all lead to a frantic attempt to conceal evidence and the heart-pounding, irony-filled denouement. Blood Simple was re-released in the summer of 2000 with a digitally-remastered soundtrack and -- at the Coens' behest -- a few minutes of dialogue trimmed.

STARS...........: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya DIRECTOR........: Joel Coen WRITERS.........: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen GENRE...........: Crime, Thriller IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979 RUNTIME.........: 1h 35mn SIZE............: 5.47 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1 FRAMERATE.......: 24 fps AUDIO1..........: English E-AC3 5.1 640kbps AUDIO2..........: French AAC 3.0 256kbps AUDIO3..........: German AAC 3.0 256kbps SUBTITLES.......: ENG, FRE, GER SOURCE..........: Studio Canal German Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-05-17

Extras

• New interview with Joel and Ethan Coen • New in interview with M. Emmet Walsh • New interview with John Getz • Criterion interview with Frances McDormand • Investor trailer • Intro by Mortimer Young