This release finally puts the theatrical cut back into circulation with a flawless transfer.
The Thin Blue Line remains a landmark in Morris’s oeuvre because it revealed and corrected a flawed judicial process.
It’s a comic book that acts like most of its own readers probably would if they were thrown into the same situation.
As far as late ’70s films about the terrors of NY subways by night go, it’s right up there with Maniac and Dressed to Kill.