This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: Crack in the World - Dana Andrews ruptures the earth's mantle in search of an infinite supply of energy, while Kieron Moore and Janette Scott rush to keep the entire planet from splitting apart. Exciting, underrated ecological disaster sci-fi with terrific color special effects and a stirring music score; New York Confidential - Hired killer Richard Conte becomes a big wheel in Broderick Crawford's Syndicate, while mobster's daughter Anne Bancroft wants to escape to a decent life; and Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II - This round-up of Classic Period noirs shows the encroachment of alienation and paranoia on the style: Fritz Lang's Human Desire, Richard Quine's Pushover, Phil Karlson's The Brothers Rico, Jacques Tourneur's Nightfall and the quirky City of Fear. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.