Hammer Films' 'The Man in Black' Gets 4K UHD Limited Collector's Edition Release
Hammer Films has announced The Man In Black (1950) 4K UHD Limited Collector's Edition.
The limited collector's edition will include 4K UHD and Blu-ray discs, with the content duplicated across both formats.
It is currently up for pre-order on the Hammer Films site.
Special Features
- New commentary with writers Lizbeth Myles and Paul Cornell, creators of the widely acclaimed Hammer House of Podcast.
- New commentary with Will Fowler, writer and co-creator of the bfi's ongoing Flipside series, and film and media historian Melanie Williams.
- Men in Black: Award-winning authors Martin Edwards and Andrew Taylor discuss John Dickson Carr ("Master of the Locked Room Mystery") and his contemporaries at the Detection Club – the long-running club for mystery writers, first created in 1930.
- Panic Stations: Richard Hand, academic and writer of Listen in Terror, examines the rise of "horror radio" in the 1930s and '40s and the conditions that made Appointment with Fear such a hit with wartime and post-war British audiences.
- This is Your Storyteller: Author, actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby and Vic Pratt, writer and co-creator of the bfi's ongoing Flipside series, discuss the life and career of Valentine Dyall, known forever to posterity as The Man in Black.
- Francis Searle Interview: Interviewed in 1988 for the British Entertainment History Project, this extract from writer/director Francis Searle's career-long interview covers his time at Hammer.
- Suspense: three original wartime US radio shows featuring John Dickson Carr's scripts, as introduced by The Man in Black.
- Yoga and You: this Hammer archive rarity is a factual, self-help support film that thankfully didn't demonstrate how this then-esoteric practice could be used in the furtherance of murder.
- A gallery of stills and publicity material alongside tracks from Frank Spencer's score.
Booklet Features
- New article by Hammer expert Wayne Kinsey examining the making of The Man in Black.
- New article by Andrew Pixley, who investigates The Man in Black's radio origins.
- New article by Sarah Morgan, who takes a close look at the dramatic side of comedy legend Sid James.
- New article by Gayle Sequeira, who examines the psychology of gaslighting and how it was used to great effect in The Man in Black.
- New article by Philip Kemp, who looks at the career of John Gilling – a stalwart of British films in general and Hammer in particular.
- Article by Denis Meikle, who investigates Anthony Hinds, Hammer's main creative force for over twenty years.
- New article by Wayne Kinsey, who takes us on a tour of Oakley Court, Hammer's stately home studio.
Technical Specifications
- Language: English (5.1 / Mono / English)
- Number of discs: 2
- Region: A B C
- Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German
Movie Info
- Certification: PG
- Run time: 78 minutes
- Actors: Valentine Dyall, Betty Ann Davies, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood, Sheila Burrell, Hazel Penwarden
- Producer: Anthony Hinds
- Writers: John Gilling, Francis Searle
- Director: Francis Searle
- Release Date: 1950
- Studio: Hammer Films Production Ltd