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
