One of the twentieth century s most successful crime novelists, Edgar Wallace s thrillers have been widely adapted for film and television the most memorable of which are the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series, made at Merton Park Studios during the first half of the 1960s. A noir-esque series, it updates some of the author's stories to more contemporary settings, blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel. Long-awaited and much sought after, all 47 films will be released over seven volumes on DVD. As special features, they will also include the seven separate Edgar Wallace thrillers made by Independent Artists Ltd between 1959 and 1961. This series includes top-notch performances from Michael Caine, Alfred Burke, Barry Foster, Hazel Court, Patrick Magee, Bernard Archard, Michael Gough, Jack Watling, Harry H. Corbett and Bernard Lee, including scripts by Robert Banks Stewart (Callan), Man in a Suitcase co-creator Richard Harris, Philip Mackie (The Naked Civil Servant), Lukas Heller (The Dirty Dozen) and Roger Marshall (The Sweeney). Noted directors include Sidney Hayers (The Avengers), Robert Tronson (Armchair Thriller) and Quentin Lawrence (Catweazle). A recording of the series memorable theme music, Man of Mystery, also spawned a Top Five UK hit for The Shadows.
A stunning new restoration from Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation of Roger Corman's 1964 classic THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH. Vincent Price stars as evil Prince Prospero who sells his soul to the devil and then enjoys the latter's patronage by living the most decadent and lavish lifestyle he can manage. He derides even more pleasure from the perverse satisfaction he takes in seeing his impoverished subjects fall victim to a painful and devastating plague that is sweeping the land. Based on the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe, the film also stars Hazel Court and Jane Asher. Special Features: NEW: Colour and Censorship in The Masque of The Red Death - Interview With Keith Johnston NEW: Audio Commentary With Kim Newman and Sean Hogan Audio Commentary with Roger Corman Roger Corman: In Conversation with Kim Newman at The BFI Roger Corman: Behind The Masque Original US Theatrical Trailer Behind The Scenes Stills Gallery
Baron Victor Frankenstein was the archetypal aristocrat, well-read, cultured and arrogant. Beyond the sophisticated veneer existed a cruel, utterly unscrupulous man, obsessed with ambition. Determined to realise his greatest dream to create life, he had assembled a creature from organs gathered from various unwilling donors. The creature is successful brought to life but the instability of the brain, damaged during surgery, causes uncontrollable violent spasms that result in indiscriminate mu...
American actor Keith Andes B-movie legend Michael Gough and horror icon Hazel Court feature in the cast of this heist thriller set against the elegance and glamour of the West End fashion world. Model for Murder is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Mayfair dress designer Kingsley Beauchamp arranges with his crooked chauffeur for the theft of valuable jewellery on loan to his salon. His plan sets in motion a chain of violence and double-dealing – and one with dangerous consequences for David Martens an American sailor on shore leave who is unwittingly drawn into their machinations... Bonus Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs
In 1960, television-executive Lew Grade's ITC company inaugurated a tradition of escapist adventure/mystery shows with Danger Man, a pocket-sized take on the spy stuff strutted in fiction by Ian Fleming's as-yet-unfilmed James Bond books. The versatile Patrick McGoohan took the lead role of John Drake, a daring spy for the NATO powers. This first, half-hour incarnation of the show (that would be known in the US as Secret Agent) concentrated on tight little plots executed at a rapid pace. McGoohan proved as adept in the numerous fight scenes and he was at spitting out the hardboiled dialogue which counterpointed Edwin Astley's memorable music. Although Drake is a deliberately colourless leading man, the format of the show allowed McGoohan to go undercover each week as a different, often strange character. Later, the series came back as an hour-long programme that segued wildly into McGoohan's masterpiece, The Prisoner. Volume One includes the following episodes: "View from the Villa" (with Barbara Shelley); "Time to Kill" (with Derren Nesbitt); "Josetta"; and "The Blue Veil" (with Ferdy Mayne). --Kim Newman
Baron Victor Frankenstein was the archetypal aristocrat, well-read, cultured and arrogant. Beyond the sophisticated veneer existed a cruel, utterly unscrupulous man, obsessed with ambition. Determined to realise his greatest dream to create life, he had assembled a creature from organs gathered from various unwilling donors. The creature is successful brought to life but the instability of the brain, damaged during surgery, causes uncontrollable violent spasms that result in indiscriminate murder... and it is the Baron to whom the blame is laid with fatal consequences. The Curse of Frankenstein is a classic 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, based on the novel Frankenstein (1816) by Mary Shelley. It was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of their Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and the studio's new versions of Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959) and established Hammer Horror as a distinctive brand of Gothic cinema. The film was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in two of their most iconic roles. Blu-Ray Disc: HD Main Feature – Never before released Academy ratio 1.37:1 (83 mins) HD The Curse of Frankenstein (1.66:1 version) - Alternate Aspect Ratio (83 mins) New audio commentary with Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby Frankenstein Reborn: The Making of a Hammer Classic (New and exclusive) Life With Sir (New and exclusive Peter Cushing documentary) Four Sided Triangle - Bonus feature film (80 mins) Tales of Frankenstein - Bonus TV pilot (25 mins) The Tale of Tales of Frankenstein (New and exclusive Ted Newsom documentary) World Of Hammer: The Curse of Frankenstein (25 mins) Stills Show Double DVD: Disc 1: Main Feature – Never seen before Academy ratio 1.37:1 (83 mins) The Curse of Frankenstein (1.66:1 version) - Alternative Aspect Ratio (83 mins) New audio commentary with Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby Disc 2: Frankenstein Reborn: The Making of a Hammer Classic (New and exclusive) Life With Sir (New and exclusive Peter Cushing documentary) Four Sided Triangle - Bonus feature film (80 mins) Tales of Frankenstein - Bonus TV pilot (25 mins) The Tale of Tales of Frankenstein (New and exclusive Ted Newsom documentary) World Of Hammer: The Curse of Frankenstein (25 mins) Stills Show PDF Original shooting script All-new PDF booklet The Creator's Spark: Hammer's Frankenstein Begins with text by Hammer archivist Robert J. E. Simpson
A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, and Adrienne Corri.One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world!Product FeaturesNEW Interview with novelist and critic Kim NewmanNEW Audio Commentary with Kim Newman and writer & journalist Barry ForshawStills gallery
Guy Carrell (Ray Milland) is a tormented man who believes his father was entombed alive after suffering a cataleptic attack. When Emily Gault (Hazel Court) arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell despite the disapproval of his sister Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear long enough to marry Emily. In order to avoid a similar fatet§o his father Guy constructs a special tomb that will allow him to escape. In an attempt to allay her husband s fears Emily Carrell encourages Guy to open his father s tomb to determine whether the elder man died peacefully. When the tomb is opened Guy s worst suspicions are realised and he falls into a cataleptic state. As he is lowered into a grave and covered over apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly responsible for his predicament.
Holiday Camp (1947): The Huggett family go to a holiday camp and get involved in crooked card players a murderer on the run and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home. Here Come the Huggetts (1948): The return of the Huggett family. After first meeting the family at the Holiday Camp this is on the home front. The Huggetts are about to have their first telephone installed. The Huggetts Abroad (1949): Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. Vote for Huggett (1949): Father Huggett gets involved in local politics in order to build a pool for local children but gets accused of corruption.
One of the most sublimely silly products to emanate from Roger Corman's studio, The Raven has the very loosest of connections with the Edgar Allen Poe poem that gives it its title and which Vincent Price intones sepulchrally at the beginning. A retiring magician, Craven (Price) has opted out of the power struggles of peers such as Dr Scarabus (Boris Karloff) to brood on his dead wife and bring up his daughter. The arrival of Bledlo (Peter Lorre), an incompetent drunk whom Scarabus has turned into the raven of the title, involves him in everything he had renounced--life is complicated further by the arrival of Bledlo's son Rexford, played by a staggeringly young Jack Nicholson. The special effects are almost perfunctory, yet the culminating magical duel between Price and Karloff is inventive and charming; this is one of those films that looks as if the actors enjoyed making it; while the script by Richard Matheson has a blithe awareness of its own shortcomings that makes it hard to dislike. On the DVD: The Raven comes to DVD with very boxy remastered mono sound, but is presented in its original widescreen 2.35:1 ratio, formatted for 16:9 TVs. The only extra is the original theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney
This British B-movie cult classic stars Patricia Laffan as a vinyl-clad, raygun-toting Martian on the hunt for Earthmen to repopulate her home planet; John Laurie, Adrienne Corri and Hammer Horror queen Hazel Court star among her human victims in this cult classic from the Danziger brothers. Devil Girl from Mars is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. On a winter evening, assorted guests are at their supper in a remote...
We defy you to stare into this face! Roger Corman's 1960's horror classic features Vincent Price as the evil Prince Prospero who finds himself taken with a wistful young girl. He kidnaps her and makes her chose between saving the life of her father or her young lover. The Plague however is slowly sweeping through Prospero's country side killing off all of his peasants. Then a mysterious creature in a masque finally intrudes upon Prospero's Masquerade Ball killing all of
Baron Victor Frankenstein was the archetypal aristocrat, well-read, cultured and arrogant. Beyond the sophisticated veneer existed a cruel, utterly unscrupulous man, obsessed with ambition. Determined to realise his greatest dream to create life, he had assembled a creature from organs gathered from various unwilling donors. The creature is successful brought to life but the instability of the brain, damaged during surgery, causes uncontrollable violent spasms that result in indiscriminate mu...
Death and debauchery reign in the castle of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) and when it reigns- it pours! Prospero has only one excuse for his diabolical deeds - the devil made him do it! But when a mysterious uninvited guest crashes his pad during a masquerade ball there'll be hell to pay as the party atmosphere turns into a danse macabre!
A dark and powerful post-war thriller, Forbidden features a compelling performance by MGM star Douglass Montgomery as an unhappily married scientist who finds solace in the arms of another woman with devastating consequences. Also starring Patricia Burke and future horror icon Hazel Court, Forbidden is made available here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Driven by the incessant demands of his unfaithful, luxury-addicted wife, analytical chemist Jim Harding sacrifices a brilliant but poorly paid career to sell patent medicines at a Blackpool fairground. While there he finds he has a chance at happiness until his vindictive harpy of a wife crushes it flat. At the end of his tether, Jim decides that there's only one way out his wife has to die...SPECIAL FEATURE:Image Gallery
The Curse Of Frankenstein: (WS 1.85:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 80 mins) Following his partner's denouncement of their research into the secret of life the monstrous Frankenstein becomes more and more obsessed with the sinister experiments. Drawn deeper into madness by his dark work Frankenstein decides to create a man who is a superior being. Committing unimaginable horrors to complete the experiment Frankenstein has to face the consequences of playing god when the monster awakes... Dracula: (WS 1.85:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 79 mins) Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing Britain's premier masters of the macabre bring Dracula to vivid full-colour death in this retelling of Bram Stoker's spellbinding vampire tale. Dracula (Lee) a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal half-life travels from his native Transylvania to London. In the lurid nightlife of his adopted city he finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing (Cushing) a scientist who becomes the count's impeccable foe in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. The Mummy: (WS 1.85:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 85 mins) Egypt 1895: An archaeological expedition led by Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) and his son John (Peter Cushing) discover the 4000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka. Ignoring warnings from a mysterious Egyptian that He who robs the graves of Egypt dies they enter the tomb. Whilst alone in the tomb Stephen Banning finds and reads the ancient 'Scroll of Life' and suddenly suffers a breakdown. Three years later John Banning visits his father confined to a nursing home since his return from Egypt and is warned that a 'living mummy' guarded the tomb of Ananka and will avenge those who desecrate it's Princess's tomb. Unknown to the Bannings Mehemet Bey has transported the mummy (Christopher Lee) to England and revives it using the 'Scroll of Life'. That night Stephen Banning is brutally murdered by the mummy. When his uncle suffers the same fate John Banning realises that his life is now in danger. He also discovers that his wife Isobel will be confronted by the 4000 year-old mummy as it embarks on a night of terror and murderous retribution...
There's danger dead ahead when director Mark Robson (Bedlam) helms The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix (Cimarron The Whistler series) plays the sinister captain whose port of call may be madness. All aboard!
This fast-paced comedy thriller stars Dermot Walsh as a mild-mannered young accountant forced to go on the run after unwittingly coming into possession of coveted top-secret plans. Also featuring Bill Travers Oscar-nominated Hermione Baddeley and an early role for horror queen Hazel Court Counterspy is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. While perusing the books of an engineering company fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters he takes them to a specified address where to his horror he finds a man fully clothed dead in the bath... SPECIAL FEATURES: [] Image Gallery
Based on a story by Terence Rattigan, Bond Street is a compelling portmanteau drama which tells the secret story of a wedding day with four vignettes revealing the hidden tales behind each of its most essential items. Presented as a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, Bond Street features a strong cast which includes Jean Kent, Kathleen Harrison, Hazel Court, Roland Young and Derek Farr.There is romance in every wedding, but more so, perhaps, in that of Julia Chester-Barratt and Frank Moody. The bride's dress, her veil, her pearls, her flowers all must be perfect, but all have tales to tell. Tales of birth, death, love and deception...SPECIAL FEATURE:Image GalleryPromotional Material PDFs
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