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The Man in Black 4K DigiPack: Limited Edition (UK)

The Man in Black 4K DigiPack: Limited Edition (UK)

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Actors: Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood, Hazel Penwarden, Valentine Dyall
Director: Francis Searle
Language: English: LPCM 2.0 Mono
English: DTS-HD 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: Region Free (BD Region A/B - C Untested)
Aspect Ratio: TBA
Number of Discs: 2
Rating: PG
Orig Release Date: 1950
Studio: Hammer Films
Release Date: 9/8/2025
Run Time: 70 Min.
Special Features:
  • TWO-DISC (4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY) COMBO PACK RELEASE
  • NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
  • HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
  • 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.
  • Illustrated booklet with writings on the film
  • Optional English, French, Italian, Spanish and German subtitles on each version of the film
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