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The Wicker Man

 

THE WICKER MAN has had an enduring fascination for audiences since its release in 1973. A unique and bone-fide horror masterpiece, brilliantly scripted by Anthony Schaffer (Sleuth, Frenzy) and featuring an astounding performance by the legendary Christopher Lee. Director Robin Hardy’s atmospheric use of location, unsettling imagery and haunting soundtrack gradually builds to one of the most terrifying and iconic climaxes in modern cinema. When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community , led by the strange Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee) is not what it seems as the devoutley religious detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cults ultimate sacrifice before he himself comes face to face with the horror of THE WICKER MAN?

 

• Revisiting the Locations of ‘The Wicker Man’

• ‘The Wicker Man’ at 50

• The Music of ‘The Wicker Man’

• Worshipping ‘The Wicker Man’

• Burnt Offerings: The Cult of ‘The Wicker Man’

• ‘Wicker Man’ Enigma

• Image Gallery

• All three cuts of the film included: Final Cut, Director’s Cut and Theatrical Cut

• Trailers

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Peeping Tom

 

From Michael Powell, the acclaimed director of A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom was, upon its release, one of the most controversial films ever made in Britain – a masterpiece of psychological terror. By day, Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Böhm) works as a modest focus-puller in a film studio. But he also shoots glamour photographs for a seedy Soho newsagent, and by night he seeks victims for his most gruesome obsession – filming the face of mortal fear, moments before death.  Written by British cryptographer and playwright Leo Marks, Peeping Tom also stars Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Shirley Anne Field, real-life Glamour Queen Pamela Green and Michael Powell’s son Columba as the young Mark. The film was shot by celebrated Director of Photography Otto Heller (The Queen of Spades, The Ladykillers, Victim).

 

• Visions of Voyeurism: Peeping Tom by Sir Christopher Frayling

• Take Me To Your Cinema: A conversation between film writers Rhianna Dillon and Anna Bogutskaya

• Restoring Peeping Tom

• Introduction by Martin Scorsese (2007)

• Interview with Thelma Schoonmaker (2007)

• Audio Commentary by Professor Ian Christie

• The Eye of The Beholder – Scorsese, Schoonmaker and Christie among others talking about the film

• Behind the Scenes stills gallery

• Original trailer

• 2023 trailer

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Horrors of the Black Museum

 

 

A Kid for Two Farthings

 

 

 

• Bonus Footage

• Interviews:

  • Jenny Runacre (actor)

• Exclusive set of art cards

• Kim Newman on Fuest and ‘The Final Programme’

• Italian title sequence

• Trailers

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WWII, 1943, the Russian front. An arrogant aristocratic Prussian Officer named Stransky (Maximilian Schell) is assigned as the new commander of a German platoon, his only ambition is to win the Iron Cross, in order to maintain his family honour. When Stransky falsely claims credit for bravely leading the squad into a bloody battle against the Russians, he names gutsy Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) as his witness. When Steiner refuses to be complicit, a battle of wills between the two men from very different backgrounds ensures. Then Stransky purposefully fails to relay an order to the squad to fall back from their position, leaving them surrounded by Russian troops and suffering heavy bombardment. Knowing that defeat is inevitable their only goal is survival….

Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war. As writer and director of this and other such provocative classics as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah has served as an inspiration for everyone from Tarantino to Kathryn Bigelow.

 

• Filming Steiner

• Filming Steiner pt 2

• Steiner in Colour

• Steiner on Set

• Promoting Steiner

• Audio Commentary by filmmaker and historian Mike Siegel

• Passion & Poetry – Sam Peckinpah’s War: A documentary by Mike Siegel featuring James Coburn, Senta Berger, David Warner, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz, Katy Haber & Sam Peckinpah

• 1976 on set audio interviews: Sam Peckinpah (5:06) / James Coburn (5:30) / James Mason (6:05) / Maximilian Schell (4:35)

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A swashbuckling triumph, the Musketeers films directed in the early 1970s really show Richard Lester’s versatility as a director and have been admired by everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Steven Soderberg.

In 17th Century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D’Artagnan (Michael York, Cabaret, Murder on the Orient Express) leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. Making friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos (Oliver Reed, Women in Love, Oliver!), comically arrogant Porthos (Frank Finlay, Casanova, The Comedy Man) and chivalric Aramis (Richard Chamberlain, The Thorn Birds, King Solomon’s Mines), he is invited to join them in their efforts to thwart the aristocratic schemer Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston, The Agony and the Ecstasy, El Cid). Richelieu plots to prove the infidelity of the Queen (Geraldine Chaplin, Doctor Zhivago, Talk to Her) to King Louis XIII (Jean-Pierre Cassel, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Murder on the Orient Express) in order to increase his own power…. Whilst attempting to foil the Cardinal’s plans, D’Artagnan finds himself also juggling affairs with both the charming Constance Bonancieux (Raquel Welch, One Million Years BC, She) as well as the passionate Milady De Winter (Faye Dunaway, Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde), a secret agent for the Cardinal….

 

• Neil Sinyard on The Three Musketeers

• The Saga of the Musketeers Part 1

• The Making of The Musketeers vintage EPK

• Original US trailer

• Original UK trailer

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Yield to the Night (1956) stars the great Diana Dors (The Weak and the Wicked) and was directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, Ice Cold in Alex). Adapted for the screen by Joan Henry (from her own novel) and John Cresswell, the film is notable in being a rare female led 50s drama – both in terms of the story and the fact it was written by a woman. It has been described as one of the few “Angry Young Woman” films and is one of Diana Dors’ best critically reviewed roles

Nominated for 3 BAFTAs and the Cannes Palm D’or in its original release in 1956, Dors is supported by a cast including Michael Craig (The Angry Silence, Mysterious Island), Yvonne Mitchell (Woman in a Dressing Gown), Marie Ney (Simba), Mercia Shaw and Harry Locke (Passport to Pimlico). Although Yield to the Night is widely believed to be based on the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed by hanging in the UK in 1955, the book that the film is based on was, in fact, written before then.

 

• Interview with Michael Craig

• Interview with Melanie Williams, film historian and author

• Excerpt from Film Fanfare – no 12 – Diana Dors interview(1956)

• Excerpt from Film Fanfare – no 19 – Yield to the Night Premiere (1957)

• Behind the scenes stills gallery

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Starring a young David Essex in the role that launched his film career and featuring a who’s who of British music in a supporting cast including Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Dave Edmunds and Adam Faith, That’ll Be The Day recreates perfectly the experience of being a young music fan in the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s and is a unique insight into a time where the world was changing so rapidly.

Produced by the great David Puttnam (Melody, The Mission, Chariots of Fire), the film boasts a soundtrack that capture the music of the era perfectly and feature timeless music by David Essex, Billy Fury, Bobby Darin, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis.

Nominated for two BAFTAs on release in 1973, That’ll Be The Day tells the story of Jim MacLaine (David Essex – Stardust, Silver Dream Racer). Abandoned by his father when he was young, Jim, a suburban school dropout, leaves home and drifts through a succession of dead- end jobs until he finds an outlet for his frustration in rock ‘n’ roll. Tossing away the chance of a university education much to the consternation of his mother (Rosemary Leach – A Room with a View, Turtle Bay), alienated MacLaine becomes a lowly deckchair attendant before streetwise friend Mike (Ringo Starr – A Hard Day’s Night, Help!) gets him a job firstly as a barman and then with the fun fair. The initially shy MacLaine quickly becomes a heartless fairground Romeo leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake.

 

• Interview with David Puttnam

• Interview with Ray Connolly

• Interview with author Bob Stanley

• Stills gallery

• English SDH

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I, the Jury

 

It’s nearly Christmas in New York City but private investigator Mike Hammer (Biff Elliot) is out for vengeance when his closest friend Jack Williams (Robert Swanger) is murdered. Hammer vows to identify the killer ahead of the police, working his way through an increasingly large number of suspects. His starting point includes Jack’s fiancee, a beautiful psychiatrist, twin socialite sisters, and a gangster. But as he tracks them down, so too does the murderer, creating a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

 

• Commentary: Biff Elliot (actor) and Max Allan Collins (author)

• Interviews: Biff Elliot (actor)

• Set of art cards

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the wrong arm of the law

 

Directed by Cliff Owen and scripted by the incomparable British comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Hancock’s Half Hour, Steptoe and Son) with John Antrobus, The Wrong Arm of the Law brings together a Who’s Who of familiar faces from British film and television of the 60s and 70s, not least the legendary Peter Sellars (I’m Alright Jack, The Ladykillers).

In London, a group of Australian gangsters disguised as “Bobbies”, led by Jack Coombes (Bill Kerr, The Dam Busters), are diverting the ill-gotten gains of the local criminal gangs. Gang leader “Pearly” Gates (Sellers), who operates from the cover of a French couturier, finds his takings severely cut. Initially he blames rival crook “Nervous” O’Toole (Bernard Cribbins, The Railway Children) but when it emerges that they are both being scammed by the same gang, they form an unlikely alliance with Scotland Yard Police Inspector “Nosey” Parker (Lionel Jeffries, Nowhere to Go) – to eliminate the so-called “I.P.O. mob” (I.P.O. – Impersonating a Police Officer) and return things to “normal”. 

 

• The Long Arm of the Screenwriter – John Antrobus Remembers The Wrong Arm of The Law

• Behind the Scenes stills gallery

• Original Trailer

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