The Man In Black Limited Collectors Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray w/ Slipcase + Booklet (REGION FREE)

This limited collector's edition comprises:

• The Man in Black and supporting material on two discs in a stylish digipak and rigid box: one UHD and one Blu-ray, with the content duplicated across both formats.
• English, French, Italian, Spanish and German subtitles on each version of the film.

The discs feature:

• 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.

The 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.

Specs:

• Language: English (5.1 / Mono / English)
  
• Number of discs: 2
  
• Region: ABC
  
• Certification: PG
  
• Run time: 78 minutes
  
• Subtitles: English/ French/Italian/Spanish/German
  
• Actors: Valentine Dyall, Betty Ann Davies, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood, Sheila Burrell, Hazel Penwarden
  
• Produced By: Anthony Hinds
  
• Written By: John Gilling, Francis Searle
  
• Directed By: Francis Searle
  
• Release Date: 1950
  
• Studio: Hammer Films Production Ltd