Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Hammer's 1940s–50s crime films.

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In the film and TV journal Scope, David Mann examines some crime films of Hammer after World War II, including The Man in Black (1949; adapt. of John Dickson Carr's radio series Appointment with Fear), Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress (1949), Meet Simon Cherry (1949), and A Case for PC 49 (1951). There's an unfortunate and distracting misspelling of noted producer Val Gielgud's surname throughout.
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3 comments:

Dan_Luft said...

This stuff, along with Pirate movies, is stuff by Hammer that I've never seen available on legal video. Is any of it out now?

9:13 AM
Elizabeth Foxwell said...

It appears that the films mentioned in this article are not yet released on DVD, although other Hammer crime-related films appear in various Hammer Film Noir collections:
http://tinyurl.com/hammernoir

5:45 PM
Elizabeth Foxwell said...

I asked Hammer Films if there were any plans to release the crime films discussed. Its reply: "No definite plans as yet, though we do hope that the entire back-catalogue will be released in the future."

1:42 PM

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