Wicked As They Come + A Prize of Gold – Blu-ray

A new release from Indicator/Powerhouse films: COLUMBIA NOIR #7: MADE IN BRITAIN – LE

This six-disc collection contains two films scored by Malcolm Arnold, three Blu-ray world premieres, three Blu-ray UK premieres, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras. Limited to 6,000 individually numbered units.

• A PRIZE OF GOLD
  Director: Mark Robson, Music: Malcolm Arnold, 1955, 98 mins
• THE LAST MAN TO HANG
  Director: Terence Fisher, 1956, 75 mins
• WICKED AS THEY COME
  Director: Ken Hughes, Music: Malcolm Arnold, 1956, 94 mins
• SPIN A DARK WEB
  Director: Vernon Sewell, 1956, 76 mins
• THE LONG HAUL
  Director: Ken Hughes, 1957, 89 mins
• FORTUNE IS A WOMAN
  Director: Sidney Gilliat, Music: William Alwyn, 1957, 95 mins

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Details:

A PRIZE OF GOLD

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with film historians Thirza Wakefield and Melanie Williams (2025)
• The BEHP Interview with Bill Lewthwaite (2008, 109 mins): archival video recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the prolific editor in conversation with Glyn Jones
• Golden Opportunity (2020, 14 mins): archival interview with clapper loader Geoff Glover, who fondly recalls his first ever experience on a film set
• Stealing Hearts (2025, 15 mins): academic and film historian Lies Lanckman provides an in-depth exploration of A Prize of Gold with a focus on its qualities as a city-based film noir
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• World premiere on Blu-ray

THE LAST MAN TO HANG

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with writers Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman (2025)
• Film Fanfare No. 5 (1956, 5 mins): British Pathé newsreel featuring a lucky competition winner visiting the set of The Last Man to Hang and meeting the cast and crew
• The Guardian Lecture with Ivor Montagu (1977, 75 mins): archival audio recording of a lecture delivered by the screenwriter at the National Film Theatre, London, on the subject of Lenin and cinema
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• World premiere on Blu-ray

WICKED AS THEY COME

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Selected scenes commentary with writer and academic José Arroyo (2025)
• The BEHP Interview with Maxwell Setton (1991, 90 mins): archival audio recording, featuring the producer in conversation with John Legard and Dave Robson
• Soho (1943, 12 mins): silent amateur film by Wicked as They Come director Ken Hughes capturing life in London during the Second World War
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• World premiere on Blu-ray

SPIN A DARK WEB

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with academic and film curator Eloise Ross (2025)
• The BEHP Interview with Vernon Sewell (1994, 76 mins): archival audio recording, featuring the director in conversation with Roy Fowler
• Original US theatrical trailer
• A Test for Love (1937, 29 mins): a dramatised public information film about the dangers of venereal diseases, which provided an early directorial credit for Sewell
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• UK premiere on Blu-ray

THE LONG HAUL

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with film historians Will Fowler and Vic Pratt (2025)
• In for the Long Haul (2010, 10 mins): archival interviews with third assistant director Ted Wallis and focus puller Alec Burridge
• Original theatrical trailer
• The Long Night Haul (1956, 19 mins): short film about British Road Service’s general haulage truck division, produced by British Transport Films
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• UK premiere on Blu-ray

FORTUNE IS A WOMAN

• High Definition remaster
• Two presentations of the film: as Fortune Is a Woman, with the original UK title sequence; and as She Played with Fire, with the US titles
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby (2025)
• The BEHP Interview with Anthony Mendleson (1993, 95 mins): archival audio recording, featuring the costume designer in conversation with Linda Wood and Dave Robson
• This Little Ship (1952, 12 mins): documentary short film about the UK’s first nuclear weapons test, narrated by Fortune Is a Woman star Jack Hawkins
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• UK premiere on Blu-ray

• Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Jonathan Bygraves, Andrew Spicer, Pamela Hutchinson, Robert Murphy, Chloe Walker, and Bethan Roberts, extensive archival articles and interviews, new writing on the various short films, and film credits
• Limited edition box set of 6,000 individually numbered units for the UK

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BBFC cert: 12
REGION B
EAN: 5060697923827