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Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain (Limited Edition) Blu-Ray Box Set (UK Import)
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Presale - Release Date: 17.11.2025

Original title: A Prize of Gold / The Last Man to Hang / Wicked as They Come / Spin a Dark Web / The Long Haul / Fortune Is a Woman

Year: 1955 - 1957
Country: UK
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060697923834

Image: 1.66:1 / 1.85:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: English - Mono

Subtitles: English SDH

Age rating: 12

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, Arlene Dahl, Diana Dors, Jack Hawkins, Christopher Lee

Director: Mark Robson, Terence Fisher, Ken Hughes, Vernon Sewell, Sidney Gilliat


Synopsis:

Hollywood legends including Richard Widmark ( Madigan ), Victor Mature ( My Darling Clementine ), and Arlene Dahl ( Journey to the Center of the Earth ) meet the cream of British talent, including Diana Dors ( Berserk ), Jack Hawkins ( Gideon's Day ), and Christopher Lee ( Jinnah ), in Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain , a collection of six film noir tales from five major directors: Mark Robson ( The Harder They Fall ), Terence Fisher ( The Gorgon ), Ken Hughes ( Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang ), Vernon Sewell ( Burke & Hare ), and Sidney Gilliat ( Endless Night ).

Across the six films in this box set, a disaffected soldier hijacks a plane in order to pull off a gold bullion heist, a man faces the death penalty for his wife's death, a beauty queen stops at nothing in her rise to the top, a luckless boxer is lured into a world of mob violence by a femme fatale, an American GI battles mobsters in Glasgow and Liverpool, and an insurance man's chance encounter with an ex-lover leads to arson, blackmail... and murder.

This essential six-disc collection contains three Blu-ray world premieres, three Blu-ray UK premieres, and features an array of fascinating contextualizing extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, rare archival short films, and a 120-page book. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units.

Extras:

• High Definition presentations of A Prize of Gold , The Last Man to Hang , Wicked as They Come , Spin a Dark Web , The Long Haul , and Fortune Is a Woman
• Two presentations of 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 Thirza Wakefield and Melanie Williams on A Prize of Gold (2025)
• Audio commentary with writers Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman on The Last Man to Hang (2025)
• Audio commentary with academic and curator Eloise Ross on Spin a Dark Web (2025)
• Audio commentary with film historians Will Fowler and Vic Pratt on The Long Haul (2025)
• Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby on Fortune Is a Woman (2025)
• Golden Opportunity (2024): archival interview with clapper worker Geoff Glover, who fondly recalls his work on his first ever film, A Prize of Gold
• The BEHP Interview with Bill Lewthwaite (2008): archival video recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the editor of A Prize of Gold in conversation with Glyn Jones
• The BEHP Interview with Anthony Mendleson (1993): archival audio recording, featuring the Fortune Is a Woman costume designer in conversation with Linda Wood and Dave Robson
• The BEHP Interview with Maxwell Setton (1991): archival audio recording, featuring the producer of Wicked as They Come and The Long Haul in conversation with John Legard and Dave Robson
• The BEHP Interview with Vernon Sewell (1994): archival audio recording, featuring the Spin a Dark Web director in conversation with Roy Fowler
• The Guardian Lecture with Ivor Montagu (1977): archival audio recording of a lecture delivered by the Fortune Is a Woman screenwriter at the National Film Theatre, London on the subject of Lenin and cinema
• Film Fanfare No. 5 (1956): British Pathé newsreel presenting a lucky competition winner visiting the set of The Last Man to Hang and meeting his cast and crew
• Lies Lanckman on 'A Prize of Gold' (2025): in-depth appreciation by the academic and film historian
• A Test of Love (1937): a dramatized short film on the dangers of venereal diseases, which provided an early credit for Spin a Dark Web director Vernon Sewell
• This Little Ship (1953): Fortune Is a Woman star Jack Hawkins narrates this documentary about the UK's first nuclear weapons test
• Original theatrical trailers for A Prize of Gold , Wicked as They Come , and The Long Haul
• US theatrical trailer for Spin a Dark Web
• Image gallery: promotional and advertising materials
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Jonathan Bygraves, Andrew Spicer, Pamela Hutchinson, Robert Murphy, Chloe Walker, and Bethan Roberts; an archival on-set report for A Prize of Gold ; extracts from The Last Man to Hang 's pressbook; collected archival interviews with Wicked as They Come director Ken Hughes; an American Cinematographer report on The Long Haul ; a reprint of a Films and Filming article on Fortune Is a Woman filmmakers Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder; new writing on A Test for Love and This Little Ship ; and film credits
• World and UK premieres on Blu-ray
• Limited edition box set of 6,000 individually numbered units for the UK