Columbia Noir #7 (Limited Edition, Region B)

 

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

Release date: 17 November 2025
Limited Edition Blu-ray (World and UK premieres)

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 G.I. 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 contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, rare archival short films, and a 120-page book. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 6 x BLU-RAY BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES

• 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 its cast and crew
• Lies Lanckman on ‘A Prize of Gold’ (2025): in-depth appreciation by the academic and film historian
• A Test for Love (1937): a dramatised 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 publicity 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