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(Max Ophuls, 1949, 82 mins) Release date: 16 November 2020 Standard Edition Blu-ray The legendary Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, La Ronde) directs this tense and stylish 1949 film noir melodrama. Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street, Suspiria) stars as a suburban housewife who covers up a murder to protect her teenage daughter, only to find herself blackmailed by an immoral small-time crook, played by James Mason (North by Northwest, The Deadly Affair). INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remaster Original mono audio Making an American Movie (2010, 44 mins): an in-depth analysis by Lutz Bacher, author of Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios Maternal Overdrive (2006, 23 mins): award-winning writer-director Todd Haynes discusses one of his favourite films James Mason as Homme Fatal (2018, 27 mins): illustrated lecture by academic Adrian Garvey, recorded as part of the Focus on James Mason event held at Birkbeck, University of London Focus on James Mason: Audience Discussion (2018, 40 mins): Q&A session hosted by academics Adrian Garvey and Sarah Thomas following a screening of The Reckless Moment James Mason: Watching the Violence Unfold (2018, 33 mins): illustrated lecture by academic Sarah Thomas, recorded at Birkbeck, University of London Isolated music & effects track Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing #PHIBD105 BBFC cert: 12 REGION FREE EAN: 5060697921212
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The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
82 min
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.