Blood Orange LE (4K-UHD)

Hollywood favorite Tom Conway – famed for playing Sherlock Holmes, The Falcon, Bulldog Drummond and Simon Templar – stars in this sharp-edged crime thriller from director Terence Fisher. Co-starring Naomi Chance as a model hiding dangerous secrets and Richard Wattis as a grumbling police inspector, Blood Orange has been painstakingly restored by Hammer in 4K from the original film negatives.

Ex-FBI agent turned private eye Conway is called in to investigate a jewel robbery at an exclusive London fashion house. But when murder enters the frame, the catwalk becomes a crime scene – and the killer is still at large.

• Blood Orange and supporting material on two discs in a stylish digipak and rigid box: one UHD and one Blu-ray, with the content duplicated across both formats.
• English, French, Italian, Spanish and German subtitles on each version of the film.

The discs feature:

• New commentary with author and critic Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw, author of Brit Noir and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction.
• New commentary with film historian Lucy Bolton and film critic Phuong Le.
• Dressed to Kill: Screenwriter and author David Pirie and Wayne Kinsey, writer of numerous books on Hammer, discuss Michael Carreras, his relationships and his work at Hammer in the early 1950s.
• I'm Just a Girl!: award-winning film-maker Alice Lowe discusses Blood Orange and female representation in British cinema.
• The ABC of British B!: Artist and film scholar Cathy Lomax, film historian Richard Hollis and author Gavin Collinson discuss Hammer's run of B movies which formed the company's staple output for the best part of a decade.
• The House of Glamour: author and fashion historian Liz Tregenza gives insight into the fashions and fashion industry portrayed so vividly in Blood Orange.
• A short gallery of stills and publicity material alongside tracks from Ivor Slaney’s score.

The booklet features:

• New article by Hammer expert Wayne Kinsey examining the making of Blood Orange.
• New article by Robert JE Simpson on Hammer's "sister company" and initial distributor, Exclusive Films.
• New article by Nora Fiore on the "bad girls" of Hammer Noir and how they stack up against American femme fatales.
• New article by Wayne Kinsey, who examines a key piece of Bray Studios architecture used to good effect on Blood Orange.
• New article by crime and Noir expert Barry Forshaw on lead actor Tom Conway.
• New article by Gavin Collinson, who takes a look at cinema’s often-jaundiced take on the fashion industry.
• Article by Denis Meikle on James Carreras, whose drive, initiative and inexhaustible energy drove Hammer to global success.
• Archive interview with Harry Oakes, focus puller on many Hammer films.