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Eternal "amateur detective" Tom Conway – who over a long career in Britain and Hollywood starred as Sherlock Holmes, The Falcon, Bulldog Drummond and the famous Simon Templar – plays a wise-cracking private investigator in this slick crime thriller from director Terence Fisher. Co-starring Naomi Chance as a model with a secret and Richard Wattis as a dyspeptic police inspector, Blood Orange is featured here as a brand-new 4K restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Ex-FBI man Tom Conway works with the police to track down the thieves behind a jewel robbery at an exclusive London fashion house. It's not long, however, before the first body turns up.
FEATURES:
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
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
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