'Spaceways' Director: Terence Fisher (1953) Hammer Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Howard Duff (The Naked City) stars as a pioneering space engineer embroiled in murder and espionage in this early '50s Hammer space noir. Co-starring Hungarian screen siren Eva Bartok (Blood and Black Lace) and a very on-form Alan Wheatley as a bullish intelligence operative. Stephen Mitchell, chief engineer on the world’s first space station, has the bad luck to be married to a gold-digging shrew. When an unmanned rocket fails re-entry at the same time as his wife and a fellow scientist go missing, Stephen is accused of killing them both and hiding their bodies in the orbiting spacecraft. Limited Edition contents:- Rigid slipcase- Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Wayne Kinsey, Heidi Honeycutt, Andrew Pixley, Sarah Morgan, Neil Sinyard, Miriam Balanescu, and Robert J.E. Simpson Special features include:- New commentary with writer, filmmaker and film programmer Heidi Honeycutt and TV and film critic Sarah Morgan.- New commentary with writer/editor David Flint.- Two Nations Divided by a Common Genre: writer/publisher Wayne Kinsey and director/producer/actor/writer Ted A. Bohus discuss 1950s sci-fi films and the differences in style between those made in the US and the UK.- Gallery of stills and publicity material alongside tracks from Ivor Slaney’s score.- Sidebar: Spaceways: Film critic and writer Tim Lucas discusses Spaceways and sci-fi films of the period with artist and film historian Stephen R. Bissette.
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