Rent Michael Powell: Early Works (1936)
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4h 46min
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- Synopsis:
- During the early to mid-1980s, director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom) honed his craft on a succession of modestly budgeted feature films. Many of these titles remain lost, but those that survive reveal a burgeoning talent that readily established Powell as one of British cinema's leading lights. This new collection brings together five of those early films directed by Powell, newly remastered by the BFI National Archive, including murder mysteries, sensational thrillers and a comedy crime caper.
- Actors:
- Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter, Ronald Ward, Maurice Schwartz, George Merritt, Henry Oscar, Donald Calthrop, Kitty Kelly, Wilfrid Caithness, Peter Gawthorne, Gerald Fielding, Reginald Tate, Moyra Fagan, Ivor Barnard, Barbara Everest, Hal Gordon, Syd Crossley, Henry Caine, Esma Cannon, Cyril Chamberlain
- Directors:
- Michael Powell
- Producers:
- Joe Rock, Jerome Jackson, Geoffrey Rowson, Simon Rowson
- Writers:
- Jack Byrd, Syd Courtenay, Jacques Futrelle, Ian Hay, Stanley Haynes, Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, Jerome Jackson, Philip MacDonald, Michael Powell, Ralph Smart, Roland Pertwee, John Hastings Turner, Walter Ellis, Ian Dalrymple
- Aka:
- Rynox / Hotel Splendide / The Night of the Party / Her Last Affaire / Behind the Mask
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/09/2024
- Run Time:
- 286 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Audio Description
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Newly recorded feature commentaries by Marc David Jacobs (Rynox, Behind the Mask), Lawrence Napper and Dorn Delargy (Hotel Splendide), Dr Josephine Dotting and Vic Pratt (The Night of the Party), and Ian Christie (Her Last Affaire)
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 1 and No. 10 (1927, 26 mins total): Powell himself appears in these rare short comedy curiosities from the silent era, with optional audio commentary by Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI
- Inside the Archive: Riviera Revels (2024, 12 mins): Bryony Dixon explores the origins of Riviera Revels and Michael Powell's work on them
- Inside the Archive: The Early Films of Michael Powell (2024, 42 mins): a new documentary on the BFI National Archive's role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell
- Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell (2023, 41 mins): a new documentary exploring some of Michael Powell's unrealised films
- Interview with Erwin Hillier (1988, 26 mins, audio): in these extracts from an interview recorded by the British Entertainment History Project, cinematographer Erwin Hillier recalls working with Michael Powell
- The Archers in Argentina (1954, 21 mins): Michael Powell and an international film-star entourage are captured on camera at an Argentinian film festival in this home movie footage shot by Emeric Pressburger, with optional audio commentary by Marc David Jacobs
- Image galleries
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following Films:
- Rynox (1932)
- Hotel Splendide (1932)
- The Night of the Party (1934)
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following Films:
- Her Last Affaire (1936)
- Behind the Mask (1936)
- Special Features
