Yeah, I discovered about the delay at the beginning of the week. It is apparently due to them carrying out restoration on the master film.next thursday wrote:I just read on Amazon UK that the DVD is delayed, "perhaps" to come out in 2010.Darren wrote:The Peter Hammond directed 1969 film "Spring and Port Wine", starring countless well known UK actors is finally being released on DVD in March 2009.
A film that brings out a very different side to Hammond's style of direction. He doesn't go for the more unusual, stylistic camera angles but gets down and dirty with the rawness of Bolton and the domestic setting. He's got some really quite astounding actors to play with - James Mason in the starring role. The music is great as well.
Just Fie.
Another Hammond directed series coming out on DVD - King of the Castle is being released in the UK in June. A 1970's children's TV serial. Hammond directed the first two episodes of the 7 30-minute episodes. For children of a certain generation this was very terrifying in its freakishness. The opening episode is all location based and recorded on film then the second episode goes into videotape in the studio, with Hammond using lots of crazy special effects. It does lose something in the non-Hammond directed episodes but is an enjoyable if dated serial.
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