StudioCanal will add two new catalog titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Sidney Hayers's
Payroll a.k.a.
I Promised to Pay (1961), starring Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, and Billie Whitelaw, and Charles Crichton's
Hue and Cry (1947), starring Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, and Harry Fowler. Recently restored, the two films will be available for purchase in May.
Payroll
A handsome small-time crook carries out a heist on a payroll van. But he hasn't reckoned on the determination of the company owner to recover the money. British thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. STREET DATE: MAY 11.
Hue and Cry
First of the Ealing comedies. A bunch of crooks use a comic paper, featuring stories penned by Felix H. Wilkinson (Alastair Sim), to pass on coded messages for robberies. When the comic's readership, a bunch of East End boys, discover what's going on they go to the police. The local constabulary, however, are no help, and so the plucky lads set out to foil the robbers themselves.