Indicator/Powerhouse Films Announce November Releases
HomeIndicator/Powerhouse Films Announce November Releases
Posted August 21, 2025 08:14 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Indicator/Powerhouse Films have announced their November batch of releases. They are: Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain (1955-1957), Obsession (1949), Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967), Creatures the World Forgot (1971), and Watermelon Man (1970).
Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain
CONTENT:
A PRIZE OF GOLD (Mark Robson, 1955, 98 mins)
THE LAST MAN TO HANG (Terence Fisher, 1956, 75 mins)
WICKED AS THEY COME (Ken Hughes, 1956, 94 mins)
SPIN A DARK WEB (Vernon Sewell, 1956, 76 mins)
THE LONG HAUL (Ken Hughes, 1957, 89 mins)
FORTUNE IS A WOMAN (Sidney Gilliat, 1957, 95 mins)
Hollywood legends including Richard Widmark (Madigan), Victor Mature (My Darling Clementine), and Arlene Dahl (Journey to the Center of the Earth) meet the cream of British talent, including Diana Dors (Berserk), Jack Hawkins (Gideon's Day), and Christopher Lee (Jinnah), in Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain, a collection of six film noir tales from five major directors: Mark Robson (The Harder They Fall), Terence Fisher (The Gorgon), Ken Hughes (Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang), Vernon Sewell (Burke & Hare), and Sidney Gilliat (Endless Night).
Across the six films in this box set, a disaffected soldier hijacks a plane in order to pull off a gold bullion heist, a man faces the death penalty for his wife's death, a beauty queen stops at nothing in her rise to the top, a luckless boxer is lured into a world of mob violence by a femme fatale, an American G.I. battles mobsters in Glasgow and Liverpool, and an insurance man's chance encounter with an ex-lover leads to arson, blackmail... and murder.
This essential six-disc collection contains three Blu-ray world premieres, three Blu-ray UK premieres, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, rare archival short films, and a 120-page book. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units.
Special Features and Techncial Specs:
Obsession Standard Edition
Description: Starring Robert Newton (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), Phil Brown (The Camp on Blood Island), Sally Gray (They Made Me a Fugitive), and Naunton Wayne (The Lady Vanishes), Obsession takes a dark and unsettling journey into the mind of a murderer.
When psychiatrist Clive (Newton) learns that his wife, Storm (Gray), is having an affair, he resolves to take revenge by kidnapping and murdering her lover, Bill (Brown), and dissolving his corpse in acid. As Bill languishes in Clive's cellar, Detective Finsbury (Naunton) doggedly pursues the case...
Written by Alec Coppel (Vertigo), scored by Nino Rota (8½, The Godfather), and directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Sniper) during his blacklist-induced exile in Britain, Obsession's original release was delayed due to the ongoing court case of real-life 'Acid Bath Murderer' John Haigh.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Sword of Sherwood Forest Standard Edition
Description: Britain's best-loved outlaw gets the Hammer treatment in Sword of Sherwood Forest, which sees Richard Greene (The Blood of Fu Manchu, The Castle of Fu Manchu) reprise the role he made famous in the classic television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham (Peter Cushing, Corruption) wants to eliminate the Archbishop of Canterbury (Jack Gwillim, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb) in order to seize the land of fallen nobles, his aides enlist the outlaw Robin Hood. Instead, Robin teams up with Maid Marion (Sarah Branch, Hell Is a City) to foil the plotters.
Directed by the great Terence Fisher (The Gorgon, The Revenge of Frankenstein), the film also boasts an uncredited early role for Oliver Reed (The Damned).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
A Challenge for Robin Hood Standard Edition
Description: The third Robin Hood film from Hammer, A Challenge for Robin Hood sees Barrie Ingham (The Day of the Jackal) donning the Lincoln green.
When his cousin (Peter Blythe, Frankenstein Created Woman) frames him for murder, Robin must hide from the Sheriff of Nottingham (John Arnatt, Whistle Down the Wind) in Sherwood Forest. There, Robin assembles his band of merrie men, rescues Maid Marian (Gay Hamilton, Barry Lyndon), and plans his revenge...
Directed by C M Pennington-Richards (Dentist on the Job), this action-packed adventure features acting support from Leon Greene (Adventures of a Plumber's Mate) and James Hayter (Gideon's Day).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Creatures the World Forgot Standard Edition
Description: Following the enormous success of One Million Years B.C. in 1965, Hammer embarked on a series of prehistoric adventures over the next five years, concluding with Creatures the World Forgot. Directed by Don Chaffey – previously responsible for One Million Years B.C., not to mention the Ray Harryhausen classic Jason and the Argonauts – the film swapped dinosaurs for more adult content, starred former Miss Norway and ex-Bond girl Julie Ege (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and earned itself an 'X' certificate in the process. Even today, it still rates an '18' from the BBFC!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Watermelon Man Standard Edition
Description: A bigoted, white salesman (played by stand-up comedian Godfrey Cambridge) wakes up one morning to find he has become black. Although it has been somewhat overshadowed by Melvin Van Peebles' next film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Watermelon Man has never felt more relevant than it does today.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain
CONTENT:
A PRIZE OF GOLD (Mark Robson, 1955, 98 mins)
THE LAST MAN TO HANG (Terence Fisher, 1956, 75 mins)
WICKED AS THEY COME (Ken Hughes, 1956, 94 mins)
SPIN A DARK WEB (Vernon Sewell, 1956, 76 mins)
THE LONG HAUL (Ken Hughes, 1957, 89 mins)
FORTUNE IS A WOMAN (Sidney Gilliat, 1957, 95 mins)
Hollywood legends including Richard Widmark (Madigan), Victor Mature (My Darling Clementine), and Arlene Dahl (Journey to the Center of the Earth) meet the cream of British talent, including Diana Dors (Berserk), Jack Hawkins (Gideon's Day), and Christopher Lee (Jinnah), in Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain, a collection of six film noir tales from five major directors: Mark Robson (The Harder They Fall), Terence Fisher (The Gorgon), Ken Hughes (Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang), Vernon Sewell (Burke & Hare), and Sidney Gilliat (Endless Night).
Across the six films in this box set, a disaffected soldier hijacks a plane in order to pull off a gold bullion heist, a man faces the death penalty for his wife's death, a beauty queen stops at nothing in her rise to the top, a luckless boxer is lured into a world of mob violence by a femme fatale, an American G.I. battles mobsters in Glasgow and Liverpool, and an insurance man's chance encounter with an ex-lover leads to arson, blackmail... and murder.
This essential six-disc collection contains three Blu-ray world premieres, three Blu-ray UK premieres, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, rare archival short films, and a 120-page book. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units.
Special Features and Techncial Specs:
- High Definition presentations of A Prize of Gold, The Last Man to Hang, Wicked as They Come, Spin a Dark Web, The Long Haul, and Fortune Is a Woman
- Two presentations of Fortune Is a Woman: with the original UK title sequence; and as She Played with Fire, with the US titles
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with film historians Thirza Wakefield and Melanie Williams on A Prize of Gold (2025)
- Audio commentary with writers Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman on The Last Man to Hang (2025)
- Audio commentary with academic and curator Eloise Ross on Spin a Dark Web (2025)
- Audio commentary with film historians Will Fowler and Vic Pratt on The Long Haul (2025)
- Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby on Fortune Is a Woman (2025)
- Golden Opportunity (2024): archival interview with clapper worker Geoff Glover, who fondly recalls his work on his first ever film, A Prize of Gold
- The BEHP Interview with Bill Lewthwaite (2008): archival video recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the editor of A Prize of Gold in conversation with Glyn Jones
- The BEHP Interview with Anthony Mendleson (1993): archival audio recording, featuring the Fortune Is a Woman costume designer in conversation with Linda Wood and Dave Robson
- The BEHP Interview with Maxwell Setton (1991): archival audio recording, featuring the producer of Wicked as They Come and The Long Haul in conversation with John Legard and Dave Robson
- The BEHP Interview with Vernon Sewell (1994): archival audio recording, featuring the Spin a Dark Web director in conversation with Roy Fowler
- The Guardian Lecture with Ivor Montagu (1977): archival audio recording of a lecture delivered by the Fortune Is a Woman screenwriter at the National Film Theatre, London on the subject of Lenin and cinema
- Film Fanfare No. 5 (1956): British Pathé newsreel presenting a lucky competition winner visiting the set of The Last Man to Hang and meeting its cast and crew
- Lies Lanckman on 'A Prize of Gold' (2025): in-depth appreciation by the academic and film historian
- A Test of Love (1937): a dramatised short film on the dangers of venereal diseases, which provided an early credit for Spin a Dark Web director Vernon Sewell
- This Little Ship (1953): Fortune Is a Woman star Jack Hawkins narrates this documentary about the UK's first nuclear weapons test
- Original theatrical trailers for A Prize of Gold, Wicked as They Come, and The Long Haul
- US theatrical trailer for Spin a Dark Web
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Jonathan Bygraves, Andrew Spicer, Pamela Hutchinson, Robert Murphy, Chloe Walker, and Bethan Roberts; an archival on-set report for A Prize of Gold; extracts from The Last Man to Hang's pressbook; collected archival interviews with Wicked as They Come director Ken Hughes; an American Cinematographer report on The Long Haul; a reprint of a Films and Filming article on Fortune Is a Woman filmmakers Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder; new writing on A Test for Love and This Little Ship; and film credits
Obsession Standard Edition
Description: Starring Robert Newton (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), Phil Brown (The Camp on Blood Island), Sally Gray (They Made Me a Fugitive), and Naunton Wayne (The Lady Vanishes), Obsession takes a dark and unsettling journey into the mind of a murderer.
When psychiatrist Clive (Newton) learns that his wife, Storm (Gray), is having an affair, he resolves to take revenge by kidnapping and murdering her lover, Bill (Brown), and dissolving his corpse in acid. As Bill languishes in Clive's cellar, Detective Finsbury (Naunton) doggedly pursues the case...
Written by Alec Coppel (Vertigo), scored by Nino Rota (8½, The Godfather), and directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Sniper) during his blacklist-induced exile in Britain, Obsession's original release was delayed due to the ongoing court case of real-life 'Acid Bath Murderer' John Haigh.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 4K RESTORATION by Powerhouse Films
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with film historians Thirza Wakefield and Melanie Williams (2024)
- The John Player Lecture with Edward Dmytryk (1972): archival audio recording of the prolific director in conversation with author and critic John Baxter, recorded at London's National Film Theatre
- Richard Dyer on 'Obsession' (2024): the academic and author explores the themes and the making of the film
- The BEHP Interview with Gordon McCallum (1988): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring sound recordist McCallum in conversation with Alan Lawson
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- REGION-FREE
Sword of Sherwood Forest Standard Edition
Description: Britain's best-loved outlaw gets the Hammer treatment in Sword of Sherwood Forest, which sees Richard Greene (The Blood of Fu Manchu, The Castle of Fu Manchu) reprise the role he made famous in the classic television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham (Peter Cushing, Corruption) wants to eliminate the Archbishop of Canterbury (Jack Gwillim, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb) in order to seize the land of fallen nobles, his aides enlist the outlaw Robin Hood. Instead, Robin teams up with Maid Marion (Sarah Branch, Hell Is a City) to foil the plotters.
Directed by the great Terence Fisher (The Gorgon, The Revenge of Frankenstein), the film also boasts an uncredited early role for Oliver Reed (The Damned).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High Definition remaster
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with writers and film experts Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman (2022)
- Interview with Terence Fisher (1967, 76 mins): the legendary director reflects on his work with Hammer in this rare archival audio recording
- The BEHP Interview with Sidney Cole (1987, 80 mins): career-spanning audio interview, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the celebrated editor, writer and producer in conversation with Alan Lawson, Arthur Graham, and Rodney Giesler
- Play It Again: Richard Greene (1981, 23 mins): film and television's celebrated Robin Hood chats with Tony Bilbow about his favourite silver-screen moments
- Merry Memories (2022, 4 mins): actor Dennis Lotis fondly recalls his time making the film
- All in a Quiver (2022, 7 mins): continuity supervisor Pauline Wise remembers her big break at Hammer
- Riding Through the Glen (2022, 29 mins): Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema 1897–2015, examines the production of Hammer's second Robin Hood adventure, and considers its enduring appeal
- A Hero's Fanfare (2022, 23 mins): appreciation of Alun Hoddinott's score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
- Isolated music & effects track
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
A Challenge for Robin Hood Standard Edition
Description: The third Robin Hood film from Hammer, A Challenge for Robin Hood sees Barrie Ingham (The Day of the Jackal) donning the Lincoln green.
When his cousin (Peter Blythe, Frankenstein Created Woman) frames him for murder, Robin must hide from the Sheriff of Nottingham (John Arnatt, Whistle Down the Wind) in Sherwood Forest. There, Robin assembles his band of merrie men, rescues Maid Marian (Gay Hamilton, Barry Lyndon), and plans his revenge...
Directed by C M Pennington-Richards (Dentist on the Job), this action-packed adventure features acting support from Leon Greene (Adventures of a Plumber's Mate) and James Hayter (Gideon's Day).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High Definition remaster
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby (2022)
- The John Player Lecture: The Hammer Forum (1971, 61 mins): onstage discussion chaired by John Russell Taylor, with contributions from noted Hammer luminaries Michael Carreras, Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher, James Needs, Anthony Nelson-Keys, and Jimmy Sangster
- The BEHP Interview with C M Pennington-Richards (1990, 96 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the veteran cinematographer and director in conversation with Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat
- An Excuse for Action (2022, 12 mins): actor John Gugolka remembers making the film at Pinewood and on location
- Sherwood on Screen (2022, 25 mins): author and critic Kim Newman surveys the many cinematic portrayals of the world-famous English outlaw
- Songs from the Hood (2022, 12 mins): appreciation of Gary Hughes' score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
- Robin Hood Junior (1975, 61 mins): Children's Film Foundation adventure yarn, starring actor and television presenter Keith Chegwin as the young outlaw
- Audio commentary with film historian Vic Pratt on Robin Hood Junior (2022)
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Creatures the World Forgot Standard Edition
Description: Following the enormous success of One Million Years B.C. in 1965, Hammer embarked on a series of prehistoric adventures over the next five years, concluding with Creatures the World Forgot. Directed by Don Chaffey – previously responsible for One Million Years B.C., not to mention the Ray Harryhausen classic Jason and the Argonauts – the film swapped dinosaurs for more adult content, starred former Miss Norway and ex-Bond girl Julie Ege (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and earned itself an 'X' certificate in the process. Even today, it still rates an '18' from the BBFC!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High Definition remaster
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with filmmaker Sean Hogan and author and critic Kim Newman (2022)
- Hammer's Women: Julie Ege (2022, 7 mins): profile of the Norwegian model and actor by academic Rachel Knightley
- Signs of Change (2022, 25 mins): Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema 1897–2015, revisits Hammer's classic adventure film
- Primitive Rites (2022, 26 mins): appreciation of Mario Nascimbene's score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
- Original theatrical trailer
- TV spot
- Radio spot
- Image galleries: promotional and publicity material
- Three Children's Film Foundation productions directed by Don Chaffey: Skid Kids (1953, 49 mins): story about a group of young cyclists; A Good Pull-Up (1953, 18 mins): Dickie Duffle, played by Peter Butterworth, gets himself into trouble at a workers' café; Watch Out! (1953, 18 mins): further escapades of Dickie Duffle as he causes chaos in a film studio
- Audio commentaries with film historian Vic Pratt on Skid Kids, A Good Pull-Up and Watch Out! (2022)
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on all films
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Watermelon Man Standard Edition
Description: A bigoted, white salesman (played by stand-up comedian Godfrey Cambridge) wakes up one morning to find he has become black. Although it has been somewhat overshadowed by Melvin Van Peebles' next film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Watermelon Man has never felt more relevant than it does today.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High Definition presentation
- Introduction by Melvin Van Peebles (2004)
- The Guardian Interview with Melvin Van Peebles (1996): archival audio recording of the filmmaker and actor in conversation with broadcaster Darcus Howe at London's National Film Theatre
- Racquel Gates on 'Watermelon Man' (2020): appreciation by the academic and author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- REGION-B "LOCKED"