Eureka Entertainment Announces April Releases
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Posted January 29, 2026 10:53 PM by Webmaster
Eureka Entertainment has announced its April releases. They are: Danger: Diabolik (1968) and Adventure Calls! Karl May at CCC (1964-1968). The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market in late April.
Danger: Diabolik 4K Blu-ray
In 1962, Italian comic book writers Angela and Luciana Giussani invented fumetti neri ("black comics") with Diabolik, a wildly popular crime series starring an elusive master thief. Within just a few years, the comic was adapted into a psychedelic feature film released internationally as Danger: Diabolik directed by a true maestro of Italian genre cinema in Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace) and starring John Phillip Law (Death Rides a Horse) in the title role.
Somewhere in Europe, Inspector Ginko (Michel Piccoli) is the police officer charged with overseeing the transportation of $10 million from a bank, determined to stop it from falling into the hands of the infamous thief known as Diabolik (Law) and his accomplice Eva Kant (Marisa Mell). But, despite his best efforts, Ginko fails Diabolik nabs the cash before setting his sights on stealing a priceless emerald and twenty tons of gold, embarking on a crimewave that will see him make a mockery of both the police and the government officials they answer to.
Designed to capitalise on the success of CCC Film's Dr Mabuse sequels, Andrι Hunebelle's Fantomas trilogy and Harry Alan Towers' Fu Manchu series, Danger: Diabolik is Italy's contribution to the popular cycle of supervillain movies that swept Europe in the 1960s and a key entry in Mario Bava's filmography. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this landmark of Italian genre cinema on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Adventure Calls! Karl May at CCC
The writer Karl May is a household name in his native Germany, where he is associated with thrilling Western tales and sweeping adventure stories. Following earlier attempts to bring his novels to the screen, films adapted from May's work found their greatest success in the 1960s. Seven of them were produced by Artur Brauner at CCC Film, all starring Lex Barker and directed by veteran filmmakers Robert Siodmak, Hugo Fregonese, Franz Josef Gottlieb and Harald Reinl.
Old Shatterhand and Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death both feature May's most beloved characters: the frontiersman Old Shatterhand and the Apache chief Winnetou, who find themselves first caught up in a plot to start a war between Native Americans and white settlers and then a scheme to steal a gold shipment from the US Army. The Shoot, Through Wild Kurdistan and In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion all follow adventurer Kara Ben Nemsi as he travels through the Balkans and the Middle East, while The Treasure of the Aztecs and The Pyramid of the Sun God chart the exploits of Dr Karl Sternau as he seeks vast riches to fund political action in Mexico.
Wildly entertaining, shot in beautifully cinematic European locations and helmed by some of the most talented filmmakers working in Germany during the 1960s, these popular Karl May adaptations paved the way for the many Italian Westerns that would soon follow. The Masters of Cinema Series is honoured to present all seven of Artur Brauner's Karl May adaptations for the first time ever on home video in the UK from brand new 4K restorations by CCC Film.
Box set content:
Old Shatterhand
Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in the Valley of Death
The Shoot
Through Wild Kurdistan
In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion
The Treasure of the Aztecs
The Pyramid of the Sun God
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: APRIL 27.
Danger: Diabolik 4K Blu-ray
In 1962, Italian comic book writers Angela and Luciana Giussani invented fumetti neri ("black comics") with Diabolik, a wildly popular crime series starring an elusive master thief. Within just a few years, the comic was adapted into a psychedelic feature film released internationally as Danger: Diabolik directed by a true maestro of Italian genre cinema in Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace) and starring John Phillip Law (Death Rides a Horse) in the title role.
Somewhere in Europe, Inspector Ginko (Michel Piccoli) is the police officer charged with overseeing the transportation of $10 million from a bank, determined to stop it from falling into the hands of the infamous thief known as Diabolik (Law) and his accomplice Eva Kant (Marisa Mell). But, despite his best efforts, Ginko fails Diabolik nabs the cash before setting his sights on stealing a priceless emerald and twenty tons of gold, embarking on a crimewave that will see him make a mockery of both the police and the government officials they answer to.
Designed to capitalise on the success of CCC Film's Dr Mabuse sequels, Andrι Hunebelle's Fantomas trilogy and Harry Alan Towers' Fu Manchu series, Danger: Diabolik is Italy's contribution to the popular cycle of supervillain movies that swept Europe in the 1960s and a key entry in Mario Bava's filmography. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this landmark of Italian genre cinema on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- TWO-DISC (4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY) COMBO PACK RELEASE
- 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- English and Italian audio options
- Alternative English audio track, originally recorded for the film's laserdisc release
- Optional English subtitles, including newly translated subtitles for the Italian audio
- Audio commentary with film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- Audio commentary with film historian Tim Lucas
- Audio commentary with actor John Phillip Law, moderated by film historian Tim Lucas
- Criminal Intent new discussion of the origins and evolution of Diabolik from page to screen with Leon Hunt, author of the Cultographies volume on Danger: Diabolik
- Radical Behaviour new video essay on Danger: Diabolik as anti-establishment pop culture by Italian genre cinema expert Rachael Nisbet
- From Fumetti to Film archival featurette
- Body Movin' music video by Beastie Boys, with optional commentary by Adam "MCA" Yauch
- Teaser trailer
- Theatrical trailer
- Limited Edition Hardbound Set [2000 copies]
- Limited Edition hardcase with package design by Nick Wrigley
- Limited Edition 60-page book featuring new essays on Danger: Diabolik by Italian film historian Roberto Curti and comic book scholar Jochen Ecke, a new introduction to fumetti neri by crime genre expert Sergio Angelini and new writing on the film's director by Troy Howarth, author of The Haunted World of Mario Bava
Adventure Calls! Karl May at CCC
The writer Karl May is a household name in his native Germany, where he is associated with thrilling Western tales and sweeping adventure stories. Following earlier attempts to bring his novels to the screen, films adapted from May's work found their greatest success in the 1960s. Seven of them were produced by Artur Brauner at CCC Film, all starring Lex Barker and directed by veteran filmmakers Robert Siodmak, Hugo Fregonese, Franz Josef Gottlieb and Harald Reinl.
Old Shatterhand and Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death both feature May's most beloved characters: the frontiersman Old Shatterhand and the Apache chief Winnetou, who find themselves first caught up in a plot to start a war between Native Americans and white settlers and then a scheme to steal a gold shipment from the US Army. The Shoot, Through Wild Kurdistan and In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion all follow adventurer Kara Ben Nemsi as he travels through the Balkans and the Middle East, while The Treasure of the Aztecs and The Pyramid of the Sun God chart the exploits of Dr Karl Sternau as he seeks vast riches to fund political action in Mexico.
Wildly entertaining, shot in beautifully cinematic European locations and helmed by some of the most talented filmmakers working in Germany during the 1960s, these popular Karl May adaptations paved the way for the many Italian Westerns that would soon follow. The Masters of Cinema Series is honoured to present all seven of Artur Brauner's Karl May adaptations for the first time ever on home video in the UK from brand new 4K restorations by CCC Film.
Box set content:
Old Shatterhand
Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in the Valley of Death
The Shoot
Through Wild Kurdistan
In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion
The Treasure of the Aztecs
The Pyramid of the Sun God
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 4K RESTORATIONS OF ALL SEVEN FILMS from the original camera negatives undertaken by CCC Film
- Original German audio tracks
- Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
- New introductions to each film by Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone
- New audio commentaries on Old Shatterhand and The Treasure of the Aztecs by film historian David Kalat
- Karl May at CCC new interview with producer Alice Brauner, managing director of CCC Film and daughter of CCC founder Artur Brauner
- Prodigal Son new interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on the late career of Robert Siodmak
- Archival making of documentary on Old Shatterhand and Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death
- Archival featurette on Daliah Lavi, star of Old Shatterhand
- Archival interview with Bernhard Schmid, co-editor and contributor to Karl May Verlag
- Archival featurette on the restoration of The Shoot, Through Wild Kurdistan and In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion
- Archival news footage on The Shoot
- Original theatrical trailers
- Limited Edition Hardbound Set [2000 copies]
- Limited Edition 60-page collector's book featuring new writing on Karl May on page and screen by German popular cinema experts Tim Bergfelder and Holger Haase, a profile of Lex Barker by Boris Brosowski and an essay on Old Shatterhand and Winnetou by Lee Broughton, author of The Euro-Western [2000 copies]
UK STREET DATE: APRIL 27.
