3 Reginald Beckwith films on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality.
dir. Val Guest
Hammer's first color feature, a 1954 Robin Hood Eastmancolor swashbuckler from Val Guest, restored in 4K from the original negatives. The Limited Collector's Edition pairs it with a 4K restoration of Wolfshead, the 1969 unaired Robin Hood TV pilot Hammer bought as a second feature. A-Tier on avforums at 8/10, Region ABC.
Hammer Films · Limited Edition
dir. Charles Crichton
StudioCanal 4K announcement. There was a minor debate about whether Ealing comedies need 4K at all, which predictably turned into a defence of the format itself. Film Movement's US distribution deal with Vinegar Syndrome could mean a Region A release eventually.
StudioCanal · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Francis Searle
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called in to solve the case of a suicide which the father of the deceased woman thinks was murder.