Man of Violence (Pete Walker)

[pro-bassoonist]

Part of BFI's Flipside series. Set to be released on August 24.

Moon (Michael Latimer) is the mercenary hired to steal 90 million dollars in gold from an Arab country decimated by political chaos. Sex, violence and mayhem accompany the group of double-crossing heavies who covet the purloined loot. Burgess (George Belbin) is the crook who poses as a cop, and Nixon (Derek Aylward) is the criminal who poses as a policeman. A bevy of females willingly submit to seduction, and a sadistic homosexual murderer trails Moon and his malevolent gang for the gold in this uneven crime drama.

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[LazerTron]

Thanks for the heads-up, Pro. Also a 100% addition to my BFI collection.

[psicon]

Haven't seen this, but love the other Pete Walker movies I've seen.
Will be getting this one.

[psicon]

Found this list of features...

Special features:

* Both films newly transferred to High Definition from the original negatives
* The Big Switch (aka Strip Poker) (1968, 66 mins TBC): Pete Walker's pulp thriller which includes a climactic shoot-out in the snow on Brighton's now destroyed West Pier
* Alternative, export cut of The Big Switch **Blu-ray exclusive**
* Original trailers for Man of Violence and The Big Switch
* Alternative ‘Moon’ title-card
* Extensive illustrated booklet featuring newly commissioned contributions from Pete Walker, novelist Cathi Unsworth, producer and critic David McGillivray, and film historian Julian Petley

* Blu-ray: BD50 | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | 1080 | 24fps | PCM mono audio (48k/24-bit)

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[Guernica78]

I presume the consensus is that if you have this edition you don’t need the new 88 release?

[raphph]

Originally Posted by Guernica78

I presume the consensus is that if you have this edition you don’t need the new 88 release?

I think the only difference is both films are spread over 2 discs on 88 Films and according to DVDBeaver they are both dual layered...so encoding compression may be better...

[fatboyslim142]

Originally Posted by raphph

I think the only difference is both films are spread over 2 discs on 88 Films and according to DVDBeaver they are both dual layered...so encoding compression may be better...

The 88 Films release also has the following extras that the BFI doesn't:

"Sex & Violence - Pete Walker's Austerity Films" 2024 interview with director Pete Walker (9:54)
"Noir in Colour" 2024 interview with director of photography Norman Langley (7:45)

Pity neither the 88 or BFI releases included the British Super 8 Version (15:59, silent) that is on the German Wicked-Vision Media release.

[ChrisSmith24]

Not sure if it was first pressing only or all copies, but BFIs came with a booklet - that combined with taking up less shelf space made it easy to stick with the BFI in my opinion.