A Hammer Films Noir, plus 8 fast-paced co-features

Hammer Films” SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR – Cesar Romero stars as a Yank newspaperman in London who sets out to solve a murder. DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY – Based on the popular 1942-1957 network radio series created by Phillips H. Lord. Howard St. John is the Washington DC-based David Harding, head of a covert counter-espionage organization, charged with preventing top-secret scientific information from reaching the hands of America”s enemies. DANGER ZONE – A private eye first cracks a case involving smuggling ring, then tackles an assignment that involves blackmail, murder and film noir”s top bad guy, Tom Neal. THE BIG CHASE – As his expectant wife enters the hospital in anticipation of the blessed event, her cop husband is off to the races, trailing payroll robbers on a mad chase that goes from cars to rowboat to motorboat to helicopter. The chase sequence, captured in all its bullet-to-bullet glory, comprises a third of the movie. MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY (1947) – From Phillips H. Lord”s popular NBC radio series comes an intriguing ”legal film noir” filled with double-crosses and unusual twists–starting in the opening reel when a woman is slain in her apartment to an escaped killer, and the paper prints that the alive-and-well girlfriend of a local crime boss was the victim. RINGSIDE – Middleweight boxer works his way up to a title fight, and loses it and his eyesight when the champion seeing that his opponent is blind in one eye goes to work on the other one. HI-JACKED – Parolee/ truck driver now wants to stick to the straight-and-narrow, but finds himself riding a highway of terror when his truck is hijacked and police suspect him. PIER 23 – Two more ”brushes with crime” for ace private detective Dennis O”Brien. THE CASE OF THE BABY-SITTER: Jewel thieves, operating in the guise of a Duke and Duchess, hire the Ace Detective Agency to ”baby sit” the infant they are using as a blind for their thefts.

Bonus Materials

• Lord of the Radio – Jean Lord Greenlaw Interview by Richard Roberts
• Scotland Yard Inspector Featurette – by Joel Blumberg
• Pat Novak for Hire Radio Program
• The Big Chase – Robert L. Lippert, Jr. Interview by Tom Weaver

Cast & Crew

Actors:

• DAVID HARDING
• COUNTERSPY: Willard Parker
• Audrey Long
• Howard St. John
• Raymond Greenleaf
• Harlan Warde
• Alex Gerry DANGER ZONE: Hugh Beaumont
• Edward Brophy
• Richard Travis
• Virginia Dale
• Ralph Sanford THE BIG CHASE: Glenn Langan
• Lon Chaney Jr.
• Adele

Director: DAVID HARDING

Director: COUNTERSPY: Ray Nazarro DANGER ZONE: William Berke THE BIG CHASE: Arthur Hilton MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Robert B. Sinclair RINGSIDE: B. Reeves Eason HI-JACKED: Sam Newfield SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR: Phil Jackson & Sam Newfield PIER 23: Willia

Additional Details

Label: Kit Parker Films

Genre: Drama

Run Time: 554 mins

Release Date: 04/29/08

UPC: 089859060021