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Chamber of Horrors

Blu-ray

Kino Lorber

1940 / B&W / 1:33 / Street Date March 21, 2017

Starring: Lilli Palmer, Leslie Banks.

Cinematography: Alex Bryce, Ernest Palmer

Film Editor: Ted Richards

Written by Gilbert Gunn, Norman Lee

Produced by John Argyle

Directed by Norman Lee

Near the turn of the century a struggling war correspondent named Edgar Wallace began churning out detective stories for British monthlies like Detective Story Magazine to help make the rent. Creative to a fault, his preposterously prolific output (exacerbated by ongoing gambling debts) soon earned him a legion of fans along with a pointedly ambiguous sobriquet, “The Man Who Wrote Too Much.”

A reader new to Wallace’s work could be excused for thinking the busy writer was making it up as he went along… because that’s pretty much what he did. He dictated his narratives, unedited, into a dictaphone for transcription by his secretary where they would then...

A global byword for quality in British cinema, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three-decade period. Only selected features from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on DVD - until now. To celebrate their recently-launched 'The British Film' collection, Network Distributing have kindly provided us with DVD copies of Spanish Fly, Ealing Studio Rarities Vol. 2 and Edgar Wallace's crime thriller The Four Just Men to give away in one fabulous bundle. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

Beginning this April, Network Distributing begins 'The British Film' project: an ongoing programme of releases featuring titles from every possible genre, selected from over eight decades of British film and covering such studios as Gaumont-British, Gainsborough, Ealing, London Films,...

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