Pete Walker Crime Collection (Kino Cult #29) (Blu-ray)

While making the transition from swinging ’60s nudie films to his signature gut-wrenching horror films of the ’70s, Pete Walker directed four hardboiled gems of contemporary British noir. Walker’s milieu was a criminal underworld of posh London nightclubs and tawdry amusement halls, of bisexuality and brutality, pop stars and pornographers. Die Screaming, Marianne stars Susan George as a free-spirited hippie chick caught in a nightmarish plot to rob her of an inheritance. Usually marketed (and dismissed) as erotica, Cool It, Carol! (aka The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met) follows a small-town couple who seek adventure in the big city and find themselves involved in the smut film racket (a seedy business which also figures prominently in The Big Switch). Moon (Man of Violence) is an international heist film starring Michael Latimer as a James Bond-like gun for hire. Die Screaming, Marianne Audio Commentary by Director Pete Walker With Film Historian Jonathan Rigby | Moon (Man of Violence) Audio Commentary by Film Historians Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio | ”Step to Drama,” an Interview With Director Pete Walker (Cool It, Carol!) | “Jump Shots,” an Interview With Actor Jess Conrad (Cool It, Carol!) | “Cutting It,” an Interview With First Assistant Editor Glenn Hyde (Cool It, Carol!) | “Cool Operator,” an Interview With Camera Operator Peter Sinclair (Cool It, Carol!) | “The Beginning and the End,” an Interview With Actor David Mayberry (Cool It, Carol!) | Two Interviews With Cinematographer Norman Langley (Moon, Die Screaming Marianne) | “Snippets of Violence,” an Interview with Peter Sinclair, Actors Virginia Wetherell and Steve Emerson (Moon) | “The Big Switch From Strip Poker,” an Interview with Actor Virginia Wetherell (The Big Switch) | “Pete Walker: An Eye for Terror,” an Interview by Elijah Drenner | Theatrical Trailers