Town on Trial Blu-ray

'Town on Trial' Director: John Guillermin (1957) Indicator label Limited Edition – with 36-page booklet | High Definition remaster | Region free

Investigating the murder of a young woman in a small English town, a brusque superintendent discovers that virtually everybody he encounters has something to hide. 
Setting the template for British crime thrillers for decades to come, John Guillermin’s audacious, often salacious, drama is untypical of mainstream British cinema of its time, and can be seen as both a direct antecedent of the Italian giallo and a blueprint for David Lynch's Twin Peaks.

Special features include:

• The John Player Lecture with John Mills (1972, 96 mins): archival audio recording of an interview conducted by Margaret Hinxman at London’s National Film Theatre
• Barry Forshaw on ‘Town on Trial’ (2018, 20 mins): an appreciation by the author of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order and Brit Noir
• Adventure in the Hopfields (1954, 59 mins): director John Guillermin’s Children’s Film Foundation drama starring Mandy Miller (The Snorkel)
• Shooting Hops (2018, 7 mins): focus puller Alec Burridge discusses working with John Guillermin and the production of Adventure in the Hopfields