YESTERDAY'S ENEMY - BD

A riposte to the criticisms levelled at The Camp on Blood Island, Hammer’s previous war picture, released a year earlier, this stark and often savage examination of how war and conflict can corrupt otherwise good men, Val Guest’s Yesterday’s Enemy is one of the famed studio’s most hard-hitting but underappreciated productions. It posits an impossible moral dilemma – is it ever justifiable to sacrifice a small number of innocent lives in the hope that thousands more will be saved? 

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Two presentations of the film: the uncensored UK theatrical version, and the US theatrical version with toned-down dialogue
• The Guardian Interview with Val Guest (2005, 46 mins): archival audio recording of the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with Jonathan Rigby at London’s National Film Theatre
• Total War: Inside ‘Yesterday’s Enemy’ (2018, 27 mins): documentary written and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, narrated by Claire Louise Amias, and featuring film historians Alan Barnes and Jonathan Rigby 
• Hammer’s Women: Edwina Carroll (2018, 8 mins): critic and author Becky Booth on the popular Burmese-born actress 
• Stephen Laws Introduces ‘Yesterday’s Enemy’ (2018, 9 mins): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author 
• New Territory (2018, 13 mins): analysis of the film by British cinema expert Steve Chibnall
• Frontline Dispatches (2018, 8 mins): second assistant director Hugh Harlow and props chargehand Peter Allchorne recall their time working on the film
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing