He had wanted to film James' " Count Magnus", the teleplay of which had been written by Basil Copper, but was unable to obtain the budget.

There are stunning, panoramic shots of a specific area of the British landscape (here, a heavily autumnal Suffolk [ sic]). In addition, the central character, Paxton, is changed from a young, fair-haired innocent who stumbles across the treasure to a middle-aged character driven by poverty to seek the treasure and acting in full awareness of what he is doing.Extras: Language(s): English, Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Screen ratio 1:1. The remaining five Ghost Story for Christmas films plus A View From A Hill (2005) and Number 13 (2006) were remastered from the original film negatives by the BFI and are to be released on Blu-ray disc as Ghost Stories for Christmas: Volume 2 in November 2023.

In 'A Warning to the Curious' (1972) Mr Paxton (Peter Vaughan) travels to the English seaside town of Seaburg hoping to find the last of three Anglo Saxon crowns belonging to the Agers family whose last descendant has recently died. On the surface, there seemed to be no good reason for it beyond producing a version that was in colour, set in modern times, and whose image filled the by-then standard 16:9 frame (which it doesn't, as it happens, having a 2. As his carriage approaches the hall, Stephen briefly sees two wan-looking children (Christopher Davis and Michelle Foster) standing in a field, their arms slowly arching in a synchronised wave. Released alongside it is a pairing of The Stalls of Barchester (1971), starring Robert Hardy and receiving its DVD premiere, and A Warning to the Curious (1972), with Peter Vaughan, both directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark.R. James for the screen than Jonathan Miller, and highlighting the strengths of this first official film in the series, which he clearly holds in high regard. The image is once again crisper in some shots than others, but at its best it impresses, and once again a noticeable upgrade on the previous DVD. The film is told very much from Parkin's point of view, and aside from a foreshadowing opening scene of a bed being made at the hotel, it never shows us anything that he cannot see, hear or – in a particularly unsettling sequence – dream.