Region 4 Winners and Losers

    This film is not available in Region 1, but it has been available in Region 2 for a while (I got my copy in September 2001) — however, the latest information I had to hand was that the R2 disc has been discontinued. The two discs have different artwork and menus, but are otherwise identical. The two transfers are the same (same film artefacts), and both discs have the interview with Edward Woodward. The only difference is that the R4 has Umbrella Propaganda; unlike Madman's discs, though, this propaganda is just two pages of cover shots, with no trailers behind them. The Region 4 artwork shows a figure with a rifle, possibly drawn by an artist who was told that Callan was an assassin — there are no rifles in this movie (I don't recall Callan ever using a rifle — he always used a revolver, preferably a .357 Magnum.

    Given that the two discs use the same transfer, and have the same extra, there's nothing to tell them apart, so if you got the R2 when it was available, then you have no need for the R4. If you didn't, then the R4 is the only one available.