The latest addition to Studiocanal’s prestigious Vintage Classics Collection is the 1971 gangster drama VILLAIN – fully restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time. With a script by acclaimed British writing duo Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, VILLAIN is an intricate and graphically violent British counterpart to Get Carter and The French Connection which foreshadowed seminal 1970s television police dramas such as ‘The Sweeney’.