PRODUCT INFORMATION
On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Academy Award winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a reclusive virgin sheltered from the sexual revolution happening outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with an enigmatic 19 year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. Inviting him into her apartment to be bathed and fed, Frances repressed fantasies soon violently boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches no matter what.
Adapted from Richard Miles novel by British author Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys), Altman expertly turns the screws in this suspenseful tale of sexual repression, the chilly Vancouver locations vividly photographed by Laszlo Kovacs the same year he lensed Easy Rider, and accompanied by a haunting score from Johnny Mandel, just before he co-wrote the anthem Suicide Is Painless for Altmans next film.
FEATURES:
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tom Ralston
Illustrated collectors booklet featuring new writing by Brad Stevens, Anna Bogutskaya and James Flower, original press notes including an essay by Altman, and an excerpt from David Thompson's Altman on Altman
DISC ONE
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
Original lossless mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
New audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan
Isolated music and effects track in lossless mono
Crazy in the Rain: Altmans Vancouver, a newly produced featurette revisiting the locations by Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women
Archive interview with film critic and historian David Thompson, author of Altman on Altman
Extended scenes from a pre-release print of the film, never seen on home video before
Over ten minutes of behind-the-scenes footage featuring Altman and Dennis, from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
DISC TWO (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE)
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of a newly extended 114-minute version of the film re-integrating previously deleted material from a surviving pre-release print
Original lossless mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
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