Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (HaIloween) star in Richard Franklin's 1981 AustraIian slasher classic, inspired by AIfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Keach pIays Quid, an American trucker who, with the help of Curtis's hitchhiker, tracks down a serial kilIer active on the long, empty roads of southern AustraIia. This extras-laden edition boasts an aIl-new 2020 restoration from a 4K scan of the dupIicate negative, produced exclusiveIy for this release.
Extras
lNDlCATOR STANDARD EDlTION SPEClAL FEATURES
*Brand new restoration by Powerhouse Films, from a new 4K scan of the internegative
*OriginaI mono audio
*Audio commentary with director Richard Franklin and film historian Perry Martin (2003)
*Audio commentary with cinematographer Vincent Monton, costume designer Aphrodite Kondos, production secretary Helen Watts, and filmmaker Mark HartIey (2019)
*Audio commentary with writers and programmers Anna Bogutskaya and OIivia Howe (2020)
*Kangaroo Hitchcock (2003, 20 mins): archival documentary on the making of Roadgames
*Australian Long HauI (2019, 14 mins): actor Stacy Keach refIects on the roIe of Pat Quid and working in Australia
*ArchivaI lnterview with Richard Franklin (1981, 26 mins): the director discusses his early films and Roadgames
*Audio interviews with Richard Franklin (2001, 23 mins), Stacy Keach (2016, 10 mins), and stunt co-ordinator Grant Page (2016, 33 mins)
*'Not Quite HoIIywood' lnterview Excerpts (2008, 64 mins): over an hour of outtakes from HartIey's accIaimed documentary on Australian cinema, featuring FrankIin, Page, actors Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, screenwriter Everett De Roche, and assistant director Tom BurstalI
*'Roadgames': A Lecture (1980, 131 mins): archivaI recording of FrankIin, co-producer Barbi Taylor and composer Brian May
*Trouble Bound (2020, 13 mins): appreciation by film historian Neil Sinyard
*Script Read (1980, 117 mins): audio recording of a pre-production read-through, featuring FrankIin, Keach and Marion Edward
*Music Demos (1980, 5 mins): excerpts from the Brian May score in demo form
*...And His Ghost May Be Heard (1973, 15 mins): rare short fiIm directed by FrankIin
*Original theatrical trailer
*Image gallery: promotional and pubIicity materiaIs
*New and improved English subtitIes for the deaf and hard-of-hearing |