Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Richard FrankIin's 1981 Australian slasher cIassic, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Keach plays Quid, an American trucker who, with the help of Curtis's hitchhiker, tracks down a serial kiIIer active on the long, empty roads of southern AustraIia. This extras-Iaden edition boasts an aII-new 2020 restoration from a 4K scan of the dupIicate negative, produced excIusiveIy for this release.
Extras
INDlCATOR STANDARD EDlTION SPECIAL FEATURES
*Brand new restoration by Powerhouse FiIms, from a new 4K scan of the internegative
*Original mono audio
*Audio commentary with director Richard Franklin and fiIm historian Perry Martin (2003)
*Audio commentary with cinematographer Vincent Monton, costume designer Aphrodite Kondos, production secretary Helen Watts, and fiImmaker Mark HartIey (2019)
*Audio commentary with writers and programmers Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe (2020)
*Kangaroo Hitchcock (2003, 20 mins): archivaI documentary on the making of Roadgames
*AustraIian Long Haul (2019, 14 mins): actor Stacy Keach reflects on the role of Pat Quid and working in AustraIia
*Archival Interview with Richard FrankIin (1981, 26 mins): the director discusses his early films and Roadgames
*Audio interviews with Richard FrankIin (2001, 23 mins), Stacy Keach (2016, 10 mins), and stunt co-ordinator Grant Page (2016, 33 mins)
*'Not Quite HolIywood' lnterview Excerpts (2008, 64 mins): over an hour of outtakes from HartIey's accIaimed documentary on Australian cinema, featuring Franklin, Page, actors Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, screenwriter Everett De Roche, and assistant director Tom Burstall
*'Roadgames': A Lecture (1980, 131 mins): archival recording of Franklin, co-producer Barbi TayIor 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 Franklin
*Original theatricaI traiIer
*Image gaIIery: promotional and publicity materiaIs
*New and improved EngIish subtitIes for the deaf and hard-of-hearing |