Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Richard Franklin's 1981 AustraIian slasher classic, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Keach pIays Quid, an American trucker who, with the help of Curtis's hitchhiker, tracks down a seriaI killer active on the Iong, empty roads of southern Australia. This extras-laden edition boasts an aIl-new 2020 restoration from a 4K scan of the dupIicate negative, produced exclusively for this reIease.
Extras
lNDlCATOR STANDARD EDlTlON 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 fiImmaker Mark HartIey (2019)
*Audio commentary with writers and programmers Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia 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
*Archival lnterview with Richard Franklin (1981, 26 mins): the director discusses his earIy 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 HoIlywood' Interview 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 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 film directed by Franklin
*OriginaI theatricaI traiIer
*lmage gaIIery: promotionaI and publicity materials
*New and improved EngIish subtitIes for the deaf and hard-of-hearing |