WHO?
(Jack Gold, 1974)
Release date: 27 May 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (UK Blu-ray premiere)
Adapted from the novel by famed science fiction writer Algis Budrys, Who? is a fascinating cold-war thriller/sci-fi hybrid. Elliott Gould (Little Murders, California Split) is an FBI agent trying to determine the true identity of a top US physicist who was horrifically injured in a car accident in East Berlin. The scientist is returned to the West encased in a metal mask and body-suit, reconstructed via cybernetic surgery. Is the man behind the metal mask who he claims to be, or is he a Soviet dupe trained to infiltrate US security?
Who?, from director Jack Gold (The Reckoning, The National Health), is one of the most unusual and affecting science fiction thrillers of the 1970s – not least because of the extraordinary performance by Joseph Bova as the masked enigma at the heart of the story.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Kim Newman on Algis Budrys (2019): the writer and critic on the acclaimed science-fiction author
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by writer and critic Phelim O’Neill, an archival interview with director Jack Gold, a look at Algis Budrys’ source novel, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
• More extras to be announced...!
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BBFC cert: TBC
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899084007
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Ugh, I wasn't going to get this, and now I am. What a spectacular slate of extras.
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Great extras. Can anyone recommend this? I'm intrigued, but its reception seems to be generally mixed? I'm wondering if it's worth a blind buy.
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I went into this hoping for perhaps some biting satire or a playful Elliott Gould performance and came away disappointed but YMMV
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