Director Marvin Chomsky’s
1978 film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (1953, for the
Broadway production of Picnic) William Inge’s novel, Good
Luck, Miss Wyckoff, has been restored by Vinegar Syndrome to its uncut
version (from the original 35mm negative) and will be heading to market on Aug.
13 as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
1954, Kansas, a spinster
high school teacher by the name of Evelyn Wyckoff (played by Anne Heywood — The
Fox, Midas Run, I Want What I Want, etc.) is
undergoing therapy (psychiatrist is played by none other than Donald Pleasance)
for her isolation and sexual repression.
A common theme in Inge’s works — Bus Stop, Picnic and Splendor
in the Grass — but here it is taken to another level … and even by 1979
standards Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff was a tough film to market.
For example, the original
theatrical trailer only teases the “event” that proved to be “most shocking”
and spends the bulk of its running time making the film seem like a cousin to The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It
is depicted as something of a Harlequin Romance about a sexual repressed
teacher yearning for love, only to fine betrayal … it is a whole lot more than
that!
Bonus features include
the re-cut theatrical re-release, The Sin (for comparative purposes),
the featurette titled “Thoughts on William Inge” (an interview with Shirley
Knight), theatrical trailers and a CD soundtrack of movie (composer was Ernest
Gold).
To download this week's complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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