Kino Lorber have confirmed that they will release on Blu-ray Basil Dearden's film
Woman of Straw (1964), starring Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, and Alexander Knox. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market in April.
Synopsis:
Woman of Straw is an old-fashioned thriller from the respected British producer-director team of Michael Relph and Basil Dearden. This handsomely colored exercise is the kind of pseudo-Victorian suspenser that Alfred Hitchcock indulged in long ago. Here, the filmmakers are telling the one about the sexy nurse and the sinister secretary who connive to do away with a crusty old millionaire for his inheritance. The eminent Shakespearean veteran, Sir Ralph Richardson, plays the rich ogre, confined to a wheelchair by the contrivance of the plot. Mr. Connery does his personable best in a part that requires him to play a murderous madman. Gina Lollobrigida as the nurse, is the most irresistible of females.