Eureka Entertainment: Final Details for What's New Pussycat? and Cloak and Dagger
Posted November 14, 2019 03:51 PM by Webmaster
Eureka Entertainment has provided final technical details and exclusive new trailers for its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946) and Clive Donner's What's New Pussycat? (1965).
Synopsis: It's tough being the cat's meow! A zany blend of slapstick gags and madcap comedy, WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen in his acting and screenwriting debut, is the wildest, wackiest film to emerge from the swinging '60s.
Michael (O'Toole) is a mademoiselle magnet. His demented psychiatrist (Sellers) and sex-starved friend (Allen) would kill for this problem, but his would-be fiancé (Romy Schneider) might just kill him. Undergoing therapy, Michael tries to reform, but it won't be easy with sex kittens like Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss and Capucine on his tail!
Wonderfully directed by Clive Donner (THE CARETAKER) and featuring the hit title song written by Burt Bacharach and performed by Tom Jones, Eureka Classics presents WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
High-definition digital restoration
BRAND NEW and exclusive audio commentary by film critics Emma Westwood and Sally Christie
Original theatrical trailer
A collector's booklet featuring a new essay by Simon Ward
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Synopsis: A virtuoso World War II espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang as his follow-up to the noir classic Scarlet Street (and not long after the war itself had ended), Cloak and Dagger is an underrated entry in Lang's oeuvre, a crackerjack spy saga with a commanding Gary Cooper performance and a wealth of masterful Langian suspense sequences (as well as some genuinely hard-hitting action set pieces).
Nuclear physicist Alvah Jesper (Cooper) is recruited by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services to become a reluctant undercover agent, traveling to Switzerland to meet with a fellow scientist regarding information on Germany's plans to construct an atomic bomb. After this colleague is assassinated, Jesper must sneak into Italy via the underground resistance, to contact another scientist. While there, Jesper falls in love with resistance fighter Gina (Lilli Palmer, in her first Hollywood role), and the two must battle shootouts, double crosses, and narrow escapes to smuggle the scientist out of Italy.
A more perfectly titled film would be difficult to imagine, as Cloak and Dagger is a consummate wartime espionage suspense picture, and an intriguing mixture of genres for Lang: part spy thriller, part romantic melodrama, and part patriotic war movie, Cloak and Dagger is another triumph among Lang's U.S. features, and an expert exercise in genre fusion that's ripe for rediscovery.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Presented in 1080p from a high-definition digital transfer
BRAND NEW audio commentary by film critic and writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
BRAND NEW video essay by David Cairns
Cloak and Dagger: Lux Radio Theater [57 mins] Radio adaptation from 1946 starring Lilli Palmer and Ronald Reagan
Cloak and Dagger: The Radio Series [approx 660 mins]
A collector's booklet featuring a new essay by Samm Deighan
Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing