Network: John Mills's Sky West and Crooked and Peter Ustinov's Vice Versa Prepped for Blu-ray
Posted August 5, 2022 05:53 PM by Webmaster
British label Network is preparing Blu-ray releases of John Mills' Sky West and Crooked (1966) and Peter Ustinov's Vice Versa (1948). The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market this September.
Description: Hayley Mills gives a captivating performance as a girl traumatised by the death of a friend in this poignant, romantic drama – directed by her father, John Mills, from a script by her mother, Mary Hayley Bell. Co-starring Ian McShane as a free-spirited gypsy alongside Laurence Naismith, Annette Crosbie and Geoffrey Bayldon, and featuring a haunting score from Oscar-winning composer Malcolm Arnold, Sky West and Crooked is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Emotionally damaged by a childhood trauma of which she has no memory but for which she is blamed by the local community, Brydie White finds companionship among a group of younger children whose activities cause consternation in the West Country village in which they live.
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NEWLY RESTORED
NEW interviews with actors Irene Bradshaw, Stephen Salt and Lola Payne, first assistant director David Tringham and second assistant director Hugh Harlow
Description: Roger Livesey and a very young Anthony Newley star as a Victorian father and son who accidentally swap bodies after a foolishly casual wish made in the presence of a magical Indian artefact! Written and directed by filmmaker, wit and reconteur Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
During a heart-to-heart with his son, pompous businessman Paul Bultitude envies his schoolboy son Dick's youth, while Dick wishes he were grown up. They both get what they wish for when, magically, the son becomes the father (and vice versa) - a situation that soon causes consternation and uproar!
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NEWLY RESTORED
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