SOMETHING WILD [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma, Something Wild stars Carroll Baker, in a layered performance, as a college student who attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic (Ralph Veeker) whose kindness, however, soon takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of artists around New York's Actors Studio, which transformed American cinema in the mid-twentieth century. With astonishing location and claustrophobic interior photography by Eugen Schüfftan, an opening-title sequence by the inimitable Saul Bass, and a rhythmic score by Aaron Copland, Jack Garfein's film is a masterwork of independent cinema.;
• Cast: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Charles Watts, Clifton James, George L. Smith, Doris Roberts, Ken Chapin, Anita Cooper, Ginny Baker, Tanya Lopert, Nancy Baker, Virginia Baker, Reid Cruickshanks, Robert Dahdah, Mike Dana, Roger De Koven, William Hickey, Duke Howard, Diane Ladd, Warren Lyons, Jane MacArthur, Charles Matthews, Logan Ramsey, Peg Shirley, Evelyn Wall, Jack Garfein, Alex Karmel, George Justin, Eugen Schüfftan, Carl Lerner, Aaron Copland, Jim Shields, Albert Brenner, Richard Day
• Director: Jack Garfein
• Runtime: 1:53
• Company: United Artists, Prometheus Enterprises Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie