BFI Flipside
Schalcken The Painter
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Directed by: Leslie Megahey
Year: 1979
Time: 68 min.
Series: BFI Flipside
Edition #: 28
Release Date: November 18 2013
MSRP:
£19.99
Blu-ray/DVD
2 Discs | DVD-9/BD-50
1.33:1 ratio
English 2.0 Dolby Digital Mono
English 2.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Regions 2/B
The Pit (Edward Abraham, 1962, 27 mins): experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'
Original production sketches for The Pit
The Pledge (Digby Rumsey, 1981, 21 mins): three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwaymen' by Lord Dunsany
Look Into the Dark (2013, 39 mins): interviews with director/writer/producer Leslie Magahey and director of photography John Hooper on the making of Schalcken the Painter
Fully illustrated booklet with new essays by Ben Harvey, James Bell and Vic Pratt, complete with film credits