Rosemary’s Baby
Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors (played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and self-involved husband (John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema that Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it has never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored digital transfer, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New documentary featuring interviews with Polanski, actress Mia Farrow, and producer Robert Evans
- Interview with author Ira Levin from a 1997 broadcast of Leonard Lopate’s public radio program New York and Company, about his 1967 novel, its sequel, and the film
- Komeda, Komeda, a feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Ed Park; Levin’s afterword to the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel; and Levin’s rare, unpublished character sketches of the Woodhouses and floor plan of their apartment, created in preparation for the novel
Cover based on a theatrical poster by Stephen Frankfurt
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored digital transfer, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New documentary featuring interviews with Polanski, actress Mia Farrow, and producer Robert Evans
- Interview with author Ira Levin from a 1997 broadcast of Leonard Lopate’s public radio program New York and Company, about his 1967 novel, its sequel, and the film
- Komeda, Komeda, a feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Ed Park; Levin’s afterword to the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel; and Levin’s rare, unpublished character sketches of the Woodhouses and floor plan of their apartment, created in preparation for the novel
Cover based on a theatrical poster by Stephen Frankfurt
Cast
- Mia Farrow
- Rosemary Woodhouse
- John Cassavetes
- Guy Woodhouse
- Ruth Gordon
- Minnie Castevet
- Sidney Blackmer
- Roman Castevet
- Maurice Evans
- Hutch
- Ralph Bellamy
- Dr. Sapirstein
- Patsy Kelly
- Laura-Louise
- Elisha Cook, Jr.
- Mr. Nicklas
- Emmaline Henry
- Elise Dunstan
- Charles Grodin
- Dr. Hill
- Hanna Landy
- Grace Cardiff
- Philip Leeds
- Dr. Shand
Credits
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Produced by
- William Castle
- From the novel by
- Ira Levin
- Screenplay
- Roman Polanski
- Production design
- Richard Sylbert
- Director of photography
- William A. Fraker
- Edited by
- Sam O’Steen
- Edited by
- Bob Wyman
- Music
- Krzysztof T. Komeda
- Associate producer
- Dona Holloway
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