Booklet laid in container. Region 2, widescreen format (2.35:1) Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956. Based on the New Yorker article "Ten feet tall" by Berton Roueché. Bonus features include: full-feature commentary by Edward Buscombe ; filmed conversation between Jim Jarmusch and Jonathan Rosenbaum ; extracts from a 1969 interview with Nicholas Ray ; original theatrical trailer ; illustrated booklet with essays by Geoff Andrew, Jeanine Basinger, Susan Ray, and biographies. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Christopher Olsen, Robert Simon, Roland Winters.
Summary:
Ed Avery is a happily married schoolteacher who agrees to take a new 'miracle drug' when diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease. It is not long before the drug begins producing malevolent and murderous side-effects that bring to the fore all of Ed's repressed frustrations with his life.
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