The Great Alligator will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on May 28 via Severin Films. Inspired by the success of Jaws, the 1979 Italian killer gator movie is also known as The Great Alligator River.
Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colors of the Dark) directs from a script he co-wrote with Ernesto Gastaldi (Torso), George Eastman (StageFright), and Mara Maryl. Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, and Richard Johnson star.
The Great Alligator has been newly scanned in 4K from the original negative with English stereo and Italian mono sound. It features reversible artwork. Special features are listed below.
Disc 1 - 4K UHD:
Trailer
Disc 2 - Blu-ray:
Interview with director Sergio Martino
Interview with actress Silvia Collatina
Interview with camera operator Claudio Morabito
Interview with production designer Antonello Geleng
Interview with underwater camera operator Gianlorenzo Battaglia
3 Friends and an Alligator - Discussion with cinematographer Giancarlo Ferrando, production designer Antonello Geleng, and special effects supervisor Paolo Ricci
Paradise House: Christianity and the Natural World in The Great Alligator - Video essay by film historian Lee Gambin
Alligator Land - Antonello Geleng shares priginal production drawings
Trailer
At the opening of a tropical resort, a photographer (Claudio Cassinelli), an anthropologist (Barbara Bach), and an arrogant hotelier (Mel Ferrer) are besieged by hostile natives, obnoxious tourists, and a gargantuan river beast that intends to devour them all.
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“[Photography] is an enduring record of many things seen only once in a lifetime and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.”
-George Eastman, on the Brownie Camera (1900)
[h/t Beth Levin]
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“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
― Ansel Adams
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George Eastman House and Film Preservation
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Antropophagus (1982)
AKA Anthropophagous, The Savage Island, Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, The Zombie's Rage, The Grim Reaper, The Beast, Anthropophagous: The Beast, Man Beast
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Rabid Dogs - Mario Bava - 1974 - Italy
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