Severin To Give Peter Medak’s The Odd Job A Worldwide Blu-Ray Release
Genre specialists Severin Films are set to give Hungarian/British/American director Peter Medak, The Odd Job worldwide Blu-ray premiere in August.
This hilariously dark caper is co-written by and starring Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. It also stars Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited), Carolyn Seymour (The Ruling Class), Simon Williams (Jabberwocky), Bill Paterson (Fleabag) and Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Director Peter Medak’s 1978 black comedy stars Graham Chapman – just prior to Life of Brian – as happily married Arthur Harris, who becomes suicidal when his wife suddenly up and leaves him. Trying and failing miserably to do the deed himself, when a peculiar handyman (BAFTA-winner Sir David Jason of Only Fools and Horses, in a role once intended for Keith Moon), turns up on his doorstep to offer his services, he enlists the help of this strange stranger, to kill him instead.
But when Arthur’s wife decides to come back home and try again, he discovers that his homicidal hire has every intention of finishing the job.
THE ODD JOB Special Features:
- Introduction by director Peter Medak
- Audio Interview with Peter Medak
- The Odd Job Men – Zoom reunion between star Sir David Jason and Peter Medak
- The Unusual Work – Interview with writer Bernard McKenna
- Producer, An Odd Job – Interview with co-producer Mark Forstater
- The Odd Batch – Interview with actor Richard O’Brien
- The Naughty Neighbour – Interview with actress Carolyn Seymour
- Most Peculiar Craft – Interview with actor Simon Williams
Comedy | UK | 1978 | 15 |88 mins | Region: A/B/C | 1.85:1 | English Mono | English SDH
The Odd Job will be released globally on 25th August and you can pre-order it here.
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