Something Wild [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jack Garfein Jack Garfein

Overview

A young woman walks home through a deserted Brooklyn park one night and ends up brutally raped. This dark, strange drama chronicles the ways in which the traumatized young woman tries to cope. She cannot tell her mother and so moves out and gets an apartment near Harlem. She then begins working at a ramshackle store and tries to put the horror behind her by repressing it all. But it doesn't work. Finding no support from anyone, the girl spirals down into a deep depression and tries to kill herself. She is saved by a kindly garage mechanic who lets her move into his apartment with him. He seems to be just what she needs, and really helps. But one night he drinks too much and tries himself to rape her. She runs away, but a short time later she comes back and asks him to marry her. As the story comes to a close, the woman is seen calling her mother and announcing her pregnancy.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/17/2017
UPC:	0715515191210
Original Release:	1961
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:53:00
Sales rank:	15,853

Special Features

New conversation between Garfein and critic Kim Morgan New interview with actor Carroll Baker Behind the Method, a new interview with scholar Foster Hirsch on the Actors Studio Master Class with Jack Garfein, excerpts from a 2014 recording of one of the director's world-famous lectures on acting technique

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Carroll Baker	Mary Ann Robinson,Girl in 5 & 10,Actor
Ralph Meeker	Mike
Mildred Dunnock	Mrs. Gates
Charles Watts	Warren Gates
Jean Stapleton	Shirley Johnson
Martin Kosleck	Landlord
Ken Chapin	Manager of 5 & 10
Clifton James	Det. Bogarde
George L. Smith	Policeman,Policeman
Warren Lyons	College Student
Duke Howard	Young Boy
Tanya Lopert	Girl in 5 & 10
Peg Shirley	Girl in 5 & 10
Doris Roberts	Girl in 5 & 10
Anita Cooper	Girl in 5 & 10
Jane MacArthur	Actor
Roger Dekoven	Actor
Logan Ramsey	Actor
William Hickey	Actor
Diane Ladd	Actor
Reid Cruickshanks	Actor
Evelyn Wall	Actor

Technical Credits

Jack Garfein

Alex Karmel

Jack Garfein	Director,Screenwriter
Alex Karmel	Screenwriter
George Justin	Producer