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Pit Stop
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:17 am
by TonyleStephanois
The most dangerous game ever devised, to pit man against man, flesh against steel – the figure-8 race! Jack Hill (
Coffy,
Foxy Brown) follows up
Spider Baby, once again teaming up with Sid Haig (
House of 1000 Corpses) in one of his greatest roles for this action-spectacular crash-o-rama!
Richard Davalos (
East of Eden) stars as Rick Bowman, a street punk who winds up in jail after a street race goes wrong. Bailed out by race promoter Grant Willard, Davalos is put in the deadly track where he comes up against Haig’s maniacal winner Hawk Sidney. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast including Brian Donlevy (
The Quatermass Xperiment) in his last film appearance, Ellen Burstyn, billed as Ellen McRae (
The Exorcist) and Beverly Washburn (
Spider Baby)
Pit Stop is one of Hill’s lesser known films but arguably his greatest.
Filmed on a real figure-8 track, Hill and his crew were able to capture gripping real-life car wreck scenes lending the film a brilliant sense of realism. You’ve never seen a motion picture like this before – can you take it?
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
- New High Definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Jack Hill
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation
- Original mono 1.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
- New audio commentary with Jack Hill moderated by his biographer Calum Waddell
- Crash and Burn! – Jack Hill on the making of Pit Stop
- Drive Hard – actor Sid Haig speaks about his experience of acting in Pit Stop
- Life in the Fast Lane – producer Roger Corman on the genesis of Pit Stop
- Restoring Pit Stop – restoration demonstration by Technical Supervisor James White
- Original trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Glenn Kenny and musicologist and writer Gray Newell on the film’s soundtrack, illustrated with original stills and artwork.
Region B/2
RRP £24.99
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:58 pm
by MichaelB
Full specs for
PIT STOP, out 31/03/14!
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
- New High Definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Jack Hill
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation
- Original mono 1.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
- New audio commentary with Jack Hill moderated by his biographer Calum Waddell
-
Crash and Burn! – Jack Hill on the making of
Pit Stop
-
Drive Hard – actor Sid Haig speaks about his experience of acting in
Pit Stop
-
Life in the Fast Lane – producer Roger Corman on the genesis of
Pit Stop
-
Restoring Pit Stop – restoration demonstration by Technical Supervisor James White
- Original trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Glenn Kenny and musicologist and writer Gray Newell on the film’s soundtrack, illustrated with original stills and artwork.
More details (inc artwork)
here.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:25 pm
by antnield
New Artwork:
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:42 pm
by antnield
You can watch the
Restoring Pit Stop featurette in full over at
Blu-ray.com.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:50 pm
by EddieLarkin
Is James White a native of America or has he just spent too long over there?
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:07 pm
by MichaelB
He's a native of America, but he's lived in the UK for at least as long as I've known him (we first met in 2002).
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:03 pm
by antnield
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:45 pm
by manicsounds
This seems to be the first time in a while that Arrow released a region free title.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:28 am
by antnield
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:52 pm
by antnield
Pit Stop - The Jack Hill Interview. (A different one to that which appears on the disc.)
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:20 pm
by film3sixty
Hi everyone.
We are giving away a copy of Pit Stop on our website:
http://www.film3sixtymagazine.com/index ... al-format/
Good luck!
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:09 am
by antnield
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:43 am
by antnield
David Cairns for
Electric Sheep.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:41 pm
by manicsounds
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 10:24 pm
by antnield
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 4:27 pm
by dwk
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 6:51 pm
by dwk
Calum Waddell
posted the following at the cult-labs forum
We never gave Arrow Video permission to use our extras on Pit Stop (USA) or our Nekromantik piece on the USA edition of this. In fact we have an email from Alex Agran confirming that he would not use our stuff on any foreign editions in future in exchange for a deal we made on Mark of the Devil.
I honoured this deal and just this week had Synapse ask for our stuff on Tenebrae and Phenomena. If I see our material on Pit Stop or Nekromantik then Synapse win big time.
Really offended by this treatment of us.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:02 pm
by dwk
and Bill just posted this onthe Code Red Facebook page
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:10 pm
by EddieLarkin
dwk wrote:Calum Waddell
posted the following at the cult-labs forum
We never gave Arrow Video permission to use our extras on Pit Stop (USA) or our Nekromantik piece on the USA edition of this. In fact we have an email from Alex Agran confirming that he would not use our stuff on any foreign editions in future in exchange for a deal we made on Mark of the Devil.
I honoured this deal and just this week had Synapse ask for our stuff on Tenebrae and Phenomena. If I see our material on Pit Stop or Nekromantik then Synapse win big time.
Really offended by this treatment of us.
I don't quite understand his references to Nekromantik.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:14 pm
by domino harvey
If I understand the Facebook update correctly, Kino is actually releasing it with Code Red's cooperation (ala Final Exam and Shout Factory). But I wouldn't put much stock in understanding anything posted to the Code Red account!
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:20 pm
by EddieLarkin
Yes, it looks like it'll actually be a Kino release curated by Code Red, like a few of their recent releases have been curated by Scorpion. The most interesting thing is the Corman transfer is from the negative, whilst Arrow's transfer is "only" from the answer print. So the inevitable image comparison will be very interesting.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:24 pm
by domino harvey
I think the real question here is who's going to blink. If it was just Code Red doing their usual piddly stuff out of one guy's storeroom, Arrow'd quite rightly be non-threatened. But if Kino's involved, there is surely a paper trail somewhere and I can't imagine both of these companies trying to put out a fringe title like this simultaneously in all the same retail markets (Amazon, DD, BN, etc)
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:51 pm
by EddieLarkin
And if Arrow can't even get what is basically all of their special features on this release, then even if they did put it out all that would happen is people who wanted it would import the region free version from Arrow's UK store (especially when it's on sale).
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 8:11 pm
by dwk
EddieLarkin wrote:
I don't quite understand his references to Nekromantik.
I think he mistakenly thought/thinks that Arrow is releasing
Nekromantik in the US.
Re: Pit Stop
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 11:41 pm
by manicsounds
I don't understand Calem Waddel's comment. Arrow used Waddel's extras on the current UK "Pit Stop", but he was promised they would't be used on the US release?
Aren't all the extras announced for the US and UK Arrow editions the same? What extras is he referring to?