Rosemary’s Baby

Film Info

United States
1968
136 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
Spine #630

Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors (played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and self-involved husband (John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema that Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it has never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.

Cast

Rosemary Woodhouse	Mia Farrow
Guy Woodhouse	John Cassavetes
Minnie Castevet	Ruth Gordon
Roman Castevet	Sidney Blackmer
Hutch	Maurice Evans
Dr. Sapirstein	Ralph Bellamy
Laura-Louise	Patsy Kelly
Mr. Nicklas	Elisha Cook, Jr.
Elise Dunstan	Emmaline Henry
Dr. Hill	Charles Grodin
Grace Cardiff	Hanna Landy
Dr. Shand	Philip Leeds

Credits

Director	Roman Polanski
Produced by	William Castle
From the novel by	Ira Levin
Screenplay	Roman Polanski
Production design	Richard Sylbert
Director of photography	William A. Fraker
Edited by	Sam O’Steen and Bob Wyman
Music	Krzysztof T. Komeda
Associate producer	Dona Holloway

Disc Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION

New, restored digital transfer, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New documentary featuring interviews with Polanski, actress Mia Farrow, and producer Robert Evans
Interview with author Ira Levin from a 1997 broadcast of Leonard Lopate’s public radio program New York and Company, about his 1967 novel, its sequel, and the film
Komeda, Komeda, a feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Ed Park; Levin’s afterword to the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel; and Levin’s rare, unpublished character sketches of the Woodhouses and floor plan of their apartment, created in preparation for the novel

Cover based on a theatrical poster by Stephen Frankfurt