34° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
THINGS TO COME

THE STEPFORD WIVES

THE STEPFORD WIVES
by Bryan Forbes
Country: USA
Year: 1975
Duration: 115'


Forget the horrible and accommodating 2004 remake starring Nicole Kidman: this Stepford, a well-to-do suburb in Connecticut, where Joanna and Walter move from New York, is polished and disturbing, apparently peaceful but horrifying underneath. Sexy housewife robot wives, chauvinistic and small-minded husbands, in a suburban idyll which turns into a nightmare. Based on the novel by Ira Levin (the author of Rosemary’s Baby).

Biography

film director

Bryan Forbes

FILMOGRAFIA

Whistle Down the Wind (1961), The L-Shaped Room (La stanza a forma di L, 1962), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Ventimila sterline per Amanda, 1964), King Rat (Qualcuno da odiare, 1965), The Wrong Box (La cassa sbagliata, 1966), The Whisperers (1967), Deadfall (1968), The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), The Raging Moon (Luna arrabbiata, 1971), The Stepford Wives (La fabbrica delle mogli, 1975), The Slipper and the Rose (La scarpetta e la rosa, 1976), International Velvet (Una corsa sul prato, 1978), Les séducteurs (I seduttori della domenica, ep., cm, 1980), Better Late Than Never (Profumo di mare, 1983), The Naked Face (A faccia nuda, 1984).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Bryan Forbes
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Ira Levin
sceneggiatura/screenplay
William Goldman
fotografia/cinematography
Owen Roizman
montaggio/film editing
Timothy Gee
costumi/costume design
Anna Hill Johnstone
musica/music
Michael Small
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Katharine Ross (Joanna Eberhart), Paula Prentiss (Bobbie Markowe), Peter Masterson (Walter Eberhart), Nanette Newman (Carol Van Sant)
produttore/producer
Edgar J. Scherick
produzione/production
Fadsin Cinema Associates, Palomar Pictures
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