Poor Cow (Ken Loach)

[pro-bassoonist]

Optimum are set to deliver Ken Loach's Poor Cow (1967) to the UK on October 13th.

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Variety:

The film has a jolting opening, with Joy, the hapless heroine, shown in full detail giving birth to a baby, with the infant emerging from the womb in its natural state. This leads into a portrait of Joy, who has married a brutal crook (John Bindon) and, after he is nabbed by the cops, shacks up with another thief (Terence Stamp), a gentler type who is himself put inside.

The incidents of the plot are an excuse for an examination of promiscuous Joy. Left to fend for herself, she snatches happiness where she can find it.

Kenneth Loach uses an improvisatory technique in all this, and it largely works. Thesps were given the gist and trend of the dialog, and permitted to embroider it with their own words.

It is Carol White's film, and she scores with a flow of varied emotion, ranging from fetching happiness to a sudden spurt of tears in the final minutes, when she recalls straight to camera her affection for her baby.

(Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1967. Running time: 101 MIN.

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[Yakuza Bengoshi]

Interesting that Optimum is putting this out. It was previously available as a single-disc release from Momentum Pictures. It's still available as part of The Ken Loach Collection, Vol. 1 from Spirit Entertainment which I have, and now this. That Poor Cow really gets around.

[NoirFan]

Will this be any different from the current edition?

[Jadzia]

I have wanted to see this ever since The Limey, which used footage for a young Terence Stamp flashback.

[pro-bassoonist]

Will this be any different from the current edition?

They are replicating the French print so whatever the quality of the French source...this is what this new disc would look like. I am unsure what print Momentum used.

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