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Quadrophenia

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Philip Davis, Leslie Ash, Garry Cooper, Toyah Willcox, Sting, Trevor Laird, Kate Williams, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone, Gary Shail.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2012]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

The Who?s classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of the early 1960s London. Our antihero is Jimmy, a teenager dissatisfied with family, work, and love. He spends his time knocking around with his clothes-obsessed, pill-popping, scooter-driving fellow mods, a group whose antipathy for the motorcycle-riding rockers leads to a climactic riot in Brighton.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Special features: audio commentary featuring director Frank Roddam and cinematographer Brian Tufano ; trailers ; interview with Bill Curbishley, the film's coproducer and the Who's comanager ; interview with the Who's sound engineer, Bob Pridden ; segment of the film from a 1979 episode of the BBC series Talking pictures ; segment from a 1964 episode of the French new program Sept jours du monde about mods and rockers ; Seize millions de jeunes: "Mods," a 1965 episode of the French youth-culture program, featuring early footage of the Who.

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