Bloodline

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Robert Sammelin) is limited to 3,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Welcome Vinegar Syndrome Labs (VSL) to the VS Sub-Label family! As with each of our sub-labels we are hoping to expand and defy expectations with the diversity of films we restore and release. As the name implies, VSL will serve as a kind of testing area for releasing genres and eras of film that one might not immediately expect to come from VS. The ultimate objective of VSL will be to see if these types of films will find an audience, and if so, pursue and release more of them…and even if not, still serve as a means of restoring more of the weird, rare, and unusual movies you might not expect from Vinegar Syndrome.

After extremely wealthy pharmaceutical tycoon Sam Roffe is murdered while skiing in the Alps, his daughter Elizabeth is shocked to learn that, per her late father's will, she has been appointed to take over his drug manufacturing empire. Equally shocked are her scheming relatives, each saddled with financial burdens they hoped would be alleviated through a significant company sale. But when Elizabeth vows to do everything in her power to resurrect the ailing company, thus preventing the sale, it's not long before a mysterious, black-clad assailant begins killing anyone helping Elizabeth to achieve her goal. All the while, dead bodies of nude young women are washing up along the river banks of Europe, victims of a savage, snuff film-making serial killer...

Boasting an astonishing cast headlined by Oscar® winners Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and Beatrice Straight (Network), Oscar® nominees James Mason (North by Northwest) and Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia), plus Euro Cult actresses Irene Papas (Don’t Torture a Duckling) and Romy Schneider (La Piscine), director Terence Young’s (Wait Until Dark) adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s international bestseller, BLOODLINE is an epic, jet-set giallo filmed across the world which places its A-list cast at odds with a sordid sex killer. Featuring a lush score by Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly) and all strikingly photographed by three-time Oscar winner Freddie Young (Doctor Zhivago), this unbelievable big-budget exploitation gem at last comes to Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome Labs, newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original negative and featuring the disc debut of its majorly extended alternate TV version!

directed by: Terence Young
starring: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Omar Sharif, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Romy Schneider
1979 / 117 min / 1.85:1 / English Mono

Additional info:

• 2-disc Region A Blu-ray Set
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
• Presented in both its 117-minute Theatrical Version and its 141-minute Television Version
• Commentary track with film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• Stupid German Money (53 min) - an interview with Clemens Keiffenheim, second assistant director: Germany
• Off-Road (23 min) - an interview with stunt driver François Doge
• Theatrical trailer
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles