Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
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Director(s): Marvin Chomsky
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Earl Holliman, John Lafayette, Robert Vaughn, Anne Heywood, Carolyn Jones, Doris Roberts, Dorothy Malone
Release Year: 1978
Runtime: 106 min
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
Language(s): ENG- English
Sound: Mono
Subtitles: English
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Disc Info: Region Free Blu-ray/DVD/CD
Restoration: Restored in 2K from 35mm original camera negative
Genre: Drama
SKU: VS-013
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- RRRichard R.Verified Buyer2 weeks agoRated 4 out of 5 starsExcellent
Blind buy after hearing about the movie in a review. Very well acted and one of Vinegar Syndromes better releases.
- ZSZachary S.Verified Buyer2 weeks agoRated 5 out of 5 starsCool
Wow
- RFRyan F.Verified Buyer2 months agoRated 5 out of 5 starsGood Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Great film and happy to finally have it
- MMMichael M.Verified Buyer2 months agoRated 5 out of 5 starsGood Luck Miss Wyckoff
Excellent addition to my collection!
- PGPedro G.Verified Buyer5 months agoRated 5 out of 5 starsThe teacher and the black rapist
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979), directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, explores the complex relationship between Evelyn Wyckoff (Anne Heywood), a respected 35-year-old teacher in the small town of Freedom, Kansas, and Rafe Collins (John Lafayette), a 24-year-old black janitor with a criminal past.
The film’s formal approach creates a nuanced, almost kaleidoscopic point of view. The music and the slow transition of a sequence involving one of the encounters between Evelyn and the black janitor feel strangely “tender”, while other moments are raw, degrading, and humiliating. Maybe Evelyn despises herself and can only find pleasure in a masochistic dynamic? She has a supportive circle of friends ready to help, yet she chooses to confide in a stranger, Dr. Steiner. After being raped, she refuses to call the police, seemingly more concerned with the well-being of her attacker than with her own community. She risks her reputation to protect a communist homosexual colleague from being fired, but when her own indiscretions with Rafe threaten her job, that same colleague offers no support. At the same time how could a school hire a black criminal? Is the ability of scoring a touchdown above everything else?
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff was a great film, with an amazing cast, cinematography and music. It was especially nice seeing Donald Pleasence and Robert Vaughn! This is an essential VS release! I would love to see Iconoscope bring us another Marvin J. Chomsky film, Telling Secrets (1993)!
