NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER | UK Import | 4K UHD + Blu-ray Limited Edition | 101 Films / Transmission

Robert Butler's Night of the Juggler (1980) is a New York City thriller of the specific kind that the city's particular early-1980s condition made possible: shot guerrilla-style in actual locations, populated by the actual texture of a city in fiscal crisis and social fragmentation, with a pace and a rawness that studio approximations could not manufacture. James Brolin plays an ex-cop whose daughter is kidnapped by a man (Cliff Gorman) who mistook her for someone else — the wrong child, an error that propels both men through the city's boroughs in a pursuit that takes in South Bronx tenements, Times Square in its pre-gentrification incarnation, and the Brooklyn waterfront. Gorman's kidnapper is genuinely frightening: a man whose grievances have curdled into a violence that the film does not make sympathetic. The film was made quickly, marketed cheaply and largely forgotten, and the New York City it documents — dangerous, ungovernable, visually extraordinary — no longer exists in any form.

Special Features:

• New 4K restoration from original 35mm camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision HDR

• 4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the feature

• 5.1 Surround mix and original mono soundtrack

• Audio commentary with film historians Kim Newman and Sean Hogan

• The Meanest Streets — Night of the Juggler locations tour with journalist/filmmaker Michael Gingold and production associate Chris Coles (2025, 29 mins)

• Fun City Limits: Fear & Loathing in Hollywood's NYC — new visual essay on the depiction of New York in 70s and 80s exploitation cinema by Howard S. Berger (2025, 29 mins)

• Pandemonium Reflex: An Inquest into Sidney J. Furie's Night of the Juggler — new visual essay by Daniel Kremer, author of Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films

• Interviews with James Brolin (actor), Julie Carmen (actor) and Dan Hedaya (actor)

• Image Gallery

• Theatrical Trailer

• 40-page perfect-bound collector's booklet featuring new writing by Glenn Kenny, Barry Forshaw and Travis Woods

• Reversible sleeve featuring original artwork

• Pull-out poster and six lobby-card style postcards

• Limited edition of 5,000 copies — rigid box with full-height Scanavo case and removable OBI strip