Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Directors:

Chris Robinson
David Worth

Writer:

B.W. Sandefur (writer)

Release Date:

June 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Tagline:

All He Wanted Was A Friend.

Plot:

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator. |

Plot Keywords:

Singer | Car | Southerner | Woman In Jeopardy | Sadist

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Nov. 14

2:00 AM

TCM

Cast

Leslie Uggams	...	Liz Wetherly
Shelley Winters	...	Bertha
Michael Christian	...	Eddie Collins
Ted Cassidy	...	Keno
Dub Taylor	...	Floyd
Lou Joffred	...	Odell
Slim Pickens	...	Orville
Red Lawson	...	The Salesman
Sherif Smith	...	The Deputy

Also Known As:

Black Vengeance
Heartbreak Motel
Redneck County Rape

Runtime:

USA:92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

Artaxerxes Productions

Trivia:

Loosely based on Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" - the first film version of which also starred Shelley Winters in 1963.

Quotes:

Orville: Would you like a tomato?

I swear t' seven kinds a' alligators...

One of the great undiscovered jewels of Truly Bad Cinema! It's almost useless to try to write a commentary on this, because this film is indescribable. Leslie Uggams (whose acting consists of exactly two expressions, defensive and shrieking) plays a famous singer adrift in a redneck landscape that's like the love child of Franz Kafka and HEE-HAW; she's up against a horny young Elvis wannabee, Shelley Winters (surprise - she's drunk through most of the film!), Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor, Ted Cassidy, and a DELIVERANCE kid with a slingshot. What else can you say about a film that includes one of the most memorable montage sequences in film history: Uggams' rape is intercut with Cassidy and his friends watching dogs goin' at it, while a lilting country tune plays over the soundtrack. Or how about the scene in which Slim Pickens (as the Sheriff!) interrogates poor Leslie about her rape while begging her to "suck on one'a these tomatoes"?

This film screams (like poor Leslie) for a DVD release. Listen up, you distribs out there - this is the great lost cult film of the 70s, just lying around like some petrified critter waiting to be put on display. Pull out that jug of moonshine and enjoy!