Almost Forgotten (almost, cue...Lou Reed) because of its Befuddled Casting.
A Movie, Script, and Presentation of the Kind of Thing that the "Motion Picture Code" considered "Red-Meat" for the Liberals, Perverts, and Undesirables Lurking About in the America, the Code was Formed to Censor and Modeled After Themselves.
So the Movie Suffers and Suffers, Laboring to Make a Story About Vice (Prostitution), "The Ruin of Many a Good Woman", Corruption, and the "Wild Side" of the Title, with Very Uneven, Only Hinted at...
Peek and Peep at the "Doll House", and the "Dolls", Assorted "Johns" that Partake, and a Side of American-Life, that was "The Code" Reason to Be.
What's Left for Movie-Goers is "All Sizzle and No Steak", a Near Embarrassment for the Artisans of Film that Today can Only be Accepted as...
A Titillation from a Bye-Gone-Era that was a Front and a 'Dumbed-Down, Watered-Down, Downer...
with Little Artistry, Sociology, and Psychological, or Even a Turn-On for the Sexually Frustrated.
A 50 Year-Old Barbara Stanwyck, that Film-Historians Claim is the 1st Major Star in a Main-Stream Movie to Play a "Lesbian", is the Foundation Around the Structure that the Movie Presents...
Laurence Harvey (a handsome dirt farmer from Texas), is the Picture Forming in Your Mind that anticipates that are more miss-steps to come)...
Meets 24 Year-Old Jane Fonda, in Her 2nd Movie, Playing an Underage Traveler Named "Kitty Twist" (here we go) that is an Amoral Fun-Loving "Tramp"...
After a Short-Time Together, where They and We Meet a "Mexican" Diner-Owner Played by Anne Baxter, who Falls for Harvey in a Heart-Beat.
Fonda and Harvey Split, but Jane isn't Done Yet. Harvey is Questing to Re-Couple with a Former Lover, a 3-Month Fling with a "Beauty" Named Hallie, that Smittened the Simple "Dove Linkhorn" (yep Pard, that's his name), sounds Like a Joke-Name Made-Up by a Homosexual Writer of Fiction to Vent on Attractions of the "Gay ".
Hallie has Moved-On for a Bigger, more Luxurious Mode...
Her Rescuer, and Lover, the Aforementioned Stanwyck, and Now Turns High-Class Tricks in that "House in New Orleans...
the Trajectory of Everything that Follows is Based on Stanwyck's Refusal to Sacrifice Hallie for Dove. But "Dove" is Persistent and the Melodrama that Follows is Somewhat "Arresting".
By the Way...Jane Fonda is Back...Shows Up as Another Fish in the Net with the Ill-Repute.
She Tries to Steal the Show, and Almost Does with Her Unchained From Restrictive Rules and a New Young Generation that "Runs the Candy-Stand" at the "Doll-House".
In Conclusion...It's Quite Sad, that the Motion Picture Production had its Foot on the Neck of the Movie Industry in America and Forced Film-Makers to Bow-Down to these "Dictators".
This Movie is what Passed for Art Reflecting Reality and its Pale, Blind, and an Imitation, a Fake, a Farce, a Fugasi,
and One of the Reasons "The Code" Went Out of Business...
Thank God.
A Movie, Script, and Presentation of the Kind of Thing that the "Motion Picture Code" considered "Red-Meat" for the Liberals, Perverts, and Undesirables Lurking About in the America, the Code was Formed to Censor and Modeled After Themselves.
So the Movie Suffers and Suffers, Laboring to Make a Story About Vice (Prostitution), "The Ruin of Many a Good Woman", Corruption, and the "Wild Side" of the Title, with Very Uneven, Only Hinted at...
Peek and Peep at the "Doll House", and the "Dolls", Assorted "Johns" that Partake, and a Side of American-Life, that was "The Code" Reason to Be.
What's Left for Movie-Goers is "All Sizzle and No Steak", a Near Embarrassment for the Artisans of Film that Today can Only be Accepted as...
A Titillation from a Bye-Gone-Era that was a Front and a 'Dumbed-Down, Watered-Down, Downer...
with Little Artistry, Sociology, and Psychological, or Even a Turn-On for the Sexually Frustrated.
A 50 Year-Old Barbara Stanwyck, that Film-Historians Claim is the 1st Major Star in a Main-Stream Movie to Play a "Lesbian", is the Foundation Around the Structure that the Movie Presents...
Laurence Harvey (a handsome dirt farmer from Texas), is the Picture Forming in Your Mind that anticipates that are more miss-steps to come)...
Meets 24 Year-Old Jane Fonda, in Her 2nd Movie, Playing an Underage Traveler Named "Kitty Twist" (here we go) that is an Amoral Fun-Loving "Tramp"...
After a Short-Time Together, where They and We Meet a "Mexican" Diner-Owner Played by Anne Baxter, who Falls for Harvey in a Heart-Beat.
Fonda and Harvey Split, but Jane isn't Done Yet. Harvey is Questing to Re-Couple with a Former Lover, a 3-Month Fling with a "Beauty" Named Hallie, that Smittened the Simple "Dove Linkhorn" (yep Pard, that's his name), sounds Like a Joke-Name Made-Up by a Homosexual Writer of Fiction to Vent on Attractions of the "Gay ".
Hallie has Moved-On for a Bigger, more Luxurious Mode...
Her Rescuer, and Lover, the Aforementioned Stanwyck, and Now Turns High-Class Tricks in that "House in New Orleans...
the Trajectory of Everything that Follows is Based on Stanwyck's Refusal to Sacrifice Hallie for Dove. But "Dove" is Persistent and the Melodrama that Follows is Somewhat "Arresting".
By the Way...Jane Fonda is Back...Shows Up as Another Fish in the Net with the Ill-Repute.
She Tries to Steal the Show, and Almost Does with Her Unchained From Restrictive Rules and a New Young Generation that "Runs the Candy-Stand" at the "Doll-House".
In Conclusion...It's Quite Sad, that the Motion Picture Production had its Foot on the Neck of the Movie Industry in America and Forced Film-Makers to Bow-Down to these "Dictators".
This Movie is what Passed for Art Reflecting Reality and its Pale, Blind, and an Imitation, a Fake, a Farce, a Fugasi,
and One of the Reasons "The Code" Went Out of Business...
Thank God.