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Pretty Poison

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Pretty Poison (1968)

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Runtime: 89 mins

Synopsis: Under-appreciated upon its release in 1968, PRETTY POISON, based on Stephen Geller's novel SHE LET HIM CONTINUE, is a black comedy thriller that uses the talents of its stars to the utmost effect. Kittenish seductress Tuesday Weld plays Sue Ann, an apple-pie high schooler who is lured from... Under-appreciated upon its release in 1968, PRETTY POISON, based on Stephen Geller's novel SHE LET HIM CONTINUE, is a black comedy thriller that uses the talents of its stars to the utmost effect. Kittenish seductress Tuesday Weld plays Sue Ann, an apple-pie high schooler who is lured from her regular life by recently released mental patient Dennis Pitt (PHYCHO's Anthony Perkins). He tells the girl he is a C.I.A. agent and invites her to join him, a fantasy which she is all too happy to buy, and they take off together in now-classic style, making sure to kill her mother first. The film maintains uncertainty about who is manipulating whom, with jet-black humor played to subtle perfection by the two excellent leads. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland

Director: Noel Black

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May 9, 2006

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DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Stereo - English
  • Mono - English, Spanish
  • Subtitles - Spanish - Optional

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This cult item features Tuesday Weld in her best known role, as seemingly innocent highschool senior who's actually a cool nymphet killer pinning all mischief on her boyfriend--Anthony Perkins and Weld are a movie pair made in Heaven.

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A flop in its initial release, over the years, this Tuesday Weld's darkly humorous horror tale has acquired a cult status and is now finally avilable on DVD courtesy of Fox.

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Anthony Perkins proves there's more than one way to play a Psycho with this role as a morally ambiguous ex-con who seduces a high school drum majorette, played by a mischievous Tuesday Weld.

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Over the years has developed a strong cult following.

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Pretty Poison is very enjoyable little flick.

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"I did not have to play Lolita, I was Lolita," Tuesday Weld, star of "Pretty Poison," Hollywood's bad girl of the 1950s 1960s, the anti-thesis to her contemporary Sandra Dee.

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