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7 February 1954 (USA) moreTagline:
SHOCK AFTER SHOCK! (original print ad - all caps)Plot:
Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman author and her young secretary. | add synopsisUser Comments:
JOAN BENNETT INVENTS "THE TWIST" WHILE IN QUICKSAND!!! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Conte | ... | James Henry | |
| Joan Bennett | ... | Mrs. Cummings | |
| Wanda Hendrix | ... | Susan Willis | |
| Reed Hadley | ... | Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle | |
| Mary Beth Hughes | ... | Terri Smith--bar girl | |
| Iris Adrian | ... | Sally--cafe waitress | |
| Harry Harvey | ... | Mr. Carson | |
| Tom Hubbard | ... | Det. Sgt. Ben Barnett | |
| Frank Jenks | ... | Marine in Civvies | |
| Murray Alper | ... | Ice Cream Truck Driver | |
| Zon Murray | ... | Cafe trooper with mustache | |
| House Peters Jr. | ... | Steve--Border Inspection Officer | |
| Joseph Crehan | ... | Elderly Border Inspection Officer | |
| Charles Anthony Hughes | ... | Chubby Border Inspection Officer (as Tony Hughes) | |
| Bill Hale | ... | Harry--Trooper in Cafe |
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This film is a real treat to watch due to the many absurdities that abound from scene to scene. After a shouting match in a barroom with a buxom over-the-hill blonde ex-model, Richard Conte, finds himself hitch- hiking to the Salton Sea where his house is rapidly disappearing from the rising shoreline! He's picked up by the police, who claim he murdered aforementioned blonde bombshell. Before you can blink an eye Conte's outta there and shooting holes in a classic Kaiser patrol car. He escapes in an old Nash which he abandons upon seeing Joan Bennett(wearing a dress made out of a parachute) and Wanda Hendrix trying to fix a broken-down sedan. He fixes things up while Joan's pooch becomes roadkill. Any 10 year-old has figured out the films outcome at this point. Conte becomes "Mr. Leash", the crazed killer, who gets a whole resort full of vacationers running for their lives. Conte, Joan and Wanda do everything but roast marshmellows over a desert campfire before Joan teaches them both how to do the "Twist" in an improbable puddle of quicksand near Conte's rapidly decaying, drowning dreamhome in the Salton Sea. This movie has a lot of unintentional laughs in it. A great bad movie.