Passion in the Sun (1964)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Dale Berry

Writers:

Dale Berry (screenplay)
Enrique Madariaga (story)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A stripper on a flight to Las Vegas has a stopover in a small Texas airport. She gets taken hostage by two Cuban gangsters on the run from the cops...

Plot Keywords:

Stripper | Exploitation | Female Nudity | Independent Film

Cast

Dale Berry	...	Sgt. Mike Green
Mike Butts	...	The Geek
Dee Dent	...	San Souci girl
Rain Drop	...	San Souci girl
Dick Eason	...	Raul Ortiz
Leonard Firth	...	Pip Squak
Molly Goldberg	...	Molly
Mai Kai	...	San Souci girl
Liza Marina	...	Herself
Gregg Pappas	...	Earnesto
Bill Ratliff	...	Club manager
Bill Rhodes	...	Officer Claude Hill
Josette Valague

Also Known As:

Passion of the Sun
The Girl and the Geek

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Company:

Trans American

A true unknown classic!

Very few living persons have had the privilege of seeing this cinematic masterpiece! It should be restored in a new digital print and included on the required viewing list of every film school. Like Citizen Kane, which lay hidden for generations, one viewing will change forever the way you view every other film you see for the rest of your life.

Here's a list of comparisons of Passion in the Sun with other great celluloid masterpieces:

Citizen Kane: both were filmed in black and white.

Gone with the Wind: both featured dialogue in the English language

It's a Wonderful Life: both had old cars.

Star Wars: both had scenes filmed in the desert

The Hustler: both featured human actors

Deliverance: both involved people swimming in a river

Pulp Fiction: had a Gimp, Passion had a Geek

Titanic: both featured Kate Winslet and Leonard DiCaprio.

Well, okay, that last one was a lie, but maybe they'll be in the remake.

Seriously, this is a film that is so ineptly made, so poorly acted, so abysmally written that it even needs a Rod Serling style narration at unexpected moments to help you figure out what's going on. Usually, the presence of narration is your first clue that the movie is a mess and this does not disappoint. It is so unintentionally funny for most of it's running time that those with abdominal sutures or loose dentures should only watch with extreme caution. Best scenes: a woman is being chased through the desert by a gun-wielding thug who she has seen murder his accomplice, but TWICE takes time out for nude skinny-dipping; a stripper at the club spins so fast that her secondary sexual characteristics actually achieve lift-off. Totally amazing.

You can find this at Something Weird Video.