The Candy Man (1969)An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants ... See full summary » Director:Herbert J. Leder |
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Title: The Candy Man (1969)
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Sidney Carter
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Julie Evans
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Lt. Garcia
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Maria Lopez
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Felipe Lopez
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Roger West
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Greta Hansen
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José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla' | ... |
The Vagabond
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Gwen Easterly
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Lee Stevens
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Rick Pierce
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John Kelly | ... |
Inspector
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Lupita Ferrat | ... |
Jenny Stevens
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An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants one of his drug-addicted "customers" with the actress as her nanny in order to be kidnap the child for ransom, but things don't work out as planned. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
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The first day brought the CANDY MAN ... the second day brought TERROR!Certificate:
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February 1969 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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A drug dealer kidnaps a movie star's kid for ransom. Although the lurid title promises much, this is actually a fairly straightforward melodrama, albeit with a most tacky underbelly. British stalwart George Sanders is almost unbearably creepy as the drug pusher, spending almost the whole film stalking children in parks and sidestreets, and coming across like a garden-variety pervert. What must Sanders' career have been like at this point, to find him literally pawing through trash bins in this bit of sleazy tripe? Leslie Parrish is painfully sincere as the movie star, trying hard to legitimize what she surely knew was a throwaway role. Most all the other roles are played by Mexicans, in varying degrees of pidgin-English. For cinema drug-trip completists, this film boasts THE lamest hallucination scene ever committed to film; a guy freaking out on acid looks at a painting of doves, and the doves get lighter and darker! That's it! Even Jackie Gleason's prison acid trip in SKIDOO was more realistic! Filmed at the Churubusco-Azteca Studios in Mexico, home of all those beloved horror films like THE BRAINIAC. As an example of exploitation psychedelia, THE CANDY MAN is a total flop, but as an obscure bit of psychotronic flotsam from squaresville, this is a real hoot. Film opens and closes with a terrible faux-rock theme song by "The Forum Quorum", pathetically trying to create a hippiesque atmosphere. No dice, Candy Man!