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Writer:
B.W. Sandefur (writer)
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Release Date:
June 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Horror more
Tagline:
All He Wanted Was A Friend.
Plot:
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator. | add synopsis
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User Comments:
astounding, perverse, and strange. more (21 total)

Cast

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Leslie Uggams ... Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly

Shelley Winters ... Bertha
Michael Christian ... Eddie Collins
Ted Cassidy ... Keno
Dub Taylor ... Justice of the Peace Floyd
Lou Joffred ... Odell
Slim Pickens ... Sheriff Orville
Red Lawson ... The Salesman
Sherif Smith ... The Deputy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Black Vengeance
Heartbreak Motel
Redneck County Rape
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Runtime:
USA:92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:R
Company:
Artaxerxes Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Loosely based on Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" - the first film version of which also starred Shelley Winters in 1963. more
Quotes:
Orville: Did he bite you on your titties? more

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14 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
astounding, perverse, and strange., 14 February 2004
Author: bukakkefriedchicken from fabulous Las Vega$!

One of the most deeply disturbing films of the early 70s, bar none, and at moments morbidly comical. "Poor Pretty Eddy" is a surreal tale of a black superstar(Leslie Uggams) becoming stranded in a small Southern town. She takes a room in a lodge run be Shelley Winters and her handsome "kept" boy Eddie. Eddie becomes smitten with Uggams, rapes her, beats her, and vows his love to her as a distraught Ms. Winters looks on. Chock full of bizarre characters and boiling over with nightmarish imagery, this is one outrageously trashy film that cult fans should give a closer look. 7.5/10

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