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May 1974 (USA)
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Nice place to visit...no place to live! more
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A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister...
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Mixed feelings: loved the style, hated the editing. See the full version if you can.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Laurence Harvey | ... | Jason Henry | |
| Joanna Pettet | ... | Grace Henry | |
| Stuart Whitman | ... | Deputy Rakes | |
| John Ireland | ... | Sheriff Duke Bingham | |
| Meg Foster | ... | Robbin Stanley | |
| Gloria LeRoy | ... | Ginger | |
| David Macklin | ... | Alex Heath | |
| Dodie Heath | ... | Felice | |
| Altovise Davis | ... | Deputy Molly (as Altovise Gore) | |
| Elizabeth St. Clair | ... | Head Nurse | |
| Robert Lussier | ... | Deputy Lippencourt | |
| Jesse Vint | ... | Hot Rod Driver | |
| Tony Ballen | |||
| John Hart | ... | Doctor | |
| Andy Romano | ... | Bryant |
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Also Known As:
Tender Flesh (Philippines: English title) (USA) (reissue title)
Cold Storage (Canada: English title) (TV title)
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Cold Storage (Canada: English title) (TV title)
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85 min | Argentina:97 min | Belgium:99 min (video version)
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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This was Laurence Harvey's final film.
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Edited into 42nd Street Forever Part 4 (2009) (V)
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Who Can Tell Us Why
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Looking over other viewer comments, I feel like I missed some significant footage -- sad, because I saw this as a candidate film for the National Film Registry. My experience was that the cannibalism wasn't even broached -- "hinted at" is a smaller and more fitting description. I started out with the understanding that the film deals with this topic, so it was easy for me to find the theme in the disjointed images that Harvey (allegedly from his deathbed) pieced together. However, in the edit that I saw, Harvey really only approached the subject during the dinner scene, which to the uninformed viewer, leaves Jason Henry coming off only as a rather perverse murderer.
As a red-toned color film, it kept with the 70s feel, especially with the Lou Rawls theme song that really seems not to fit at all, and it's definitely the sort of film that you can settle into on a Saturday afternoon.
For the most part, I felt that it was a shaky effort that obviously suffers from the (unavoidable) lack of directorial input in the final stages.
Despite this, the one incredibly positive thing I have to say is that Harvey did succeed in creating one impacting, chilling, flawless scene in a movie of otherwise so-so acting. Harvey is the perennial director, and this is never so evident as when he plays Jason Henry behind a camera. The moments just prior and after this are really unspectacular, but in the few seconds that the viewer is looking at the visage of Harvey, peering from behind the camera with diabolical intent, I was completely stunned and frightened, not because Harvey belonged in the psyche of a killer, but because the killer belonged behind the camera -- Harvey's character became more real, more insidious because the character encompassed a real person. Not a better case for method acting exists, I would venture.