Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars (1992)

Utterly devastated by causing his bride's drowning death while drunk-driving, Harry leaps off a railroad trestle into dark waters below. He is fished out and sent to a private sanitarium ... See full summary »

Director:

John Carr

Writer:

Philip Yordan

Stars:

John Phillip Law, Francine York, Sharon Ratcliff

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Phillip Law	...	Harry Billings
Francine York	...	Marilyn Monroe
Sharon Ratcliff	...	Dr. Fargo
Arthur Braham	...	Dr. Brewer
Richard Moll	...	Otto
Mark Petrich	...	Sidney
Rick Barnes	...	Newlywed
Jini Flynn	...	Newlywed
Lisa Watkins	...	Verna
Charles Parker	...	Ed
Micki Anne Corbin	...	Girl from Church (as Micki Corbin)
Peter Creadick	...	Robert
Carla Marlanee	...	Cocktail date (as Carla Marlenee)
Dorothy Petrich	...	Tourist at Crypt
David Cornbluth	...	Tourist at Crypt

Storyline

Utterly devastated by causing his bride's drowning death while drunk-driving, Harry leaps off a railroad trestle into dark waters below. He is fished out and sent to a private sanitarium run by Dr. Brewer and Dr. Fargo. The two have a nefarious operation inside: selling beautiful young girls to Middle-Eastern sheikhs for their harems. Under mind control and hypnotic drugs, Harry is routinely sent out as a handsome bait to lure more captives. In his lucid moments, Harry explores upstairs after filching keys from sadistic orderly Otto. Admitting himself into off-limit quarters, he surprises a beautiful woman who claims she's movie star Marilyn Monroe, that another body was substituted for hers and that somebody rich and powerful had her sent here. She pleads for Harry's help in escaping. They eventually fall in love and, after harrowing and horrible ordeals below, including a fight to the death with the enraged Otto, flee the place, but not before Brewer and Fargo meet their ironic fate.

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Plot Keywords:

five word title | character name in title

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence and sexual content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Scream Your Head Off

Company Credits

Production Co:

Movie Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited from Night Train to Terror (1985)

User Reviews

The story about the movie

According to John Carr himself, at first this movie was not finished. Then, some portions of the filmed materials were incorporated in the "Night Train to Terror" anthology. After that, Carr left USA for England for a time. When he came back to the USA he was amazed to find that the producers made a "complete" version of his movie, using almost all the materials filmed. This version was released on VHS as "Scream Your Head Off". Later, John Carr decided to finish his movie and shot new sequences with John Philip Law (noticeably older) and incorporated Marilyn Monroe (played by Francine York) in the story. This last (?) version is the one known as "Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars", "completed" in 1992. In résumé, there are THREE versions of this movie:

• 1) one as a segment of "Night Train to Terror" - 2) the illegitimate

version, "Scream Your Head Off" (in VHS only) - 3) Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars. Apparently, during the first shooting some scenes were filmed twice, with girls more or less clothed. The nude version of these scenes was shown in "Night Train to Terror". It also seems that some shots in "Night Train to Terror" were gorier than the "Marilyn" version. But it COULD have been specially filmed material by the producers of "Night Train to Terror", as it was made for the two other movies "cannibalized": "Cataclysm", and "Death Wish Club". Special sequences involving SPFX were filmed when abridged versions of these two movies were included in "Night Train to Terror".