Louisiana Hussy (1959)

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

Director:

Lee Sholem

Writer:

Charles Lang (original screenplay)

Stars:

Nan Peterson, Robert Richards, Peter Coe

Cast

Cast overview:
Nan Peterson	...	Nina Duprez, alias Minette Lanier
Robert Richards	...	Pierre Guillot
Peter Coe	...	Jacques Guillot
Betty Lynn	...	Lili Guillot
Howard Wright	...	Cob
Harry Lauter	...	Clay Lanier
Rosalee Calvert	...	The Real Minette Lanier
Tyler McVey	...	Dr. J. B. Opie
Smoki Whitfield	...	Burt, the Manservant
Helen Forrest	...	Callie, the Gris-Gris Woman

Storyline

Brothers Pierre and Jacques Guillot are partners in trading furs and Spanish Moss and Jacques is mad at his brother because Pierre is about to marry Lily and Jacques thought he had the inside track on her. Jacques refuses to attend the wedding, and is out gathering moss with his assistant Cob when Callie, an old Gris-Gris woman, leads them to where she has found a badly beaten and unconscious young woman. They take her to Doc Opie just as Pierre and Lily are being escorted to their new home by friends following their wedding. The doctor asks Jacques to carry the beautiful stranger into the newlywed's house where he has her put to bed. Pierre takes an instant dislike to this girl who calls herself Minette. He steps into the bedroom and tells her she has to go but she throws her arms around him and kisses him...just as brother Jacques passes the bedroom window. Later, Minette tells him that Pierre had forced his attention on her while she was ill. Jacques moves her into his shack to ...

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Plot Keywords:

suicide | wedding | doctor | jealousy | spanish moss | 

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Taglines:

BORN TO MAKE TROUBLE!...she was the kind who moved right in!

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

April 1959 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Louisiana, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bon Aire Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into Twisted Sex Vol. 23 (2007)

User Reviews

Deep fried steamy swamp trash gumbo

Back in the day, audiences of the Fifties were bitten by the "white trash" bug for a brief moment in pop culture. Staid moral suburbanites were entranced by the sexy doins' of the poor way south of the Mason-Dixon line. "Louisana Hussy" (1959) was a worthy entry into the earthy charms of stories set in God's little acre, giving said staid 50's moviegoers a chance to walk on the wild side, no matter that they got there by car to the local drive-in instead of passage on the streetcar named Desire. The titular hussy (ahem) played by Nan Peterson serves up sex, lies, and cleavage as the mysterious woman who eventually comes (ahem) between Cajun brothers in this mudbug melodrama. Evidently filmed on location, the hussy schemes her way around all the red-blooded bayou guys by force of her 42 double-Ds, which jiggle jauntily among the fish nets and sad looking dried out coonskins. This is a tale of immorality, deceit, and people who only own one set of clothing. Ms. Hussy turns brother against brother, causes suicide, commits robbery, threatens a gris-gris woman with hand boiling, and clutches many a bedsheet with her painted talons. Gripping salacious drama probably caused a lot of dropped popcorn attempting to heat up the screen in this deep-fried batter dipped bayou corndog of passions run wild. While not as willfully anarchist as "Shanty Tramp", "Hussy" does deliver in the clinches, and allows the scheming female to escape all punishment, free to roam the South in search of weak men in plaid shirts.