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| Lex Barker | ... | David Hewson | |
| Anne Bancroft | ... | Beth Dixon | |
| Mamie Van Doren | ... | Harriet Ames | |
| Ron Randell | ... | Edmund Parry | |
| Marie Windsor | ... | Julia Parry | |
| John Dehner | ... | Sheriff Jess Holmes | |
| John Holland | ... | Norman Grant | |
| Diana Van der Vlis | ... | Louise Miles (as Diana Vandervlis) | |
| Richard H. Cutting | ... | Dr. John Aitkin (as Richard Cutting) | |
| Larry Chance | ... | Indian Joe | |
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Gene O'Donnell | ... | Joseph Felton |
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Gerald Frank | ... | Frankie Pierce |
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Karl MacDonald | ... | Deputy Fred |
| Norman Leavitt | ... | Amos | |
| Stuart Whitman | ... | Prentiss | |
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Near a small Utah town, visiting lawyer David Hewson finds the slashed body of party girl Marcia Morgan, his fellow tenant at Parry Lodge. Sheriff Jess Holmes considers everyone at the motel a suspect, even owner Edmund Parry, a woman hater who is quadriplegic...or is he? While Holmes investigates and the suspects try to hide mutual fears, the killer strikes again... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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24 September 1957 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Edmund Parry: [shows contempt] Unhappy? Romance on the Gold Standard. Common creature whose every word, every breath, every gesture, was the show of an empty, shallow promise. Miss Morgan was an example of completely justifiable homicide.
Sheriff Jess Holmes: Is that an opinion or a confession, Ed?
Edmund Parry: Confession? All these years, I would have given anything to use a knife to get back the youth of just one finger.
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1st Movement (Molto Allegro)
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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This movie was filmed in and around Parry Lodge in Kanab, Utah. This lodge was opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers, as a place in which to lodge Hollywood film crews who came out to that area of Utah to film some of the early westerns. Over the years many famous movie stars have stayed at this lodge. See more »Quotes
Sheriff Jess Holmes: You're not unhappy about the dead girl?Edmund Parry: [shows contempt] Unhappy? Romance on the Gold Standard. Common creature whose every word, every breath, every gesture, was the show of an empty, shallow promise. Miss Morgan was an example of completely justifiable homicide.
Sheriff Jess Holmes: Is that an opinion or a confession, Ed?
Edmund Parry: Confession? All these years, I would have given anything to use a knife to get back the youth of just one finger.
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Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 5501st Movement (Molto Allegro)
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"The Girl in the Black Stockings" is a B movie, and I don't give it the tremendous historical significance one of the other reviewers did. It's obviously made cheaply, and the story is awkward. Directed by Howard Koch, it has a surprising lack of pace. The stars are Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, John Dehner, Ron Randell, Marie Windsor and Mamie Van Doren. The plot concerns murders at a resort - in fact, the film begins with the discovery of a dead body, and several more follow. Dehner plays the sheriff. The resort is owned by a man with hysterical paralysis (Randell) and his sister (Windsor), who takes care of him. There's a Barrymore-type actor preparing for a comeback with the help of a va-va-va-voom blonde (Van Doren), and several guests, including Barker and Bancroft, who apparently have some sort of history together.
The acting is okay with the exception of a very young Bancroft, who smartly underplays what could have been an extremely over the top character. Barker was very handsome and fit, but after reading that Lana Turner threw him out when she learned he was abusing her daughter Cheryl, it's hard to watch him. Most of the characters really aren't fleshed out enough to give the actors something to work with. Stuart Whitman has a small part, as does Dan Blocker, who plays a bartender.
Not great.