But the copy I have has SO MANY splices & bed edits, it was very heard to follow.. But because of the bad splices, the dialogue is funny!!
Trust me,
Swan
I wonder if its the same copy I just watched, it came in at 52min 48 sec. IMDb lists it at 68.
the last movie I saw was - - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0125737/
It's on TCM this am (Sat am 4-6 am ET). Listed as 1:08 run time.
Prob rounded out w/ oldies filler at end I guess.
After reading comments about the funny bits it's worth a record.
Preceded by a 1934 The Road to Ruin and 1948 Tenth Avenue Angel which
is my Hells Kitchen nabe. Both of those get 1 star of 4 so should
be a great goof trip. At least no commercials, lol.
Tenth Avenue Angel actually has big names as leads!
The Road to Ruin imdb reviewer:
6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Another good, old exploitation film! Worth watching!, 1 September 2002
Author: Joshua S. Baker ([email protected]) from RAF Mildenhall, England
I thought this was truly a unique movie considering it was filmed in 1934, when subject matter of this type was definitely a no-no. The film is about an innocent girl, Ann Dixon, who hangs out with her friend, Eve Monroe. They get boyfriends and start drinking and smoking. Ann breaks it off with her boyfriend and hooks up with a low-life older guy. They get busted at a topless/half-naked pool party and Eve comes up positive for a venerial disease of some type. Ann is negative but the film doesn't specifically tell you that she has become pregnant. Her low-life boyfriend takes her to the doctor for an abortion. I can't tell you the rest without ruining the movie so watch it for yourself. You shouldn't be disappointed if you like the off-the-wall types of rarer movies like I do. Enjoy the movie and look for other types such as this.
I'm waiting for it to come on, and watching Road to Ruin first, just to set the tone! I love these oldies. But next time I'll pay attention to the title of a film before I hit Google...way too much information!
shareThe splices in Escort Girl were so bad they acheived a kind of epic weirdness.In a single shot people would move around the room in 4 different places before you even heard any dialogue. In one shot, you actually heard dialogue and no one was speaking! I wound up watching the jump cuts instead of the, frankly, dull story - but they made it worth staying to the end.
shareI timed the TCM print at about 58 minutes. That scene with the mostly-uncovered dancing girl was pretty risque for 1941.
shareI love these films that TCM shows in their Underground series...Road to Ruin and Escort Girl are great examples of risque movies that you wont see anywhere else.
"I know you're in there, Fagerstrom!"-Conan O'Brien
I thought the strip tease was risque for TCM at 4 a.m.! Love these strange old curiosities they find - TCM is one of life's true treasures. They reliably show the good, the bad, and the ugly - and things like this that you just can't see anywhere, unless you buy stuff from a cult movies catalog.
shareThat short scene was not part of the movie when it was released. It was clearly edited into the film later, in an effort to inject some "spice" into an otherwise very cheap and uninteresting potboiler, to generate some buzz and get people to see it.
If you DVR'd it, watch it again and notice that we see the stripper scene when a drunk in a cheap night club pumps some coins into one of those old refigerator-sized movie viewers that were common in the old adult arcades back in the day.
And I'm also amazed at how much of that stripper's body we get to see. Bare boobs with small pasties. That WAS pretty extreme for 1941.
The only explanation is that the stripper was added AFTER the movie was submitted to the Hays Office for approval. Once it was in circulation, there was nothing the Hays people could do. And I will also bet it was seen only in the cheap movie houses. The ones with the sticky floors.
Really! I didn't know they could/did do that (inserting the naughty bits). The people in the censorship office must have had apoplexy after getting wind of that.
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