This low budget release from 1970 is still shot in black and white and has a poor soundtrack that gives it a noir feeling from 1950. The screenplay is not fiction. It is actually based on true events that lead to the electrocution of the killers in 1951.
The cast are nobodies but I decided to give the film a go. After all it did have some good reviews and is regarded as a cult film amongst some. I later found out that the original director was Martin Scorsese who was unfortunately fired from the film after a week and replaced by director Leonard Kastle!
Anyway it basically follows a lonely nurse who reminded me of the late Hattie Jacques off a Carry On medical film with her strict nursing background and portly demeanour. She places answers an ad in a lonely hearts column and becomes 'friendly with a Spanish guy called Ray. She leaves her home in Mobile, Alabama and joins Ray in New York City from where they fleece other lonely women who answer Ray's advertisements. What made me laugh were they were willing to marry and give up their savings within one meeting! Would Scorsese have made a difference? Obviously it would have been very early in his career but he certainly has more eye for detail. One of the reasons he got fired.
The cast are nobodies but I decided to give the film a go. After all it did have some good reviews and is regarded as a cult film amongst some. I later found out that the original director was Martin Scorsese who was unfortunately fired from the film after a week and replaced by director Leonard Kastle!
Anyway it basically follows a lonely nurse who reminded me of the late Hattie Jacques off a Carry On medical film with her strict nursing background and portly demeanour. She places answers an ad in a lonely hearts column and becomes 'friendly with a Spanish guy called Ray. She leaves her home in Mobile, Alabama and joins Ray in New York City from where they fleece other lonely women who answer Ray's advertisements. What made me laugh were they were willing to marry and give up their savings within one meeting! Would Scorsese have made a difference? Obviously it would have been very early in his career but he certainly has more eye for detail. One of the reasons he got fired.