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Titre original : The Lady in Red

1979
13
1h 33min

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La vie d'une fermière naïve bascule après avoir été au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment. Elle déménage à Chicago et se retrouve piégée dans un cercle vicieux de prostitution et de crime.La vie d'une fermière naïve bascule après avoir été au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment. Elle déménage à Chicago et se retrouve piégée dans un cercle vicieux de prostitution et de crime.La vie d'une fermière naïve bascule après avoir été au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment. Elle déménage à Chicago et se retrouve piégée dans un cercle vicieux de prostitution et de crime.

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Anecdotes
Lewis Teague was paid eleven thousand dollars to direct this film. However, since this movie was made non-union, he had to pay his entire salary as a fine to the Director's Guild.

Gaffes
In the parlor at Anna Sage's bordello, when Polly meets Turk for the first time, one of the topless prostitutes obviously has breast implants and that surgery was not available during this time period.

Citations
Satin (a prostitute): The day I can't handle the likes of him, I best get me a needle and thread and sew it shut.

Versions alternatives
The 1986 UK VHS released by Eagle Crest Video is only 83 minutes long (86/87 minutes when converted back to NTSC) and uses a print that is missing all shots (and sometimes whole scenes) of sex and nudity, as well as some of the violence (e.g. Dillinger's bloody corpse). Note that these are not BBFC edits - they had already approved the film uncut for cinema release.

Connexions
Featured in Super nanas II (1987)

Bandes originales
Ain't She Sweet
(uncredited)
Music by Milton Ager
Courtesy Warner Bros. Music

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9/10

A little seen, misunderstood classic that's NOT about Dillinger

"The Lady in Red" is the kind of movie that those of us fans of cult cinema and b-movies live for. It's an unheralded classic, and a movie that totally rises above its inauspicious "grindhouse" or exploitation roots.

I believe the movie's success may have been undercut by advertising that suggests it is about Dillinger. It isn't. It's the story of Dillinger's alleged girlfriend, the one who supposedly betrayed him to the feds. The story is, if anything, more interesting than Dillinger's, and packs a feminist punch. It shows a path to crime more heartbreaking than any famous bankrobber's.

The protagonist is thrown out of home and ends up in jail. There's a whole genre of women in prison movies, and they almost all feature a sadistic lesbian guard. Yet, none of them are this good, and none of the guards are as horribly believable as the one in this movie.

The movie only spends about half an hour there, and is yet more believable and impactful than all the women in prison movies combined. The only way out for the protagonist is prostitution, which is where she comes into contact with crime figures she is destined to join.

Dillinger is, in fact, just another guy she meets, and that's a massive strength. To her, he was no hero. He was just another man, a potential user, thief, murderer, whatever.

This is the world through the eyes of a down-on-her-luck woman who had little choice but to turn to crime.

How fitting that it would be so roundly ignored, even after all these years.