Common Law Cabin (1967)
Part of the RUSS MEYER: The Southern Gothic Films (1965-67)
| Director: | Russ Meyer |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
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| Format: | DVD |
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Hoople’s Haven is a tumbledown cabin located along the Colorado River. Surrounded by desert and isolated from civilization, the cabin looks near inhospitable from afar—a heap of wood speckling the flat, arid landscape, something that could fall victim to even the slightest wind. As it happens, the rundown structure is a tourist trap run by ex-military man Dewey Hoople, his wife Babette, and their teenage daughter Coral. In charge of wrangling “suckers” to visit this isolated false paradise – a journey that involves driving off-road in the desert and boating through thin inlets of the Colorado – is Cracker, a salty old man with a penchant for the bottle. Rickert is a city cop who’s stolen a suitcase-worth of unclaimed jewels and is hiding out at Hoople’s Haven until the heat is off. He’s a vile man driven by bestial needs,.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmVUy1NDP8
Presented by Lady K and Lord Leigh Park, with a full supporting bill of period US holiday and travel shorts.
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Film: Mudhoney (1965)
22 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
In the first of our series of films from Meyer's Southern Gothic era, an odd job man gets involved with his employer's wife. Featuring a typical pneumatic female lead, a drunken sadist, a preacher with a mysterious past, and a lucrative inheritance, this is Meyer at his darkest. With a full programme of period shorts, newsreels and advertisements.
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Film: Motorpsycho (1965)
23 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Meyer goes motorcycle crazy, as a veterinarian (whose wife is raped by a motorcycle gang led by a sadistic Vietnam veteran) are hunted down and dealt with in suitably Meyeresque style. Presented by Lady K and Lord Leigh Park, the film is supported by a full programme of period road safety and child-kidnapping horror shorts from the San Francisco Police Dept. With a full programme of period shorts, newsreels and advertisements.
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Film: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
25 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Period juvenile delinquency films … go-go dancers … psych sounds from Leeds freakbeat heroes THE BACCHAE and Sunderland's own surf-guitar legends SENOR BEATNIK … PLUS Sounds of Seduction DJs Michael Clunkie and Lord Leigh Park … And framing it all … Russ Meyer's masterpiece, starring his scariest starlet, Tura Satana. FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! Pussycat is the tale of three thrill-seeking gogo dancers in sports cars who terrorise a backwoods family with a hidden stash of loot. We'll have live bands, gogo dancers and period juvenile delinquency films, so tonight promises to be B-Movie heaven.