I had totally forgotten this crap until I was watching "Rocky" last night. After seeing Talia Shire this all came back to me. Talia Shire is raped by a (literally) slobbering man. He was hired by her neighbor (Elizabeth Ashley!), a psychotic lesbian (sigh), to drive Shire into her arms.
Offensive, homophobic, sick, dull when not offensive. Shire has never mentioned this movie (I wonder why) and Ashley herself said she took it because her agent was getting sick of her turning down offer after offer. She also said it should play the third movie in a triple bill at the drive-in. Director Gordon Willis (a talented cinematographer) never directed another movie. This was a box office disaster. What does all this tell you?
Also it contains one of the stupidest sequence EVER put on film. Shire is in a cab and quickly realizes the cab driver is the one who raped her. She has him stop the cab, she gets out and calls the police and then is told to get BACK in the cab till the police arrive!!! I'm no police officer but I don't think that would ever happen in real life. Other comments here have said there was laughter in theatres playing this back in 1980--probably this scene set people off.
Still, I think this is too disturbing to be even good for laughs. It was never even released on video. I would like to hear what Shire and Willis (if he's still with us) think of this now. Avoid.
Offensive, homophobic, sick, dull when not offensive. Shire has never mentioned this movie (I wonder why) and Ashley herself said she took it because her agent was getting sick of her turning down offer after offer. She also said it should play the third movie in a triple bill at the drive-in. Director Gordon Willis (a talented cinematographer) never directed another movie. This was a box office disaster. What does all this tell you?
Also it contains one of the stupidest sequence EVER put on film. Shire is in a cab and quickly realizes the cab driver is the one who raped her. She has him stop the cab, she gets out and calls the police and then is told to get BACK in the cab till the police arrive!!! I'm no police officer but I don't think that would ever happen in real life. Other comments here have said there was laughter in theatres playing this back in 1980--probably this scene set people off.
Still, I think this is too disturbing to be even good for laughs. It was never even released on video. I would like to hear what Shire and Willis (if he's still with us) think of this now. Avoid.