Satan In High Heels - 1962 - 6/10
Stacey, working the cooch show at the carnival, robs her hop-head husband and flies to New York.
A “talent scout” sizes her up right quick, and Stacey is brought in to audition at Pepe’s.
While higher class than the burlesque, Pepe’s is an upscale gin joint.
Stacey is repackaged into a glossier object of desire, although her impulses remain doggedly primal.
Flirting, affairs (with the owner, his son, and Pepe), drinking, homicidal urges.
The narrative perks along, in a tawdry, sleazy route, and would have been taboo in ’62 – for any who saw it.
For a cheap indie film, this looks terrific!
Songs vary from smokey (Stacey’s moan is something between Nina Simone and Julie London), to funny.
I enjoyed the mixed audience of aging debauchees and Greenwich Village bohos.
Study the lower cast names, most are the production crew.
Recent restoration by Nicholas Winding Refn is the one to watch.
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