Six years after delivering the 1962
Grand Guignol camp classic «What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?»
Not exact matches
Add a pair of hired thugs (Hans Christian Blech and Francois Simon), a mysterious «protector» (Bruno Cremer), plus our heroine's tendency to gouge out the eyes of any man who gets too close, and you've got yourself a truly unique exercise in
Grand Guignol, even by the standards of an era in which Rampling became a star via Liliana Cavani's concentration -
camp romp The Night Porter.
Adapted from the autobiography of escapee Robert E. Burns, it skates about some specifics, never naming the state which claps the hero into
grand guignol prison
camps (the book was called I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintage.