Too Much Overwritten Exposition
The heroin trade gets a Dragnet-style handling, with a poorly written narration breaking out at odd moments when Paul Kelly, whose beat is narcotics isn't offering them.
It's another of the long string of exploitation movies, telling the audience how bad the dope trade is, and it certainly doesn't glamorize this tale of a nice boy (Cullen Wheelas) who meets a cute girl from the wrong side of the tracks and invites her to a party at his house. Eventually the cops get involved, and can they do anything about narcotics, which leads into another spate of exposition.
Just when I thought it was going to be like that to the end, with seven minutes to run, the talking stopped and there was about five minutes of almost pure actin, well performed and edited. Then we had the closing narration....
There are some good, if low-pay performers here, including Byron Flouger, Regis Toomey, and Cathy Downs.
It's another of the long string of exploitation movies, telling the audience how bad the dope trade is, and it certainly doesn't glamorize this tale of a nice boy (Cullen Wheelas) who meets a cute girl from the wrong side of the tracks and invites her to a party at his house. Eventually the cops get involved, and can they do anything about narcotics, which leads into another spate of exposition.
Just when I thought it was going to be like that to the end, with seven minutes to run, the talking stopped and there was about five minutes of almost pure actin, well performed and edited. Then we had the closing narration....
There are some good, if low-pay performers here, including Byron Flouger, Regis Toomey, and Cathy Downs.
- boblipton
- 19 mars 2023