Crazy beautiful movie cast
This film is classified R.Cheryl Stratton. At the First Avenue Screening Room, at 60th Street. PRIVATE PARTS, directed by Paul Bartel screenplay by Philip Kearney and Les Rendeistein director of photography, Andrew Davis film editor, Morton Tubor music by Hugo Friedhofer produced by Gene Corman released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Not all the film's nonsense is under imaginative control, but most of it is."Private Parts" is at least a hopeful occasion for those of us who love intellectual cinema and at the same time care for the menacing staircase, for the ominous shadow, for empty rooms shuttered against the light of the afternoon.The Cast With Ayn Ruymen as the beautiful Cheryl and Lucille Benson as her protective aunt (also a photographer, a specialist in attending funerals and snapping the moment when the spirit escapes the body) he has been fortunate in getting good performances from perfect types. But the attempt, even when it isn't quite working, is a good deal more interesting than most. The not-so-hapless heroine of "Private Parts" dresses or undresses for a part (the film's title, of course, contains a pun) that she does not begin to comprehend until she is literally trapped in the Feudian intricacies of its motivation.Attempting to make all this funny as well as frightening, Bartel succeeds in some details and fails in others. The hapless heroine of "Secret Cinema" finds herself unconsciously starring in somebody else's movie, shown to selected audiences in weekly installments. "Private Parts" is no triumph, but it does mark a giant step forward toward the successful blending of precocious perversity and satiric good sense that seems the fated direction of his career.Bartel really has a theme - the willful annexing of one personality by another-a scary and potentially serious theme that at the movies tends to make its way more profitably into the horror film than any other genre. Bartel is a young director whose previous short films have shown a genius of title ("Secret Cinema," "Naughty Nurse") not entirely matched by their content. Quigley and the wicked Reverend Moon - all of them live, and some of them die, in "Private Parts," a movie by Paul Bartel, which opened yesterday at the First Avenue Screening Room. And it is George who spies on Cheryl - to her knowledge and rather to her pleasure - from behind the secret peephole in the bathroom wall.Cheryl, George, Aunt Martha, the girlfriend, the boyfriend, the crazy Mrs. Neither the creaking doors, nor the footsteps in the hall that scare her half to death each night, nor Aunt Martha's prudent warnings, nor even the 110-volt charge of electric current intended to keep idle fingers from Aunt Martha's master key ring, will deter her.And so she roams the corridors of the dim old place, little dreaming that her girlfriend's boyfriend (who came to find her) has been fed in pieces to the hotel furnace, or that her girlfriend (who came to find the boyfriend) is already decomposing between trays of developer and wash in the basement darkroom of a strange, intense photographer named George.Indeed, it is George who draws Cheryl on, with his soft, disturbing eyes and his half anonymous gifts of black leather and silky nothings for her to wear. Innocent but eager, young runaway Cheryl Stratton means to explore her aunt's seedy Los Angeles hotel no matter what stands in her way.