Girl Gang/Pin Down Girl(Forbidden Fruit: Golden Age Of The Exploit. Vol. 11)(Br)

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Collection: Kino Lorber
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1954/1951
Director: Robert C. Dertano / Robert C. Dertano
Genre: Drama
Cast: Timothy Farrell, Peaches Page, Joanne Arnold, Harry Keaton, Clara Mortensen
Runtime: 63/55
Language: English
Release Date: 2021-07-20

By the late 1940s, exploitation producers such as George Weiss (Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda?) drifted away from the pseudo-educational framework of the genre and began producing risqué crime melodramas. No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than Girl Gang and Pin-Down Girl, and no actor was more suited to such low-grade potboilers than deadpan baritone Timothy Farrell. In Girl Gang, Farrell is a small-time mob boss who feeds dope to high school girls hungry for kicks. A return to the gymnasium setting of Weiss and Farrell’s The Devil’s Sleep, Pin-Down Girl stars Peaches Page as a woman caught in the vice-riddled world of female wrestling. Girl Gang was mastered in 2K from the original 35mm negative; Pin-Down Girl was mastered in 2K from a 35mm re-release version (The Blonde Pick-Up).