PRETTY POISON (1968)

NOEL BLACK

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Cast

BEVERLY GARLAND JOHN RANDOLPH DICK O'NEILL CLARICE BLACKBURN JOSEPH BOVA KEN KERCHEVAL DON FELLOWS GEORGE RYAN ANTHONY PERKINS TUESDAY WELD

Plot

Made eight years after Psycho, Perkins again plays a mentally disturbed young man. Just released from an institution for, as a teenager, burning down his aunt's house with her inside, he lives in a fantasy world, pretending he's a CIA agent. This seems to work brilliantly as a chat up line for he picks up a beautiful, but very gullible, all American small town girl. This is a pure mix of Hitchcock and 60s rebellion. Watch it.