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Release Date: 17 December, 2002 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: |
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Love is a trap for success
The story of a young German woman who gets entangled in an American Carnival touring Germany after WW2. Men are attracted to her, to help her, to love her, to use her. She has a great courage that enables her to move swiftly from the kitchen to the top of the carnival by becoming a star in a diving act. She is good, very good, and resolute to succeed. But she cannot manage her relations with men properly and leads them to death in the strangest conditions. She can only run away, with another man of course, away from the successive dramas. Love cannot be the tool of success nor of ambition.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Behind-the-scenes in the Big Top
Low-budget bur admirable effort about the tawdry life and small times behind the big top. Anne Baxter stars as Willie, a sexy waif down on her luck whose fortunes then change--but not necessarily for the better--when she meets up with a violent Casanova by the name of Joe Hammond. The smoldering Steve Cochran plays Hammond, the opportunitistic ladies' man who likes to treat his women rough. Their beginning starts off well enough when Willie is understandably grateful to Hammind for giving her a job with the circus--even if it's just a lowly one washing dishes and doing general domestic duties--and they get embroiled in a torried, lust-driven affair. Complications arise when she soon tires of their tawdry relationship and wants him to take her seriously--there's no question fo her quitting him even though she knows he's rotten through and through since she can't get enough of his brutal lusty ways. Further complicating matters is when a decent young man named Frank Collino (Lyle Bettger), who's a major draw as a star high-diver, takes her on as his partner and certainly takes her seriously--serious enough to fall in love and marry her. Ah! If only Willie could combine the desirable qualities of both men into one--the respectful and sincere love of Frank with Joe's devastating sensuality--but sadly this cannot be and she succumbs to Joe again, with fatal results for Frank and trying ones for her which change her from a tarnished yet naive and good-hearted woman to a calculating and mercenary one. Even after falling for Frank's close friend--also a good young man--she still can't shake off Joe's hold on her. But inevitably one day she breaks free from his destructive spell and the results are over-the-top to say the least--no pun intended.
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