BRITISH NOIR DOUBLE FEATURE: The Slasher (aka: Cosh Boy), Twilight Women (aka: Women of the Twilight)

Product Details:

Format: DVD9
Version: Full Screen
Rating: NR
Runtime: 150 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Year: 1952, 1953
Item #: KPF612
Region: NTSC
Audio: Mono
Color: B&W
Language: English
Country: UK
UPC: 089859061226
IBSN: 1-55739-630-2

Summary:

The Slasher: A swift moving, no punches pulled exposé set in London's tenement district, with a ruthless teenager (James Kenney, reprising his stage role) blackjacking an old woman to get her purse, and "graduating" to gang leader whose young cutthroats spread terror over the entire city. At the start of her "bad girl" career, Joan Collins is the girl he loves and leaves, with tragic results. A controversial motion picture in its era and still potent today. Based on the play, "Master Crook." RT: 75 min B&W 1952. Twilight Women: Originating on the London stage, this hard-hitting tale is set at a boarding house-haven for unmarried mothers, owned by a woman (Freda Jackson) whose outward show of upstanding character hides her true personality: a fiend who abuses the women and farms out their babies! Madness, squalor, bedbugs and a dead baby add to the atmosphere of shock. Lois Maxwell (James Bond's Miss Moneypenny) and Laurence Harvey co-star. RT: 75 min B&W 1953.

Actors:

The Slasher: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayers, Hermione Baddeley.

Twilight Women: René Ray, Lois Maxwell, Freda Jackson, Vida Hope, Joan Dowling.

Directors:

The Slasher: Lewis Gilbert

Twilight Women: Gordon Parry

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