Satan in High Heels ** (1962, Meg Myles, Grayson Hall, Del Tenney, Sabrina) – Classic Movie Review 11,809

‘They all went where the heat was hottest!’

Meg Myles and Grayson Hall star in director Jerald Intrator’s atmospheric noir 1962 American black and white sexploitation film Satan in High Heels.

Myles plays ruthless carnival striptease dancer Stacey Kane, who tricks her heroin-addicted ex-husband out of his money and leaves him. Flying to New York, she meets businessman Louie (Ben Stone), who falls for her and sets her up in a hotel. He arranges an audition for her at a Manhattan club run by a lesbian named Pepe (Hall). Stacey becomes the mistress of the club’s wealthy owner, Arnold Kenyon (Mike Keane), seduces his playboy son Laurence (Robert Yuro) and causes a murder.

The notable jazz score is composed, arranged and conducted by Mundell Lowe. The film is grungy, sexy and trashy, with a tolerable story and effective backgrounds; pin-up model Meg Myles vamps entertainingly; and the cast includes exotic, glamorous British sex starlet Sabrina.

Producer Leonard Burtman was a New York publisher of dozens of fetish magazines like Exotique.

Manhattan locations used include Club Le Martinique at 57 West 57th Street and Sutton Place neighbourhood for Pepe and the Kenyons’ apartments.

The cast are Meg Myles as Stacey, Grayson Hall as Pepe, Del Tenney as Paul, Sabrina as herself, Mike Keane as Arnold Kenyon, Robert Yuro as Laurence Kenyon, Earl Hammond as Rudy, Ben Stone as Louie.

In 2012, Trustus Theatre, Columbia, South Carolina, hosted a reading of a stage adaptation, written by Robbie Robertson and starring Vicky Saye Henderson as Stacey Kane.

Sabrina in London, 1955.

In 1955 Sabrina (aka Norma Ann Sykes, 19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016) was chosen to play a dumb blonde in Arthur Askey’s TV series Before Your Very Eyes. Sabrina became a household name, promoted by the BBC as ‘the bosomy blonde who didn’t talk’ though surviving episodes show she did.

Meg Myles (born Billie Jean Jones) died at the age of 84 on November 12, 2019.

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