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Director Nicholas Sgarro’s 1975 American biographical comedy film The Happy Hooker is cleaned up as a vehicle for surprise choice Redgrave, who is fun but slumming as the Dutch secretary turned classy hooker Xaviera Hollander, but it […]
Writer-director Frank Henenlotter’s 1990 cult black comedy horror Frankenhooker is a zesty, enterprising and gleeful homage to Mary Shelley, the Frankenstein films and low-budget gore movies, mixing horror, gore and comedy, but it is fairly […]
‘The oldest swinger in town’, Ken Russell, is back to shock us again with his 1991 film Whore, an adaptation of a play by David Hines about a day in the life of a hooker. […]
Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s 1986 Ruthless People is a hugely entertaining black comedy starring Danny DeVito as Sam Stone, a horrible hubby scheming to bump off his strident wife Barbara (Bette […]
Warner Bros’ fascinating and provocative 1931 crime drama film Safe in Hell stars Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda Karlson, a New Orleans hooker who flees to a Caribbean island after apparently killing Piet Van Saal (Ralf […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 French movie is typical mid-period Godard, not from his top drawer and already just past his glorious prime. Marina Vlady stars as a married Paris suburban wife Juliette, living with her […]
This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph. It focuses on a Rome honeymooning couple, Wanda […]