Post by Prime etc. on Aug 11, 2019 8:07:34 GMT
THE LADY IN RED 1979 - Pamela Sue Martin as a Depression era farm girl who wants to get away from an abusive Bible-thumping father and she journeys from seamstress to jailbird to prostitute to bank robber. The John Sayles script is smarter than your average exploitation thrill ride so it kind of suggests she was propelled into criminal behavior by the often cruel institutional status quo of 1930s society and yet it also doesn't go full blown social commentary either-she is not presented as a complete innocent--we see her throwing eggs at chickens and stealing photos from a movie theater before she even sees a bank hold up. Some of it is over the top but the performances keep it from going into eye-rolling territory.