Post by naterdawg on Feb 22, 2017 17:19:41 GMT
"Lucy Harbin took an axe and gave her husband forty whacks!"
That's the children's rhyme we hear on and off through William Castle's "Strait-Jacket," starring Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbin. It begins twenty years earlier. Lucy's younger husband--played by an unbilled Lee Majors--is fooling around with some cheap town floozy. In the meantime, his sexy (and don't she know it!) wife, Lucy, is returning on the train. The character is supposed to be 29 years old, and Crawford really pulls out all the stops. Black wig, chintzy flowered dress, charm bracelets on both wrists, and attitude very much in place. She steps off the train, takes a drag off her cigarette, and smirks. Yep, Lucy is back in town, so watch out!
She walks back to her tiny home, peeks through the bedroom window, and sees a shirtless Majors asleep beside the floozy in THEIR bed! This is too much for Lucy, who stumbles back, unbelieving. Luckily, she happens to stumble across a handy-dandy axe!
In she creeps, past her supposedly sleeping little girl (who's wide awake and watching). Lucy goes into the bedroom, looks at those two assholes, and proceeds to chop them to bits! Strait-Jacket is the only film where heads get lopped off so easily--just like that. And no mess, either!
Well, the authorities come, Lucy is strait-jacketed, and carried away to an asylum.
Twenty years later, her daughter, Carol, is grown, and Lucy is released. She walks off the train in direct contrast of how she'd looked twenty years earlier. Now, she's reserved, broken, gray-haired and wearing no bracelets or make-up.
Once back at home, however...!
What happens next?
That's the children's rhyme we hear on and off through William Castle's "Strait-Jacket," starring Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbin. It begins twenty years earlier. Lucy's younger husband--played by an unbilled Lee Majors--is fooling around with some cheap town floozy. In the meantime, his sexy (and don't she know it!) wife, Lucy, is returning on the train. The character is supposed to be 29 years old, and Crawford really pulls out all the stops. Black wig, chintzy flowered dress, charm bracelets on both wrists, and attitude very much in place. She steps off the train, takes a drag off her cigarette, and smirks. Yep, Lucy is back in town, so watch out!
She walks back to her tiny home, peeks through the bedroom window, and sees a shirtless Majors asleep beside the floozy in THEIR bed! This is too much for Lucy, who stumbles back, unbelieving. Luckily, she happens to stumble across a handy-dandy axe!
In she creeps, past her supposedly sleeping little girl (who's wide awake and watching). Lucy goes into the bedroom, looks at those two assholes, and proceeds to chop them to bits! Strait-Jacket is the only film where heads get lopped off so easily--just like that. And no mess, either!
Well, the authorities come, Lucy is strait-jacketed, and carried away to an asylum.
Twenty years later, her daughter, Carol, is grown, and Lucy is released. She walks off the train in direct contrast of how she'd looked twenty years earlier. Now, she's reserved, broken, gray-haired and wearing no bracelets or make-up.
Once back at home, however...!
What happens next?
