Private Parts (1972 film)
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'''''Private Parts''''' is a [[1972 in film|1972]] [[black comedy]]/[[horror film]] directed by [[Paul Bartel]] as his feature film debut. | '''''Private Parts''''' is a [[1972 in film|1972]] [[black comedy]]/[[horror film]] directed by [[Paul Bartel]] as his feature film debut. | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
- | When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room? | + | When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's [[skid-row]] hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room? |
==Cast== | ==Cast== |
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Private Parts is a 1972 black comedy/horror film directed by Paul Bartel as his feature film debut.
Synopsis
When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room?
Cast
- Ayn Ruymen ... Cheryl Stratton
- Lucille Benson ... Aunt Martha
- John Ventantonio ... George
- Laurie Main ... Reverend Moon
- Stanley Livingston ... Jeff
- Charles Woolf ... Jeff's Dad
- Ann Gibbs ... Judy
- Len Travis ... Mike
- Dorothy Neumann ... Mrs. Quigley
- Gene Simms ... First Policeman
- John Lupton ... Second Policeman
- Patrick Strong ... Artie