Satan in High Heels | |
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Directed by | Jerald Intrator |
Written by | Harold Bonnett (story) John T. Chapman |
Produced by | Leonard M. Burton |
Starring | Meg Myles Grayson Hall Del Tenney |
Cinematography | Bernard Hirschenson |
Edited by | Armond Lebowitz |
Music by | Mundell Lowe |
Distributed by | Cosmic Films Inc. |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Satan in High Heels is a 1962 American sexploitation film directed by Jerald Intrator and starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall.
Stacey Kane (Myles), a cunning and ambitious striptease dancer in a cheap carnival, tricks her heroin-addicted husband out of his money and leaves him, clothed only in a corset and raincoat. On a plane to New York, she meets a well-heeled businessman, Louie, who falls for her charms and sets her up in a hotel. He arranges an audition for her at a Manhattan midtown club run by an elegant, world-weary lesbian named Pepe (Hall).
Stacey wows them with her vocal ability and begins being groomed as a leading chanteuse at the night club. Arnold Kenyon, the club's owner, falls in love with Stacey and makes her his mistress, unaware that while he is lavishing her with expensive gifts and grooming her for a singing debut at his club, she is also having an affair with his playboy son, Laurence.
On her opening night, Stacey's estranged husband, Rudy, arrives at the club. Using both emotional and sexual appeal, Stacey persuades him to kill Arnold; but Rudy bungles the murder attempt and confesses his intention to Arnold. Her double-dealing nature out in the open, Stacey is abandoned by all the men in her life, put out of her apartment, and left alone on the streets.
The film used Manhattan locations Club Le Martinique at 57 West 57th Street and Sutton Place neighborhood for the apartments where Pepe and the Kenyons live.
Producer Leonard Burtman was a major New York publisher of dozens of fetish magazines such as the pioneering Exotique , Bizarre Life, High Heels, Unique World, and Corporal. In 1962, a few of his publications ran photo-features promoting this film.
Satan in High Heels | ||||
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Soundtrack album by Mundell Lowe and His Orchestra | ||||
Released | 1962 | |||
Recorded | November 30 and December 22, 1961 New York City | |||
Genre | Film score | |||
Label | Charlie Parker PLP-406 | |||
Producer | Aubrey Mayhew | |||
Mundell Lowe chronology | ||||
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The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Mundell Lowe and the soundtrack album was originally released on the Charlie Parker label. [1] The soundtrack was also released as Blues for a Stripper.
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Source | Rating |
Down Beat | [2] |
Allmusic | [3] |
In his review for the June 6, 1963, issue of Down Beat magazine, jazz critic John S. Wilson wrote: "Guitarist Lowe has put together a walloping big band, given it some strong punchy arrangements to play, and has come through with a set of rousing performances." [2]
The Allmusic review states "Mundell Lowe's score for the exploitation flick Satan in High Heels is an immensely enjoyable collection of exaggeratedly cinematic jazz. Lowe runs through all sorts of styles, from swinging big band to cool jazz, from laid-back hard-bop to driving bop". [3]
All compositions by Mundell Lowe.
In 2012, Trustus Theatre hosted a reading of a stage adaptation of Satan in High Heels written by playwright and screenwriter Robbie Robertson. Directed by Timothy Gardner, the staged reading featured Vicky Saye Henderson as Stacy Kane, Rodney Lee Rogers as Arnold Kenyon, and Larry Hembree as Pepe.
The film was released on Region 1 DVD by Something Weird Video in 2002.
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