Bettie Page: Dark Angel

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Bettie Page: Dark Angel
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Bettie Page: Dark Angel DVD cover
Directed byNico B.
Written byNico B.
Produced byNico B.
StarringPaige Richards
Dukey Flyswatter
Music byChris Stein
Danny B. Harvey
Distributed byCult Epics
Release date
2004
Running time
75 min.
LanguageEnglish

Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a 2004 film directed and produced by Cult Epics founder Nico B.

Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a biographical drama based on the career of Bettie Page, a famous American 1950s pin-up and bondage model. Set in New York during 1953–1957, the film recreates six lost fetish/bondage 16mm featurettes she did for Irving Klaw (played by Dukey Flyswatter). Her bondage films and photographs gave her the nickname Dark Angel and also led to a US Senate Committee investigation.

Page is played by fetish model Paige Richards. The film premiered at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival in February 2004.

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