Blue Angel Cafe

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Blue Angel Cafe
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Main promotional art by Enzo Sciotti
Blue Angel Cafe
Directed by Joe D'Amato
Written by Daniele Stroppa as Daniel Davis
Laurence Abby
Starring Tara Buckman
CinematographyJoe D'Amato
Edited by Kathleen Stratton
Music by Luigi Ceccarelli as Pahamian
Production
company
Filmirage
Distributed by Variety Distribution
Release date
  • August 18, 1989 (1989-08-18)(UK)
Running time
89 minutes
Country Italy

Blue Angel Cafe (Also known as: Object of Desire), is a 1989 Italian erotic film directed by Joe D'Amato. [1]

Contents

Plot

United States, late 1980s. When Raymond Derek, a young politician with a great career, a beautiful wife and an expensive home, encounters sexy cabaret singer Angie, he sees his life fall apart because the press finds out and it becomes front-page news.

Cast

Release

The film was released in United Kingdom on August 18, 1989 [2]

Reception

In 1991, Video Watchdog called the film a "blasé potboiler" and derided the main character's nightclub act as "consist[ing] of only one boring "I'm-Down-And-Out-But-I'm-Fightin'-Back" number - delivered à la Minnelli in Dietrich duds". [3]

See also

Notes

  1. Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano (in Italian). Gremese, 1991, p. 85. ISBN   9788877424297.
  2. "Blue Angel Cafe (1989)". www.bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  3. Ledbetter, Craig; Murphy, Tim; Stetson, Sam (November 1991). "Watchdog News". Video Watchdog . 8.

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