Any movie that opens with sexy Marla English in a swim suit is gonna be good, and this one is very good indeed.
Marla plays Lynn Novak, a beautiful woman living in a motel. Two men come to meet her. They are Phil Davis (Nick Adams) and Al Kutner (Jan Merlin). A young man, Harold Norton (Ben Cooper) likes Lynn but knows something suspicious is going on.
He's right. It seems Lynn and her friends are planning a daring armored car robbery. After the robbery is pulled off they kidnap Harold and his souped up car and speed to a mountain cabin. Two people at the cabin, Terry Dolgin (Joan Evans) and her brother Luther (Peter Miller) are held captive by the gangsters as well as Harold.
There is a cat and mouse game that goes on between the desperate men and their hostages, and it makes for excellent viewing. Nick Adams turns in an interesting performance as the man who is tired of being pushed around by Al, but gets a very subtle revenge. Marla English is sexy as hell and plays her part of the cold blooded woman to the hilt.
To me the standout performance goes to Jan Merlin as Al. A seething man full of hatred and insanity. He stops at nothing to gain his goals, including murder. The look he gets in his eyes when he's slapping English around is somewhat unsettling, but that is the mark of an excellent actor, which I have always thought Merlin was.
Kino brings us a beautiful 4k scan of the original 35mm vault elements from Paramount, and the presentation is nothing short of fantastic. It's always good when a company releases small little films like this to Blu-ray. A top release for 2018.
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