Aram Katcher was the art director, story writer, screenplay writer as well as producer and director of this very effective crime thriller about a self serving baddie who has no redeeming factors whatsoever.
Katcher is Pepe Lusara, a man planning a massive robbery of an L.A. sports arena after a world title fight. He carefully gets himself a rag-tag band of men to help him.
He seduces a much older woman who runs the cash department at the stadium and worms his way into everything. The robbery goes off but Pepe has to kill one of the members because he tripped and fell.
However, we learn that Pepe is insane and he kills off everyone who helped with the robbery with either poison or an acid bath!! He even kills the older woman by getting her drunk and then pushing her car off of a cliff.
For months Pepe live the good life with his stash of money, but eventually fate catches up to him in a horrifying way, and it comes a a surprise. It is both effective and shocking.
According to what I have found out, it seems this film didn't do well at all and Katcher tried to destroy all of the prints as he was very disappointed in the box office. There are some very well done and shocking set pieces in this movie including a scene with an artificial limb that really stands out (no pun intended).
If this is true, I am glad he failed as this is a great slice of film noir history that should really be seen. I cannot recommend this enough and hope that you decide to check it out.
As with their "Door To Door Maniac" the Blu-ray is excellent quality from Film Masters.
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