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Pretty Poison Director: Noel Black Cast: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/05/2006
  • Original Release: 1968
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 35,893
 
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Disc #1 -- Pretty Poison
1. On Probation
2. Main Titles/Drill Team
3. Work Fantasy
4. Secret Rendezvous
5. Classified Mission
6. Surveillance
7. Probation Check-in
8. Prisoner
9. Family Ties
10. Ice Cold Nerves
11. Mrs. Stepanek
12. Under Suspicion
13. Confession
14. In the Woods
15. Calculated Murder
16. Hell of a Jam
17. I Did It
18. Sweet Sue Ann
19. Pretty Poison
20. The Next Victim/End Titles

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Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her head with lies about his imaginary career as a secret agent. She is thrilled, and makes up her mind to join him in his further adventures. This jet-black "who's manipulating who?" seriocomedy was adapted by Lorenzo Semple Jr. from Stephen Geller's novel She Let Him Continue. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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August 16, 2008: Dennis Pitt, an emotionally disturbed arsonist prone to fantasizing, is released from a mental institution and ventures out into the real world, where he tries to impress Sue Ann, a high-school blonde with a baby doll face, by pretending to be a spy for the CIA. At the time of Pitt's release from the asylum his doctor admonished him to stop fantasizing because there is no room for it in the real world. It turns out, though, that the real world contains even crazier and more dangerous psychopaths than do the madhouses. &quot Pretty Poison&quot has a fascinating premise and it would have been a far better movie, had the direction not been so flat and uninspired. The noir movie wannabe is slow-paced and fails to build any significant suspense or thrills, which is out of joint with its subject matter and genre. Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, on the other hand, turn in well-honed performances as psychopaths, and, oddly enough, of the two, Weld comes off as the scarier.