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Old 08-17-2023, 01:07 PM
FryeDwight FryeDwight is offline
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NIGHTMARE IN THE SUN (1965). I never heard of this until discovering a review in SHOCK CINEMA and caught it on YOUTUBE. It begins with THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE territory with a Trophy wife (Ursula Andress, who is a knockout here) bored and unhappy with her marriage to an older guy who tends to drink (Arthur O'Connell from ANATOMY OF A MURDER). Said wife is somewhat slutty (as SC describes Her "...the hottest piece of ass in town"), even sleeping with the sheriff (Aldo Ray!)!

She picks up a drifter (John Derek, who was married to Ursula at the time) who is planning to return home to his wife, although He finds time to canoodle with her. Her husband has had enough, shoots Ursula and the Sheriff conspires with the town to put the blame on the "stranger" and NITS almost become an episode of TV's THE FUGITIVE with a whole bunch of riff raff looking for him. Good cast (including Sammy Davis Jr as a Truck Driver), but an impressive team up by Robert Duvall and Richard Jaeckel as two motorcyclists who join the search and whose relationship is rather, shall We say, suspect. ***
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