Episode 631: Pretty Poison (1968)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Darren Williams and Bill Ackerman join Mike to look at Noel Black’s Pretty Poison. Released in 1968, the film stars Anthony Perkins as Dennis Pitt, a troubled young man with an overly-active imagination. He works at a chemical company that’s spilling waste into a nearby river. He meets a local teenager, Sue Ann Stepanek, played by Tuesday Weld, and recruits her into his imaginary network of spies only to find that she’s far more dangerous than he could ever pretend to be.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.3	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Did you ever meet two kids like Dennis and Sue Ann?
0:44.3	We think not. They're quite a pair in Pretty Poison.
0:48.3	Dear Dennis, he's clean cut, the outdoor type, hardworking.
0:58.7	But there are a few things about Dennis most people don't know.
1:02.9	You mean all the things in the letter were true?
1:05.8	What, what?
1:06.6	What's sitting fire to your aunt's house and burning are up alive?
1:10.7	And then there's sweet Sue Anne.
1:13.6	What an all-American doll.
1:15.6	High school sweetheart, honor student, but... How long is it going to take?
1:30.3	Not long, you know.
1:33.3	The moon is acting very funny.
1:39.3	You go to your room. Make me. Don't say a word.
1:45.0	That's perfectly natural.
1:47.0	We're under surveillance.
1:49.0	Anthony Perkins is Dennis.
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