Directed by Barbara Loden
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Written, produced, directed and starring Barbara Loden, the wife of Elia Kazan. She portrays a recently divorced, uneducated woman in a Pennsylvania coal mining town. She drifts into the life of a small-time thief one night as he is robbing a bar. He's got a short temper and slaps her around, but she's got no other place to go. "If you don't have anything you're not even an American citizen", he says at one point, then proceeds to steal merchandise from the unlocked cars at a Woolworth's parking lot. Unsatisfied, he cooks up a plan to kidnap a bank employee, which includes leaving a bomb at home with his family. By any technical standard this is a strictly amateur production. Nonetheless, a portrait emerges of a quietly desperate woman and the even more desperate man she ends up with, both on the fringes of society.
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