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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Sin You Sinners (1963)

Starring June Colbourne, Dian Lloyd, Derek Murcott, Beverly Nazarow, Charles Clements
Directed by Anthony Farrar
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A young woman wants to leave her mother and her criminal and hedonistic lifestyle, but finds she cannot, which her mother attributes to a voodoo medallion she wears around her neck.

This is a very amateur-looking production, with a loopy story and a low budget.  Some of the performances are decent, but most of the plot is waylaid by Colbourne's burlesque dance sequences and numerous makeout scenes.  The most interesting part of the film is the voodoo connection, connected to Colbourne's character's trip to Haiti, and her relating of a voodoo ritual she witnessed.  Of course, we only hear about it and don't see it, and most of the film centers around multiple women competing for Murcott's affections, whose character is a drunken gambler and not worth the trouble.  The print I viewed had a sharp picture but vertical age lines throughout the film, and was haphazardly edited with a number of jump cuts, which I wasn't able to verify was due to scenes edited out or just poor filmmaking.  Needless to say, I can't recommend this one.  

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