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People are voting emotionally.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I really can't understand the low rating here for a movie I enjoyed thoroughly from end to end. The two leads work well together with John Forsythe, more familiar from soap work on TV in later years, reminding me at times of a cut-rate Henry Fonda. Sure, Ann-Margaret tears the scenery up some, but let's not forget her character is supposed to be emotionally unbalanced, and that she's a woman frequently playing for sympathy, then threat, often within a few moments of each other. I found it more of a misjudgment that, as David, Forsythe never really acted a man coming unstuck as events crowded in on him.No one I think has mentioned the music for this movie which is generally excellent, and which lifts, slightly rearranged, a couple of Mancini cues from Touch of Evil! They fit in quite effectively. Director Heyes, who largely worked within television does an excellent job with some interesting set ups (including the notable motel fight) while the cinematography, full of light and shade composition by the experienced Joseph Biroc, would have graced an A-production.Ultimately this is an excellent exploitation movie with no slack scenes and a compelling narrative, albeit with some dated 'hip' dialogue, principally from the later, intruding, trio. I'd recommend it to anyone who is looking for the real thing. My DVD file is excellent, crisp and clear.

Campy shenanigans starring Ann-Margret as a juvenile delinquent who insinuates herself into the home of political hopeful John Forsythe. She won't leave and won't let Forsythe leave either. Douglas Heyes directed this insanity and it's not awful. Ann-Margret really gives it her all in this early role and Forsythe, though he seems to be taking things waaay too serious, is fine. When Ann-Margret invites three would-be beatniks over, things get really goofy. Peter Brown, Skip Ward and Diane Sayer play the three hoodlums and they all give ridiculous performances. There's an unbelievable amount of faux-hipster dialog spouted. The whole thing ends up with a car chase through Tijuana (though nobody appears to leave the Universal back-lot). With Richard Anderson as Forsythe's befuddled friend and, briefly, Audrey Dalton as Forsythe's wife. Joseph Gershenson "supervised" the music, which appears to have come from a lot of other movies.

I watched this movie as an MST3K and actually found it fairly engrossing. True, it was lacking in a few areas, but for an MST3K, it was astonishing. Personally, I would've directed more sexual tension between the senator and Jody ... and made the ending a little less pat ... more ambiguous. This movie is a perfect candidate to be remade.

The whole plot of this film seems to be this: "Let's put a guy in a preposterous situation, and then try to make it as convoluted, dumb and idiotic as possible." So Jody ends up sleeping in the bed of a well-respected congressman who's up for reelection. Ann-Margaret's acting was much better in Viva Las Vegas, Bye Bye Birdie and State Fair (all of which date from around the same time.) It's hard to play the sexy psycho; pretty much everyone botches it up. John Forsythe, fresh off of the series Bachelor Father, acts more like Blake Carrington here. Personally, I would have cut my losses in the beginning and called the police rather than go through this whole mess. There's not much to endear you to his character except the preposterous situation he's been put into. I ended up not caring about him and when the others threatened his life, I was hoping they'd slash his throat.