The Lady in Red (1979)

Directed by

Lewis Teague

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A farmer's daughter runs away to Chicago in the 1930s and gets mixed up with gangster John Dillinger. She falls into a life of crime and has to survive on her own.

grittymelancholicfast-pacedbleaksuspensefulretrogrimydarkly romantic

What happens

The Lady in Red (also known as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin) is a 1979 American crime drama film directed by Lewis Teague with a screenplay by John Sayles for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. The film stars Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad, and Louise Fletcher. The plot concerns a farmer's daughter who runs away to Chicago, where she falls into a life of crime through association with gangster John Dillinger. It was based on the life of Polly Hamilton, although heavily fictionalised. Quentin Tarantino called the movie his "candidate for most ambitious film ever made at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures" with "the best script ever written for an exploitation movie" and "one of the best female characters of any movie of the second half of the seventies." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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