March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012
"Susie was just a great, great chick and a total hell raiser. She had a huge personality and the talent to back it up."
Iggy Pop
Born in San Francisco, CA, on March 18, 1945 as Susan Jillian Creamer, she entered show biz in the early 1960s as Susan Tyrell (later Tyrrell) and cut her teeth in summer stock productions, regional plays and New York productions. "SuSu," as she liked to be called, made two obscure appearances on TV in 1964 (on The Patty Duke Show ["The Tycoons"] and Mr. Novak ["Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"]), but her uneven career as a supporting actress really started in 1971 when she appeared in her first three cinema releases, none of which can really be called important films.
A year later, she made waves and garnered a lot of attention with her Oscar-nominated performance in John Huston's Fat City, but she was much too much an individualist to use the momentum to achieve a reliable, commercial career. Taking jobs primarily when she needed money instead of to keep her career rolling, she travelled the world and the seven seas and lived an eventful life full of ups and downs and, over a period of some 30 years, achieved cult status as character actress and true original. As Tyrrell once said in an interview, "The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it."
In 2000, she and her career suffered a setback when she was diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia, a rare disease that afflicts one to three people out of 100,000 a year, which resulted in the amputation of both her legs below the knees. Her acting career rather stagnated thereafter, though she continued to appear both on stage and in a rare movie and/or short film. She was also an active and interesting painter.
In 2008 Susan Tyrrell moved to Austin, Texas, where she died on Saturday, June 17th, 2012. She is survived by her mother, Gillian Creamer (née Tyrell), a former British socialite with whom SuSu had had no contact for over 40 years; two sisters, Candace Sweet and Carole Davenport; a half-brother, Peter Creamer; and a niece, Amy Sweet.
Susan Tyrrell was a distinctive talent who will be missed. Below is a review of selected projects that she took part in. May she R.I.P – and raise hell wherever she is now.
In 2000, she and her career suffered a setback when she was diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia, a rare disease that afflicts one to three people out of 100,000 a year, which resulted in the amputation of both her legs below the knees. Her acting career rather stagnated thereafter, though she continued to appear both on stage and in a rare movie and/or short film. She was also an active and interesting painter.
In 2008 Susan Tyrrell moved to Austin, Texas, where she died on Saturday, June 17th, 2012. She is survived by her mother, Gillian Creamer (née Tyrell), a former British socialite with whom SuSu had had no contact for over 40 years; two sisters, Candace Sweet and Carole Davenport; a half-brother, Peter Creamer; and a niece, Amy Sweet.
Susan Tyrrell was a distinctive talent who will be missed. Below is a review of selected projects that she took part in. May she R.I.P – and raise hell wherever she is now.
The Steagle
(1971, dir. Paul Sylbert)
Trailer to the video release:

*On-line sources tend to be at odds whether this film or the 1971 western Shoot Out is her feature-film début.
His nonsense soliloquy before he splits:
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
(1971, dir. Jeffrey Young)
(1971, dir. Jeffrey Young)
Scenes from the film:

Richard and Mimi Fariña – Pack Up Your Sorrows:
Robert Schlitt, who wrote the screenplay to Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, went on to write the horror movie The Pyx (1973 / trailer) two years later. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me starred Barry Primus (of Mustang Sally [2006] and Autopsy [1975 / trailer]) as Gnossos 'Paps' Pappadopoulis, the conning hipster, and featured David Downing (of Gordon's War [1973 / trailer]), Bruce Davison (of X-Men [2000 / trailer] and Return of the Killer Shrews [2012 / trailer]), and Raul Julia (of The Addams Family [1991 / trailer] and Addams Family Values [1993 / trailer]) in roles of varying importance.
Has nothing to do with the film other than sharing more-or-less the same name – Nancy & Lee sing I've Been Down So Long (It Looks Like Up to Me):
Shoot Out
(1971, dir. Henry Hathaway)
(1971, dir. Henry Hathaway)

*Some sources say that this movie and not The Steagle is the feature-film début of Susan Tyrrell.
Opening credits – "Co-starring" Susan Tyrell:
Fat City
(1972, dir. John Huston)
(1972, dir. John Huston)
A scene from Fat City:
The film, which Roger Ebert considers to be "one of [Huston's] best films," made – or should have made – Tyrrell's name: in the part of the "alcoholic, world-weary Oma," Susan Tyrrell received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She also shares star billing on the poster with Keach and Bridges. Fat City is a depressing sports drama – and box office flop – set in the lower working class world; its effective and faithful screenplay was supplied by the book's author, Leonard Gardner. The film is the feature-film début of Candy Clark (of The Blob [1988] and Cherry Falls [2000 / trailer]), who is the second lead female ("Faye"). All Movie says "[...] John Huston's drama examines the meagre hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm labourer Tully (Stacy Keach of The Mountain of the Cannibal God [1978 / trailer]) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Tyrrell) and keeps trying to make a boxing comeback, but his personal demons repeatedly overpower his ambitions. Meanwhile, fellow Stockton, CA resident and budding fighter Ernie (Jeff Bridges of King Kong [1976 / trailer]) takes Tully's advice to join trainer Ruben's (Nicholas Colasanto) gym and make something of himself. Learning the tough lesson that winning is not as easy as it sounds, Ernie is still determined to get what he can out of boxing and, unlike Tully, not let disappointments get the best of him. Shot on location in Stockton [...], the film maintains a realistic, slice-of-life view of Tully's and Ernie's struggles, eschewing theatrical boxing victories for psychological and social details." For all the effectiveness and promise of her performance in the film, Tyrrell left the film a damaged woman and later placed the blame of her career-long erratic behaviour and disillusionment with Hollywood on director John Huston. In an interview with www.austin360.com, among other places, she says that Huston pulled the full casting couch routine and forced himself on her, something she never got over: "It was disgusting. He was looking down on me like an old hound dog. I was mortified. I thought I was better than that."
First five minutes of Fat City:
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Catch My Soul
(1974, dir. Patrick McGoohan)
(1974, dir. Patrick McGoohan)
Catch My Soul is a forgotten example of that woebegotten genre, the rock opera. (Godspell [1973 / trailer] anyone? Tommy [1975 / trailer]? Jesus Christ Superstar [1973 / trailer]? Hair [1979 / trailer]? Grease [1978 / trailer]? Rocky Horror Picture Show [1975 / trailer]? Phantom of the Paradise [1974 / trailer]?) This time around the victim of the bastardization is Shakespeare. The only full length movie that actor Patrick McGoohan ever directed, though he did many a TV show (including 5 episodes of his classic TV series The Prisoner (1967-1968 / opening sequence), the title Catch My Soul comes from Act III, Scene III of Shakespeare's play Othello, in which the titular character declares his love for Desdemona: "Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee; and when I love thee not, chaos is come again."
From the film – Tony Joe White's Working on a Building:
Producer Jack Good's rock version of the play was a mild success in Los Angeles in 1968 with Jerry Lee Lewis as the traitorous Iago (and, at one point, Pam Greer's cousin Rosey Greer [of The Thing with Two Heads (1972 / trailer) and Carter's Army (1970 / full film) as Othello), but for the film version folk guitarist Richie Havens took over for Othello and Lance LeGault (of Nightmare Beach [1989 / Italian trailer] and Dark Breed [1996 / trailer]) for Iago; Season Hubley (of Vice Squad [1982 / trailer]) played the doomed Desdemona and, last but not least, Susan Tyrrell played Emilia, Desdemona's confident who unwittingly helps seal her fate.
Richie Havens performing Strawberry Fields Forever in Woodstock:

Allene Lubin singing Chug-A-Lug (The Drinking Song) from Catch My Soul:

Zandy's Bride
(1974, dir. Jan Troell)
(1974, dir. Jan Troell)


To Kill the King
(1974, dir. George McCowan)
(1974, dir. George McCowan)

Tyrrell plays Maggie Van Birchard; Cec Linder (of Deadly Eyes [1982 / trailer] and City on Fire [1979 / full film]) her murderous husband, Stephen Van Birchard; and Patrick O'Neil (of The Stuff [1985 / trailer], Silent Night, Bloody Night [1974 / trailer / full film] and The Stepford Wives [1975 / trailer]) is the government agent David Howard, who'll stop at nothing and go over bodies to save the President from being killed. Barry Morse (of Daughter of Darkness [1948 / scene], Funeral Home [1980 / trailer] and Asylum [1972 / trailer]) is the duplicitous secretary of state
First 3.5 minutes of To Kill the King:
The Killer Inside Me
(1976, dir. Burt Kennedy)
(1976, dir. Burt Kennedy)
"When things get a little rough I go out and kill a few people – that's all."
Lou Ford (Stacy Keach)
A scene from The Killer Inside Me:

The Killer Inside Me was remade in 2010 by the contemporary art house director Michael Winterbottom with Jessica Alba (!) taking over Tyrrell's role of the ill-fated hooker Joyce Lakeland; for that production the setting was returned to the 1950s.
Trailer to the Winterbottom 2010 remake:
Another Man, Another Chance
(1977, dir. Claude Lelouch)
Susan Tyrrell gets co-starring credit on the poster for this film, the only western ever directed by the highly productive French hack who foisted one of the world's worst films, A Man and a Woman (trailer), onto the ever-receptive public in 1966. A Man and a Woman is about a widow and widower "who meet by chance at their children's boarding school and whose budding relationship is complicated by the memories of their deceased spouses." Another Man, Another Chance, which is set in the last quarter of the 19th century, starts a little earlier by showing in parallel narratives the first relationships of the two main protagonists, David Williams (James Caan) and Jeanne Leroy (Geneviève Bujold), but once they become a widower and widow, they meet at the school that their respective children attend and eventually fall in love. Whereas the relationship in A Man and a Woman is burdened by their respective emotional baggage left over from the deceased previous partner, in Another Man, Another Chance the relationship is burdened by David's obsessive desire to revenge the rape and murder of his first wife Mary (Jennifer Warren of Night Shadows [1984 / trailer]).(1977, dir. Claude Lelouch)
The non-embeddable trailer can be found here, but Tyrrell isn't seen in it.
September 30, 1955
(1977, dir. James Bridges)
Susan Tyrrell plays "Melba Lou Turner" somewhere in this film starring Richard "John Boy" Thomas, and while she makes it on the poster she isn't mentioned at all in the trailer. September 30, 1955 is the third directorial effort of James Bridges, a productive screenwriter (and, on occasion, director) of respectable, Oscar-winning films who was also responsible for such career-destroying projects as Mike's Murder (1984 / trailer) and Perfect (1985 / trailer). Leonard Maltin says: "Arkansas undergrad (Thomas) [...] goes off his nut when James Dean dies, with tragic results for a girlfriend. Original, If excessively uneven drama [...]." The feature film début of Lisa Blount (Prince of Darkness [1987 / trailer]) and Tom Hulce.(1977, dir. James Bridges)
Trailer:
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
(1977, dir. Anthony Page)

Lynn Anderson singing her hit I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), which has no connection at all to the film I Never Promised You a Rose Garden:
Andy Warhol's Bad
(1977, dir. Jed Johnson)
(1977, dir. Jed Johnson)
"I remember once I saw this French movie and I didn't understand it. But I liked it!"
Mary Aiken (Susan Tyrrell)
Trailer:
The infamous baby toss scene:
Islands in the Stream
(1977, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
An adaptation of Hemingway's posthumously published semi-autobiographical novel by the director who brought us Planet of the Apes (1968 / trailer) and The Boys from Brazil (1978 / trailer). Susan Tyrrell, who isn't seen as important enough to put on the poster, has a small part as Lil. DVD Verdict trashes the film, and among their many complaints is that "[...] seemingly important characters barely register. Lil (Susan Tyrrell) deserves more attention than what amounts to an occasional apparition in the background. If she's just a barfly, why is she so important to Thomas (George C. Scott)? It's almost appropriate that Tyrrell is so heavily made-up that she looks like a replicant from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Captain Ralph (Gilbert Roland of Sam Cooper's Gold [1966]) is introduced early on, only to conveniently turn up again at the end of the film with a boatload of Jewish émigrés that Thomas rescues. I'd liked to have seen some backstory about these two characters."(1977, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Title melody to Islands in the Stream:
Wizards
(1977, dir. Ralph Bakshi)
Tyrrell, un-credited at her own request (something she later stated she regretted having requested), supplies the narration to this popular cult sci-fi/fantasy animation film, one of many cult animation films by director Bakshi (his popular animated version Fritz the Cat [1972 / trailer] so incensed the character's creator Robert Crumb that Crumb promptly and irrevocably killed the cat in his comics). Anthony Pereyra (hypersonic91@yahoo.com) at imdb gives the plot as follows: "In a post-apocalyptic future that appears as a blend of World War II Europe and J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, a pint-size wizard named Avatar must save the world from a band of fascist mutants controlled by his evil twin brother, Blackwolf, who likes to confuse enemy armies by projecting films of Adolf Hitler speeches during attacks. Painted live-action footage of advancing Nazi armies contrasts with Saturday-morning-cartoon-style animation of fairies and elves as Avatar travels through various magical and radioactive realms on his quest. Aiding him are the beautiful Fairy princess Elinore, hot-blooded warrior elf Weehawk, and Peace, a misunderstood robot rebelling against his Blackwolf-controlled programming." But as Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings says, "Ralph Bakshi had a unique animation style, and simply on that level this movie is a wonder to behold; it's a combination of offbeat character animation, stock footage, cuteness, and sensuality that really must be seen to be believed." At A Glance Film Reviews, however, sees things differently: "Ralph Bakshi's animated post-apocalyptic fantasy tale is perfect for masochists. In fact, the sheer volume of pain one feels watching this highly dated, inane travesty just may cure a lot of them, souring their taste for further pain. Most of the 'story' parts are told through stills and voice-overs while the animated portions are reserved for unfunny slapstick gags. The animation and sound effects are deplorably 'cartoony'; in such a drab, gloomy story (about mutant Nazis setting out to conquer the earth) the gags and cartoonishness simply don't work. [...] Avoid this bloody, sleep-inducing, nerve-shredding abomination like you would a radioactive toxic waste dump – but if it came down to a choice between the two, choose the latter." Personally, here at A Wasted Life, we rather enjoyed the film when we saw it, even if we found the mixture of animations styles – traditional and rotoscope – a bit jarring and the twist ending a bit cynical.
Trailer:
Lady of the House
(1978, dirs. Ralph Nelson & Vincent Sherman)
(1978, dirs. Ralph Nelson & Vincent Sherman)

Racquet
(1979, dir. David Winters)
(1979, dir. David Winters)
Opening credits:
A popular thing to do in the 70s was the "all-star cast"; from A Bridge to Far (1977 / trailer) to Airport 77 (1977 / trailer) and beyond, producers would often stick as many familiar faces and names into one film as possible. But the all-star cast was not endemic to disaster films and drama alone: comedies in particular were stuffed familiar faces, though often mostly those of flash-in-the-pans and has-beens. Following the template set by It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963 / trailer), the granddaddy of all-star comedies, if there was a familiar face to be had, it would be put into a comedy. Some, like Gumball Rally (1976 / trailer), are passable; a few, like Airplane (1980 / trailer), are really good; but most – especially the no-budget ones that rode on the coattails of some currently fashionable fad and had no real "stars", like Racquet, were unbearable. By this film, Susan Tyrrell's days as a possible A-film character actress were over – but unlike most of the other people in this film, she at least went on the make some interesting films. Bad Movie Night, which actually sorta likes the film, nevertheless was moved to say: "Racquet is filled with lousy, unfunny bits of business. In fact, they're so bad that I find them humorous in a pathetic sort of way." The puerile film centres around a tennis coach (Burt Convy – remember him?) who gigolos through his female clients so as to get the dough together to open his own tennis club. (Tyrrell appears as Mrs. Baxter, a hot-to-trot realtor.) The "jokes" were compiled into a tenuous narrative by Steve Michaels, who also helped script Young Lady Chatterley (1977 / misc. nude scene) and Panorama Blue (1974 / trailer), and Earle Doud, who once had a bit part in the film Is There Sex After Death? (1971).
Trailer to Is There Sex After Death? (1971):
Director David Winters – a prolific producer of B-films and occasional actor (he has good-sized part in the odd film Teddy Bear (2012 / trailer), which he also produced – went on to direct the intriguing The Last Horror Film (1982 / trailer).
Loose Shoes
(1980, dir. Ira Miller)
(1980, dir. Ira Miller)
Trailer:
Another popular form of comedy films back in the 70s was the skit anthology such as The Groove Tube (1974 / trailer), The Boob Tube (1975 / scene) and, possibly the most famous of them all, The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977 / trailer). Loose Shoes is the only directorial effort of Ira Miller, who himself had previously appeared in one such skit anthology, Tunnel Vision (1976), as Ramon.
Tunnel Vision:
The title of his film here comes from a 1976 political "scandal" that resulted in the resignation of US President Gerald Ford's Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz for joking that "the only thing the coloureds are looking for in life are tight pussy, loose shoes, and a warm place to shit." (Loose Shoes was released long after the event had lost the public eye, in 1980, but at the time the film was made, in 1977, the reference was still relevant.) The phrase was integrated into the segment Dark Town after Dark.
Dark Town after Dark:

Invasion of the Penis Snatchers:
Of interest, but not very funny, is the feature-film début of Bill Murray in the segment Three Chairs for Lefty. In the end, it was probably his sudden popularity due to Saturday Night Live and flicks like Meatballs (1979 / trailer) and Caddyshack (1980 / trailer) that resulted in this film ever getting released.
Three Chairs for Lefty:
Tales of Ordinary Madness
(1981, dir. Marco Ferreri)
(1981, dir. Marco Ferreri)

Main theme:
Midnight Lace
(1981, dir. Ivan Nagy)
Yes, it is a low brow TV remake of the entertainingly sexist Doris Day vehicle from 1960. Based – like the earlier version – on the Janet Green play Mathilda Shouted Fire, which has since been re-titled as Murder My Sweet Matilda. ("Matilda" became "Kit" for the first film version, while here it becomes "Cathy".) (1981, dir. Ivan Nagy)
The 1960 Doris Day film of the same name:
Midnight Lace was the last film of the first Morticia Addams, Carolyn Jones, who, like Susan Tyrrell (playing "Ann Galvin") is seen somewhere in the film but not considered a big enough a name to be on the print advertisement. The real star of the film is TV actress Mary Crosby, who eventually took part in one fun film, namely The Ice Pirates (1984 / trailer). The plot according to imdb: "A TV reporter (Mary Crosby) is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin whom she does not understand why he wants to kill her."
TV trailer:
The questionable career of the Hungarian director Ivan Nagy started with drive-in fodder like Bad Charleston Charlie (1973), Pushing Up Daisies (1973) and Deadly Hero (1976), peeked with the horror film Skinner (1993 / trailer) and ended with hand-helping skin flicks like Trailer Trash Teri (1998). In the documentary film Heidi Fleiss Hollywood Madam (1995) from British documentarian Nick Broomfield, it is stated at one point that Fleiss began her career when Ivan Nagy, her boyfriend, "sold" the then-20-odd-year-old Heidi to a certain "Madam Alex" to pay off a 500 buck debt. Nice guy.
Trailer to Heidi Fleiss Hollywood Madam:
Subway Riders
(1981, dir. Amos Poe)
(1981, dir. Amos Poe)


No Subway Riders, but the Alphabet City trailer instead:
Liar's Moon
(1982, dir. David Fisher)
This cult favourite, a teenage love story/melodrama, is one of only two films Fisher ever directed, his second being the equally culty laughathon Toy Soldiers (1984 / trailer). As the Video Vacuum says: "Liar's Moon is an earnest and well-meaning coming of age film that's bolstered a great supporting cast of character actors that includes Hoyt Axton, Broderick Crawford (in his final film role), Yvonne De Carlo, Susan Tyrrell, and Richard Moll. But just because the performances are good doesn’t necessarily excuse the fact that we've seen all of this done a thousand times before." The film was released with two different endings, a sad one and a happy one. Plot: Poor boy (Matt Dillon) Jack falls for rich girl Ginny (Cindy Fisher) and they run away together to Louisiana where Jack works the oil fields and Ginny gets pregnant. The private eye on their tail (Richard Moll) is less of a problem than the problem related to the fact that Ginny's Dad and Jack's Mom used to be high school sweethearts (uh-oh). McBastard's Mausoleum puts it nicely: "Not your typical boy-meets-girl drama, that's for sure." Susan Tyrrell plays Lora Mae Bouvier and makes onto the poster, if only in small print. (1982, dir. David Fisher)
Fast-Walking
(1982, dir. James B. Harris)
(1982, dir. James B. Harris)
Misc. scene without Wood or Tyrrell:

Full film:
Forbidden Zone
(1982, dir. Richard Elfman)
(1982, dir. Richard Elfman)
Music number from Forbidden Zone – Pico & Sepulveda:
We caught the B&W version of Forbidden Zone at the Beverly in L.A. decades ago – we went alone 'cause we couldn't convince anyone to see it with us, but since then the film has become a cult classic. The photo of Susan Tyrrell at the top of this blog entry is from the film, and shows her as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension. (She is the Queen to King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension, played by her ex-boyfriend Hervé Villechaize, with whom she was a couple for two years.) Other interesting names involved in the film are Viva Superstar, Joe Spinell (of Maniac [1980 / trailer] and The Undertaker [1988 / trailer]) and, of course The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Biongo.
B&W trailer:
Richard Elfman (who went on to do Shrunken Heads [1994 / trailer]) and, as "Aristide Sumatra," Streets of Rage [1994 / trailer]) made his directorial debut with this no-budget film, which was actually made simply to showcase the musical numbers of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Biongo, which Richard grounded in 1972 as kind of performance musical group.By the time the group appeared as the music-playing savages in 1977's I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, however, Danny Elfman had taken over the reins; he appears as Satan in Forbidden Zone. According to imdb, Richard Elfman claims that "the film was originally intended to be shipped out to China, where each frame of the black and white print was to be individually colored by hand, but this plan was found to be inefficient." True or not, in 2008, Elfman permitted the film to be digitally colorized.
Colorized trailer:
Eat My Brain explains the plot as follows: "So, when an Al Jolson look-alike crack dealer finds a doorway to another dimension in his basement, he promptly sells the house to the equally nutty Hercules family, setting up eldest daughter of the family, Susan B. ''Frenchy'' (Marie-Pascale Elfman), as the heroine of this bizarre piece. Bored after another dull day at school where the only highlight is a machine gun shootout between her teacher and the table of pimps that sit at the back, Frenchy returns home determined to give that door in the basement a go despite a desperate warning from her parents not to go anyway near it. Once she opens the door, Frenchy is pulled headfirst into the super weird Forbidden Zone, where she soon finds herself a guest of the pervy midget King Fausto, his wife Queen Doris, and their perpetually topless daughter, Princess (Giselle Lindley)."Forbidden Zone is one of those cult films that more people have heard of than seen – which makes the concept of the planned sequel Forbidden Zone 2: Forbidden Galaxy for the SyFy Channel rather odd. The woman in the advertisement for the Morbido Film Fest below is Princess Polly, the main character of the sequel.
Morbido Film Fest advert:
Fire and Ice
(1983, dir. Ralph Bakshi)
The early 80s were a good time for Barbarian films, both good and bad – for example, alone before 1984 (and of which we could find video documentation online): Hawk the Slayer (1981 / trailer), Conan the Barbarian (1982 / trailer), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982 / trailer), Attila flagello di Dio (1982 / scene), Sangraal, la spada di fuoco (1982 / opening credits in Italian), Gunan, King of the Barbarians (1982 / German trailer), Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982 / trailer), Sorceress (1982 / scene), The Beastmaster (1982 / trailer), Krull (1983 / trailer), La guerra del ferro – Ironmaster (1983 / French trailer), Hundra (1983 / fan trailer), The Throne of Power (1983 / trailer), Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983 / trailer), Deathstalker 1983 / trailer), Conquest (1983 / trailer) and Fire and Ice, this rotoscope animation film from Ralph Bakshi, which he conceived and created together with the great Frank Frazetta. The plot, as explained on ralphbakshi.com: "From their stronghold in Icepeak, the evil Queen Juliana (Tyrrell) and her son Nekron (Stephen Mendel) send forth a wave of glaciers, forcing humanity to retreat south. Nekron sends a delegation to King Jarel (Leo Gordon) in Firekeep to request his surrender, but this is a really ruse for Nekron's sub-humans to kidnap Jarel's daughter, the Princess Teegra (Cynthia Leake). But Teegra makes an escape and comes upon the farmboy Larn (William Ostrander), the only survivor of a village razed by glaciers, who offers to escort her back to Firekeep. As Teegra is recaptured, Larn teams with the mysterious Darkwolf (Steve Sandor) to save Teegra and then travel to Icepeak to stop Juliana." The film was a flop, but is nevertheless currently in redevelopment for a live-action remake: In 2010, shortly after Frazetta's death, Robert Rodriguez licensed the rights from Bakshi. (1983, dir. Ralph Bakshi)
Trailer:
Night Warning
(1983, dir. William Asher)
(1983, dir. William Asher)

What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon
(1983, dir. Craig Mitchell & Robert Clarke)
(1983, dir. Craig Mitchell & Robert Clarke)


Trailer to the original 1959 film, The Hideous Sun Demon:
Angel
(1984, dir. Robert Vincent O'Neill)
A "classic" of 80s exploitation written and directed by forgotten exploitation auteur Robert Vincent O'Neill, whose career began as a writer on The Mighty Gorga (1969 / trailer) and seems to have ended after his he supplied the story for the 1994 direct-to-video C. Thomas Howell vehicle, Jailbait (trailer). In-between, he directed some fondly remembered unadulterated grindhouse trash – usually from his own script – like The Psycho Lover (1970 / trailer), Blood Mania (1970 / full film) and Wonder Women (1973 / trailer). He achieved the apex of his meagre talents and career in the 80s, when he helped pen What Waits Below (1985 / trailer), Deadly Force (1983 / trailer) and Vice Squad (1982 / trailer) as well as writing and directing this film, Angel, and its first sequel Avenging Angel the following year, both of which were mostly shot on location in Hollywood. Angel is a remarkable chaste piece of sleaze for a film about a 15-year-old-hooker (played by then 27-year-old Donna Wilkes) doing tricks since she was 12, but almost enough people die to make up for it – let's call it "sleaze lite". At his blog, Dr Gore explains the plot: "One thing you can say about the tag line for Angel: it didn't lie. So Angel is a high school honour student by day and a Hollywood hooker by night. She hangs out with other ladies of the night and tries to earn some money. A mad killer (John Diehl) is stalking Hollywood Blvd. and wants to slice and dice some hookers. Angel won't stand for it. She's got a gun that's bigger than she is and she can't wait to use it." Rory Calhoun is oddly touching as the has-been western star Kit Carson, and Tyrrell is rather enjoyable as Angel's painter landlord Solly Mosler, but we personally thought the flick could have done without Angel's father figure, the intensely fake transi Mae (Dick Shawn). (1984, dir. Robert Vincent O'Neill)
Trailer:
The Killers
(1984, dir. Patrick Roth)
Here's an oddity in her career that few people have seen: a 40-minute short film directed by the German writer Patrick Roth based on Charles Bukowski's story The Killers, which appears in his collection South of No North. Bukowski, in the style of Hitchcock or Rod Serling, introduces the tale himself; Susan Tyrrell appears somewhere in it as "Susu, Second Ragpicker" – that's her in the photo from the film shown above. All Movie says "In this disturbing independent film, a petty thief meets a former insurance agent and asks the agent to join him on a robbery in Beverly Hills. Though he thinks the job will be easy, he is sadly mistaken. What follows are horrific scenes of violence and torture." Basically, in the course of the robbery they awaken the couple and follow the precept of "no witnesses," but first take advantage of the presence of free pussy. The twist to the tale is that they forget to take the stolen goods with them... (1984, dir. Patrick Roth)
Flesh+Blood
(1985, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Paul Verhoeven's first Hollywood production, after finally catching the industry's attention with The Fourth Man (1983 / trailer), which was rather a hit in the USA. Flesh+Blood, set in Italy at the start of the 16th century, this is a decidedly non-Hollywood take on the times: violent, filthy and far from idealized. To reduce the plot to its simplest: Flesh+Blood tells a tale of a group of mercenaries and lowlife led by Martin (Rutger Hauer) who, betrayed by a city ruler Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck), end up capturing Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the bride-to-be of Arnolfini's son Steven (Tom Burlinson) and take refuge in a castle emptied by the plague. Soon, Martin and Agnes are a couple, but then Steven shows up to fight for his bride... Susan Tyrrell has a small but notable supporting part as Celine, a prostitute carrying the child of Martin, which is stillborn. The film is far more multi-layered and interesting than the previous plot description makes it seem – it is a seriously good film well worth seeing.(1985, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Trailer:
Avenging Angel
(1985, dir. Robert Vincent O'Neill)
Angel's back! Only now she's played by Betsy Russell (of Chain Letter [2010 / trailer], Camp Fear [1991 / trailer] and Cheerleader Camp [1988 / trailer]). Nevertheless, Avenging Angel is relatively chaste and oddly un-sleazy for an exploitation film – just like part one. In Avenging Angel, the one year between films has turned to into four years, and Molly is long off the streets and on the way to becoming a lawyer. But then Lt. Andrews (Robert F. Lyons), the cop that got her off the streets, is murdered – so Molly pulls out her old working clothes and gun and walks the street to revenge his death. Andrews' murder was witnessed by the film's least realistic and most annoying character, Johnny Glitter (Barry Pearl), and Molly pulls in her old friends – Yo-Yo Charlie (Steven M. Porter), Solly (Tyrrell), and Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun) – to track him down. Things get complicated when Solly's baby gets taken by the bad guys...In all truth, Avenging Angel is far from a good film – when we saw it in L.A. when it came out, the audience threw popcorn at the screen – but it does flit by easily enough whenever Johnny Glitter isn't around...
Despite being a relative flop, two more sequels followed – Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988 / trailer) and Angel 4: Undercover (1993) – neither made by Robert Vincent O'Neill or featuring Tyrrell, but both featuring different starlets as Angel (Mitzi Kapture and Darlene Vogel, respectively). Both films flopped.
Trailer:
Poker Alice
(1987, Arthur Allan Seidelman)
One of many TV appearances that Tyrrell made in the 80s, in this TV movie she plays "Mad Mary" – but the true star is, of course, Liz Taylor in her twilight years: she plays the title character in this "true" story about Poker Alice (February 17, 1851 - February 27, 1930) who, as Wikipedia puts it, "was the best known female poker player in the American West." The plot, according to Herman Seifer (1987, Arthur Allan Seidelman)
Trailer to Hercules in New York:
The Chipmunk Adventure
(1987, dir. Janice Karman)
Everyone has to pay the rent. Susan Tyrrell supplies the voice for the character Claudia Furschtien in this instalment of the Chipmunks franchise directed by Janice Karman, her only directorial credit to date; she usually supplies the voice of Theodore. At imdb, Corey Semple (corey.semple@earthlink.com) explains the plot of the film as follows: "Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of diamond smugglers. The winners will collect a prize of $100,000. Kids and adults will enjoy this film made with musical numbers by the Chipmunks and the Chipettes." Perhaps the most interesting thing about this film is that its director, Janice Karman, began her career as an actress appearing in the following more-noteworthy films: Switchblade Sisters (1975 / trailer) and Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman (1975 / trailer).
Trailer:
The Offspring
(1987, dir. Jeff Burr)
(1987, dir. Jeff Burr)

Trailer:
The Underachievers
(1987, dir. Jackie Kong)
(1987, dir. Jackie Kong)

Closing scene:
Big Top Pee-wee
(1988, dir. Randal Kleiser)
Teaser trailer:
Susan Tyrrell is easy to overlook in this film, in which she plays Midge Montana. (Literally: Her character is only a few inches tall.) Three years after Pee-wee's cinematic début with Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985 / trailer), which was directed by Tim Burton, the second Pee-wee Herman film is given to the man who directed such heterosexual films as Grease (1978 / trailer) and The Blue Lagoon (1980 / trailer) – with no noticeable reduction in quality, as far as quality can be spoken of in a Pee-wee film. Video Detective calls the film a "disappointing follow-up to Pee-wee's Big Adventure, this time about a travelling circus and a love triangle. Whoever would have thought that two women, let alone one, would want Pee-Wee?" Their critique reveals a major failure in getting the joke. Look for Benicio Del Toro making his film début, without makeup, as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy, and the ever-hubba-hubba Valeria Golino as one of the love interests. Whereas Pee-wee and co. fight against and overcome the mean-spirited and small-minded nearby small town in this film, three years later Pee-wee lost his career to a mean-spirited and small-minded nation when he got caught massaging his noodle in a porno theatre in Florida, a state where most men don't even have noodles (they're illegal there).
Real trailer:
Tapeheads
(1988, dir. Bill Fishman)
(1988, dir. Bill Fishman)
Roscoe's Rap from Tapeheads:
Director Bill Fishman began his seventeen-year career of directing an occasional quirky offbeat comedy that no one ever saw – Car 54, Where Are You? (1994 / trailer) or My Dinner with Jimi (2000) anyone? – with this cult comedy starring a still relatively unfamiliar, almost adult John Cusack (Grifters [trailer] was still two years away) and a still-rebounding Tim Robbins (Howard the Duck [trailer] had occurred only 2 years previously) and featuring a yitload of guest appearances from famous as well long-forgotten stars and musicians – even Michael Nesmith makes a brief appearance in this thing (but then, he's also one of the producers). Susan Tyrrell plays "Nikki Morton", but as we've never seen the film we have no idea her role is in comparison to, say, those of such other notable (non-musician) names like Doug McClure, Connie Stevens and Clu Gulager. Mutant Reviewers has a clear opinion of the film: "This movie is juvenile. It's kinda gross. There's poop jokes and sex jokes and lots of T and A. Basically, it's a masterpiece." At imdb, Riotgear (of the United States) supplies the following plot description: "Tapeheads is a surprisingly perfect satire of the eighties made at the end of the eighties. It is very funny, with an intelligent script and great dialogue. Fine comedic performances by Cusack and Robbins. Multiple intertwined plots. There is a love story between a female artist and Robbins' nerdy video artist. A self-help guide with Cusack trying to better himself and his buddy. A music marathon with wonderful performances. A corrupt politician caught in a delicious scandal. All this combined with a hysterical dysfunctional family drama make for a thoroughly wacky and wild time. The soundtrack is fabulous too."
Fan-made trailer:
Far from Home
(1989, dir. Meiert Avis)
(1989, dir. Meiert Avis)

Trailer:
Document of the Dead
(1989, dir. Roy Frumkes)
Roy Frumkes is not a well-known name, but he once wrote a criminally underrated and hilariously sick film titled Street Trash (1987 / trailer). Document of the Dead, as the title implies, is a documentary about George Romero originally made by Frumkes as a teaching aid for the film class he was teaching. Initially shot in 1978 while Romero was making the original Dawn of the Dead (1978 / trailer), ten years later Frumkes added footage of Romero making his segment of Two Evil Eyes (1990 / trailer) and released the documentary commercially. Document of the Dead also covers Romero's true masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead (1968 / trailer / full film) and his unjustly under-appreciated Martin (1976 / trailer). Mildly interesting, with talking heads galore – Susan Tyrrell, who never participated in a Romero film, does the voiceover narration.(1989, dir. Roy Frumkes)
Japanese promo for Document of the Dead:
Cry-Baby
(1990, dir. John Waters)
(1990, dir. John Waters)

Trailer:
Rockula
(1990, dir. Luca Bercovici)
Rockula is the second film of director Luca Bercovici – his first being Ghoulies (1985 / trailer) – a man whose face is much more familiar than his name (aside from his occasional script and directorial jobs, he's an active character actor). According to AwesomeBMovies.com, Rockula is "an awesome b movie." StompTokyo points out that the film, which was made in 1988 but only released in 1990, "has the distinction of being possibly the last of the Golan-Globus Cannon films," and also says "Rockula is probably the best vampire farce you've never seen." Mutant Reviewers from Hell gives the film "14 out of 15 hot redheads clubbed with ham bones." The Man Cave, which admits to needing a "handful of times" to finally getting past the film's start, says "Rockula is actually a hilarious and dare I say undiscovered classic cult flick that needs to be seen by a larger audience." Yep, but as it is, and as B-Movie Chicks.com says: "Rockula is the cult flick that never was. [...] If this movie got wider distribution and marketing back in the day, I'm sure it would be among cheeseball classics such as Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988 / trailer) and Rock & Roll High School (1979 / trailer)." So, let's leave it Leonard Maltin to disagree with the few other that have ever seen the film in his 2003 Movie & Video Guide: "Teen-age vampire [Dean] Cameron is unable to lose his virginity because of a centuries-old curse. Pretty stale stuff; of interest only for – but not redeemed by – the presence of [Bo] Diddley." Susan Tyrell plays "Chuck the Bartender", the singing (!) bartender to whom the teen vampire shares his troubles while drowning in them.(1990, dir. Luca Bercovici)
Trailer:
Motorama
(1991, dir. Barry Shils)
(1991, dir. Barry Shils)
Travelin' – Dolly Parton's song to Motorama:
The Demolitionist
(1995, dir. Robert Kurtzman)
(1995, dir. Robert Kurtzman)

Trailer:
Digital Man
(1995, dir. Phillip J. Roth)
When talking of the acting of the familiar faces that flit through this obscure and justifiably unknown Z-film – it features Don Swayze, fer Christ's sake – the blog The Barbaric Bs of Schlocky Creek says: "The most fun character is a gun-toting granny [named Mildred Hodges] played by the always-lively Susan Tyrrell, who is on screen too briefly to be able to ham it up [...]." The plot, according to David Gibson (djg6@ukc.ac.uk) at imdb: "An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers is sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots." More or less a sci-fi western due to its sun-burnt setting and basic plotline – imagine The Magnificent Seven (1960 / trailer) in which the cowboys are all cyborgs who think they're cowboys – Digital Man, like all Phillip J. Roth's films, is pure unadulterated poverty-row cheez, the kind that goes well with a six-pack, a couple of joints and a group of farting and burping and loudly guffawing bad-movie fans.
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The last artsy 3 minutes of Powder:
Will the day ever arrive when people write of a Victor Salva film without mentioning his 1988 conviction and subsequent 15 months in jail for molesting (and videotaping the act with) a 12-year-old boy who acted in both Salva's attention-getting short film Something in the Basement (1986) and his subsequent first feature-length debut Clownhouse (1989 / trailer)? Probably not. Powder is the most art film like of all Salva's genre films, and definitely far better a film than his inexplicably popular Jeepers Creepers (2001 / trailer), the second unneeded sequel of which – Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral – is due next year. Better or not, Powder is slow and rather pompous. Plot: Albino outsider with special powers doesn't fit in the cruel, rural world. (Where's Prof. X when ya need him?) Tyrrell's in there somewhere as "Maxine", but we've forgotten where and for how long.
Trailer to the 2006 Bollywood remake, Alag:
Tales from the Crypt: Comes the Dawn
(Season 6, Episode 13)
(1995, dir John Herzfeld)
(Season 6, Episode 13)
(1995, dir John Herzfeld)

Tyrrell's death in Comes the Dawn:
Pink as the Day She Was Born
(1997, dir. Steve Hall)
An independent film that also seems to already be a lost or at least forgotten film, Pink as the Day She Was Born doesn't seem to have been seen by anyone. The image shown above is the only one of the film that we could location anywhere on the web. Co-produced by Linda Perry, the lead singer of the band 4 Non Blondes – if you don't remember the name, you'll remember their hit below – and with a cast that includes Nicole Eggert, Margaret Cho, Mink Stole and Susan Tyrrell (as "Lana"), according to the NY Times the films tells the tale of how "would-be rock singer Cherry (Alanna Ubach) flees Arizona for Los Angeles' seedy Sunset Strip where she is befriended by a sex parlor worker. Cherry takes a job in the sex trade while searching for a band that can support her burgeoning talent." TCM says the film, which Margaret Cho – pictured above as her Rhinestone Cowboy character of the film – once described as "one of those things you'll rent at the video store in 20 years," was shown at Outfest '97: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. According to a webpage from some online Nicole Eggert fan website, at the Los Angeles Film Festival Pink as the Day She Was Born won an award as the "Best Narrative Feature Not Suited For All Audiences." (1997, dir. Steve Hall)
4 Non Blondes – What's Up?:
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
(1997, dir. Kurt Voss)
(1997, dir. Kurt Voss)

Trailer:
Relax... It's Just Sex
(1998, dir. P.J. Castellaneta)
Relax... It's Just Sex is an independent ensemble film, shot on the meagre budget of $250,000 that, for a change, is mostly about the daily whine and grind of gay and lesbian life in contemporary USA instead of that of contemporary hetero Gen-Xers or yuppies. The plot, according to John Sacksteder (jsackste@bellsouth.net) at imdb: "A mixed group of individuals – lesbian, gays, and heterosexuals who all frequent a local bar struggle to accept each other's lifestyles. However when the two gays are attacked and fight back and ultimately rape one of their attackers, the group becomes strongly divided on their actions. Jennifer Tilly (of American Strays [1996] and Bride of Chucky [1998]) is the mother hen of the group who tries to hold everyone together. The lesbian lovers break up when one admits to having an affair with a man." Susan Tyrrell plays Alicia Pillsbury, the mama of lesbian Megan (Serena Scott Thomas of The Thirst [2006 / trailer]) who, after cheating on her gal of 9 years with a man, decides she wants to go mainstream again. (Alicia Pillsbury response: "What are we going to say to our friends at PFLAG.* That's what I would like to know.") Film Threat, which says "this appears to be just another entry in the glut of ensemble cast dramedies which [have] flooded the market," manages to be homophobe even as they try to be liberal and hip: "[...] Virtually all the characters are gay or lesbian. I suppose this was inevitable. Necessary and appropriate, even. After all, homosexuals have every bit as much of a right to bitch and moan about their lousy love lives, philosophize about the meanings of life and death, and just generally spew their existential angst for about an hour and a half as straight folks." (Do blacks have the same right to do so as whites, we wonder... oh, excuse us – was that a subliminally racist question?) Still, they do point out one fact that it takes longer to list/describe the characters than to state the plot because "the interactions between these people ARE the plot."(1998, dir. P.J. Castellaneta)
* PFLAG – Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Trailer:
Buddy Boy
(1999, dir. Mark Hanlon)
(1999, dir. Mark Hanlon)


*"Dorothy Vallens" was Isabella Rossellini's character in Blue Velvet (1986 / trailer).
Trailer:
Masked and Anonymous
(2003, dir. Larry Charles)
Shot in 20 days on digital video, Masked and Anonymous is the feature film directorial début of Larry Charles, who went on to do the much better films Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006 / trailer) and Brüno (2009 / trailer). The co-scriptwriter "Sergei Petrov" is no one less than Bob Dylan, who also stars in this film – by 2003, he had obviously finally managed to forget his other equally obscure cinematic, uh, ego stroke Renaldo and Clara (1978) and was willing to take part in another vanity piece. As Roger Ebert rightly states, "Bob Dylan idolatry is one of the enduring secular religions of our day." And it is a religion heavily practised in Hollywood, seeing the list of names of Tinsel-town denizens that took pay cuts to appear in this film, some but for seconds, including: Jeff Bridges, Penélope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange Luke Wilson, Angela Bassett, Bruce Dern, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Cheech Marin, Chris Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Mickey Rourke, Christian Slater, Fred Ward and, of course Susan Tyrrell (you see her, as "Ella the Fortune Teller," all of one second in the background in the trailer). Ebert summarizes the film's "plot" as follows: [A] nation in the throes of post-revolutionary chaos. This is 'a ravaged Latin American country' (Variety) or perhaps 'a sideways allegory about an alternative America' (Salon). It was filmed in run-down areas of Los Angeles, nudge, nudge. A venal rock promoter named Uncle Sweetheart (Goodman) and his brassy partner, Nina Veronica (Lange), decide to spring Jack Fate (Dylan) from prison to give a benefit concert to raise funds for poverty relief (maybe) and Uncle and Nina (certainly)." Mr. Cranky bitches that the film teaches you "that Dylan was more full of himself than a naked Tommy Lee on a heroin binge," while The Onion says that Dylan is "an icon and he delivers an icon's performance, literally: He could easily have been replaced by piece of wood with his face painted on it." One hates to imagine what the three-hour version of Masked and Anonymous is like.
Trailer:
The Boneyard Collection
(2008, dir. Edward L. Plumb)

Trailer:
Pieces of Dolores
(2007, dir. Garth Twa)
The following is a re-written version of Garth Twa's own description of his farcical short: A crime has been committed – after finding the literal pieces of Dolores in a ditch (a foot, an ear, Tuesday's panties) Heart (Jeff Buhler) and his puppy-like partner Donder (Joshua McBride) stumble after the trail of the missing girl and meet an array of odd, ill-tempered, or outright grotesque witnesses, including John Fleck (of the NEA Four, which won the battle but lost the war) as Brad the rabid office manager, Susan Tyrrell as the neighbour with the bacterial face lift, and Mink Stole as Dolores's icy mother. Moving through some of the stranger precincts of Los Angeles, Heart is bullied by a dental receptionist with a fetish for axe murderers and struggles to keep up with Riverwalkers as they march through the bone-dry L.A. River. In the end, he is no closer to the truth than when he started.
Trailer to the short:
Flexing with Monty
(2010, dir. John Albo)
Tyrrell's involvement in this direct-to-video horror art film is rather distant: for whatever the reason may be, she supplies the voice for the character of Mrs. Nog, who is played by bit-player Melinda Peterson. Flexing with Monty is to date the only feature-length film by John Albo, a horror fanatic who, with fellow horror fan Danny DeVito, has founded The Blood Factory, where you can watch some nice sick horror shorts (for free!). According to Wikipedia, shooting for Flexing with Monty began in 1994 and by the time it was completed in 2008, both its original producer and its male lead, Trevor Goddard, had died. The plot as supplied at View Clips: "Monty (Goddard of Deep Rising [1998 / German trailer] and Hollywood Vampyr [2002 / trailer]) is a bodybuilder. His gym is the very heart of his existence. He is aggressively male, outrageously narcissistic and a bigot. Sharing this strange world is Monty's cerebral and emotionally wounded younger brother, Bertin (Rudi Davis). One stormy day, the brothers' bizarre but settled lives are suddenly disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Lilith (Sally Kirkland of Fatal Games [1984 / trailer] and Jack the Reaper [2011 / trailer]), a Catholic nun collecting contributions for an unusual cause. Lilith's arrival is the catalyst required to generate a momentous change in Bertin's relationship with his brother: a change that results in the astonishing and gruesome downfall of the vainglorious Monty."
Trailer:
Kid-Thing
(2012, dir. David Zellner)
Susan Tyrrell's last completed project was this short film for the Austin-based independent filmmakers, the Zellner Brothers. The plot, according to Kristina Aikens at the IFFBoston: "Ten-year-old Annie (Sydney Aguirre) likes to destroy things. Like many a kid before her, Annie smashes stuff just to see what happens and tests the boundaries of her interactions with others. Without friends her own age or adult supervision, Annie wanders aimlessly, looking for something to capture her interest and wreaking havoc when the mood strikes her – which is often. But one day, she encounters something strange and mysterious in the woods, something completely out of her experience. Now Annie is challenged to tap into a feeling she's never been asked to show before: compassion for another human being." The mysterious thing in the woods is the voice of a woman named Esther coming up from the depths of an old well. Tyrrell plays Esther.
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2 comments:
Sususu was a true original and a (low) class act all the way... She possessed Talent Beyond the Law, you might say. The world is somehow even more of a disreputable place minus the great lady's presence, who, as she was SO FOND of saying about herself, still had "the pussy of a 10 year old!!" RIP Dearest Susu.... (the above is a noble and unbelievably detailed tribute, my sincere hats off to the author/compiler!!)
Thank you for your kind words regarding my research and compilation skills. She was a unique talent that deserved more respect (and more film parts) than she ever got.
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