{"id":9292,"date":"2017-03-24T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derangedlacrimes.com\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:13:24","slug":"film-noir-friday-wicked-woman-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derangedlacrimes.com\/?p=9292","title":{"rendered":"Film Noir Friday: Wicked Woman [1954]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wicked<\/p>\n

Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open. Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat.\u00a0Tonight’s feature\u00a0is WICKED WOMAN (aka FREE AND EASY)\u00a0starring Beverly Michaels and Richard Egan. The film has been described as “Eisenhower era sleaze” and “delicious trash”. \u00a0I leave it to you to decide.<\/p>\n

TCM says:<\/p>\n

\n

After a Trailways bus delivers voluptuous blonde Billie Nash to a small town, she checks into a rooming house. Her rooming house neighbor is Charlie Borg, who runs a tailor’s shop next door and offers her a meal. The next day, Billie gets a job as a waitress, at $6.00 a night plus tips, at a bar run by Dora Bannister and her husband Matt. Needing new clothes, Billie cons twenty dollars out of the lecherous Charlie by promising to date him. Billie discovers that Dora is a secret drinker and decides to go after Matt. She is even more determined when Gus, the cook, tells her that Matt used to work for Dora’s drunken father, who owned the bar, and that Matt saved the business. Later, when Matt and Billie are alone after the bar closes, she seduces him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n