The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Hollywood After Dark (1961)

Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of.

John Hayes was behind some truly wild movies, like Grave of the Vampire, Dream No EvilGarden of the DeadEnd of the World and Jailbait Babysitter. But here in 1961, he’s making a Hollywood done her wrong movie that stars Rue McClanahan as Sandy, an exotic dancer who thinks she’s tough enough to take on Tinseltown.

Also known as Walk the Angry Beach and The Unholy Choice, this also has a man named Tony (Tony Vorno) who wants to take Sandy away from all of this if he can just get one more score. As he tries and makes an honest woman out of her by being a thief. Also: This was originally made without the burlesque footage, which means that it was about twenty minutes long, as these scenes seem to go on for hours. Did you ever think you’d reach a point where women sexy dancing would get boring?

As a kid, speaking of Rue, The Golden Girls felt so old. Well, here I am and her character Blanche was a year older than me. It’s weird because I only see the older version of her when I see this movie, as I didn’t age into her, as with so many actresses who were teenage crushes and are now moms and grandmothers in movies. That said, I always worried that I wouldn’t find age appropriate women attractive when I was younger and now, white hair can turn my head. That’s personal growth.

You can watch this on Tubi.