Punk Rock (1977)
Genre: Adult | Crime
Country: USA | Director: Carter Stevens
Language: English | Subtitles: None
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 80mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv – 1024×582 – 29.970fps – 1.58gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124083/
Rugged private eye Jimmy Dillinger finds himself embroiled in a seedy and dangerous world of drugs, murder, prostitution, gangsters and white slavery when he searches the sordid New York City punk rock scene for missing teenage runaway Jenny Jordan.
Director/co-writer Carter Stevens offers a pleasingly sleazy wallow in the extremely coarse’n’nasty neon slime: we’ve got excessive profane dialogue, a few attractive ladies deliver a nice smattering of tasty female nudity, a smidgen of raunchy sex, a constant snappy pace, hard-boiled narration, a remarkably tricky and complex plot, authentically grimy urban cesspool locations, a grotty tone, a heated shoot-out, and a genuinely startling surprise downbeat ending that packs a potent punch right to the gut.
Moreover, there’s a nifty rogues’ gallery of colorful low-life characters: Richard Bolla as huffy, cynical cop Detective Joe Giovanni, Bobby Astyr as twitchy, wormy hoodlum Igor, Elda Gentile as brash pimp punkette Vanessa Garbo, Crystal Sync as sweet’n’saucy hooker Jana, Jean Sanders as zonked-out junkie dancer Nan, and Randy Coppasquatto as Vanessa’s slimy henchman Ralphie. Best of all, there’s a mighty vivid and flavorsome evocation of the grubby 70’s Big Apple underground punk milieu, complete with first-rate raw and energetic live stage performances by the punk bands the Fast, the Squirrels, Spicy Bits, and Elda and the Stillettos. Prudence Prevails’ gritty cinematography does the trick. The funky pulsating score likewise hits the groovy spot. A lot of deliciously down’n’dirty fun.
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