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The Lady in Red (also known as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin) is a 1979 American crime drama film directed by Lewis Teague and starring Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad.[2] It is an early writing effort of John Sayles who became better known as a director in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Lady in Red
Film poster
Directed by	Lewis Teague
Written by	John Sayles
Produced by	Julie Corman
Starring	Pamela Sue Martin Robert Conrad Louise Fletcher Christopher Lloyd
Cinematography	Daniel Lacambre
Edited by	Larry Bock Ron Medico Lewis Teague
Music by	James Horner
Production company	New World Pictures
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date	July 1979 (1979-07)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$400,000
Box office	$900,000[1]

Premise

The film tells a 1930s' crime story of a poor farmer's daughter who leaves for Chicago, where she is sent to prison, works as a prostitute, falls in love with notorious criminal John Dillinger, witnesses his death, and finally tries bank robbery.

Cast

Production

The soundtrack of this film is notable as the first film score composed by James Horner, who went on to a multiple Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy-winning career.

Teague recalls, "I was given that script and told to go with it. I didn't really have a chance to mold or change it. It was very socially conscious for an action picture about the Great Depression. I had 20 days to shoot it, and three to edit and a budget of less than a million."[3]

John Sayles later said the film "didn't turn out the way I wanted because they just didn't have the budget to make the movie right. I wanted that to be a real breathless, '30s, Jimmy Cagney everybody-talking-fast type movie. It turned out a little more like Louis Malle. Different movies have different speeds."[4]

Release

The film was not a big success at the box office. Roger Corman re-released it in 1980 under the title Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin, but it did not fare much better.[1]

On December 17, 2010, Shout! Factory released the title on DVD, packaged as a double feature with Crazy Mama as part of the Roger Corman Cult Classics collection.[5]

Reception

Quentin Tarantino called it "my candidate for most ambitious film ever made at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures... Not only do I think this thirties era epic... is Sayles best screenplay, I also think it’s the best script ever written for an exploitation movie."[6] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 83% based on 5 positive and 1 negative reviews.[7]

In popular culture

In Quentin Tarantino's novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in an alternate history, he himself had released a remake of the film in 1999.

References

External links

• The Lady in Red at IMDb

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