May 28, 2009
Okay, for once work wasn’t that bad today and I’ve got a three day weekend to look forward to, so I’m in a pretty good mood and just feel like taking it easy tonight. I haven’t screened a movie in quite a while here at MAD, so tonight I’m going to have a midnight movie showing of the long-awaited “Fugitive Girls.”
A month or so ago I wrote about this film, but if you didn’t read it or don’t remember, it’s the last movie legendary filmmaker Ed Wood was involved in. He co-wrote the movie with AC Stephens (Stephen Apostolof), who directed it. Ed Wood was the Assistant Director, using the name, Dick Trent as a pseudonym. It came out in 1974, and although I’ve played the movie trailer here before, it’s worth watching one more time before I screen it, check it out.
“Betrayed by her Lover ... Pimp Killer ... Dope Smuggler ... Bank Embezzler ... Lesbian—Leader of the Pack!”
Oh and this film has no subtitles, but I think that every picture will tell its story. Are you ready?
Lights...
Camera...
Fugitive Girls!
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Four Other Fugitive Girls
Patty Hearst
Bonnie Parker
Ma Barker
Lindsay Lohan
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Reader Comments (26)
That surprise link was totally horrific !
Finally! I've been waiting for this screening since you first showed the trailer. Looks like the trailer has all the best scenes. Its an awesome mini-movie by itself. The Filmcritic review is pretty awesome too. Unlike the blackout, no skimping on the boob shots.
"Five girls against the world",,,,so the guy said in the clip. Well just to go against the grain here,, which I kinda like to do,,,,I love the surprise link,,,,Paris Hilton, and I also love Lindsay Lohan,,,,But not Patty Hearst, I think she could of fled anytime she wanted, she played the media for 2 years, just a bored rich brat,,,,Ever been to Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif? nice pad.
@GENE: Ha ha ha!
@kari: The trailer does have all the best scenes packed into it and I love the voice-over in it. And yes, plenty of boobage in this movie!
@Al: My brother Tom dated Patty Hearst's sister, Anne at the time when she first got kidnapped. They went to the same college and she went by the name of Anne Randolf. My brother had no idea on the first date that she was Patty Hearst's sister until he noticed three big guys that kept following them. Anne swore my brother to secrecy and told him they were bodyguards and that she was Patty Hearst's sister. Pretty wild!
@MAD: Did Tom ever make it to the Castle in San Simeon? Its a tourist destination now with tours, but it kinda gives you an idea about how much money the Hearst family had. Unreal that he dated her,,,she's on her third marriage now,,,saw a picture of her,,,good looking woman still.
@Al: No, he never made it there. I think he only dated her for one semester, but said she was real nice and unassuming. Didn't act like a little rich girl at all. And the college was Regis College in Denver. Bill Murray went there for a year and got thrown out for selling pot!
Another tour-de-farce from Ed Wood/Dick Trent. What was his other alias, Penis Phillips?
I'm guessing the difference between dating Anne Hearst and Paris Hilton is that dating Anne, you would have three big men always following you; whereas dating Paris, you would always be following three big men.
I lived in cali my whole life till i was 26.. and I never once saw Hearst castle..fuck I only went to disnyland once when i was 2.. and then again in my twenties.
I want to see this movie now...
suprised i have never seen it.
"Good Christ...A LESBIAN!" - phwahahahaaa!
@csp: Ha ha ha! Nice Paris/Anne observation!
@Gidgie: The best parts are up there in the trailer, the rest is just filler.
@Jaws: Some classic lines in this movie for sure!
surprise link...lol! love the trailer for this one! glad you finally got around to screening this one, one of your best midnight movies so far!
main 'puter crashed big time...attempted to get next fastest going but wouldn't connect to the 'net...drug a dinosaur (500 mhz runnun' win2k) out of back closet in order to check “Fugitive Girls.” screenin'...i miss MAD's captions...
“We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death”
~Theodor Reik
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@rita r. Best trailer ever! Glad you enjoyed this one!
@rr: Captions will be back tomorrow! Sorry to hear about the computer, hope you get it up and running soon! Oh and I don't know if you're aware of this but drugging dinosaurs is just wrong! PETA will be showing up at your door soon! Great quote, as always!
Damn forgot...R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron...guess for sure "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"....
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@rr: Just read about his death. R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron.
Those are some evil bitches....beating up a guy in a wheelchair. I watched the trailer ages ago but have never seen the movie. That Ed Wood was one strange cat.
Finally, Fugitive Girls! Nice to see that trailer again - might have to catch the film even if I've already seen the highlights- & cool Patty connection. Sad about Gil Scott Heron - remember listening to him as a teenager in the north of England, over the wobbly reception of Piccadilly Radio, a Manchester station that played the best harder to hear soul, funk, etc. A lifeline. What a talent he had.
clackster...gosh, you think?
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Wow. There were some seriously awesome vests in that movie. I'm not sure I would want to watch it without the voice-over - pretty sure that was the best part (minus the boobs).
Also - I love, love, love Jonny Cash - was just listening to Cocaine Blues this morning while gardening.
Boobs = Party !!!
Ed Wood and Patty Hearst are Pop Culture Icons.
Mr. Wood was a visionary, ridiculously ahead of his time. Just imagine what Ed could have done with a Hollywood budget.
Patty Hearst (a year older than me) is a counter cultural hero, and in my eye: a leftist sex symbol, as well.
In other news:
The intellectual pool in Heaven just got bigger:
“From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims
To the buffalos who once ruled the plains
Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds looking for the rain
Looking for the rain
Just like the cities stagger on the coastline
In a nation that just cant stand much more
Like the forest buried beneath the highway, never had a chance to grow
Never had a chance to grow
And now its winter, winter in America”
-- Gil Scott-Heron from ‘Winter in America’,
I’m reminded of the Robert Louis Stevenson quote:
“There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us”
***Sigh***
These Fugitive Girls could violate my virgin skin any day.
@Clacky: Ed Wood was great, I need to screen his Plan 9 From Outer Space soon!
@onemorefoldedsunset: Sad news about Gil Scott-Heron indeed.
@Britta: That voice-over rules! I love when he starts listing things!
@Harry: Great GSH lyrics and a wonderful Robert Louis Stevenson quote! Thanks for posting those!
@Uncle Waltie: We think alike! Sip ahoy, my friend!
I miss mustaches.
@Biff: Ha ha ha! Me too!