![]() ![]() Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)Įncoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 -abr 128Ī.B.avi (DVDRip V.O. Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC ) The tension between her and Jens, although seldom expressed directly, is powerful enough to make you forget about the picture's occasional static talkiness.įormat profile : Advanced settings, BVOP : Yes ![]() Mercedes McCambridge, one of the greatest and most honest actresses Hollywood ever produced, is burningly powerful as Hamilton's older, pathetically insecure wife. Joan Blondell and Henry Jones are fun (though too emphatic) as alcoholic marrieds who once topped the evangelical circuit themselves, and who now function as advisers & hangers-on to Hamilton, and later to Jens. ![]() George Hamilton is reasonably effective as a goodhearted Southern evangelist who comes to be overshadowed by a naive country girl (Salome Jens) who gets the call after Hamilton miraculously cures her muteness. That's a shame, because although the film's pacing is markedly uneven, its frequent gusto suggests that an even better movie was hiding in there somewhere. Ever since, Angel Baby has been part curiosity, part obscurity. “This frequently lusty parable of a young woman who becomes a high-powered evangelist had the bad fortune to be released at about the same time as another, much "bigger" picture with a similar protagonist, Elmer Gantry, and was unfairly neglected. Hogan, author of ‘Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film': Writing credits: Elsie Oakes Barber (novel "Jenny Angel"), Orin Borsten (writer), Paul Mason (writer), Samuel Roeca (writer) Angel Baby (Paul Wendkos & Hubert Cornfield, 1961) ![]()
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