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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRETTY POISON is a little comedy of murders that is full of some nice surprises: notably excellent performances by Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, and some telling satire on the current climate of violence by Director Noel Black, 31, and Co-Producer Marshall Backlar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...PRETTY POISON is a little comedy of murders full of some nice surprises: notably excellent performances by Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld and some hard-edged satire on the current climate of violence by young Director Noel Black (31) and Co-Producer Marshal Backlar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1968 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...capture the feverish, nightmare quality of the experiences Bacon depicts, he has developed what is essentially a surrealist dream style to near perfection. Every brush stroke bears the mark of absolute conviction, from the fields of poison green and fetid lilac that deck his backdrops to the calculated white ejaculatory splats that he lashes across the legs of his subjects. There is hatred and hostility in Bacon's vision, but of late it seems to be mellowing. Nothing in his current show comes near to matching the insane intensity of his screaming popes of 1949-53. A study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Prelude to Butchery | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...better than the average crime film, Pretty Poison takes a sly, jaundiced look at swinging youth and the pervasive American climate of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fun Couple | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...blonde companion, "it's been quite a week. I met you on Monday, I fell in love with you on Tuesday, I was unfaithful on Wednesday, we killed a guy on Thursday-and the week isn't even over yet." By the time the week, and Pretty Poison ends, the young man is in stir, Sue Ann is answering some rather pointed questions from the police, and the viewer will have seen one of the nicest, nastiest little crime films to come out of Hollywood in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fun Couple | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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