Girls, I Am Telling You, "Satan In High Heels" Is A Must!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Darlings, David and I watched this 1962 film the other night. Up until recently, I had never heard of it, but after seeing it, you will not easily forget it.

                                       Meg Myles plays Stacy Kane, an ex-carnival stripper from California, who comes to New York, and finds a career in Pepe's Night Club on the fashionable Upper East Side near Sutton Place.  You wouldn't believe that area today, or then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          The opening scenes in California have a macabre amusement park quality, foreshadowing "Carnival Of Souls" (1962) and "Night Tide" (1964).  But when she gets to New York--oh, my God, it reminds me of my youth!  The tacky nightclubs, those off the clearance rack gowns, there patrons who look like zombies.   To think I knew of such places even when I arrived and even looked in a little.  Ah, youth.

                                              Now, the nightclub is run by someone named Pepe.  Not only is Pepe a woman; even better she is Grayson Hall, and she plays--what else? --a repressed lesbian.  Too bad she did not make it to playing Mrs. Croft in "The Killing Of Sister George."

                                                 But she is a hoot here.  David felt all the names on the film credits are pseudonyms, so what I wonder is how Grayson got herself involved with this project.  I mean, it is as campy as hell, but, really, it is one step up above sexploitation.  If there had been violence in this, it would have been a hit at the grinder houses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                   This is a riot!  But don't be fooled.  When I heard the title and discovered Grayson Hall was in it, I thought she was the title character. It actually turns out to be Stacy Kane.  Watch how she works her magic, then blithely goes on to her next adventure.

                                                       One can see how the city has changed from this film.

                                                       If only we had this campy part of it back again.

                                                      Has no one a sense of humor in this town anymore???????????

                                                      And I want to wear those gowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!