Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] ** (1953, Maxwell Reed, Sandra Dorne, Leslie Dwyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,863

‘NO ESCAPE… from this kind of woman!’

Writer-director Wolf Rilla’s 1953 noir crime drama Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] stars Maxwell Reed as Tom Price, the new mechanic at the roadside garage and pub owned by middle-aged George Saunders (Leslie Dwyer), whose sexy young wife Marilyn (Sandra Dorne) gets dangerously involved with Tom. It is not long, of course, before old George catches Tom and Marilyn together.

Wolf Rilla turns this cheap, obscure and humble British B-movie unofficial version of The Postman Always Rings Twice into something interesting, with the help of decent acting from a a well-chosen cast, and Geoffrey Faithfull’s black and white cinematography.

Also in the cast are Vida Hope, Ferdy Mayne, Hugh Pryse and Kenneth Connor.

It is made at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, with an exterior scene at Shepperton Station, Shepperton, Surrey, England.

Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] is directed by Wolf Rilla, runs 70 minutes, is made by Nettlefold Films, is released by Butcher’s Film Service (1954) (UK) and Astor Pictures Corporation (1955) (US), is written by Wolf Rilla, is shot in black and white by Geoffrey Faithfull, is produced by Ernest G Roy, is scored by Wilfred Burns and designed by John Stoll.

Marilyn was the original title.

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