calvinnme Model Gay Andrews, who looks rather like Shelly Fabares, is a loner in NYC. She gets a come on from married ad executive Bob Walker, a Steve Cochran look-a-like, after a gig in New Jersey. He wants to continue their necking session at a hot sheet motel. She turns him down but on their way back to NYC they get pulled over by a cop who hauls them to a corrupt JP who is in cahoots with a local pimp Wayne Jackson played by big man Ronald Long ( Love of Life (1951), The Notorious Landlady (1962) and The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)) who both resembles and sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock with hair.When Walker leaves to get money so that he can pay his fine in cash, the JP detains Andrews as a hostage until his return. Long is on hand an hour later to rescue Andrews. He pays the $100 fine and the JP tells her she's free. Long offers to give her a ride, seemingly a good Samaritan. At a cafe Long slips a drug into Gay's drink and she wakes up at Longs house. A Classic tale of don't go home with strangers.Koulias is good as Long's right hand man. The entire story is an instructional on white slavery, but its poster decries the "Public Relations Racket", the girl is first offered $50,000 for one year of service with the guarantee that she can go free after the year is up, then threatened with getting forced hooked on heroin if she won't cooperate voluntarily.It's all done very on the cheap and is a bit clunky in spots, but the film still manages to entertain mostly by what is suggested during all the descriptive dialog (supplied mostly by Long) rather than what actually happens. So far so good in Something Weird's "Six Weird Noirs" DVD pack.

mark.waltz There is such a thing as clever trash. There is also such a thing as so bad, it's good. Also, trash with class, a clever dirty joke, and making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Here, the only thing clever is the art on the DVD box, the only thing good out of the bad is that it's over in 73 minutes, the class is first grade, there are no jokes, only dirt, and the field ran dry causing the cow to run away before somebody cut off his ear.The pitiful acting here only enhances how bad the script is. Everybody speaks at a snail's pace, as if they were first graders reading a Dick and Jane book. Even when the police are calling out for a murder suspect, the actor getting to shout in the megaphone makes no effort to get the words out without pauses in between each one. Had the actors actually spoke their words at a normal speed level, the film would have been probably 15 minutes shorter. There are even long periods of silence between dialog that makes you wonder if the actors could even read and weren't being fed their lines through some hidden microphone.It all starts some 60 miles outside of New York where a model rejects the seduction attempt of a married client. They are stopped for speeding and when he is told to go to New York to get the money to pay the fine, he is told to leave her behind. She is released when another speeder pays the $100, but a knock-out drug in her coffee leaves her as this sick pig's prisoner. He is behind a vice ring (which he refers to as "public relations"), and now his prisoner, she is threatened with being forced into becoming a drug addict in order to do his bidding. These characters are revolting, and even if that is what guides the world of film noir, it is told so repulsively here that it makes it very difficult to watch.British character actor Ronald Long (as the heavy set man who entices the ingenue into his web) may have an impressive list of credits, but the direction keeps him from coming off as professional. I'd mention the actors names who play the main characters, but they are so bad that they don't really deserve to get any credit. Only Eileen Letchworth as one of the "public relations consultants" is of any name value, and that is for her later appearances on the daytime soaps in the late 60's and 70's. There really is never any suspense, only disgust, so even if the structure made the storyline interesting, it is totally destroyed by the cheap looking photography, wretched acting and horrible dialog. The whole set-up of the sleazy justice of the peace reminded me of the set-up of one of the worst comedies of the past twenty years, the horrifying "Nothing But Trouble" which even its name cast seems to hope to forget agreeing to be in.

Scott_Mercer Just when you think every obscure low budget potboiler has been exhumed, here comes The Naked Road, more of a film noir than the usual softcore stuff that Something Weird Video seems to put out. No nudity, in fact even though this is roughie-type material, it's handled in a PG-rated manner. No nudity or even mild swearing. Could have almost been broadcast on television, even at that time.I was reminded of nothing less than Ed Wood's The Sinister Urge. The quality of the sets was about the same (bare bones), the acting was actually a little bit better (heavy Ronald Long was a recognizable character actor throughout the next 15 years on a bevy of network TV shows), but the directing was just about as competent as Wood (static long shots, actors poorly used, except for Long, who probably did it all himself) but without EDW's lovable quirks or infectious enthusiasm for whatever overblown piece of underfunded crap he was pushing as the next Citizen Kane.I'm sure whatever grindhouse or drive-in theater patrons that happened to accidentally watch this back in the day (probably last on the bill at 3:00 in the morning) were not overly impressed. A few chuckles here and there, but not worth seeking out.

GUENOT PHILIPPE A weird grade B picture. Yes weird, in the acting - very slow dialogues, like early Bela Lugosi features ! - only indoor sets, and such a way of filming. It reminds me also scifi films, as those directed by Richard Cunha and Roger Corman in the fifties. The story has been told in plot line above. It reminds me, for the first part, an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode. Slow, very slow, but not uninteresting although. The score is laughable, when you ear it on the sequences shown in the same time. I don't know the actors. A film from outer space in the film noir genre. I am not used to it. In sci fi yes, but not with crime movies.