Rue McClanahan stars as Sandy, a stripper with designs on getting acting gigs, hopefully the appropriate way, and becomes linked with a shabby, miserly junkyard owner, Tony(Jack Vorno)when the two meet at the dance club she works. Tony saddles up with two hoods planning to take money from an armor car delivery. Things go awry as greed splits those involved with the heist, leading to violence and murder. Meanwhile, the film shows the devastated results of Sandy's lurid night with a wretched movie producer over a screenplay reading set up so he could bed her after getting her wasted on drink.
A drab work, with stripper sequences that are unappealing and go on forever. Rue's number is rather laughable(..despite removing her top, the camera shoots her backside as Rue jiggles her butt in embarrassing fashion)and Vorno's work(..he attempts woefully to evoke Brando-type levels of anguish and sorrow to no avail)is rather hard to tolerate over any length of time. This movie may have the single most uneventful heist sequence in the history of cinema.
There is a legitimate, sincere attempt to show the seedier underbelly of Hollywood and the effects it has on those unfortunates with little hope of escaping it's evil grip, but "Hollywood After Dark" is simply too badly made to succeed in such lofty goals. The way it's shot and acted, how the movie moves at an unexciting pace, and the ugly locations chosen, sink this one.
A drab work, with stripper sequences that are unappealing and go on forever. Rue's number is rather laughable(..despite removing her top, the camera shoots her backside as Rue jiggles her butt in embarrassing fashion)and Vorno's work(..he attempts woefully to evoke Brando-type levels of anguish and sorrow to no avail)is rather hard to tolerate over any length of time. This movie may have the single most uneventful heist sequence in the history of cinema.
There is a legitimate, sincere attempt to show the seedier underbelly of Hollywood and the effects it has on those unfortunates with little hope of escaping it's evil grip, but "Hollywood After Dark" is simply too badly made to succeed in such lofty goals. The way it's shot and acted, how the movie moves at an unexciting pace, and the ugly locations chosen, sink this one.