The Lady in Red

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

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Main Details

  • Released in 1979
  • Color
  • Running Time: 93 Min.
  • Distribution Co: New World Pictures (1979) (USA) (theatrical) | Les Films Jacques Leitienne (1983) (France) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Lewis Teague
  • Written by John Sayles
  • Starring Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher, Robert Hogan, Laurie Heineman, Robert Forster, Mary Woronov
  • Produced by Julie Corman
  • Original Music by James Horner
  • Cinematography by Daniel Lacambre
  • Film Editing by Larry Bock, Ron Medico, Lewis Teague

Plot Summary

  • A naive farm girl's life turns upside down after being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.

Also Known As

  • La Dama de rojo (Spain)
  • Die Frau in Rot (Germany)
  • Du rouge pour un truand (France)
  • Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin (USA) (reissue title)
  • I Listarhina me ta kokkina (Greece)
  • Polly - gangsterin heila (Finland)
  • Touch Me and Die (USA) (reissue title)

Tagline

  • She's made of bullets, sin & bathtub gin!
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