GIRL GANG / PIN-DOWN GIRL 2K BLU-RAY

Kino Classics + Something Weird Present Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Volume 11 - GIRL GANG / PIN-DOWN GIRL!

Torn from Today's Headlines! Girl Terrorists on the Loose! By the late 1940s, exploitation producers such as GEORGE WEISS (Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda?) drifted away from the pseudo-educational frameworks of the genre and began producing risqué crime melodramas. No films better represent the "mainstreaming" of exploitation than GIRL GANG (1954) and PIN-DOWN GIRL (1951), and no actor was more suited to such low-grade potboilers than deadpan baritone TIMOTHY FARRELL. In GIRL GANG, Farrell is a small-time mob boss who feeds dope to high school kids hungry for kicks. A return to the gymnasium setting of Weiss and Farrell's The Devil's Sleep, PIN-DOWN GIRL stars PEACHES PAGE as a woman caught in the vice-riddled world of female wrestling. GIRL GANG was mastered in 2K from the original 35mm negative; PIN-DOWN GIRL was mastered in 2K from a 35mm re-release version (The Blonde Pick-Up).

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Audio Commentary for GIRL GANG by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Audio Commentary for PIN-DOWN GIRL by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films
• Theatrical Trailers