| Wicked, Wicked | |
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| Directed by | Richard L. Bare |
| Produced by | Richard L. Bare Executive: William T. Orr |
| Written by | Richard L. Bare |
| Starring | David Bailey Tiffany Bolling Randolph Roberts Edd Byrnes Madeleine Sherwood Arthur O'Connell Stefanianna Christopherson |
| Music by | Philip Springer |
| Cinematography | Frederick Gately |
| Editing by | John F. Schreyer |
| Distributed by |  MGM/UA
(theatrical); |
| Release date(s) | June 13,
1973[1]
(New York
City) |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Wicked, Wicked is a 1971 horror-thriller feature film starring David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling and Randolph Roberts that was presented in "Duo-Vision," a gimmick more commonly known as split-screen.
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The Grandview is a sprawling Californian hotel with a terrible secret: single blonde visitors who check in don't check out. Hotel detective Rick Stewart (David Bailey) begins investigating what's happened to a handful of vanishing guests but he soon becomes personally involved when his brunette ex-wife, Lisa James (Tiffany Bolling), arrives for a singing engagement at the hotel. When Lisa dons a blonde wig for her performance, she finds herself the next target of a psychopathic killer.
Filmed at the historic Hotel del Coronado[2], and presented almost entirely in split-screen, the film utilizes the organ score that was originally written to accompany the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera[2]. "Although primarily [the split-screen] serves to depict simultaneous action,"[3] director James L. Bare explained, "Duo-Vision also lends itself to showing truth and untruth, flashbacks in time, visions of the future or cause and effect without abrupt interruption of the story's main continuity. As applied to Wicked, Wicked the Duo-Vision technique involves an active screen and a passive screen, meaning that dialogue comes from only one screen at a time while silent footage unreels on the other so there is no dialogue confusion."[3]
Critics were generally unkind to the film, and box office attendances were low. Director Richard L. Bare wrote in his autobiography, "The college students were unanamous in their praise, but the picture opened quietly, played a while, and then disappeared.[4]." According to Bare, the film received minuscule promotion because MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian was draining the company's funds to build a Las Vegas casino[4]. The movie has never had an official home video release in America, but it's aired a few times on Turner Classic Movies' cult movie showcase TCM Underground [2]
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