Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strangers in the City. Life in Spanish Harlem is explicitly examined in this intelligent social shocker, written and directed by Rick Carrier...
...Chancy portrayed him in the 1925 shocker, the phantom of the opera was a sight to make small boys behave. After that apparition, though, the monster disappeared for some years, possibly spent in a beauty parlor. At any rate, when he reappeared as Claude Rains in the 1943 production, he looked disconcertingly like Liberace. Indignant, the critics told him to go right back through that secret panel and take his Ugly Pills...
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty...
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty...
...eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime in Manhattan's uptown slum. But as fiction, Strangers is a gripping shocker...