A garage owner marries a much younger woman. Trouble begins when he becomes friends with a man who has his eyes on his former-showgirl wife.
Acting
Hugo Haas playing twins—one pathetic, one predatory, both Hungarian.
Production
Glorious junkyard sets that look cheaper than the cars in them.
Writing
Dialogue so on-the-nose it circles back to accidental poetry.
Director
Hugo Haas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Haas, a Czech émigré who fled Nazi occupation, pumped his own money into these poverty row noirs—playing the pathetic older man opposite blonde bombshells in seven films.
This is peak 'paracinema'—films so technically bad they're fascinating, influencing everyone from John Waters to the Coens' love of threadbare noir.
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