
Polly, a young countryside girl decides to leave for the city and all it has to offer. She starts an relationship with John Dillinger and soon discovers that city life isn't as easy as she hoped when she gets entangled in a world of crime and prostitution. The movie is partly based on the life of John Dillinger.... (Full plot summary below)
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Polly, a young countryside girl decides to leave for the city and all it has to offer. She starts an relationship with John Dillinger and soon discovers that city life isn't as easy as she hoped when she gets entangled in a world of crime and prostitution. The movie is partly based on the life of John Dillinger.
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| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John Beifuss'It hurts,' Polly says, after losing her virgnity to a lying cad; this is her defining comment, and a succinct summation of Sayles' judgment on the screwing that much of America takes every day from the people in charge. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyLady is a surprisingly powerful gangster flick about a mystery woman whose public-enemy path briefly overlapped with John Dillinger’s in the ’30s. It’s just one of many Bonnie and Clyde knockoffs Corman cranked out at the time, but there’s real artistry alongside the violence and nudity in this one. |
| Chicago TribuneBill DahlLayered with great performances and an interesting story, The Lady in Red is a good, if somewhat dull exploitative play-by-play of the events that lead to Dillinger's death. |
| Parallax ViewSean AxmakerThis is populist moviemaking, Corman style, courtesy of that old lefty John Sayles. |
| User ReviewKayla KForget that new movie, this is where it is at! I'm not a huge fan of heist movies. But, by manufacturing a "strong female gettin" no breaks" story for Polly the Corman crew make Dillinger"s death full of emotions that most bio-pics loose in trying to be "authentic." More than that- seeing Christopher Lloyd be so evil is frightening... and then they throw in Robert Forrester just to get my pulse going. |