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Venus in Furs: Directed by Jesús Franco. With James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski. A jazz trumpeter becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman whose corpse he discovers on a beach, after which she seemingly returns to life to take revenge on those responsible for her death.
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- Jesús Franco
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- James Darren, Barbara Mcnair, Maria Rohm
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James Darren plays a jazz musician who becomes obsessed to the point of madness with the mysterious fur-clad Wanda, then finds her dead body washed up on the beach.
British avantgarde fusion band Manfred Mann Chapter Three wrote and recorded the soundtrack for Venus in Furs. The band had just formed at the time. Excerpts were released in 2019 as part of the album Radio Days, Vol. 3: Manfred Mann Chapter Three (Live Sessions & Studio Rarities). One of the tracks, entitled "At the Party" on the soundtrack, later...
The New York Times gave Venus in Furs a negative review on its initial release, saying that the film "features much inept fancy moviemaking (including echoes of "La Dolce Vita" and even "Vertigo"), some semi-nudity, and virtually endless confusion". Glenn Ericksonwas more positive.
Oct 15, 2023 · Obsessed with the novel, a meek shoe salesman gets lost during a weekend retreat within the surreal world of Marna's country mansion.
Aug 20, 2008 · Blue Underground continues mining the crazy world of Jess Franco with the dvd release of Venus in Furs (1969), a film that was originally released the same year as 99 Women, and has no relation to the book of that title by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch or The Velvet Underground song.
- Jess Franco
- James Darren
Franco’s abstract euro Vertigo meets Lost Highway is a psychosexual whirlpool of psychological horror... a jazzed up sex dream with yet another reiteration of Franco’s female revenge and Klaus Kinski as a depraved S&M playboy—the whip and the body.
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- Jesús Franco
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death. Jesús Franco. Director, Story, Writer. Bruno Leder.
Venus in Furs R 1969 1h 26m Horror List Reviews 56% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings A ghostly blonde (Maria Rohm) in silver mink haunts a jazz trumpeter (James Darren) from Istanbul to Rio de...
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