Year: 1967
Duration: 01:38:10
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Actors: Suzy Kendall, Terence Morgan, Tony Beckley
Language: English
Country: UK
Also known as: Das Penthouse, O Apartamento dos Sádicos, Un attico sopra l’inferno
Description of Penthouse movie: This is more a love-nest invasion than the home type. The penthouse is a property ’borrowed’ by a Bruce, a slimy real estate agent , so he can have a dirty weekend with his mistress Barbara, played by Suzy Kendall. Their affair is interrupted by the arrival of two men posing as plumbers, but who are escapees from a mental institution. They are not the psychos you’d expect, more dangerous eccentrics. They truss up Bruce and ply Barbara with drink and drugs and then, in turn, take her into the bedroom to ravish her. There is some ambiguity as to whether Barbara is raped but while she comes out of the experience naked, she looks no worse for wear.
From all this it emerges that clandestine lovers are two sides of the same coin, both using the other for their selfish ends. He wants nothing more than a fuck, and she an escape from her dreary life as a shop girl. The dialogue is crisp and literate as you’d expect from what started life as a play, and the photography is arty. The acting is top class and Kendall, one of all-time beauties of British cinema looks stunning, even after her rough time in the bedroom. The print is dark and the audio is poor, but this now rare film is well worth a watch.
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