At a Utah resort, the mutilated body of a pretty girl is discovered. Everyone at the resort becomes a suspect. Based on
WANTON MURDER by Peter Godfrey and directed by Howard W. Koch. This minor "B" B&W murder mystery has a cult following but its titillating metaphorical title aside, it's really nothing special. Koch's direction plods along without the faculty needed to ante up the stakes and when the killer is revealed, it's no surprise. This was the last film of the young Anne Bancroft before she bolted Hollywood and went to Broadway and you can see why. If this was the best they could give her, it was never going to happen for her in Hollywood. Ron Randell as an embittered quadriplegic gives some strange line readings but no one stands out here, not even Mamie Van Doren and her assets. The score is by Les Baxter. With Lex Barker, Marie Windsor, John Dehner, Stuart Whitman, Diana Van Der Vlis and Dan Blocker (
BONANZA). The film's credits does have an amusing credit however. It reads "Women's costumes by The Pink Poodle of Kanab, Utah"!
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