![]() Let’s talk for a minute about Nancy Allen. Pino Donaggio’s score evokes Bernard Herrmann, and DP Ralf Bode’s imagery is superb. His use of sound, like that of Hitchcock, adds immensely to the atmosphere, and split-screen imagery is utilized in a scene with Caine and Allen. The director (who also wrote the screenplay) draws not only from Hitchcock, but other sources like Goddard and Antonioni, especially in the art museum scene. I won’t spoil the killer’s identity for those of you who haven’t viewed this thriller (though it’s not hard to figure out if you’ve seen PSYCHO)… but I will tell you De Palma wraps things up with a double – make that triple! – twist ending. Liz becomes the prime suspect, but Peter starts his own investigation, learning the tall blonde woman is one of Elliott’s patients, a patient who is now stalking Liz…ĭe Palma keeps things suspenseful, with a jolting scene in the subway, and the gripping psycho-sexual drama played out in Elliott’s office while a thunderstorm rages outside. Elliott, who refuses to give nay information out on his clients. Peter and his stepdad are devastated, as is Dr. She’s brought tp police headquarters where Detective Marino (Dennis Franz) is investigating, where we discover Liz is a call girl, “a Park Avenue whore” as Marino calls her. When the elevator stops, young Liz Blake (Nancy Allen) witnesses the horror within. Leaving the encounter, Kate steps into an elevator… and is brutally slashed/hacked to death by a tall, blonde woman in dark glasses brandishing a straight razor! They have sex in the cab, and at his apartment. We follow her to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she engages in an erotic game of hide-and-go-seek with a complete stranger. Robert Elliott (Michael Caine ), but seemingly getting nowhere. ![]() Kate has problems in her marriage and with her own mom, not to mention being a nymphomaniac! She’s seeing psychiatrist Dr. The film begins with a sizzling hot shower scene with Angie Dickinson as Kate Miller, remarried mother of science nerd Peter (Keith Gordon, CHRISTINE ). DRESSED TO KILL finds De Palma in full Hitchcock mode, an homage to PSYCHO that The Master of Suspense himself cited as more like a “fromage”, but one I find still entertaining. Yet works such as SISTERS, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, OBSESSION, BLOW OUT, and BODY DOUBLE seem unjustly neglected today, and some critics deride him for his over the top sex and violence. She passed away from a 20 year battle with cancer in March of 2019.Brian De Palma was a big deal back in the 70’s and 80’s, and his films like CARRIE, SCARFACE, and THE UNTOUCHABLES are still discussed. ![]() She and Bob Guccione were featured in the 1981 NBC TV special, Women Who Rate A 10. She also was in a cowgirl themed Jordache jeans commercial in 1980, which was meant to cash in on the Urban Cowboy movie/country music craze at the time. She starred in the televised pageant, broadcasted live from Las Vegas for the selection of the 1979 Pet Of The Year. The public was lead to believe that it was Dickinson's nude body but it was revealed that it was Victoria's) She also did episodes of TV shows such as Lou Grant,The Dukes Of Hazzard and The Young And The Restless soap opera. She also had small parts in the films Smokey and The Bandit, Starship Invasions, Racquet and Dressed To Kill (as a body double for Angie Dickinson's shower scene. During her time with Penthouse,she had graced the cover of that magazine several times, as well as it's sister publication,Viva and appearing on the front page of the New York Post with famed television producer Norman Lear. She became the August 1976 Penthouse Pet Of The Month and subsequently was elected the 1977 Penthouse Pet Of The Year. While thinking about the Penthouse offer, she had a small part as a forest ranger in the 1976 low budget film, Grizzly,which went on to becoming one of the highest grossing films of the year. He sent famed photographer Stan Malinowski to approach her about appearing in Penthouse. ![]() She also filmed a Shake and Bake commercial during this time.Through the brochures is where she was noticed by Bob Guccione,the legendary creator and publisher of Penthouse magazine. She then went on to becoming a commercial print model for travel brochures and for ads featuring lipstick,body lotion,cameras,vitamins and feminine hygiene products. Victoria got her start as a bikini model in Atlanta, Georgia (her hometown) for a downtown boutique in the early 70's.
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