

Pretty Poison
What Brought A Nice Kid Like Sue Ann To A Shocking Moment Like This?
A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexpected murder and chaos that change their lives forever.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.3M
- Box office
- $2.1M
- Language
- English
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- based on novel or book
- parent child relationship
- cheerleader
- deception
- femme fatale
- murder
- excitement
- parole
- arsonist
- parole officer
- disturbed teenager
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalR19 Jul 1968
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1618 Jul 1968
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG11 Apr 1969
JapanJP
- Theatrical22 Oct 1968
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Pretty Poison was released on 18 July 1968.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
3/8/2014
The Pitt and the Poison. Pretty Poison is directed by Noel Black and adapted to screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Junior from the novel “She Let Him Continue” written by Stephen Geller. It stars Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph and Dick O’Neill. Music is by Johnny Mandel and cinematography by David Quaid. Pure definition of a culter movie? Probably Pretty Poison. A wonderfully odd neo-no…
- W6/10
Wuchak
10/20/2024
**_A psychopath is loose in western Massachusetts_** When a young man is released from a mental institution for a crime committed when he was 15 (Anthony Perkins), he gets a mundane job at a chemical factory while drawn to a fetching high school cheerleader (Tuesday Weld). "Pretty Poison" (1968) is a psychological drama with a couple crime-oriented thrills that some consider a subtle black comedy. It comes in t…
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