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The Girl in Lover's Lane

1960

1 hr. 18 min.

Crime

Drama

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250+ Ratings

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A drifter (Brett Halsey) stands accused of killing the small-town girl (Joyce Meadows) with whom he was involved.

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nick s

For a low budget movie this was a pretty good effort. Not sure why this gets bagged so much by other reviewers. I thought the acting was fine. A few story elements could have been better, but I can appreciate the director was trying to do something different.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/24

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Plenty of amusing homosexual undertones in the first half an hour, weary melodrama throughout, and yet a suprisingly moving finale... It's hard to know what to make of The Girl in Lovers Lane.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Ok, so I wouldn't call The Girl in Lovers Lane a taut thriller or an interesting movie, by any means. The movie actually doesn't get good until the last twenty minutes or so, and even then, it's very fleeting. As a Roger Corman-directed movie, I can't say I'm surprised by its quality, or lack thereof. It's mostly boring and plays on too many bad boy-type movies of the time. I kept thinking of things like A Streetcar Named Desire, The Night Hunter or anything starring James Dean, really. Thankfully the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew make it a little more entertaining, but not really by much. I'd say you're not missing anything if you skip it, but if you're interested in early Roger Corman, I'd say give it a shot. Just don't expect much.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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It has some decent characters and scenes, but offers very little interest and can be quite boring at times, but it's worth to check out on MST3K.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Not bad when I wasn't totally bored out of my mind, but could have been better paced (I guess) and the acting and staging were--par for the course in most MST3K movies--terrible.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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oh, big stupid and his hijinks.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Charles Rondeau

Director

Brett Halsey

Bix Dugan

Joyce Meadows

Carrie Anders

Lowell Brown

Danny Winslow

Jack Elam

Jesse

Selette Cole

Peggy

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It's an odd B-movie with homo-erotic suggestions.

Rated: C+

Feb 19, 2015

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Synopsis

A drifter (Brett Halsey) stands accused of killing the small-town girl (Joyce Meadows) with whom he was involved.

Director: Charles Rondeau
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 9, 2016

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