"Somewhere, a 15-year old girl may be a teenager... in the Cajun country, she's a woman full-grown! ...and every Bayou man knows it!"01 June 1957Drama83 mins
In 1957, director Harold Daniels was hired by producer Michael A. Ripps to oversee BAYOU, a cheaply made, overly melodramatic tale of swamp life. The low budget film starred a pre-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Peter Graves, Corman regular Jonathan Haze, and the effortlessly bizarre Timothy Carey. But despite this eclectic cast, BAYOU was a major flop at the box office. So Ripps recut the film, adding an off-camera rape scene and a new, bloody conclusion to its climatic fight. Of even greater importance was Ripp's new title: POOR WHITE TRASH.
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No-Frills Theater: Poor White Trash (1957) aka BAYOU
Peter Graves in a trashy movie? Yup. And he shares the screen with the one and only Timothy Carey bless his awesomely demented late soul. Peter Graves ...
POOR WHITE TRASH Movie Review (1957) Schlockmeisters #946
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Poor White Trash--Peter Graves vs. Timothy Carey
Wimp Yankee architect Peter Graves and brutal Cajun Timothy Carey fight to the death in the sweaty bayou melodrama Poor White Trash (1961). Dig the ...
Poor White Trash (1961) Title Theme Song - B&W / 1:55 mins
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