Ninety Degrees in the Shade ( 90 Degrees in the Shade (Tricet jedna ve stinu) ) ( Ninety in the Shade )

Ninety Degrees in the Shade (DVD) (*)

$27.99

Original Title: 90 Degrees in the Shade (Tricet jedna ve stinu)
Alternate Title: Ninety in the Shade
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1965 and produced in:
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jirí Weiss

Written By:
David Mercer
Jirí Mucha

Actors:
James Booth ..... Vorell
Anne Heywood ..... Alena
Rudolf Hrusínský ..... Mr. Kurka
Jirina Jirásková ..... Vera
Jorga Kotrbová ..... Hanka
Jan Libícek ..... Man in Booth
Vladimír Mensík ..... Emil
Mirko Musil ..... Saloonkeeper
Ladislav Potmesil ..... Jirka Kurka
Jan Skopecek ..... Headwaiter
Jirí Sovák ..... Director
Eva Svobodová ..... Woman
Vera Tichánková ..... Vavrova
Ann Todd ..... Mrs. Kurka
Oldrich Velen ..... Investigator

Synopsis:

A rare gem of a film that was a British/Czech co-production, filmed in Prague before the Soviet clampdown of 1968 and nominated for the 1966 Golden Globe award for best English foreign language film. Vorell (James Booth) is a flighty married man with little concern for anyone other than himself. He has recently ended an affair with co-worker, Alena (Anne Heywood), the manageress of a liquor store in communist Prague, but when a government inspector, Mr Kurka (Rudolf Hrusínský), arrives to check their inventory, it soon becomes apparent that Vorell is running a scam to sell liquor on the black market. Scared for his job and reputation Vorell leans on Alena, reigniting their affair under the watchful and lecherous eyes of the emasculated Mr Kurka, whose wife (Ann Todd) is an alcoholic unwilling to have sex with him. As the temperature of Prague's summer reaches ninety degrees in the shade, the heat of lust and envy in the liquor store inevitably leads to violence and death.

The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an affair with manager James Booth. Though she knows that Booth is good for nothing, she remains with him because of the intensity of their physical relationship. Company auditors Rudolf Hrusinsky and Donald Wolfit make life miserable for Heywood, who cannot bring herself to reveal the fact that Booth has been stealing from the store. Her subsequent suicide humanizes the strictly-business auditors, but the unrepentant Booth merely shrugs and casts about for another willing young woman. The title is a succinct assessment of the film's sex scenes, which were as hot as it was possible to get in a mainstream movie of the 1960s.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 June, 2011.

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