Product Description
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Bettie Page was America's favorite pin-up model of the 1950s,
and achieved her greatest success as Playboy's January 1955
centerfold. It was her association with fetish photographer and
filmmaker Irving Klaw however, that changed her life forever and
established the cult icon status she enjoys to this day. Bettie
Page Dark Angel recalls in episodes, her last three years as a
pin up queen and faithfully recreates - in Klaw's original style
- many of her now classic bondage film performances that were
destroyed long ago. Disc Two of this Limited Edition includes one
hour of original footage featuring Paige Richards posing nude in
Bettie Page style, for legendary pin-up photographer Bunny
Yeager.
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Cult Epics founder, Nico B., cls in his liner notes that he
never thought hed make a biographical film about Bettie Pages
last three years as famed pin-up star, but finding look-alike
Paige Richards to play the part in Bettie Page:Dark Angel changed
his mind. This film recreates Pages trials and tribulations as
an aspiring actress, by placing dramatized scenes from her life
between faux bondage flicks that have the grainy, black and white
quality of the long-lost real ones. Nico B. studied the remaining
stills to imagine live action for these entertaining bondage
films that, combined, take up over half of the movie. Scenes of
Bettie (played by Paige Richards) crying to her boyfriend about
her frustrations are benign as are most narrative scenes in porn.
Rather, the best parts in Dark Angel are the vintage-looking
fetish sequences that show Bettie as dominatrix, Bettie as a
captive jungle girl dressed in shredded furs, Bettie legs tied to
a coffee tables, and the most classic, Bettie as Pony-Slave. Of
course, seeing the real Bettie would be preferable, but Richards
looks uncannily similar, sharing the same sweet smile and inner
radiance that made Bettie Page so famous. Plot-wise, Bettie
Page:Dark Angel explains Bettie Pages sudden disappearance from
the media during a y sequence in which horny fans and an
obscenities court case slapped against her agent, Irving Klaw,
leave Bettie unsure about her own safety. The kitschy premise of
the film makes Bettie Page:Dark Angel a fun homage to the Queen,
and for future pin-up girls, the Two-Disc Limited Edition set
offers Bunny Yeager, Betties original photographer, interviewing
Richards then setting out to various scenes for sexy photo
shoots. --Trinie Dalton
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Review
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Sculptural beauty Paige Richards plays the pin-up icon and the
movie starts with a Bunny Yeager photo shoot on a beach before
unfolding with the highlights of Page's bondage years, which
ended on a sour note, when the senate launched a puritan crusade
against Page's notorious producer, Irving Klaw.
This is a piece which is mostly destined for Page's fans and
knowing her influence on some certain sub-cultural circles, it
might also become some kind of classic as a visual prop. This
would certainly have fit well in the Bettie Page Collection, in
place of the useless 100 Girls By Bunny Yeager. --Fred Thom
With the underground market for Page-related merchandise, it
seems understandable that a film like this is clearly geared
toward the faithful, and that is where this becomes not
necessarily a movie, but a sought-after collectible. It's an
add-on to all the websites, books, figures, photos, and s,
and as a piece neo-Page hipness, Nico B. has succeeded in great
waves. --digitallyobsessed.com
With the underground market for Page-related merchandise, it
seems understandable that a film like this is clearly geared
toward the faithful, and that is where this becomes not
necessarily a movie, but a sought-after collectible. It's an
add-on to all the websites, books, figures, photos, and s,
and as a piece neo-Page hipness, Nico B. has succeeded in great
waves. --digitallyobsessed.com
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