The Wicked Go to Hell
(Les Salauds vont en enfer) 1955
Direction and co-script: Robert Hossain with Serge Reggiani,
Marina Vlady, Henry Vidal
A Crime Drama and the Direction debut by Robert Hossain where two escaped
convicts
and killers finds a small house on the beach where they kill a painter
and takes his model
(Marina Vlady) as a hostage. The tension between the escapees are rising
dangerously
Extras:
Audio commentary by the one and only Tim Lucas
Picking Strawberries: Lucas Balbo discuss the making of The Wicked Go
to Hell (15
Minutes 2025)
Film Historian Howard S. Berger looks at the career of Robert Hossain
(27 minutes 2025)
Trailer
Nude in a White Car
(Toi le benin) 1959
Direction and script: Robert Hossain
with Marina Vlady, Robert Hossain
Brilliant Drama Thriller with great direction, acting and script. Great
stuff!
Drifter Pierre Menda (Hossein) meets two beautiful and mysterious blondes
living in a stylish house. They're sisters, Hélène (Odile
Versois) and Eva
(Marina Vlady) the latter bound to a wheelchair after suffering Polio
in her
teens. He's seduced by both of them and he's offered a job in their
Record
Shop but there are strange tensions and the business of the white car.
Extras:
Audio commentary by Tim Lucas
Marina Vlady (9 minutes, 2019)
The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Classic French Cinema by Samm
Deighan (17 minutes, 2025)
Trailer
The Taste of Violence
(Le Gout de la violance) 1961
Direction and co-script: Robert Hossain
with Robert Hossain, Mario Adorf
Great Western Drama with fine acting and with beautiful cinematography
From Mexican revolutionairy times a Pre Spaghetti western about the
ideology driven revolutionary Perez (Hossain) and his two compadres
Chamaco (Mario Adorf) and Chico are about to transport the kidnapped
daughter of the President to their revolutionary leader Guzman.
Chamaco and Chico though are not as zealous as Perez and wants to
sell her for money instead, and they have to kill Perez to do it.
A forgotten but dark and brilliant Western
preceding the spaghetti's
Extras:
Audio commentary by Tim Lucas
Interview with Courtney Joyner (26 minutes, 2025)
Appreciation by Alex Cox (7 minutes, 2025)
Trailer, Reversible sleeve
