The Lady in Red (1979 film)

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The Lady in Red (also known as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin) is a 1979 American crime drama film directed by Lewis Teague with a screenplay by John Sayles for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. The film stars Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad, and Louise Fletcher. The plot concerns a farmer's daughter who runs away to Chicago, where she falls into a life of crime through association with gangster John Dillinger. It was based on the life of Polly Hamilton, although heavily fictionalised. Quentin Tarantino called the movie his "candidate for most ambitious film ever made at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures" with "the best script ever written for an exploitation movie" and "one of the best female characters of any movie of the second half of the seventies."

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