Taking a look a few weeks ago at a poll that was being held on the IMDb Classic Film board for the best movies of 1963,I noticed a fellow IMDb'er place on their list a deranged melodrama,which had been filmed in 1959,but had not been released until 1963.Checking around on a number of sites for this obscure-sounding title,I was disappointed to find that the film had seen to completely disappear from view.
3 days ago:
Searching around the internet late at night,I decided to do a quick search for Please Don't Tell Me,just in case I was able to find out any info about this long forgotten movie.To my complete surprise,I discovered that 2 days earlier,someone had kindly put the entire film up on Youtube!,which led to me excitingly getting ready to find out what would cause someone to not want to be touched.
The plot:
Walking on her way home,Vicky is gripped by a man,whose aggressive nature causes Vicky to faint.
Years later:
Talking to her mother for the first time since she has gotten married to her new husband,Vicky's mum begins to ask her about why she has seen very reserved ever since she has gotten married.Deciding to open up,Vicky tells her mum that the reason she has increasingly become closed off,is due to having haunting memories of the man who attacked her,that has led to Vicky finding it impossible to become intimate with her husband.
Originally planning to head home to see her husband,Vicky's mum stops her daughter dead in her tracks,by giving her a medicine that knocks her out,which gives plenty of time for Vicky's mum to arrange a meeting for her daughter with a hypnotise.
Shocked by how far her mother has decided to take things,Vicky reluctantly ignores the pleas of her husband,and attends the hypnoses session the next day.
Feeling suspicious about the subconscious effect that Vicky's mother has had on her daughter,the 2 doctors/hypnoses decide to send Vicky into a deep trance,in order to find out what really happened the day that she ran into the aggressive man.
View on the film:
For the screenplay of the film,writer/director Ron Ormond makes each of Vicky and her mum's interactions one that are wonderfully off balance and off centre,with Ruth Blair and Viki Caron each delivering their dialogue in a blunt manner,which helps to give the movie a great PsychBilly atmosphere,thanks to the dialogue being extremely over exaggerated in its bluntness,and also reaching a flight of fantasy with how to the-point everyone is in the movie.
Spilting the film into two sections,Ormond makes the first half of the film a history of hypnotise,with Ormond using rough stock footage to show the rather shocking (but thankfully not too gory) use of hypnoses in different countries.Contrasting the stock footage rough first half,Ormond shoots the Vicky section of the movie in a stylish pink colour,which helps to give Vicky's sinking into a deep trance moments,a strong, fluffy candy floss mood.
Enter the film in a figure-hugging top that allows for her smoking hot long legs to be given a full view,Viki Caron (who sadly never made another movie) gives a delightfully cheerful performance,with Caron making sure that even the more serious moments of the film include a real whiff of her charismatic personality.Going up against Caron,Ruth Blair gives a real boo-hiss performance as Vicky's mum,with Blair showing Vicky's mum to become increasingly deranged,the closer her daughter gets to finding out why she cant be touched.
3 days ago:
Searching around the internet late at night,I decided to do a quick search for Please Don't Tell Me,just in case I was able to find out any info about this long forgotten movie.To my complete surprise,I discovered that 2 days earlier,someone had kindly put the entire film up on Youtube!,which led to me excitingly getting ready to find out what would cause someone to not want to be touched.
The plot:
Walking on her way home,Vicky is gripped by a man,whose aggressive nature causes Vicky to faint.
Years later:
Talking to her mother for the first time since she has gotten married to her new husband,Vicky's mum begins to ask her about why she has seen very reserved ever since she has gotten married.Deciding to open up,Vicky tells her mum that the reason she has increasingly become closed off,is due to having haunting memories of the man who attacked her,that has led to Vicky finding it impossible to become intimate with her husband.
Originally planning to head home to see her husband,Vicky's mum stops her daughter dead in her tracks,by giving her a medicine that knocks her out,which gives plenty of time for Vicky's mum to arrange a meeting for her daughter with a hypnotise.
Shocked by how far her mother has decided to take things,Vicky reluctantly ignores the pleas of her husband,and attends the hypnoses session the next day.
Feeling suspicious about the subconscious effect that Vicky's mother has had on her daughter,the 2 doctors/hypnoses decide to send Vicky into a deep trance,in order to find out what really happened the day that she ran into the aggressive man.
View on the film:
For the screenplay of the film,writer/director Ron Ormond makes each of Vicky and her mum's interactions one that are wonderfully off balance and off centre,with Ruth Blair and Viki Caron each delivering their dialogue in a blunt manner,which helps to give the movie a great PsychBilly atmosphere,thanks to the dialogue being extremely over exaggerated in its bluntness,and also reaching a flight of fantasy with how to the-point everyone is in the movie.
Spilting the film into two sections,Ormond makes the first half of the film a history of hypnotise,with Ormond using rough stock footage to show the rather shocking (but thankfully not too gory) use of hypnoses in different countries.Contrasting the stock footage rough first half,Ormond shoots the Vicky section of the movie in a stylish pink colour,which helps to give Vicky's sinking into a deep trance moments,a strong, fluffy candy floss mood.
Enter the film in a figure-hugging top that allows for her smoking hot long legs to be given a full view,Viki Caron (who sadly never made another movie) gives a delightfully cheerful performance,with Caron making sure that even the more serious moments of the film include a real whiff of her charismatic personality.Going up against Caron,Ruth Blair gives a real boo-hiss performance as Vicky's mum,with Blair showing Vicky's mum to become increasingly deranged,the closer her daughter gets to finding out why she cant be touched.