Sexy blonde dance club girl learns the photography trade and moves to New York in pursuit of a new career.Sexy blonde dance club girl learns the photography trade and moves to New York in pursuit of a new career.Sexy blonde dance club girl learns the photography trade and moves to New York in pursuit of a new career.
Jack Albertson
- Les Bauer
- (uncredited)
Barbara Aler
- Nightclub Girl
- (uncredited)
Shirlee Allard
- Nightclub Girl
- (uncredited)
Leon Alton
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Robert Bice
- Patrolman Outside Office Building
- (uncredited)
Barry Brooks
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
Norma Brooks
- Doris
- (uncredited)
Chuck Cason
- Taxi Driver
- (uncredited)
John Cason
- Studio Thug
- (uncredited)
George Cisar
- Club Customer Photographed by Lila
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLila charges (more like finagles) Mrs. Gulick $25 extra "without the frame of course", for the colorized portrait photo. This was in 1956 when a typical salary was $50 per week. (In 2022, the extra fee would be about $250.)
- Quotes
Coco Fields: I believe you'd use your grandmother's bones to pry open a cash register.
- ConnectionsReferenced in We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)
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Over-Exposed (1956)
"You'd use your grandmother's bones to pry open a cash register." That's the best line in "Over-Exposed," a surprisingly solid crime and ambition (and cheesecake) movie. But then, the second best line is when the leading bleach blonde model/photographer played by Cleo Moore has made it big, and she says, "Green becomes me."
This is a better movie than it could have been, with little known cast and crew and a story that seems at a glance to be a cross between formulaic gangster and splashy girl-photographer with some spunk. There is a love interest (a really nice guy who sees through our heroine's hard gloss to a decent kid inside) who comes and goes and seems to a lifeline to her salvation. But the real lure overall is success and money, which is found at a nightclub run by classy thugs. The movie remains a bit cheesy throughout, however, letting Lila be a club photographer wearing scant clothes, kind of like a cigarette girls did in those days.
One of the surprises was how central and accurate the photography was to the whole movie, start to finish, and I'm not talking cinematography, which was good, but the role of the photography in the plot, including shooting and developing and retouching. And blackmail, by the end. The friendly old man photographer at the start is a strong balance to the wayward and snippy young girl (Moore), and the two end up helping each other throughout.
So there is a lot going on, actually, and it's pretty well done in the main, with those occasional hiccups of a lower budget enterprise. Look for Constance Towers, who later made fame in a couple of hard hitting Sam Fuller movies (like "Naked Kiss"). Give this one a go. And know that the second half is more exciting than the first.
"You'd use your grandmother's bones to pry open a cash register." That's the best line in "Over-Exposed," a surprisingly solid crime and ambition (and cheesecake) movie. But then, the second best line is when the leading bleach blonde model/photographer played by Cleo Moore has made it big, and she says, "Green becomes me."
This is a better movie than it could have been, with little known cast and crew and a story that seems at a glance to be a cross between formulaic gangster and splashy girl-photographer with some spunk. There is a love interest (a really nice guy who sees through our heroine's hard gloss to a decent kid inside) who comes and goes and seems to a lifeline to her salvation. But the real lure overall is success and money, which is found at a nightclub run by classy thugs. The movie remains a bit cheesy throughout, however, letting Lila be a club photographer wearing scant clothes, kind of like a cigarette girls did in those days.
One of the surprises was how central and accurate the photography was to the whole movie, start to finish, and I'm not talking cinematography, which was good, but the role of the photography in the plot, including shooting and developing and retouching. And blackmail, by the end. The friendly old man photographer at the start is a strong balance to the wayward and snippy young girl (Moore), and the two end up helping each other throughout.
So there is a lot going on, actually, and it's pretty well done in the main, with those occasional hiccups of a lower budget enterprise. Look for Constance Towers, who later made fame in a couple of hard hitting Sam Fuller movies (like "Naked Kiss"). Give this one a go. And know that the second half is more exciting than the first.
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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