Tag: Diana Dors

Man Bait (The Last Page, 1952)

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Man Bait is a lesser-known film that really shouldn’t be. It’s director Terence Fisher’s first movie for Hammer Films, marking the beginning of a legendary career he’d have with the studio. It’s one of the first films made at Bray Studios, having just been converted to a movie studio a few months prior, and also the first proper American release for British sexpot Diana Dors, and is one of the better entries in the tight little British thriller market of the 1950s, short and sturdy black-and-white movies made on small budgets, meant to be exported to the U.S.

Diana Dors: Deep End (1970)

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On first viewing, I was convinced that this was another example of lackluster shock film-making of the era. On a second and complete viewing, I now think Skolimowski fully intended his characters in Deep End to be so selfish and confused that they appeared soulless, but the film unfortunately veers into sexism in a way that undermines any intended message, unless the message was “women be bitches.” Which, honestly, it might have been.

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