Bettie Page - Dark Angel

Starring:Bettie Page
Studio: Cult Epics
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
"EVERY FAN OF BETTIE PAGE MUST SEE THIS FILM, ESSENTIAL VIEWING AND GREAT FUN!" -Steve Brewster (President of the Bettie Scouts of America fanclub)

Bettie Page was America's favorite pin-up model of the 1950s, and achieved her greatest success as Playboy's January 1955 centerfold. It was her association with fetish photographer and filmmaker Irving Klaw, however, that would change her life forever and establish the cult icon status she enjoys to this day.

BETTIE PAGE - DARK ANGEL recalls, in episodes, her last three years as a pin-up queen and faithfully recreates -- in Klaw's original style -- many of her now classic bondage film performances that were destroyed long ago. After a Senate investigation and indictment of Klaw, threats against her life and frustration over never achieving her dream of success as a mainstream actress, Bettie Page suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from public view forever. Starring fetish model Paige Richards as Bettie Page.

Amazon.com

Cult Epics founder, Nico B., claims in his liner notes that he never thought he'd make a biographical film about Bettie Page's last three years as famed pin-up star, but finding look-alike Paige Richards to play the part in Bettie Page:Dark Angel changed his mind. This film recreates Page's trials and tribulations as an aspiring actress, by placing dramatized scenes from her life between faux bondage flicks that have the grainy, black and white quality of the long-lost real ones. Nico B. studied the remaining stills to imagine live action for these entertaining bondage films that, combined, take up over half of the movie. Scenes of Bettie (played by Paige Richards) crying to her boyfriend about her frustrations are benign as are most narrative scenes in porn. Rather, the best parts in Dark Angel are the vintage-looking fetish sequences that show Bettie as dominatrix, Bettie as a captive jungle girl dressed in shredded furs, Bettie legs tied to a coffee tables', and the most classic, Bettie as Pony-Slave. Of course, seeing the real Bettie would be preferable, but Richards looks uncannily similar, sharing the same sweet smile and inner radiance that made Bettie Page so famous. Plot-wise, Bettie Page:Dark Angel explains Bettie Page's sudden disappearance from the media during a scary sequence in which horny fans and an obscenities court case slapped against her agent, Irving Klaw, leave Bettie unsure about her own safety. The kitschy premise of the film makes Bettie Page:Dark Angel a fun homage to the Queen, and for future pin-up girls, the Two-Disc Limited Edition set offers Bunny Yeager, Bettie's original photographer, interviewing Richards then setting out to various scenes for sexy photo shoots. --Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews:

The facts about this film and director.......2006-04-13

Every so called "flaw" is meant. It's a beautiful film, if you can't recognize that than you shouldn't watch cult movies (or their remakes) in the first place. And I also have to stress that Nico B. is one of the best directors around, if you haven't seen the film PIG that proves his (and Rozz Williams) genius than you lucked out.

BORING TO THE MAX! NICO B REEKS!.......2006-04-09

This DVD contains both the original "Dark Angel" Cult Film and a "How to Pose Nude" with Bunny Yeager (who we never see - just Paige Richards). I was so excited to receive this DVD and was very let down.

First of all the "Dark Angel" film is just boring -- how many stupid bondage videos do we have to watch. We get your point -- Bettie did bondage videos......

Nico B has the arrogance to say this a CULT FILM? Cult films are not made, they happen vis a vis the public's perspective of a film.

Nico B needs to do his research -- instead of wasting time on chasing down composers for that boring and redundent soundtrack, he needs to get his facts straight.

The acting is really bad -- I am a native Tennesseean and I can tell you that nobody in Tennessee has the accent of Paige Richards. Ditto the "narrator" who is not Paige Richards. They all sound like they are from the deep south and very phony. But the voice of Estes Kefauver (who was born and bred in Madisonville, Tennessee), with some sort of Teutonic accent was just over the top!

I can't believe anyone would pay to see this in a theatre. I can't believe I paid to buy this junk.

The Bunny Yeager stuff of Paige Richards is OK Let's see though, did Bettie Page have a Brazlian Wax, Pierced Ears, or Implants? I think not.

Paige Richards does look remarkably like Bettie Page in the face and figure (except for those implants).

But after a few scenes, that portion of the DVD was so boring I did not even finish it. Paige Richards is a really pretty woman, but she tries to hard when posing for Bunny -- some of those faces she makes tend to make her look as though she is passing some type of fetid gas into the air!

I wish there were a 0 Star because this waste of a film is beyond terrible!

Poor Bettie Paige. She is too good for this kind of trash. She should really confront Nico B about this wretched waste of film.

I am a cult movie follower and trust me -- this is not "Eating Raoul" or "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or even "Night of the Living Dead"

It's a waste of time to watch this junk.

Average customer rating:

Good Stuff!!
Zero Stars, zero value
Bad recreations
A labor of love...
Great Subject..poorly done

Bettie Page - Dark Angel
Director: Nico B.
Manufacturer: Cult Epics
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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( B ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video

The Bettie Page Collection
Bettie Page: Bondage Queen
Bettie Page - The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini
The Notorious Bettie Page
Bettie Page: Varietease/Teaserama

ASIN: B0004Z36LG
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Amazon.com

Cult Epics founder, Nico B., claims in his liner notes that he never thought he'd make a biographical film about Bettie Page's last three years as famed pin-up star, but finding look-alike Paige Richards to play the part in Bettie Page: Dark Angel changed his mind. This film recreates Page's trials and tribulations as an aspiring actress, by placing dramatized scenes from her life between faux bondage flicks that have the grainy, black and white quality of the long-lost real ones. Nico B. studied the remaining stills to imagine live action for these entertaining bondage films that, combined, take up over half of the movie. Scenes of Bettie (played by Paige Richards) crying to her boyfriend about her frustrations are benign as are most narrative scenes in porn. Rather, the best parts in Dark Angel are the vintage-looking fetish sequences that show Bettie as dominatrix, Bettie as a captive jungle girl dressed in shredded furs, Bettie's legs tied to a coffee tables', and the most classic, Bettie as Pony-Slave. Of course, seeing the real Bettie would be preferable, but Richards looks uncannily similar, sharing the same sweet smile and inner radiance that made Bettie Page so famous. Plot-wise, Bettie Page: Dark Angel explains Page's sudden disappearance from the media during a scary sequence in which horny fans and an obscenities court case slapped against her agent, Irving Klaw, leave Bettie unsure about her own safety. The kitschy premise of the film makes Bettie Page: Dark Angel a fun homage to the Queen. --Trinie Dalton

Description

"EVERY FAN OF BETTIE PAGE MUST SEE THIS FILM, ESSENTIAL VIEWING AND GREAT FUN!" -Steve Brewster (President of the Bettie Scouts of America fanclub)

BETTIE PAGE - DARK ANGEL recalls, in episodes, her last three years as a pin-up queen and faithfully recreates -- in Klaw's original style -- many of her now classic bondage film performances that were destroyed long ago. After a Senate investigation and indictment of Klaw, threats against her life and frustration over never achieving her dream of success as a mainstream actress, Bettie Page suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from public view… forever. Starring fetish model Paige Richards as Bettie Page.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
-Full Screen Version
-Behind The Scenes: Bondage, Fighting & Nudity
-Original Music Recordings
-Photo Gallery
-Trailers

Customer Reviews:

Good Stuff!!.......2006-08-06

First and foremost, do not treat this piece of work as a mainstream film, and therefore judge it on those terms.

It is not a film in the traditional sense of the word, but a well-worked homage to Bettie Page and the work of Irving Klaw in general, and on these terms, it works well.

Yes, the "acting" is not great, but Paige Richards does a decent job as Bettie, considering she not a professional actor, but at least she is authentic, as Richards is a bondage / fetish model by trade and looks a lot like Bettie of the time.

The real plus points are the black and white recreations of the original Irving Klaw bondage / domination / catfight scenes.
In fact, I would challenge any mainstream director to recreate these famous scenes any better than is presented here. Well done Nico!!

Overall, a good homage to Bettie Page, shot on digital video so it looks great, and definately a worthy project.

PS : Emily Marilyn is also HOT!!

Zero Stars, zero value.......2006-07-05

This is a complete rip off for any fan of Bettie photos or Bettie history. Everything about this DVD is either bad or fake. Don't waste your time or money.

Bad recreations.......2005-05-15

This DVD is nothing but bad acting and bad recreations of Bettie Pages black and white films. The narrator Bettie has a deep southern accent but when Paige Richards talks the accent is gone. And on top of it all it's not even historically accurate. Stay away from this one if you are a Bettie Page Fan.

A labor of love..........2004-11-22

Within this well done, low budget biopic, we are treated to director Nico B's wonderful, highly detailed recreations of several of the famous Irving Klaw bondage vignettes featuring Bettie Page. So, essentially, this movie offers a series of films within a film. While the acting might be considered a bit stiff in places, the video looks great and the costuming, sets and music are dead-on. Ultra-cute fetish model Paige Richards does a respectable job as Bettie Page. Normally, I would relegate a disc like this to die-hard Bettie fans only, but in today's "retro-craze" atmosphere, others may find it appealing as well. This movie has an innocent charm all its own, very much like the woman to which it is dedicated.

Great Subject..poorly done.......2004-11-03

I was excited when I heard about this film..I am a big Bettie fan. As a rule I buy anything Bettie but had I seen this film before I bought it..I would not have. The acting is stilted and really like a bad high school play, and the lead actress Paige Richards reminds me at times of Julia Sweeney. (IT's PAT!) ha ha

If you are like me and buy anything Bettie, buy and enjoy, but if you are looking for a great bio film on Bettie..this ain't it.

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