Common Law Cabin

Dir. Russ Meyer, 1967

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Thu 30 July 2009 // 19:30 / Cinema

Hoople’s Haven is a tumbledown cabin located along the Colorado River. Surrounded by desert and isolated from civilization, the cabin looks near inhospitable from afar—a heap of wood speckling the flat, arid landscape, something that could fall victim to even the slightest wind.

As it happens, the rundown structure is a tourist trap run by ex-military man Dewey Hoople, his wife Babette, and their teenage daughter Coral. In charge of wrangling “suckers” to visit this isolated false paradise – a journey that involves driving off-road in the desert and boating through thin inlets of the Colorado – is Cracker, a salty old man with a penchant for the bottle.

Rickert is a city cop who’s stolen a suitcase-worth of unclaimed jewels and is hiding out at Hoople’s Haven until the heat is off. He’s a vile man driven by bestial needs,.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmVUy1NDP8

Presented by Lady K and Lord Leigh Park, with a full supporting bill of period US holiday and travel shorts.