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Everybody's Into Weirdness: Shanty Tramp ().

Hardly "Citizen Kane". As a director Charles Laughton made only one film, "The Night of the Hunter" and it's one of the greatest films ever made. Just over 10 years later Jose G. Pietro directed his only film, "Shanty Tramp" and it's It's a tale of sex, violence, race and religion but mostly sex and it will fit very nicely into any volume on trash movies.

It is very cheaply made and very, very badly acted and yet you could say it was remarkably bold for its time. The hero is a young African-American, the villain, or at least one of them, a crooked preacher and it's 'heroine', the shanty tramp of its title and I loved every sordid, glorious minute of it. As a first feature it was hardly "Citizen Kane", more like "Titties and Cane" , and as a piece of cheap exploitation it was hardly likely to bring Pietro to the attention of the major studios but neither is it negligible and it certainly deserves its cult status.

White trash.

MOscarbradley May 12, Permalink. Good B movie. The end credits reveal that the original print was burned in a fire and the film was digitally remastered in