Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
	Original release poster
Directed by	Russ Meyer
Screenplay by	Jack Moran
Story by	Russ Meyer
Produced by	Russ Meyer; Eve Meyer;
Starring	Tura Satana; Haji; Lori Williams; Susan Bernard; Stuart Lancaster; Paul Trinka; Dennis Busch; Ray Barlow; Mickey Foxx;
Cinematography	Walter Schenk
Edited by	Russ Meyer
Music by	Paul Sawtell; Bert Shefter;
Production; company	EVE Productions
Distributed by	RM Films International
Release date	August 6, 1965;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$45,000
Box office	$36,122 (1995 US re-release only)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 American exploitation film directed by Russ Meyer and co-written by Meyer and Jack Moran. It follows three go-go dancers who embark on a spree of kidnapping and murder in the California desert.

The film is known for its violence, provocative gender roles, and eminently quotable "dialogue to shame Raymond Chandler".^[4] It is also remembered for the performance of star Tura Satana, whose character Richard Corliss called "the most honest, maybe the one honest, portrayal in the Meyer canon".^[5] Faster, Pussycat! was a commercial and critical failure upon its initial release, but it has since become widely regarded as an important and influential film.^[6]^[7]^[8]

^ "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill (18)". British Board of Film Classification. July 31, 1980. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
^ "Top Ten Low Budget Films Under $500,000". Daily Film Dose. February 9, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
^ "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
^ DeFino 2014, p. 16.
^ Corliss, Richard (August 2, 2002). "Thanks for the Mammaries". Time. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
^ Willman, Chris (December 11, 1994). "Return of the Ultrapussycats". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
^ DeFino 2014, pp. 25–27.
^ Cite error: The named reference Ebert was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill (18)". British Board of Film Classification. July 31, 1980. Retrieved January 26, 2024.

[2] "Top Ten Low Budget Films Under $500,000". Daily Film Dose. February 9, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2013.

[3] "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 26, 2024.

[FOOTNOTEDeFino201416-4] DeFino 2014, p. 16.

[Thanks_for_the_Mammaries-5] Corliss, Richard (August 2, 2002). "Thanks for the Mammaries". Time. Retrieved May 5, 2015.

[LA_Times-6] Willman, Chris (December 11, 1994). "Return of the Ultrapussycats". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.

[FOOTNOTEDeFino201425–27-7] DeFino 2014, pp. 25–27.

[Ebert-8] Cite error: The named reference Ebert was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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