Ms Kathleen's Review

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On the plane she meets Louie (Ben Stone), and he's so taken with Stacey's sex-appeal that he asks her out, invites her to stay with him and introduces her to nightclub manager, Pepe (Grayson Hall). Stacey also meets nightclub owner Arnold Kenyon (Mike Keene) and his spoiled son Laurence (Robert Yuro). A secret love triangle commences and as Pepe observes "there's an awful lot of wear and tear when you play both sides against the middle."

Just as I did last issue with “Book of Revelation”, I find fault with the title of this film. The screenplay is based on a short story, the titled omitted in the credits, and I will take the liberty here and assume that the title of the short story was not “Satan in High Heels”. In fact, I would make the assumption that was not the title of this film when they made it. Unfortunately, when researching this film I could not find out whether the film had another original title or not.

What is clear is that once the movie was made, the producer, director and studio decided to call it “Satan in High Heels” and released it in the Sexploitation genre, hoping that the title and sexy theatrical trailer would attract a male audience. Personally, I would have called it “Female of the species” and would have tried for a wider audience, but then again I am living in 2007, not 1962.