The Lash of the Penitentes
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
The Lash of the Penitentes (1936, USA) is an Exploitation film directed by Roland Price and Harry Revier.
- Contents: Film Review | Fun Facts | Press Kit
- Featured in: Forbidden Fruit: Golden Age Exploitation Picture Vol. 9
Main Details
- Released in April 1936
- Running times: 35 Minutes (The shortest edit, available on VHS)/42 Minutes (Premiere Edition)/65 Minutes (Full Version, known to be "Lost")
- B & W
- Production Companies: Harry Revier Productions and The Stuart Productions
- Distributed By: States Rights, Telepictures, and Michael J. Levinson
- Directed by: Roland Price and Harry Revier.
- Produced By Harry Revier
- Written by Roland Price and Zelma Carroll
- Music by Lee Zahler
- Starring: Marie DeForest, William Marcos, Victor Justi, Jose Rubio, William Bletcher
Plot Summary
- Actual footage of Penitentes - a sect of Catholic religious fanatics who engage in self-flagellation - is combined with new footage about a murder.
Taglines
- AMAZING! SENSATIONAL! UNBELIEVABLE! (original poster-all caps)
- THIS PICTURE WILL BE OF INTEREST TO ADULTS ONLY! (original poster-all caps)
- Strange Love, Hate, Passion, Intrigue! (original poster)
