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If you care about love, you'll talk about a teenage boy and a woman who is all allure, all tenderness... and too much experience
An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.
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A Cold Wind in August
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Alternative Titles
Kalter Wind im August, Un vent froid en Août
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18 Aug 1961
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FinlandFinland:K-16
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Finland
18 Aug 1961
- TheatricalFinland:K-16
USA
26 Jul 1961
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During a heat wave in NYC, a stripper seduces and then falls in love with the 17 year old Italian-American son of the super in her apartment building. It sounds unmistakably like a low- budget exploitation movie, and was marketed as such. But its more complex and certainly more sensitive than one would expect, even though it has its steamy and sleazy moments.
Part of this is due to the outstanding portrayal by Lola Albright as Iris. Unrepentantly living her life and celebrating her sexuality ("There are 20 million women putting on an act for their husbands every night. Why should I be ashamed? It's my living. I'm good. I'm damn good"). And when Vito (Scott Marlowe) shows up to…
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"I want you to know...what you do to me, the way you make me feel...my God, I never knew..."
Is this like when Larry David, Jeff Greene, and Funkhouser went and saw Richard Lewis' girlfriend's topless act? Except Larry's not 17. Neither is Jeff or the Big Funk.
Black and white 60s films can be wonderful. There seems to be a lot of gems to unearth from this time period and I may have found one with A Cold Wind in August. A naive teen boy befriends a stripper and they eventually become lovers, although he doesn't know about her occupation until he sees her act. He confronts her about it later that night with not great results.
"I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, I'm just a stripper, isn't that it? Wouldn't you like to make love to a stripper? Wouldn't that be a kick? You can tell ALL your friends you made it with a stripper!"
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The air conditioner in Lola Albright's apartment is not working and it's quite warm outside. When she calls the building superintendant, he sends his 17 year old son played by Scott Marlowe to fix it. The rather racy seduction that follows leads to a romance that can't last but happens nonetheless. Lola's a professional stripper and her amazing strip-tease act is performed in the outfit she's wearing on the poster, in a club in Newark with a live band in front of a crowd of leering men. For how lurid it is, this was a mature take on the situation both by Lola's Iris Hartford and Marlowe's Vito Perugino with plenty of scenes leaving no doubt they're having sex. The…
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A melodramatic and nicely sleazy piece of 60s camp that offers a few great performances and pretty memorable seduction and striptease scenes. The relationship at the center is both innocent and surprisingly mature, just like it's protagonists.
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There’s only one real flaw, but it’s a doozy: when a whole film revolves around the age gap between a woman in her mid thirties and a 17 year old boy, why on God’s green earth would you hire a man of 29 to play the 17 year old?!? I can understand going up to 22 or 23, but 29? Sometimes Scott Marlowe actually looks older than Lola Albright! And his acting is full of this awful, overdone ‘aw shucks’ awkwardness; a cringey attempt to appear twelve years younger. This film is often a very uncomfortable watch, but not for the reasons it’s supposed to be.
And it’s a shame, because the rest of A Cold Wind In August almost had something.…
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Alexander Singer’s drama in which an older woman gets involved with a susceptible working-class boy who falls madly in love with her, but let-down sets in after he finds out she is a stripper.
Adapted from the novel by Burton Wohl, the story concerns a 28-year-old stripper (Lola Albright) on holiday who gets embroiled with the 17-year-old son (Scott Marlowe) of her New York building’s superintendent.
Lola Albright gives an okay performance in her role as Iris Hatford, the woman who is up to no good, while Scott Marlowe is alright as Vito, the teenager who is horrified to find out who Iris actually is.
However, there are occasions where the two characters don’t know what to do with themselves,…
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Long before Spike Lee, Alexander Singer served up human stew cooked in an NYC heatwave. “A Cold Wind in August,” the title suggests its histrionic moods. The titular gust is aging, or grief, in the August of our lifespan.* There’s a crafty intelligence at work in its characterization, appreciable even though the story is slow and blunt.
I see why John Waters is a fan. The film crams bratty teens, deluded divorcees, and youthful naivete into one apartment building. Iris, a 28-year-old burlesque dancer, seduces Vito, the teenage son of the building superintendent.
A tale as old as time: seduction and tragic catharsis. Lola Albright as Iris in her tight cigarette pants…observe how a woman controls a man with just…
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A genuinely sexy exploitation film--thank you, Lola Albright, for being game and generous--"A Cold Wind in August" tries to pass itself off as a morality play. The moral? Strippers are human too. Something like that, anyway. Or maybe it's that teenage boys are best avoided--especially when they're portrayed by actors a long way removed from adolescence. Were director Alexander Singer a bit less craven, this film could almost be seen as a vote for female empowerment. Who knows? Maybe it is.
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Somebody I follow on Instagram, the_pop_vulture, included Lola Albright’s performance in A Cold Wind in August in a post celebrating ten fabulous female performances, and this was the only one of the movies I hadn’t seen. Since I LOVE all of the others mentioned, I dropped everything and watched it on YouTube. It’s a low-budget, exploitation drama depicting a romance between a stripper in her 30s and a 17 year-old boy. (The boy is played by Scott Marlowe, who was 28 in real life, so calm down.) Lola Albright was terrific, and the highlight for me was her striptease act near the end. I was kinda hoping they’d show more of her being a stripper but it was just that one scene. Regardless, I enjoyed this.
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Percolating with an uptown vibe, a pulpy tale of seduction given dimension and heart by Singer's restrained direction and an electric performance by Albright. A taboo theme is artfully and subtly expressed; body language and allusion conveying unspoken qualities of sexual energy.