Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Lapper dance



  • Prompted by the comments to this post at Jonathan Lapper’s Cinema Styles, I give you Debra Paget’s infamous Hoochie Mama snake dance from Fritz Lang’s The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959). Bow to the Boob Goddess towering overhead — a piece of set design without peer. (The boys must've been smoking a lot of ganja on this one.)

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    posted by Ray Young at 1:13 PM

    7 Comments:

    Blogger Jonathan Lapper said...

    I've never felt so honored. I humbly thank you.

    3:49 PM EST  
    Blogger Flickhead said...

    I bow to thee, almighty Lapper.

    3:52 PM EST  
    Blogger Jonathan Lapper said...

    Oh and I should have made my appreciation more clear: Holy shit, Paget has a perfect body. My god, there's not a flaw on it!

    3:54 PM EST  
    Blogger Flickhead said...

    Yeah, she's a little wide in the hips, but she still charms my snake.

    If and when you read Boetticher's autobiography, his chapter(s) on her are memorable and funny. He can't believe he was married to her -- she was such a knock out.

    4:02 PM EST  
    Anonymous Peter Nellhaus said...

    Mention should be made of Paget's wide eyes. The film was a return to the kind of stuff Lang did in the silent era. I wonder if this scene was included in the American release which was the two Indian films cut down to one feature.

    8:31 PM EST  
    Blogger Flickhead said...

    I've always wanted to see the American version: the 101-minute Tiger of Eschnapur and the 102-minute Indian Tomb combined to make the 92-minute Journey to the Lost City, via AIP. It's available from Sinister Cinema through Amazon for $8.99. Here's Greg's description:

    "Padget [sic] plays an exotic dancer who is coveted by an evil maharajah (she looks absolutely stunning). She's rescued by a daring adventurer. They face many perils, including snakes, tigers, lepers, and elephants. Debra's erotic dance scene is quite enticing. Color, from 16mm."

    For nine bucks? I just tossed it in my Amazon cart.

    8:47 PM EST  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Debra Paget was the best starlet of her time. By missfortune the studios had other investments in promontig other stralets and she was not given the opportunity she deserved. However she had a great success and even today her pages in internet are the ones most visited

    10:13 AM EST  

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