Private Parts (1972 film)

Private Parts is a 1972 psychological thriller film with some elements of horror and comedy, directed by Paul Bartel as his feature film debut. The film stars Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, and John Ventantonio.

Plot

When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are strange, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room?

Cast

• Ayn Ruymen as Cheryl Stratton
• Lucille Benson as Aunt Martha
• John Ventantonio as George
• Laurie Main as Reverend Moon
• Stanley Livingston as Jeff
• Charles Woolf as Jeff's father
• Ann Gibbs as Judy
• Len Travis as Mike
• Dorothy Neumann as Mrs. Quigley
• Gene Simms as First Policeman
• John Lupton as Second Policeman
• Patrick Strong as Artie

See also

• List of American films of 1972

References

External links

• Private Parts at the Internet Movie Database
• Private Parts at AllMovie
• John Landis on Private Parts at Trailers From Hell