Dusty and Sweets McGee

Dusty and Sweets McGee

Director: Floyd Mutrux Cast: Clifton Tip Fredell
Clifton Tip Fredell
, Kit Ryder
Kit Ryder
, Billy Gray
Billy Gray
, Bob Graham
Bob Graham
Floyd Mutrux
Dusty and Sweets McGee

Dusty and Sweets McGee

Director: Floyd Mutrux Cast: Clifton Tip Fredell
Clifton Tip Fredell
, Kit Ryder
Kit Ryder
, Billy Gray
Billy Gray
, Bob Graham
Bob Graham
Floyd Mutrux

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Overview

Maverick director Floyd Mutrux made his feature debut with this offbeat semi-documentary look at the realities of the Los Angeles drug scene. Mutrux and his camera crew follow a handful of real-life heroin addicts as they go through their daily routines of scoring dope and whiling away the hours until their next fix. (The dealers are played by actors, among them William Fraker, a noted cinematographer who helped shoot the film, and Billy Gray, a former child star from Father Knows Best.) Dusty and Sweets are a thirty-something couple whose often strained relationship is held together by their shared dependence on heroin. Kit is a blasé male hustler who turns tricks to support his habit. Tip is a self-described "everyday card-carrying dope fiend" who demonstrates his technique for ripping off supermarkets and explains how to keep up a habit behind bars. And a cheerfully blank teenage couple seem to spend their days either shooting up, nodding off, or wondering where to get more dope. Though featuring enough on-screen skin popping to make nearly any audience wince, Dusty and Sweets McGee's beautiful photography and languid mood captures the blissfully narcotic allure of Los Angeles in a way that makes the film compelling, while allowing its subjects to seem both human and tragic. Dusty and Sweets McGee also includes a soundtrack of vintage rock and roll radio, and a brief appearance by the group Blues Image, playing their sole hit "Ride Captain Ride."

Product Details

Release Date: 03/23/2009
UPC: 0883316125335
Original Release: 1971
Rating: R
Source: Warner Archives
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:27:00
Sales rank: 47,328

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Clifton Tip Fredell Tip
Kit Ryder Male Hustler
Billy Gray City Life
Bob Graham Little Boy
Pam The Girl
Nancy Wheeler Nancy
Beverly Dusty
Russ Knight Weird Beard
William A. Fraker The Cellist,The Cellist
Ricky Nelson Composer

Technical Credits
Floyd Mutrux Director,Screenwriter
Michael S. Laughlin Producer,Producer
Bill Randall Sound/Sound Designer
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