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Angel: Directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil. With Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun. Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets.
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- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Robert Vincent O'Neil
- 1984-01-13
Andrews takes Molly/Angel home to speak with her parents, but discovers that Molly's father left nine years ago and her mother abandoned her three years ago. Molly maintains the pretense of a mother at home so that she will not be sent to a foster home .
Robert Vincent O'Neil. Writer. Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
Andrews takes Molly/Angel home to speak with her parents, but discovers that Molly's father left nine years ago and her mother abandoned her three years ago. Molly maintains the pretense of a mother at home so that she will not be sent to a foster home. She believes that her father will return someday.
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- Reception
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Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart (Donna Wilkes) attends private prep school in the Los Angeles area in the daytime, but transforms herself to "Angel" at night: a leather mini-skirted, high-heeled street prostitute who works Hollywood Boulevard. Angel has a "street family" made up of aging movie cowboy Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun), street p...
Cliff Gorman as Lieutenant AndrewsSusan Tyrrell as Solly MoslerDick Shawn as MaeRory Calhoun as Kit CarsonDonna Wilkes (who played 15-year-old Molly) was actually 24 years old, when she played the role. Wilkes prepared for the role by talking to real-life street prostitutes on Hollywood Boulevard, spent time with the Los Angeles Police Department and spent time in various halfway houses for underage children living on the streets of Los Angeles. Compos...
Box Office
"Angel" became a sleeper hit, debuting #8 at the box office, grossing $2,214,824 during its opening weekend. It managed to stay in the top 10 at the boxx office for several months. Domestically, the film earned $17,488,564, making the highest grossing film released by New World Pictures.
Critical Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, "Angel" received an audience score of 45% with its average rating as 3.2\5. Vincent Canby called it "another fearless problem film" and that it would turn out to be "one of the top sleazemobiles of 1984".
1984 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 1. Audience Award for Best Feature: Robert Vincent O'Neill (won)
The product of a disastrous childhood (her parents abandoned her at age twelve), Molly is cared for by the transvestite Mae, lesbian landlady Solly Mosler and a potty former stuntman, Kit Carson.
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Angel is a 1984 action thriller film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil, written by O'Neil and Joseph Michael Cala, and starring Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun and John Diehl. 15 year-old Molly Stuart is the best in her class in high school.
