Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum' (1992) (TV)

Regisseur:

Michael Ray Rhodes

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Henry Slesar (magazine story "The Substitute") (segment)
Barry Brown (teleplay) (segment)

Premierendatum:

5. April 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Anthology

Nutzerkommentare:

Victoria in the Twilight Zone

Besetzung

Victoria Principal	...	Patty / Sylvia
John Terry	...	Kenneth / Nathan / Tom
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Gary Beach
Susan Diol	...	Ada Raymond
Marcia Firesten	...	Joan's Receptionist
Michael French	...	John Raymond
Lorie Griffin	...	Kenneth's Receptionist
Julie Hayek
Richard Herd	...	Charles Hackley
Carol Mayo Jenkins
James Carroll Jordan	...	Dick
Andreas Katsulas	...	Frank
Allan Kolman
Joe Lambie	...	Hoffliner
Michael Mitz	...	Director
Frank Novak	...	Bartender
John O'Hurley	...	George
Lynn Rose	...	Gallery Admirer
William Morgan Sheppard	...	Crane
Ron Ulstad	...	Alex Leavitt
Perla Walter	...	Maria
Lisa Waltz
Benny Wills	...	Young Nathan

Alternativ:

Verführung - Dreimal anders (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

95 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

Argentina:16

Firma:

Carroll Newman Productions

Victoria in the Twilight Zone

Victoria Principal executive produces, where she plays 4 roles in 3 stories of love.

In Temptation aka Fallguy, she is Joan, a strawberry-blonde femme fatale in a 1950's potboiler, where she uses a fall guy to dispose of her gangster husband. In Sacrifice aka Sacrifice for Love, she is Lisa, a brunette Lee Krasner-type wife of a 1930's painter, whose efforts to make her husband a success, ironically result in her own death. And in Ecstasy aka The Two of Us, the only contemporary tale, she is both red-headed prim English-accented Patricia, and her imagined uninhibited twin sister Sylvia, who temps Patricia's husband, in a roleplay created to add spice to their sex life. In each tale Principal co-stars with John Terry.

Although the two period pieces are unflattering to her, Principal is particularly unconvincing suffering as Lisa, since she cannot supply the depth of emotion required. She is much better when she plays an agenda.

The teleplays by Barry Brown, Robert Glass and Steven Whitney are based on magazine stories by Henry Slesar and a radio show by Himan Brown, and have the kind of plot twists that are associated with anthology series like The Twilight Zone. The treatments are brief, if uninspired, with dialogue on the level of `I don't know if I'm coming or going. I know which one I prefer'.

Although promoted as erotic thrillers, director Michael Ray Rhodes doesn't expose Principal's body, with orange lighting for Temptation, and repeated use of the phallic symbolism of long-stemmed wine glasses in Ecstasy.