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Director:
Guerdon Trueblood
Writer:
Bryan Gindoff (writer)
Release Date:
June 1973 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Thriller more
Tagline:
It started as such a simple crime. For 16 year old Candy, dying would have been easier! Was a piece of Candy worth a fortune in diamonds? more
Plot:
An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress. | add synopsis
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they just don't make 'em like this anymore... more (32 total)

Cast

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Tiffany Bolling ... Jessie
Ben Piazza ... Avery
Susan Sennett ... Candy
Brad David ... Alan
Vince Martorano ... Eddy
Bonnie Boland ... Audrey
Jerry Butts ... Dudley
Leon Charles ... Boss
Dolores Dorn ... Katherine
Phyllis Major ... Lisa
Bill Woodard ... Charlie
Christopher Trueblood ... Sean Newton (as Christophe)
Earl Hansen ... Gun Store Owner
Harry Kronman ... Deli Owner
John Bill ... Policeman
James Whitworth ... Phone Man
Howard Shoup ... Jewelry Store Salesman
Rosella Kronman ... Boss' Wife
Alan DeWitt ... Priest
Diana Vaughan Read ... Nun
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Directed by
Guerdon Trueblood 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Bryan Gindoff  writer

Produced by
Gary Adelman .... associate producer
Beach Dickerson .... assistant producer (as Charles Batch Dickerson)
Bryan Gindoff .... producer
Robert Misrach .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Robert Drasnin 
 
Cinematography by
Robert Maxwell 
 
Film Editing by
Richard Greer 
 
Costume Design by
Anna Marie Trueblood 
 
Makeup Department
Melanie Levitt .... makeup artist
Lola Waychus .... assistant makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bruce Henstell .... assistant director
Steve Singer .... second assistant director (as Stephen Singer)
 
Art Department
Charles Posner .... prop master
 
Sound Department
Richard S. Brummer .... sound effects editor
Kenneth Isley .... boom operator
James M. Tanenbaum .... sound mixer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Ron Batzdorff .... camera operator: second unit
Ron Batzdorff .... gaffer
Frank Dell .... best boy
Beau Marks .... still photographer
 
Other crew
Mary Bartelt .... production secretary
Don Gottlieb .... presenter
Marc Grossman .... production assistant
Arthur Marks .... presenter
Sharon Ridgeway .... script supervisor
Robert Stitzel .... production assistant
 

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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:R | USA:R
Company:
Marmot Productions more

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Trivia:
Director Guerdon Trueblood and co-star Vince Martorano had been best friends at George Washington University in Virginia and, both being interested in the film industry, had a bet as to who would find success first. Trueblood became an in-demand writer for TV shows and movies-of-the-week, and when he got the job of directing "The Candy Snatchers," asked writer Bryan Gindoff to create the character of Eddy specifically for Martorano, who was working as a commercial fisherman when he was summoned by Trueblood to appear in the film. more
Quotes:
Jessie: [hands out items to gang] Books... binoculars... RyKrisp.
Alan: RyKrisp?
Jessie: Birdwatchers *love* it!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Money Is the Root of All Happiness more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
they just don't make 'em like this anymore..., 3 September 2003
Author: bukakkefriedchicken from fabulous Las Vega$!

'The Candy Snatchers' is among the most entertaining low-budget films of the 70s, incorporating the allure of drive-in/grindhouse sleaze with classic noir elements...the result being a very original, overlooked exploitation masterpiece. Within the brisk, intense kidnapping/ransom story, we have some of the most mean-spirited criminals ever, trying to acquire a load of diamonds from the stepfather of young Candy(an appealing girlie, she spends the entire film in various stages of bondage wearing a Catholic schoolgirl uniform). Plans run afoul as the plot twists and shifts in many surprising and shocking ways. I don't want to give any of this movie away, but I encourage everyone to see this, you won't be let down! 9/10.

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