Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Laurence Harvey

Writers:

Wallace C. Bennett (screenplay)
Wallace C. Bennett (story)
(more)

Release Date:

May 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Nice place to visit...no place to live!

Plot:

A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister...

Plot Keywords:

Korean | Hippie | Beach | Sister | War Veteran

Cast

Laurence Harvey	...	Jason Henry
Joanna Pettet	...	Grace Henry
Stuart Whitman	...	Deputy Rakes
John Ireland	...	Sheriff Duke Bingham
Meg Foster	...	Robbin Stanley
Gloria LeRoy	...	Ginger
David Macklin	...	Alex Heath
Dodie Heath	...	Felice
Altovise Davis	...	Deputy Molly (as Altovise Gore)
Elizabeth St. Clair	...	Head Nurse
Robert Lussier	...	Deputy Lippencourt
Jesse Vint	...	Hot Rod Driver
Tony Ballen
John Hart	...	Doctor
Andy Romano	...	Bryant
Janear Hines	...	Underground reporter
Florence Lake	...	Landlady
June Hedin	...	Hostess
Winston Pruett	...	Ape
Peter Ireland	...	Dale

Directed by
Laurence Harvey

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Wallace C. Bennett		screenplay
Wallace C. Bennett		story
Jack Gross Jr.		adaptation

Produced by
Jack Cushingham	....	producer
Steven North	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Tony Camillo

Cinematography by
Gerald Perry Finnerman

Film Editing by
James Potter

Makeup Department
George Edds	....	makeup artist
Delree F. Todd	....	hair stylist (as Delree Todd)

Production Management
Frank Doyle	....	production manager
Boyd 'Red' Morgan	....	unit manager (as Boyd Morgan)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
George Templeton	....	assistant director

Art Department
Kenig Glubin	....	special props (as Kenig M. Glubin)
Ygnacio Sepulveda	....	property master

Sound Department
Jim Gross	....	sound effects editor (as James Gross)
George Malley	....	sound mixer (as George Maly)
Pat Mitchell	....	boom operator (as Patrick Mitchell)

Camera and Electrical Department
Walter Cripps Jr.	....	key grip
Norman Glasser	....	clapper loader
Emil Oster	....	cinematographer: second unit
Herb Pearl	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ronald Harris	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
Barrett Taylor	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
John Caper Jr.	....	music editor

Other crew
Cleo Anton	....	script supervisor
Dave Davies	....	unit publicist
Harry Mackin	....	assistant to producer

Production Companies

• Brut Productions

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1974) (USA) (theatrical)
• Brut Productions (1976) (USA) (theatrical) (retitled re-release)
• International Film Distributors (1977) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Magnetic Video (1979) (USA) (VHS) (Catalog #5008)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1980) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• CBS/Fox Video (1986) (Belgium) (video)
• Alfa Digital (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Tender Flesh (Philippines: English title) (USA) (reissue title)
Cold Storage (Canada: English title) (TV title)

Runtime:

85 min | Argentina:97 min | Belgium:99 min (video version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:18 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | USA:R | UK:18 | Iceland:16

Company:

Brut Productions

Trivia:

This was Laurence Harvey's final film.

Movie Connections:

Edited into 42nd Street Forever Part 4 (2009) (V)

Soundtrack:

Who Can Tell Us Why

Harvey's final film

The final screen appearance of Lithuanian-born,British-raised actor Laurence Harvey is a crude,grade-Z style horror movie which is made only just about tolerable because of a non-grade Z cast,with mildly well-known performers such as Stuart Whitman,John Ireland,Joanna Pettet and Meg Foster.

Harvey of course made one previous film about Korean war veterans,THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE(1962),but all similarities after this should be immediately erased.The former is now regarded as an all-time classic;this tasteless(literally!)story of a former soldier turned cannibal unable to escape his past is thinly plotted,poorly photographed,dismally produced and unsubtly directed(by Harvey himself).The shock scenes of gore and mutilated bodies in fridges are slightly effective in a grubby,clumsy way,but the film apparently was barely released by it's studio(Warners).Only the personable cast mentioned above make it very marginally watchable;odd member of the cast list lower down is veteran comic actress Florence Lake,playing a landlady,in one of her final film roles.The best remembered of Edgar Kennedy's screen wives in his series of two-reeler's,this probably hastened her retirement about a year later.