Payphones Past

Categories: In Movies and on TV

Phone Booth Scene from “The Savage Eye”, 1960.

Barbara Baxley plays Judith X, or Judith X-McGuire, in this brooding film about a divorced woman living alone in 1950s Los Angeles. It’s a pretty intense film, a little self-absorbed, which incorporates a lot of documentary footage of Los Angeles street scenes from the era. The male voice is that of Gary Merrill, “The Poet”, who is never seen in the film.

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