Lee holland shanty tramp dvd

Among the most legendary of all exploitation pictures shot in the Deep South is the exceptionally tawdry Shanty Tramp, directed by Jose Prieto (as “Joseph” Prieto) and starring Eleanor Vaill (billed here as “Lee Holland”) as the titular lead, the town hussy who winds up setting her lustful sights on a young black man (Lewis Galen) with predictably horrendous results.

Pushing at every boundary and taboo subject along the way, with black and white cinematography that perfectly captures the corn whiskey-stained patina of the town, Shanty Tramp has earned its place among the grimiest of all Southern Gothic melodramas.

But, like so many of the titles byNWR is focusing on, Shanty Tramp is a classic case of a legendary cult film neglected after initial release to the point of essentially disappearing in its original physical form.

Its tiny distributor no longer exists, all major participants in the film are deceased, and the original negative is presumed lost. Indeed, for years, its direc