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DARRELL HOWE WITH JUDY HOWARD IN 'ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO'

Judy Howard in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO Year: 1962 Rating: ****

When token investigator Michael Granger is kind of affably/subtly questioning local hoodlum Darrell Howe on he and his gang's whereabouts when some people got beat up the night before, Howe's facially-scared Chet lies about going to a movie... specifically CRIME AND PUNISHMENT... an ironic parallel the cop instantly understands...

Yet is only partially what ANATOMY is inspired by... as the law's only around right after bad things happen: like a rich man's house burning because his son hooked up with Chet's loose and lithe GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW ingenue Judy Howard, who, with only a few scenes, smoothly combines passionate seduction with perplexed vulnerability...

Judy Howard and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO

The polar opposite of Chet's all-around-good-girl sister Pamela Lincoln, herself dating someone that Chet has a problem with... his former best friend... whose father (b-movie staple Russ Bender) had witnessed their brother committing a murder that led directly to the gas chamber... in a sequence that not only begins the movie but establishes the vengeful rage within our leading anti-hero...

Who's a pretty terrific young actor, keeping busy manipulating both a naive/innocent cohort and a restlessly rebellious one — while sinking his teeth into some really violent sequences, particularly for the early-1960's in what's more befitting a noticeably low-budget exploitation-expose than if ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO was just another mainstream teenage-gang melodramas.

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Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Judy Howard and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO with Michael Granger
PSYCHO actor Frank Killmond with Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
PSYCHO actor Frank Killmond with Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Judy Howard and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Don Devlin and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Judy Howard and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Pamela Lincoln and Ronnie Burns in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Pamela Lincoln and Ronnie Burns in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Pamela Lincoln and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Pamela Lincoln and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Russ Bender in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Judy Howard and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Michael Granger, Frank Killmond and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Michael Granger and Frank Killmond in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
Michael Granger, Frank Killmond and Darrell Howe in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO

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