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- Intellectually gifted 15 year old Molly spends her days earning high grades at school and her nights working Hollywood Boulevard as the prostitute Angel. The product of a disastrous childhood (her parents abandoned her at age twelve), Molly is cared for by the transvestite Mae, lesbian landlady Solly Mosler and a potty former stuntman, Kit Carson.
Molly heads out on the streets with Solly's huge long-barreled Magnum to avenge Mae and Andrews goes after her. After a fight and chase, Carson, whom Andrews enlisted to help, shoots the killer. Molly, Andrews, and a wounded Carson walk off together.
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Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart (Donna Wilkes) attends private prep school in the Los Angeles area in the daytime, but transforms herself to "Angel" at night: a leather mini-skirted, high-heeled street prostitute who works Hollywood Boulevard. Angel has a "street family" made up of aging movie cowboy Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun), street p...
Cliff Gorman as Lieutenant AndrewsSusan Tyrrell as Solly MoslerDick Shawn as MaeRory Calhoun as Kit CarsonDonna Wilkes (who played 15-year-old Molly) was actually 24 years old, when she played the role. Wilkes prepared for the role by talking to real-life street prostitutes on Hollywood Boulevard, spent time with the Los Angeles Police Department and spent time in various halfway houses for underage children living on the streets of Los Angeles. Compos...
Box Office
"Angel" became a sleeper hit, debuting #8 at the box office, grossing $2,214,824 during its opening weekend. It managed to stay in the top 10 at the boxx office for several months. Domestically, the film earned $17,488,564, making the highest grossing film released by New World Pictures.
Critical Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, "Angel" received an audience score of 45% with its average rating as 3.2\5. Vincent Canby called it "another fearless problem film" and that it would turn out to be "one of the top sleazemobiles of 1984".
1984 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 1. Audience Award for Best Feature: Robert Vincent O'Neill (won)
Jun 1, 2024 · The next day at school, Molly is confronted by teacher Patricia Allen, who is concerned about Molly's lack of extracurricular activities. Molly explains that her mother was paralyzed by a stroke and she has to head home immediately after school each day to care for her.
Angel is a 1984 action thriller film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil, written by O'Neil and Joseph Michael Cala, and starring Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun and John Diehl. 15 year-old Molly Stuart is the best in her class in high school.
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
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- Adams Apple Film Company, New World Pictures
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Jan 13, 1984 · Susan Tyrrell appears as Molly's good-hearted, lesbian landlady, and Rory Calhoun, wearing enough fake hair to stuff a sofa, appears as an old-time cowboy actor.
Angel is a 1984 American action thriller film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil. The film was released by New World Pictures on January 13, 1984. By day, 15-year-old honor student Molly Stewart (Donna Wilkes) attends a private prep school in Los Angeles, California; by night, she transforms...
