Southern Movie 56: “Poor Pretty Eddie” (1975)

The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. The first time I watched the 1975 film Poor Pretty Eddie, I kept thinking, “What the hell . . . is this . . . ?” I would say that the story centers on an African-American singer who is travelling alone in the South then gets stranded with car trouble, but it’s really more about the backwoods freak show that she encounters while trying to get… Read more Southern Movie 56: “Poor Pretty Eddie” (1975) →