New York Nights

Plot

New York Nights is a boring, poorly acted adaptation of the much more successful La Ronde by Max Ophül -- ironically barred for four years by the New York State censorship board when it was first released in 1950. The story sequence is the key to the film; nine episodes each have a character from the preceding episode in a new romantic liaison, until the last character ends up with the one at the beginning. These nine scenarios are somewhere below the suds of soap-opera and above the explicit sex of porn movies. Many different directors in different countries have tried their own versions of La Ronde (based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler with much more success than this version by Simon Nuchtern. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Cast

• Peter Matthey - Werner Richards the photgrapher
• Missy O'Shea - Christina

Marcia McBroom - Nicki the Prostitute; William Dysart - Owen, the Financier; Tamara Jones - young model; Thomas Happer - Gigolo; Michael Medeiros - Foster the Porno Director; Willem Dafoe - Punk Boy Friend; Gordon Press - chauffeur; Corinne Alphen - Brooke the Debutante; George Ayer - Jesse the Rock Star; Nicholas Cortland - Harris the Husband; Dominick Giacobbe; Steven Holt; Jim Hunter; Cynthia Lee - Margo, the Porno Star; Lisa Peluso; David Pendleton; Corinne Wahl - Brooke the Debutante; Jolina Mitchell-Collins; Bobbi Burns - Leonora Woolf, the Author; Casey Wayne; Michael Templon; Susan Dava; Lynn Cono; Loree Lane; Peter Mathey; William Galarno; Scott McLennan; Deborah Darr; Leslie Arnette; Teri Tirapelli; Kenny Freeman

Credit

Simon Nuchtern - Director, Victor Zimet - Editor, Rod Stewart - Songwriter, Peter Newland - Songwriter, William P. Milling - Production Manager, Romano Vanderbes - Producer, Rick Waddell - Sound/Sound Designer, Romano Vanderbes - Screenwriter, Arthur Schnitzler - Play Author

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