subscribeNight Tide, Directed by Curtis Harrington. US 1961, 35mm, b/w, 84 min.
by Nancy Cantwell
Part of me just cannot deal with anything Mora, unconvincingly played by Linda Lawson. Maybe it’s because she is a mermaid, but mostly because she is just over the top for no good reason. She really belongs on some distant planet with James T. Kirk, romping around on fake bolders with phasers set to vaporize…not scuba diving with Dennis Hopper off the Santa Monica pier.
As a Siren I would say her powers of persuasion lack depth, but here when asked to to star in a beatnik beach bongo expressionistic dance to angst, I’d say she does a damn fine job!
