The Suckers

The Suckers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStu Segall (as Arthur Byrd)
Written byTed Paramore (as Edward Everett)
StarringRichard Smedley
Lori Rose
Vincent Stevens
Sandy Dempsey
Barbara Mills
Norman Fields
CinematographyHal Guthu
Edited byLawrence Avery
Production
company
Cromwell Pictures
Distributed byEntertainment Ventures
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30,000

The Suckers is a 1972 American sexploitation film directed by Stu Segall under the pseudonym Arthur Byrd, and written by Ted Paramore (credited as Edward Everett).[1] It is an adaptation of the 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game", written by Richard Connell, with a plot that follows a big-game hunter who invites employees from a modeling agency to his estate, where he hunts them.[2][3] The film stars Richard Smedley, Lori Rose, Vincent Stevens, Sandy Dempsey, Barbara Mills, and Norman Fields.

The Suckers was filmed in the Bronson Canyon area of California over the course of three days, and was released in the United States in 1972. The only surviving print of the film, from a 1976 re-release, appears to contain at least two instances of missing footage. This print was used for a DVD release of the film by Vinegar Syndrome in 2013.

  1. ^ Senn 2013, p. 53–54.
  2. ^ Hunter, Rob (August 22, 2019). "The Best Adaptations of 'The Most Dangerous Game' You've Never Seen". /Film. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Senn 2013, p. 50.