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Angel

1984 · 1h 33m · Action · Crime · Thriller

TMDB 6.1/10 (128 votes)

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.

Directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil

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Angel is a 1984 American exploitation 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, and Rory Calhoun. Its plot follows a teenage prostitute in Los Angeles who faces danger when a serial killer begins stalking and murdering young sex workers. Released by New World Pictures, it was the first installment in the Angel film series. Plot Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart 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 teenage prostitute who works Hollywood Boulevard. Angel has a "street family" made up of aging movie cowboy Kit Carson, street performer Yoyo Charlie, drag performer Mae, fellow hookers Crystal and Lana, and her landlady, eccentric painter Solly Mosler. The street's dangers increase as a psycho-necrophiliac serial killer begins to stalk and murder prostitutes. Los Angeles Police Lt. Andrews is assigned to the case, but finds no leads. Tragedy strikes Angel's group of friends when Crystal becomes a victim.

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“The people who walk angelically according to their free will and practice discipline in the life of the angels remove themselves completely from the desires of the flesh, beloved brothers; they die daily in the life that belongs to earth, but they live in the life of the angels, just as they share in the life of the Lord.”
— [Athanasius of Alexandria]] “The advanced life of virtue,” Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (1995), p. 314
“One angel cannot perform two duties at a time, nor are two angels sent to perform one and the same duty.”
— 50, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 80-81
“We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?”
— John Page, about the American Revolutionary War in a letter to Thomas Jefferson; quoted in Angel in the Whirlwind (1997) by Benson Bobrick.
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 126.
“And how many angels are in the heavens, whose intercession avails naught except after Allah gives permission to whom He pleases and chooses. Surely those who believe not in the Hereafter name the angels with female names. And they have no knowledge of it. They follow but conjecture, and surely conjecture avails naught against Truth.”
— Quran, chapter 53: 26-28
“If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.”
— Nathaniel Parker Willis, as quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1872) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 11; also in Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers (1909) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 394

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From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“The people who walk angelically according to their free will and practice discipline in the life of the angels remove themselves completely from the desires of the flesh, beloved brothers; they die daily in the life that belongs to earth, but they live in the life of the angels, just as they share in the life of the Lord.”
— [Athanasius of Alexandria]] “The advanced life of virtue,” Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (1995), p. 314
“One angel cannot perform two duties at a time, nor are two angels sent to perform one and the same duty.”
— 50, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 80-81
“We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?”
— John Page, about the American Revolutionary War in a letter to Thomas Jefferson; quoted in Angel in the Whirlwind (1997) by Benson Bobrick.
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 126.
“And how many angels are in the heavens, whose intercession avails naught except after Allah gives permission to whom He pleases and chooses. Surely those who believe not in the Hereafter name the angels with female names. And they have no knowledge of it. They follow but conjecture, and surely conjecture avails naught against Truth.”
— Quran, chapter 53: 26-28
“If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.”
— Nathaniel Parker Willis, as quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1872) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 11; also in Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers (1909) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 394

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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