Womanising detectives, shapely dames, gangsters and convoluted criminal conspiracies: Richard O'Brien and Richard Hartley's 1982 musical take on Carter Brown's California-set whodunit fiction is pulp noir to the max. However, unlike the pair's previous collaboration, the indelible Rocky Horror Show, this is more homage than send-up " arch but fairly straightforward storytelling in place of riotous, risqué pastiche.r…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:03AM on July 12, 2016