Crime Cult Classic

Southern sleaze, biker menace, and small-town hysteria collide in this hixploitation powder keg.

SHANTY TRAMP

1967 · 1h 12m · R · Crime / Drama / Thriller · IMDB TMDB

A sleazy evangelist makes a play for a small town's local tramp, but is shocked to learn that she prefers a local black kid over him. Furious, he stirs up the town against the couple.

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Vault Note

When southern Gothic meets skid-row grindhouse, you get a shanty with a whole lot of skeletons.

Programmer's Pick

With its cocktail of hixploitation, backwoods scandal, and twisted morality plays, Shanty Tramp delivers sweaty southern drama with a lurid streak. Joseph G. Prieto doesn't shy from taboo-baiting plot turns or the raw energy of its pulp cast, making this a grindhouse trip through hypocrisy and hysteria.

— SassyFlix Programmer

Editor’s Choice

Night of the Living Dead

1968 · 7.0

Quick Answer

What is Shanty Tramp about?

Shanty Tramp is a 1967 American crime drama thriller directed by Joseph G. Prieto about a sharecropper's daughter whose encounters with a revival preacher, a biker gang leader, and a black youth spark violence and chaos in a southern town.

Details & Specs

Director: Joseph G. Prieto
Writers: Reuben Guberman, Joseph P. Mawra, K. Gordon Murray
Release: 1967
Runtime: 1h 12m
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Synopsis

A sharecropper's daughter who makes herself available to the male citizens of a southern town tries to add a revival preacher to her conquests. She subsequently becomes attracted to the leader of a motorcycle gang, but he threatens to disfigure her when she rejects him for refusing to pay for her favors.

A black youth saves her from the motorcyclist, and her father accuses the youth of raping his daughter. The sheriff's posse sets out to find him; he steals a car from a moonshiner in an attempt to escape and dies in a crash. The father and daughter argue, and the daughter stabs her father to death. Afterwards, she goes to the preacher and asks him to take her with him to the next town.

Vault Note

When southern Gothic meets skid-row grindhouse, you get a shanty with a whole lot of skeletons.

Programmer's Pick

— SassyFlix Programmer

Editor’s Choice

Night of the Living Dead

1968 · 7.0

Why Cult

Hixploitation Mayhem

The film wallows in the swampier side of southern small-town life, packed with sharecroppers, moonshiners, and mob justice.

Biker Gang Danger

A menacing motorcycle gang leader brings a jolt of mid-century outlaw energy and violence to the rural setting.

Taboo-Baiting Plot

Racial tensions, predatory preachers, and explosive confrontations drive a story that pulls no punches in its depiction of bigotry and lust.

Cast & Crew

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Director: Joseph G. Prieto Writers: Reuben Guberman +2 more

Eleanor Vaill Emily Stryker (as Lee Holland) OS Otto Schlessinger Stryker - Emily's Father (as Kenneth Douglas) RA Ray Aranha Daniel (as Lewis Galen) BR Bill Rogers Preacher Fallows LT Lawrence Tobin Biker Savage EA Ed Anderson CD Charles Deilhi GH George Henry Smith RB Robert Brenner BB Ben Burch DC Don Craig NL Nelon La Count RR Robert Roberts CM Chris Mitchell MR Milt Robbins WD Warren Day JH Jean Hanna Blonde Biker KR Kerry Reagan

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Questions from the Vault

What is Shanty Tramp about? +

Shanty Tramp follows a sharecropper's daughter whose entanglements with a preacher, a biker gang leader, and a black youth ignite violence and turmoil in a southern town.

When was Shanty Tramp released? +

Shanty Tramp was released in 1967.

Who directed Shanty Tramp? +

Shanty Tramp was directed by Joseph G. Prieto.

How long is Shanty Tramp? +

Shanty Tramp has a runtime of 72 minutes.

What genre is Shanty Tramp? +

Shanty Tramp is a crime, drama, and thriller film.

Themes & Keywords

Hixploitation