Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend

Infobox Film
name = Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend
caption = Video release poster.
director = Ronnie Cramer
producer = David Manning
writer = T. G. Baker
starring = Andren Scott
Monica McFarland
Sarah Young
Sheila Traister
music = Alarming Trends
distributor = Scorched Earth Productions
released = December 25, 1991
runtime = 89 min.
country = USA
language = English
followed_by = The Hitler Tapes
imdb_id = 0104212

"Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend" is a 1991 black comedy film about a lonely security guard who spends his life savings on call girls in less than two weeks. It was directed by artist/filmmaker Ronnie Cramer and is based on a story by T. G. Baker. Shot in Denver, Colorado, Omaha, Nebraska and at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, Even Hitler is celebrated in cult film circles for its extremely dark sense of humor and its copious amount of female nudity.

Plot synopsis

Marcus Templeton (Scott) is a thirty year old, unmarried security guard who describes himself as "a lonely, desperate man." He works at night and spends his days looking at pornography and takes to peeping into windows in the hopes of seeing naked women. Marcus is slightly overweight and spends a fair amount of screen time obsessing about his physical health, finally resorting to wearing a corset and using questionable weight-loss products such as Reduce-O-Creme, which promises to "melt, melt, melt your fat away" upon application.

After several disastrous attempts at dating women, Marcus resorts to seeing prostitutes. He begins to secretly record his encounters with the call girls, first with a small tape recorder and then with a hidden video camera. He quickly spends his entire life savings and contracts sexually transmitted diseases, all the while losing his grip on reality (his father "appears" on the television screen and berates Marcus).

When a disagreeable prostitute discovers she is being surreptitiously videotaped, she pulls a handgun out of her purse, shoots Marcus and steals his video equipment. As Marcus lies bleeding to death he grabs the nearby bottle of Reduce-O-Creme and applies it to his belly in a final, futile gesture.

Cast

* Andren Scott .............. Marcus Templeton
* Monica McFarland .............. Call Girl
* Sheila Traister .............. News Reporter
* Karen Pombo .............. Call Girl
* Jim Norton .............. Dad
* Christie Cass .............. Call Girl
* Karen Zaczkowski .............. Sunbather
* Sarah Young .............. Call Girl

Misc.

*"Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend" was named "Best Drive-In Movie of the Year" by cult film critic Joe Bob Briggs".
*Several bands subsequently recorded songs titled "Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend", including Grand Pricks from Raleigh, North Carolina and The Mr. T Experience from Berkeley, California. See "Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend (song)".

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