It didn’t really work, so in an almost Hail Mary attempt to bleed as much money out of it as they could, in 1981 it had yet another crack at the whip as Holy Terror before it finally slipped away into obscurity. This was down to the fact that Brooke Shields, in her first role in this film, was hotter than fire so AA decided to try and cash in on her fame. With its theatrical run done and dusted-and it not exactly breaking any records-Allied Artists couldn’t leave well enough alone and in 1978, Alice, Sweet Alice hit the cinemas again and became Pretty Baby. I mean, I don’t know about you, but as soon as I looked at this poster, I thought to myself “Yup, that’s going to be another version of The Ten Commandments.” Eventually picked up by Allied Artists-after Columbia had dropped the film due to a disagreement with one of its other producers, Richard Rosenberg-it would have its name changed to Alice, Sweet Alice after Allied Artists feared that people would see the title of Communion and assume it was a religious film. Written, directed, and produced by Alfred Sole, it first saw the light of day under its original title of Communion at The Chicago International Film Festival in late 1976. It is a movie that, seemingly, only a handful of people have seen and has been cut, recut, and recut again to fit in with the marketing style of its four separate releases and re-releases. Alice, Sweet Alice is the definition of a cult classic.

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