The same was trueoftheirfirstmillion-seller, “ProudMary” (1971), where the gyrating Tinastole the show from Ike, unsmiling behind her in his high fedoraanddark glasses.
Much of the movie is grim and disturbing: Ike abuses Tina in just about every way a man can abuse a woman, and the domestic-violence scenes are intense, harrowingly graphic.