In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at To Live and Shave in L.A's The Plot That Failed, directed by Doris Wishman. Noise rock musician Tom Smith was buying a sex toy for his girlfriend when he recognized the woman who sold him the erotic device: none other than Doris Wishman. The infamous director of sexploitation fare like Double Agent 73, Let Me Die a Woman, Bad Girls Go To Hell and Nude on the Moon had fallen on hard times and was now living in Miami and working at 'The Pink Pussycat', a sex shop. The first thing she asked Tom Smith was if he could loan her some money...
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- 9/19/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Blu-ray Release Date: July 3, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $24.98
Studio: Image
Chesty Morgan gets tied up before the bust--or vice versa--in Double Agent 73.
Chesty Morgan’s Bosom Buddies, a trio of films from the Something Weird Video label of cult favorites, two of which feature the noted pneumatic 1970s sexploitation star Chesty Morgan, finally makes the leap to high-definition via their release on Blu-ray from Image.
Chesty, of course, was that excessively endowed starlet who originally hailed from Poland. She came to America and ultimately became a burlesque queen and grindhouse film star whose measurements included a reported 73Ff bustline!
The three movies included in the Bosom Buddies collection—all directed by sexploitation auteur Doris Wishman–are, well, really bad. But they’re bad in that cheap, ridiculous, grindhouse way that also makes them so so entertaining!
Here’s the breakdown:
Deadly Weapons (1974): In the first feature Chesty Morgan takes out...
Price: Blu-ray $24.98
Studio: Image
Chesty Morgan gets tied up before the bust--or vice versa--in Double Agent 73.
Chesty Morgan’s Bosom Buddies, a trio of films from the Something Weird Video label of cult favorites, two of which feature the noted pneumatic 1970s sexploitation star Chesty Morgan, finally makes the leap to high-definition via their release on Blu-ray from Image.
Chesty, of course, was that excessively endowed starlet who originally hailed from Poland. She came to America and ultimately became a burlesque queen and grindhouse film star whose measurements included a reported 73Ff bustline!
The three movies included in the Bosom Buddies collection—all directed by sexploitation auteur Doris Wishman–are, well, really bad. But they’re bad in that cheap, ridiculous, grindhouse way that also makes them so so entertaining!
Here’s the breakdown:
Deadly Weapons (1974): In the first feature Chesty Morgan takes out...
- 5/3/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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The sexploitation film Hot Thrills was illustrative of the genre's promise to go (almost) all the way.
By David Savage
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Brooklyn non-profit arts group Light Industry will be the host venue for the Doris Wishman Memorial Lecture entitled “The Sensation Seekers” this Tuesday, August 25th, at 7:30 pm. Presented by noted exploitation film scholar Eric Schaefer, whose best known book is the award-winning Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Duke University Press, ’99) his talk will discuss the “strategies of evasion” that allowed sexploitation movies to indicate that sexual acts were occurring without ever having to show visible proof – the element that became so necessary in hardcore films.
Depending on your age, whether you remember the sexploitation genre first-hand or as a latter day home media collector, many a “disappointed” customer can attest to the unfulfilled promises er,...
The sexploitation film Hot Thrills was illustrative of the genre's promise to go (almost) all the way.
By David Savage
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Brooklyn non-profit arts group Light Industry will be the host venue for the Doris Wishman Memorial Lecture entitled “The Sensation Seekers” this Tuesday, August 25th, at 7:30 pm. Presented by noted exploitation film scholar Eric Schaefer, whose best known book is the award-winning Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Duke University Press, ’99) his talk will discuss the “strategies of evasion” that allowed sexploitation movies to indicate that sexual acts were occurring without ever having to show visible proof – the element that became so necessary in hardcore films.
Depending on your age, whether you remember the sexploitation genre first-hand or as a latter day home media collector, many a “disappointed” customer can attest to the unfulfilled promises er,...
- 8/22/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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