Tag Archive: Russ Meyer
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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In 18th century London the orphaned Fanny Hill, a young, pretty and extremely innocent woman is employed as a chambermaid for one Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown’s occupation is that of a madam as she’s running a brothel something which Fanny doesn’t realize due to her innocence. Mrs. Brown however has other plans for Fanny who…
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Europe in the Raw
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Europe in the Raw is one of the more obscure Russ Meyer movies and was one of his last “nudie cuties”. As with his previous movies, The Immoral Mr. Teas, Eve and the Handyman and Wild Gals of the Naked West, this movie features no dialogue, but rather narration. The hook this time is an unnamed…
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Pandora Peaks
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21 years after his last feature, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, cult director Russ Meyer returns with his swan song: Pandora Peaks. It would be the last movie he would direct as Meyer passed away three years after its release. One can only speculate why he came out of retirement but it’s possible that…
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Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
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Not counting the one-time come-back pseudo documentary Pandora Peaks released in 2001, “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens” is the final movie by cult director Russ Meyer. Even though the end credits promises us “Jaws of the Vixen!” this would be his final entry into the world of cinematic movie making. What is funny is…
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Supervixens
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With both The Seven Minutes and Black Snake it seemed that Russ Meyer lost his mojo. Both movies were too much out of his comfort zone and thus they were both critical and commercial failures. So Meyer returned to the concept that made Vixen! such a big hit: the softcore sexploitation movie. Supervixens revolves around…
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Black Snake
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Black Snake is set in 1835 on San Cristobal Island which was part of the British West Indies. Here, a section of the locals has been enslaved by the Blackmoor sugar cane plantation to perform forced labor. The plant is run by the blonde-haired, dressed in black, whip-wielding Lady Susan Walker (Anouska Hempel). Susan rides…
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The Seven Minutes
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Of all the movies Russ Meyer made The Seven Minutes must be the one which is played the most straight. Even during his roughie period when he made movies like Lorna there was always time for some playful exploitation, but not so here. The Seven Minutes is mostly a courtroom drama leaving little room for…
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls might be the most stand-out movie of director Russ Meyer’s filmography. Compared to his other work this is such a different movie, one that still has the typical Meyer touch, but isn’t anything like his previous work. Meyer, working of a script by Roger Ebert (the well known film…
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Cherry, Harry & Raquel!
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There is a funny sense of hypocrisy in Russ Meyer’s “Cherry, Harry & Raquel!” as the movies starts off with a lengthy statement against censorship and how “no man has the right to decide for another”. After this statement we are treated to a lengthy opening monologue about how marihuana is smuggled in from Mexico,…
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Vixen!
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A voluptuous young woman is lying naked and drunk on her bed. Also in the room is another well-endowed woman whom she tells that she has got to take clothes off also. The woman starts taking of her clothes and the already naked woman gazes at her breasts and says “So that’s what my husband…
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Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!
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With “Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!” director Russ Meyer continues his set of soap-opera movies revolving around couple’s relationships and their sex-life, or lack thereof. To spice things up this time he has added a couple of other ingredients like the robbery of a go-go bar and the wife of the owner of said bar being…
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Good Morning… and Goodbye!
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“Good Morning… and Goodbye!” revolves around the marriage problems of Burt and Angel. Angel is Burt’s trophy wife; a much younger voluptuous woman he married after his previous wife, and mother to his 17-year old daughter Lana, ran out on him with another guy. Burt’s plumbing doesn’t function correctly, so he can’t satisfy Angel, much…
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