BODY GIRLS (1983)

The bodybuilding craze of the 80’s and that decade’s focus on physical fitness are the cultural winds that sailed Body Girls into adult theaters in 1983. Another pop comedy by director Bob Chinn for Caribbean Films, it would be Chinn’s penultimate effort for the company and with Hyapatia Lee who was then on a meteoric […]

SWEET YOUNG FOXES (1983)

Much like 1982’s Baby Cakes and the same year’s The Young Like it Hot, 1983’s Sweet Young Foxes is lacquered with a sugary glaze that is similar to Director Bob Chinn’s female-centered output from 1976-1978, but it’s touched with a slightly more down-to-earth and knowing attitude regarding its characters, thanks in large part to a […]

THE YOUNG LIKE IT HOT (1983)

After a slew of troubled productions and crises of professional confidence that couldn’t have started the 80’s off in a worse way for him, Bob Chinn returned to Harry Mohney and Gail Palmer’s Caribbean Films in 1983 to helm The Young Like it Hot, a veritable showcase for the gorgeous Hyapatia Lee, a multi-award winning […]

HOT & SAUCY PIZZA GIRLS (1978)

“All I want in this life of mine is some good clean fun.” – Little Feat, “Fat Man in the Bathtub” Country Girl Pizza is the home base for Bob Chinn’s Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls, a freewheeling, deep-dish slice of gooey, west coast goodness from 1978. Set in a screwy and oversexed heightened reality, […]

PRISONER OF PARADISE (1980)

During an early scene in Bob Chinn’s Hot Legs (1979), modeling agency head Richard Pacheco is on the phone with his boss, played by Delania Raffina. The audience can only make out his side of the conversation as her side is built out of of shrieking, garbled nonsense that blares through the phone’s earpiece and […]

CALIFORNIA GIGOLO

At the beginning of Bob Chinn’s California Gigolo, a button-cute and tarted up Kandi Barbour makes eyes at John Holmes and they begin a strange back and forth tease that, after a suspended cable car ride, culminates at the top of a mountain. Cutting between the two as she gives him fadeaways and grins, John […]

HOT LEGS (1979)

The hectic and harried world of a modeling agency is the backdrop for 1979’s Hot Legs, Bob Chinn’s third picture for Gail Palmer and Harry Mohney’s Caribbean Films. A beautifully handled light spritzer of a picture, Hot Legs also proves to be smarter than the average bear with its insight into the high pressure world […]

TROPIC OF DESIRE (1979)

Opening on an absolutely gorgeous tableaux full of color and slow, gliding movement, Kitty Shayne, perfectly costumed as a wartime prostitute, sits in a chair in full recline and begins to undress. A serviceman (Eric Stein) watches and does the same, Glenn Miller’s “Sunrise Serenade” playing over a nearby radio. As they make their way […]

FANTASYWORLD (1979)

While looking for a good time to be had in San Francisco once they reach port, a group of Navy swabs stumble across an ad in the back of Screw Magazine for Fantasyworld, a mysterious sex club that promises the sky but for which there is no address or phone number listed. Intrigued, they set […]

BLONDE FIRE (1979)

As the 70’s began to draw to a close, so did filmmaker Bob Chinn’s relationship with Armand Atamian’s Freeway Films. Flush with projects from other companies (most notably, Jerry Mahoney and Gail Palmer’s Caribbean Films) Chinn had mostly been soldiering on with Freeway as a token of gratitude toward Atamian and also because of Chinn’s […]