A PASSAGE TO ECSTASY (1985)

Taking a slight title inspiration from A Passage to India, David Lean’s final film which had been a critical and box office success the year before, Bob Chinn’s A Passage to Ecstasy is a bedroom-hopping drama from 1985 that is set amid an anniversary party in a sprawling mansion in Bombay (now Mumbai). Chinn directs […]

BLONDIE (1985)

Despite expressing a willingness to be finished with the adult film business and moving his family from California to Hawaii after wrapping production on 1984’s All the Way In!, director Bob Chinn showed that he still had a lot of gas left in the tank before he closed the door on the adult film world […]

SADIE (1980)

If 1980 started out ominously for Bob Chinn with the troubled stateside portion of the Prisoner of Paradise shoot, an experience that more or less ensured that Chinn was all done with John Holmes, things didn’t get much better for him as the year rolled along. For then there was Sadie, a whole other headache […]

THE MARRIED WOMAN {aka, MY WIFE, THE HOOKER} (1974)

After wandering in the wilderness of softcore and general release pictures for a couple of years, west coast filmmaker Bob Chinn was given the opportunity to shoot a hardcore feature in San Francisco, which, in then-1974, was a geographic location that had been untouched by Chinn’s own productions but much more lax in enforcement of […]

CANDY STRIPERS (1977)

Describing the plot of Bob Chinn’s Candy Stripers pretty much boils down to its elevator pitch: “in the course of an eight-hour day shift, a bunch of horny doctors, nurses, and patients fuck the hospital thirty five degrees off its foundation. That’s it. That’s the movie.” But if that explanation sounds like some thin, porn-ready […]

ALL THE WAY IN! (1984)

Despite her appearance being cheesecake, softcore, and simulated, Dick Aldrich certainly scored a coup when he got Russ Meyer starlet Kitten Natividad to star in Titillation and Eat at the Blue Fox, his two hardcore features from 1982 and 1983, respectively. But Bob Chinn, Aldrich’s friend and sometime collaborator, did him one better by landing […]

TAXI GIRLS (1979)

Buoyed by the notoriety of Little Orphan Dusty that did nothing but make tons of money for him, co-director Jaacov Jaacovi was anxious to get back into the mix and repeat the success with another project. As he had done with Little Orphan Dusty, he approached Bob Chinn to go in halves on the directorial […]

THE LOVE SLAVES (1974)

From one angle, Bob Chinn’s The Love Slaves (1974) is an early vehicle for John Leslie as he investigates the dark and shadowy criminal underworld which is using women to do its murderous bidding. From another, it’s an sex film in which the male lead has sex in the first five minutes and then, curiously, […]

LET’S GET PHYSICAL (1983)

Working from a Hyapatia Lee-penned script entitled Burning Point, itself somewhat inspired by Herbert Ross’s 1977 drama Turning Point, Bob Chinn clocked his final collaboration with both Lee and Caribbean Films with 1983’s Let’s Get Physical, a fairly straightforward domestic drama set in the world of ballet. Though it was first the unfortunate final line […]

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 […]