PANAMA RED (1973)

A hippie musician is given 72 hours to unload 500 kilos of grass on various funky acquaintances throughout the Los Angeles metroplex. Cisco Pike, you say? Nope. This is Panama Red, the second film from director Bob Chinn’s Pantheon Pictures and the only film on the filmmaker’s resume that was awarded a PG rating from […]

BLUE MONEY (1971)

“But it don’t snow here, it stays pretty green. I’m gonna make a lot of money, then I’m going to quit this crazy scene. I wish I had a river to skate away on.” Joni Mitchell – “River” Captured in glorious 35mm with as much cold, hard cash writer/director/star Alain Patrick sunk into making it […]

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, […]

THE BLONDE IN BLACK LACE (1971)

The smashing successes of the same year’s Johnny Wadd and Flesh of the Lotus necessitated another entry in the cycle of the titular private eye films so another production budget of $750 was set aside and another day on the calendar was blacked out to make everybody’s dreams come true. In the world of early, […]