BABY CAKES (1980)

In Bob Chinn’s Baby Cakes, a group of female bicyclists begin a 500 mile coastal trip to participate in a race in Los Angeles which they slowly forget about as they get wrapped up in their own romantic entanglements with a group of surfers they meet along the way (kinds like Breaking Away meets L’Avventura […]

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 SEDUCTRESS (1981)

In 1981, a motion picture was released in which a woman is being utilized by a sleazy photographer with dark contacts in the aid of a shadowy political plot meant to clear the road for further malfeasance and corruption. While this sounds like I’m describing Brian De Palma’s Blow Out, I’m actually talking about Bob […]