THE LOVE GARDEN (1971)

“I began my seduction strategy the next day,” says Mike (Jason Scott), the well-meaning protagonist of The Love Garden, writer and director Mark Haggard’s debut effort for executive producer Bob Chinn and producer Roland Miller from 1971. And with but thirty minutes left in the film, the audience should want him to succeed in bedding […]

EVIL COME, EVIL GO (1972)

As the world of softcore began to crumble in the early seventies, it became more imperative for filmmakers to try and formulate some kind of a hook to make their projects worth the time to an audience who could just as well plunk down the same amount of money to see the real thing. For […]

THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRL (1972)

Touched with a unique magic that makes every single second count, The All-American Girl, writer and director Mark Haggard’s 1972 follow-up to the previous year’s The Love Garden, is easily the filmmaker’s high-water mark and very well be the best project executive producer Bob Chinn was involved with (where he wasn’t the director himself, naturally). […]

LITTLE ORPHAN DUSTY (1978)

After giving Rhonda Jo Petty her first feature role in 1978’s Disco Lady, director Bob Chinn was approached by Jaacov Jaacovi, friend and sometime crew member, to help direct Little Orphan Dusty from a screenplay that Jaacovi had written with his then-wife, Svetlana. As he had never made a film before, Jaacovi needed Chinn’s help […]

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 […]

TELEFANTASY (1978)

Utilizing a simple idea of a floundering television station grabbing for ratings by injecting a whole bunch of sex into their news program, Bob Chinn’s Telefantasy is like a Mad Magazine parody of Sidney Lumet’s Network it if ran in Screw Magazine. Unfortunately, Telefantasy has not proved to be as prophetic as Network. For all […]

THE HISTORY OF PORNOGRAPHY (1970)

“What is pornography to one man is the laughter of Venus to another.” – D.H. Lawrence For a quickly produced feature that was constructed out of almost nothing but stills, magazines with a mini-raid on Art Burnham’s personal collection stag films, Bob Chinn’s The History of Pornography (credited to Hons Wegmunsen) is a surprisingly insightful, […]

LIPPS & MCCAIN (1978)

With a handful of noirs, a couple of comedies, a sexploitation horror film, and a weed/musical/road picture, Bob Chinn really cut through the genres in the 70’s like no other filmmaker in the adult world (and only like a precious few in the mainstream world). Perhaps outdoing them all, Chinn served up an honest-to-goodness western […]

EXHAUSTED: JOHN C. HOLMES, THE REAL STORY (1981)

“Everything in life is an act,” says John Holmes in the opening moments of Julia St. Vincent’s Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story, and, boy howdy, does Holmes put one on for its entire running time. A ludicrous hagiography and ode to the adult film world’s biggest superstar, Exhausted is a heaping helping of […]

NICE N’ TIGHT (1985)

An effervescent rush of otherworldly decency runs through the center of Bob Chinn’s Nice N’ Tight, the second feature in his two picture deal for Tara Video in 1985. Like Blondie, the other film Chinn made for Tara and likewise released the same year, Nice N’ Tight was shot on 16mm for the still-functioning European […]