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 […]

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 […]