HOT LEGS (1979)

The hectic and harried world of a modeling agency is the backdrop for 1979’s Hot Legs, Bob Chinn’s third picture for Gail Palmer and Harry Mohney’s Caribbean Films. A beautifully handled light spritzer of a picture, Hot Legs also proves to be smarter than the average bear with its insight into the high pressure world […]

TROPIC OF DESIRE (1979)

Opening on an absolutely gorgeous tableaux full of color and slow, gliding movement, Kitty Shayne, perfectly costumed as a wartime prostitute, sits in a chair in full recline and begins to undress. A serviceman (Eric Stein) watches and does the same, Glenn Miller’s “Sunrise Serenade” playing over a nearby radio. As they make their way […]

FANTASYWORLD (1979)

While looking for a good time to be had in San Francisco once they reach port, a group of Navy swabs stumble across an ad in the back of Screw Magazine for Fantasyworld, a mysterious sex club that promises the sky but for which there is no address or phone number listed. Intrigued, they set […]

THE JADE PUSSYCAT (1977)

Shifting the Johnny Wadd formula to expand outward as far as the budget would stretch it, Bob Chinn’s The Jade Pussycat sticks the private eye, now a much dandier figure with a swanky office, into a pre-made mystery adventure which, as an explicit riff on John Huston’s 1941 adaptation of Dashiell Hammet’s The Maltese Falcon, […]

HARD SOAP, HARD SOAP (1977)

One of the true joys of vintage hardcore is that the films are generally better time capsules than most any piece of entertainment from the period save and except daytime talk and game shows. A lot of times, the films made in the adult industry were written, produced, and released within mere weeks meaning that […]