8/10
The Holy Grail of early 70s soft core Drive In Sexploitation
18 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I have to chuckle at the multiple reviewers who apparently don't really get this stuff. They review this drive-in B movie as if they expected The Sound of Music. People-its supposed to be this way. These are B movies, made cheaply and designed to play in Grindhouse Theaters and Drive-Ins at the dawn of the hardcore porn era. This 1970 movie preceded true hard core films that would become more prevalent after the success of Deep Throat in 72. This was actually rated X for its multiple soft core sex scenes upon release. It succeeds magnificently at what it was designed to do.

The appeal of the blossoming teenage sisters is obvious and well rewarded. The younger gal is especially erotic as she explores her own body in multiple self gratification scenes. These are roles a filmmaker would not get away with portraying now, with the girls playing 15 and 17 year olds exploring their sexuality, the stepfather incest scene etc. The real payoff for me is the role of Alice, the stripper/hooker who beds with the nasty father. Unbelievably, actress Alice Friedland was not credited for this role. Her sizzling strip club dance early in the film is jawdropping. If someone has seen a more perfect body than this, I would like to see it. The camera lovingly stays on her slightly sweaty and oiled body for multiple minutes are she reveals the most perfect breasts and a$$ you will ever see in a film like this.

Alice is the archetypal late 60s/early 70s free spirit gal, oozing with sexuality. Tall, leggy with the contrast of her perfectly flat stomach and curvy hips serving to magnify those glorious natural incredible bosoms. Wow. And we see more of her bounteous assets in her bedroom scenes with the lech. After seeing this scene, and catching my breath, I proceeded to find and purchase everything with Alice Friedland in it, including the film "Love Games" from 1976 where she is nude throughout but is credited as 'Claudine Benet' for some reason (available at Something Weird). Her filmography abruptly stops circa 1976-77, and I always wondered what happened to her.

To be able to view this slice of Drive-In era sexploitation, at the dawn of the porn film industry, for just a few bucks on the multi Drive-In sets from BCI, in anamorphic video with great color, is astounding, and its laughable that people are claiming these movies are terrible and not worth it. This takes you back to a time when things were looser, free and sexually open, when soft core porn dominated the drive-ins in the summer, yet there was still a freshness and innocence. People now are both more repressed in what has become a sexual police state, and ironically more jaded due to the abundance of mindless gonzo hard core porn which drove soft core classics like this into oblivion. A slice of time that is now forever lost. Alice Friedland forever!
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