THE LONERS brings romance, bikers and even some Grapes Of Wrath!

Ah yes, the romantic biker vs. the man movie...never really my thing, but THE LONERS was an entertaining piece of CODE RED Six Pack Volume 2!  Dean Stockwell as a half indian motorbike racer that gets Clyde'd up with Suburban Suzie Cream Cheese gal, Julio (Patricia Stich)?  With a Grapes Of Wrathesque buddy tale tacked in?  SOLD!

 "Some combination...an Irish Indian."

"I never scalp on St. Patrick's Day."

Stockwell stars as STEIN, a man just out to race some motorcycles and enjoy life. But when he gets taunted and rear ended by an annoying Joe Traveling Salesman one day, it sets off a chain of trouble that goes far beyond anything he could have expected with the early death of a police officer during a high speed chase.  It's all fun until...

Meanwhile, Julio is getting yelled at by her mom for smoking some weed at a party (and mom is played to the hilt by Gloria Grahame), and decides to hit the road. The two meet and it's love, sort of... at first sight.  When Julio asks the romantic question of "would you die for me" the only answer she gets is "ain't nothing worth dying for!"  Well, the couple is nice and all, but with the odds stacking against them as things go from bad to worse?  I think you know how things are going to pan out.
And when there pal Alan (Tod Susman in the films best performance) goes apeshit?  Well, the police are out for justice!  Can a trip back to the native roots of Stein's character help him? Should he be helped?  Does anyone here DESERVE to be helped?

While this isn't my usual cup of tea, THE LONERS is a fun quickie that plays around with the idea of anyone here being romantic or worthy of the audience caring about. Stein is a petulant and impulsive guy that realizes that maybe his dad, the ultimate authority, was right.  Julio takes turns at being naive and annoying, a real tribute to Stich who has the perfect 70s Babysitter gone wild look and she gives a great performance playing off the two men in the group. And Alan, he's just plain not all there... But even he becomes hard to redeem after he spins out of control.

What makes the film and it's short running time fun is the performances and some snappy editing and groovy 70s music over a tale we've probably seen a few to many times, regardless of genre or setting... but if you want a quick trip to 70s cinema, where idealism is definitely dead and heroes are few and far between (listen to the end music and looped dialog), you can't go wrong with THE LONERS.


And is it just me..or is a group of LONERs, pluralized, an odd thought?  A gang of loners must have interesting conversations!

The Tale Of The Dean's Wife!

I love these CODE RED DVD releases of SIX PACK drive in movie prints!  I reviewed second volume already, so lets dip in to Volume 1!  What is cool about these is I'm trying everything, no matter the genre.  THE TALE OF THE DEAN'S WIFE doesn't have an appealing title really, but what lurked beneath that was an absolutely bonkers 1 hour and a few minutes of vintage 1970 Sexploitation full of buxom bodies, weird moral politics and... yes, THE DEAN'S WIFE certainly spreading some tail.  Urrrrr... tale.

We open on a scene that just bounces and jiggles along as our hipcat crew I think we are supposed to identify as the rad student set hang out in the woods and randomly sex each other up, down and sideways.  It's rather bouncey. Like this.

And the tighty whitey enthusiasts should note the above as well.  Anyhow, the students are hanging out and spreading the good cheer with much verve, but what they really want is to make their demands known to the uptight Dean of whatever school these shift layaboutitalls attend.  But how? HOW??  Well, it probably helps that what is going on in the Dean's house is just as friction laced as their human anatomy studies in the wild are going.  Here is our crew...

Note the nerdly scholars by the way.... they have some hysterical dialog about doing it for the first time that will keep you chuckling at every appearance.  I don't know who plays the uptight girl, but she delivers some real zingers to Joe Horndog!

Ooof. Been there. Not fun.  To be fair, that dudes hair is so much like Astro Boy that I can't imagine him NOT getting laid with ease.
Back to it!
The hitch here is that the studios girl (note the glasses) is the Dean's Wife's sister and she knows how chaste Dean's Wife can be. But is she?  OH NO...she is wacking, spanking, vibrating and licking EVERYTHING in sight!!
I mean, this is her maid...

 And this is THE DEAN'S WIFE...taken aback by the Maid because she got back.

Cue the Throbbing (something....ummm...oh yeah) GRISTLE.  DISCIPLINE!

"I told you to keep your pants on when my husband is home!"  But when Dean's Wife is home...oh....let's make it better.

So, yeah, Dean's life at home is a little unique. He's so square, the hip kids call him a CUBE!!!  After a dinner party where he meets some of his wife's friends and gets a lesson in the fact that not only are narcotics illegal, but so is a "certain kind of sex, but that doesn't stop people" then old Wifey is off to the races.  And here I meet my new icon. He says the word Erotica thusly.

EEEEE-RAW-TICK.....ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

He brings the pain!  He plays piano while his wife teaches the Dean's Wife more about sapphic shenanigans!  Dean's Wife already knows, but...she'll take more! And more! And more!!!

What I really like is the use of the little boy statue for perspective here... just fantastic direction.
I don't want ruin it all...because THIS IS JUST THE FIRST HALF!!!  The students invade, but they have a plan. It involves a Sugarcube.  And yes...it involves this.

And this!!!  It's getting GROOvavavavavavaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooomy!

And that ain't even the half of it.

I really enjoy sexploitation films, especially from this era.  It runs just over an hour, so I don't know if this is a censored version of a full on porn film, but it plays perfectly without any hard shots at all.  The script is really wacked out, and our "youth" against "the man" story is pretty damn fucked up to be honest.  Because by the time it is over (you'll guess that ending by the way), it just shows the rotten core of these kids and hardly shines as an endorsement of a free love culture. But you won't get caught up in that, you'll just be gobstopped by the insanity in this bite size slab of pulchritudinous playtime in the weird world of bottom of the bill soft core sex.  Buried in this set lies a gem for those in tune with that hipped out vibe of goofballs, eeeeerawwwtickaaaahhhhh and shut down your brain entertainment.
I actually clapped during this movie.  In my living room. Clapping.  Four stars...a hidden film I'll never, ever, forget!

On to the next SIX PACKER!!

By the way... BEN DOVER is in this. Really!! Look!

Code Red Six Pack V.1 - ALL THE YOUNG WIVES

"Let me tell you something, stud... you use my wife, I use your money." 

ALL THE YOUNG WIVES is another fine entry into the CODE RED SIX PACK volume 1, and once again I'm pushed to check out something I would NEVER have found as we are thrown head first into the world of "Big Jim" and his collection of horses, stable hands, young wife hook ups and even a little bit of funky lovin' along the way.  It's sexploitation with only a little bit of sex and a whole lot of drama...

Before I even get at the film, I have to say that I just love this still. You have your beat up print, you have hair by BLOOD, SWEAT & SCISSORS and you have one of the titular YOUNG WIVES longingly looking out the window, topless while holding her morning coffee.  Sexploitation as I like it!

Ahem...back to the show.

Big Jim is the man that controls the jobs, the town and all the sexual shenanigans he can handle. But can he control his favorite stable boy? Can he contain the desires of his beautiful "virgin wife" that he keeps up in his big house?  WILL HIS HORSE BE ABLE TO DEFEAT THE STABLE HANDS HORSE in a race for 5 grand versus running the sexy stableman out of town?  

We shall see..

There isn't much more to add to the plot here, but ALL THE YOUNG WIVES is really entertaining as a bottom of the bill bit of 1973 class warfare and it definitely does deliver on the action scenes it promises. Big Jim does battle with his fists, his wayward schlong and his money as he oppresses everyone that works with him.  But they strike back, and it's a micro rebellion.  His trophy wife finds her way into not just the arms of a younger, more earnest man, but also gets VERY early 70s as she finds herself at the disco with everyone that Big Jim despises and, seemingly, fears in a weird way.  But Big Jim is up for some therapy himself.  In perhaps the films oddest, grooviest and most interesting scenes, BJ can't resist the wiles of an ebony skinned temptress.  The writing of the scene and especially the performances of Gerald Richardson and April Johnson make it a classic as Fancy tells Big Jim she doesn't have to take HIS uppityness.  "I'm me, and you're you...so let's not screw up the balance of power!"  

 It's hard to describe why I enjoyed this so much, but everything here works to add up to a good time for the sexploitation film fanatic. Solid dialog. Good performances. Unexpected groovy dancing and pretty women to boot.  And yes, there was definitely a subtext of racial tension, this Georgia set film in 1973 was sure to push a few buttons at the Drive-Ins of the South!

VIVA LA CODE RED SIX PACK...another cool film I would never have found!

And how interesting that the director is credited as doing English language sound on the Wang Yu film BLOOD OF THE DRAGON? That is on so many packs and PD releases that I've probably seen it 3 times!

As a bonus item I just can't resist sharing the poster for the re-release as THE NAKED RIDER. Now that title and ad campaign would REALLY piss off some folks, this is definitely more socialsploitation than sexploitation, but what a poster!

Code Red Six Pack V.1 - SWINGIN' PUSSYCATS

It's time for more heavily edited German Sex Comedies via CODE RED SIX PACK!  Hey, I like these things, but this late 60s entry might be pushing things a little.  It's missing a whole lot of the nudity...like this shot taken from a German VHS from 1991.

But that doesn't mean it's not worth watching for genre fans. I think much of the language oriented comedy is demolished, but it's a got some broad appeal (ahem) jokes that I got a kick out of.  The story is simple.  A family of libertine's have a family sex gathering every year (???) and the youngest daughter (played by Ingrid Steeger in a very early role, she is billed very low) comes back from school as a VIRGIN!  This will not do!  So, it's a full blast comedy...riot...no...um...sack of shenigans... no...oh oh, implied due to cuts sex fest!  We do get lots of shots of banging headboards though.  So, fans of that will be satisfied!

Dirty old men even make an appearance!
Anyways, it all goes as you would expect it to and if nothing else the violin teacher that gets released, but not before multiple releases as he searches everyones room to find his missing bow. The long one, with a curve...  Yep, it's TeeHee central!

 

Overall...it's fine, another welcome addition to the Six Pack experience to be honest, I like the super short running times at least, nice bottom of the bill fodder and as usual, if you find 60s ladies of Europe alluring (as I do) then you'll get a kick out of not just seeing Steeger, but also Andrea Rau of DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS fame flitting about.  

The US version starts off pretty ballsy as well, as we get a countdown clock to sexual hijinx with a full 20 seconds of blank screen to start things.  This must have been VERY interesting to the original audiences.  eh.  Well, you gotta fill up all that cut nudity run time with something, but BLANK isn't the usual method I see!  

 Code Red's presentation of this edit looks nice, there is a strange sort of blurring that goes on (look at the shot in the trees above), but that is also present on the old VHS, so it must have been intentional.  Dreamlike?  Humph. It matters not, this one can be your first check off to get to the sexier delights of some of the other Six Pack flicks. What we have here is a set of clips from an early German Sex Comedy that will interest fans, but probably not many else.  ONWARDS!!!

 And here, presented without sound for technical glitch reasons, are the original credits.  LONG and actually pretty amusing!

Code Red Six Pack V.1 - THE TALE OF THE DEAN'S WIFE

I love these CODE RED DVD releases of SIX PACK drive in movie prints!  I reviewed second volume already, so lets dip in to Volume 1!  What is cool about these is I'm trying everything, no matter the genre.  THE TALE OF THE DEAN'S WIFE doesn't have an appealing title really, but what lurked beneath that was an absolutely bonkers 1 hour and a few minutes of vintage 1970 Sexploitation full of buxom bodies, weird moral politics and... yes, THE DEAN'S WIFE certainly spreading some tail.  Urrrrr... tale. 

We open on a scene that just bounces and jiggles along as our hipcat crew I think we are supposed to identify as the rad student set hang out in the woods and randomly sex each other up, down and sideways.  It's rather bouncey. Like this.

And the tighty whitey enthusiasts should note the above as well.  Anyhow, the students are hanging out and spreading the good cheer with much verve, but what they really want is to make their demands known to the uptight Dean of whatever school these shift layaboutitalls attend.  But how? HOW??  Well, it probably helps that what is going on in the Dean's house is just as friction laced as their human anatomy studies in the wild are going.  Here is our crew...

Note the nerdly scholars by the way.... they have some hysterical dialog about doing it for the first time that will keep you chuckling at every appearance.  I don't know who plays the uptight girl, but she delivers some real zingers to Joe Horndog! 

Ooof. Been there. Not fun.  To be fair, that dudes hair is so much like Astro Boy that I can't imagine him NOT getting laid with ease. 
Back to it!
The hitch here is that the studios girl (note the glasses) is the Dean's Wife's sister and she knows how chaste Dean's Wife can be. But is she?  OH NO...she is wacking, spanking, vibrating and licking EVERYTHING in sight!!
I mean, this is her maid...

 And this is THE DEAN'S WIFE...taken aback by the Maid because she got back.

Cue the Throbbing (something....ummm...oh yeah) GRISTLE.  DISCIPLINE!

"I told you to keep your pants on when my husband is home!"  But when Dean's Wife is home...oh....let's make it better.

So, yeah, Dean's life at home is a little unique. He's so square, the hip kids call him a CUBE!!!  After a dinner party where he meets some of his wife's friends and gets a lesson in the fact that not only are narcotics illegal, but so is a "certain kind of sex, but that doesn't stop people" then old Wifey is off to the races.  And here I meet my new icon. He says the word Erotica thusly. 

EEEEE-RAW-TICK.....ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

He brings the pain!  He plays piano while his wife teaches the Dean's Wife more about sapphic shenanigans!  Dean's Wife already knows, but...she'll take more! And more! And more!!!

What I really like is the use of the little boy statue for perspective here... just fantastic direction. 
I don't want ruin it all...because THIS IS JUST THE FIRST HALF!!!  The students invade, but they have a plan. It involves a Sugarcube.  And yes...it involves this.

And this!!!  It's getting GROOvavavavavavaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooomy!

And that ain't even the half of it.

I really enjoy sexploitation films, especially from this era.  It runs just over an hour, so I don't know if this is a censored version of a full on porn film, but it plays perfectly without any hard shots at all.  The script is really wacked out, and our "youth" against "the man" story is pretty damn fucked up to be honest.  Because by the time it is over (you'll guess that ending by the way), it just shows the rotten core of these kids and hardly shines as an endorsement of a free love culture. But you won't get caught up in that, you'll just be gobstopped by the insanity in this bite size slab of pulchritudinous playtime in the weird world of bottom of the bill soft core sex.  Buried in this set lies a gem for those in tune with that hipped out vibe of goofballs, eeeeerawwwtickaaaahhhhh and shut down your brain entertainment.
I actually clapped during this movie.  In my living room. Clapping.  Four stars...a hidden film I'll never, ever, forget!

On to the next SIX PACKER!!

By the way... BEN DOVER is in this. Really!! Look!