Crazy Wild and Crazy (1964) Poster

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BandSAboutMovies27 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Man, there's just something insane to me about camera clubs. Yes, in post World War 2 craziness, there used to be these things where men would buy cameras and would all pitch in to hire women to come pose for them. Bettie Page did it and that's how I learned about it and I still can't imagine how weird it was to have a bunch of leering guys barely able to focus a camera filming women who just wanted to make enough money for the rent.

Crazy Wild and Crazy is the Barry Mahon story of a photographer narrating to us all about what it's like to shoot pictures and movies. He even goes to a nudist camp where a slide whistle appears on the soundtrack so often that you'll start hearing it throughout your normal day. Listen - there it is.

Barry's cast this time includes Darlene Bennett (Bad Girls Go to Hell) and her twin Dawn (Confessions of a Bad Girl), Rita Bennett (who is also in Raging Bull as well as movies by Joe Sarno), Dolores Carlos (Pagan Island), Gigi Darlene (The Love Statue), Marlene Eck (White Slaves of Chinatown), Sandra Sinclair (Blood Feast) and Maria Stinger (Goldilocks and the Three Bares).

Mahon worked with Harry Novak on this, which is really like Superman getting to meet Spider-Man in my universe.
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For those who dig out-takes
lor_25 December 2021
Prolific softcore pornographer Barry Mahon slops out random out-takes and footage in this intrminable hour of nudes, all tastefully hiding full-frontal views from the audience, per censorship standards of the early 1960s.

Bob Meyer fronts the show as a self-deprecating cameraman presenting his amateurish work, of girls posing on a bed or doing domestic chores or preferably exercising. Also featuring endlessly boring nudist camp footage of exercising, playing volleyball, etc. Everything seems like cutting room floor material, "rescued" here.

Nothing wild and crazy, just worthless filler, an unwitting forerunner of how all-sex content would take over in the hardcore era (1970s and beyond), mirroring this all-nude approach during the softcore era when some semblance of story/fiction was still considered valuable in holding an audience's attention.
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