This quintessential sex comedy – written by famed movie critic Roger Ebert under the pseudonym “R Hyde” – was Russ Meyer’s last movie as director, and it’s all here: insatiable mega-busty women, religion, necrophilia, comic violence, impotent bumbling men, chainsaws and Martin Bormann in a coffin.
The plot revolves around stripper Lavonia Langusta (Francesca “Kitten” Natividad) and her attempts to steer her handsome but thick-headed husband Lamar Shedd (Ken Kerr) away from his fetish for rear entry, with jiggling Ann Marie and Uschi Digard along for the roller coaster ride through Meyer’s lusty Small Town USA landscape (the film is set in the desert community of Rio Dio, Texas).
Lavonia calls herself Lola when she strips at The Other Ball. Lamar works for a huge black woman named Junkyard Sal (June Mack). Stuart Lancaster is the narrator. There’s also a garbage driver called Mr Peterbuilt (Pat Wright), a travelling salesman named Semper Fidelis (Michael Finn) and a dentist-cum-marriage counsellor called Asa Lavender (Robert Pearson).
The girls sport equally interesting names, such as Eufaula Roop and Flovilla Thatch.
The director plays himself in this satirical semi-autobiography, which has a strong moral code at its soft-core centre.
Lavonia/Lola Langusta
Francesca “Kitten” Natividad
Lamar Shedd
Ken Kerr
Eufaula Roop
Ann Marie
Junkyard Sal
June Mack
Mr Peterbuilt
Pat Wright
Martin Bormann
Henry Rowland
Dr Asa Lavender
Robert Pearson
Semper Fidelis
Michael Finn
Nurse Flovilla Thatch
Sharon Hill
Beau Badger
Don Scarborough
Tyrone
Aram Katcher
Zebulon
DeForest Covan
Rhett
Steve Tracy
SuperSoul
Uschi Digard
The Man From Small Town USA
Stuart Lancaster
Director
Russ Meyer