Word: edenic
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...have not revisited this memory in years. It represents, I think, a sort of private racial Eden, previous to the knowledge of color differences and all the ugliness in America that has always proceeded from those...
...civilization, with the girl Chuck left behind (Hunt). For its soul is on the beach, in its gradually unfolding secrets, its new perils and triumphs. The film has loved inhabiting the real estate of a restless, splendid solitude. So, perhaps, has Chuck; he's Adam in a more daunting Eden...
...civilization, with the girl Chuck left behind (Hunt). For its soul is on the beach, in its gradually unfolding secrets, its new perils and triumphs. The film has loved inhabiting the real estate of a restless, splendid solitude. So, perhaps, has Chuck; he's Adam in a more daunting Eden...
...huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both...
...turn by the ever-vivacious Tura Satana (star of Russ Meyer's "Faster! Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"). The plot finds a group of six, not three, female agents invading the island stronghold of ex-government agent Eamon O'Reilly (swarthy Michael Ansara, best known for working on ex-wife Barbara Eden's "I Dream of Jeannie"). O'Reilly intends to use bubonic plague to conquer the world - unless he can be stopped by our bodysuit-clad, machine-gun-totin' heroines (who are, by the way, quite nicely coiffed as well...