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...Wishman's career bean making films in nudist campus. This was her first gimmick. Her gimmicks continued to include Chesty Morgan, the woman with the 73" bus line; films which acted out the worst of the Bible's sins: incest, rape, murder; and the twentieth-century's modern medical break throughs of the penile implant and transsexuality. Wishman wrote and directed all of her 25 films. And she often worked on a shoestring budget which gives her films the kitschy look of a cheap motel room. From the frolicking breasts in the nudist campus to the crazy platform shoes...
...Wishman's 1962 classic "Nude on the Moon" will be shown. None of her films are heavy on plot, but here goes: two men ride to the moon in what looks like an enormous aluminum soda can to find a female, nudist utopia. This is "Earth Girls Are "Easy" and "Teenage Vixens from Outer Space" meet the sex-shop slaves, fulfilling the horny fantasies of the Earthling...
These woman, a.k.a. "moon dolls," have pipe-cleaner antennae growing out of their bouffant hairdos. They wear loin cloths and wade in the plastic-bottomed pools surrounded by the fake shrubbery of the surfaceof the "moon." This was her second film and one which Wishman considers her least favorite "because the people are so ugly...
Also on the schedule is "The Sex Perils of Paulette." This is Wishman's first film in which she delves into the violence and exploitation which became popular in the late '60's and early '70's. This "roughy," as the type is called, has plenty of slapping, struggling and hard sex. The outlandish settings and situations of these films sometimes helps to lessen the impact of their intensity. And they cannot compare to episodes like the rape scene from "What's Love Got to Do With...
...shown in conjuction with "The Sex Perils of Paulette" will be Wishman's "Coming Attraction Trailers." This compilation of clips gives a good preface to many of these films. The violence, the sex, the graphic detail are all communicated in just a few seconds. Some of these clips were made before the films themselves were started so Wishman could raise money. If you don't have time for anything else in this retrospective just come for this series of hilarious, often disturbing group of clips...