This early East Coast sexploitation effort compares the lives of
two lovely young women who share an apartment. We have Lana Lynn, new
in town, who is a wannabe actress, and longs for all the good things
in life. She moves in with Rusty Allen, who works for a department
store as a model but longs to be married with children. Lynn rather
quickly finds her sugar daddy, while Allen has troubles with her true
love straying.
Producer William Mishkin was no stranger to film when he made this
one. His specialty was finding mildly titillating titles to
distribute, then over-hyping the sexual content in his promotional
campaign. He distributed lots of burlesque titles, for instance. In
the mid-50s, the amount of skin and sex in sexploitation films hit his
comfort level, and he decided to produce his own.
The framing mechanism in this particular film is rather awkward,
and demonstrates some typical Mishkin approaches. The story is not
really about the two girls, but rather about three filmmakers who are
writing a script for a movie about the two girls. There is some
dialogue, but most of the words are narration. Mishkin must have felt
the nudity was not sufficient when the director had finished filming,
so they inserted several of his familiar color burlesque loops into
the B&W movie. The narrator rationalized this by explaining that the
writer wanted to shoot in color, so the color sections pictured his
concept of how those scenes would look. This, like the other
monologues from the narrator, ranges from quaint through dated and all
the way to laughable.
This is a time capsule look at New York in the 60s, and a reminder
that, no matter how sophisticated we felt in 1965, it was still an
innocent period. Things would change forever over the next two years.
If you are not familiar with our grading system, you need to
read the
explanation, because the grading is not linear. For example, by
our definition, a
C is solid and a C+ is a VERY good movie. There are very few Bs
and As. Based on our descriptive system, this film is a:
