The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a ...
Directors: Mark Haggard, Bruce Kimmel
Stars: Stephen Nathan, Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Diana Canova.
Lloyd Gordon ... choreographer
Watched online, blurry.
10 songs in the Soundtracks, all Written by Bruce Kimmel, as is the script.
It could be worse. It could be better, but maybe not with the nude premise. After all, if the musical numbers were good, would they need to be done in the nude? Well, given that in this year only 10 films qualified for my music/als list, and I haven't eliminated any country music film, or anything for low votes, maybe a '76 musical needs to be nude. But to generate future interest in musicals, it needs to make people feel nostalgic for good musicals. This would not have achieved that.
The creator/star, BK (b. '47), claimed to be 23 in the script, and he passes for such (in this blurry print). He plays the nebbish-y director, employed via nepotism.
The nudity is full frontal, but no erections.
In 1 production number, the male dancers are dressed in top hat, black tie, tails and appropriate trousers. Old musicals might have the women in tails but tights instead of trousers. Here they wore nothing below the waist, and I don't remember if the jackets were spare in front or if they just had collars and ties, but I seem to remember seeing breasts. The women were very trim. The dancing was not strenuous.
I'm not sure if CW got naked for the first dance number. The blur prevented me from determining that. She was in a late number, and was fully clothed. But she said plenty of words that would cause an R rating. She had already been Shirley on Happy Days in '75, and L&S began as its own series in 1'76.
Clearly this didn't offend me. It didn't even depress me that the state of the American musical is such that this is 10% of its representation this year. They did some legit musical numbers. They weren't good, but I've seen worse. But I don't have any itch to find a dvd.
distr. Paramount, dir. Haggard & Kimmel; 6-
