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Meyer made the film after his "gothic period" - four dramatic movies he did in black and white.<ref>What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Business like This,Eve? |
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== Documentary traditions == |
== Documentary traditions == |
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The title ''Mondo Topless'' derives from the series of [[Mondo film|"mondo" films]] of the early 1960s. The first and most successful of these was ''[[Mondo Cane]]'' (''A Dog's World''). The purpose of these films was to bypass censorship laws by presenting both sexual and graphically violent material in a documentary format. |
The title ''Mondo Topless'' derives from the series of [[Mondo film|"mondo" films]] of the early 1960s. The first and most successful of these was ''[[Mondo Cane]]'' (''A Dog's World''). The purpose of these films was to bypass censorship laws by presenting both sexual and graphically violent material in a documentary format. |
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''Mondo Topless'' shares some stylistic similarities with [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s collaborative effort, ''Le plus vieux métier du monde'' (''The Oldest Trade in the World''). ''Mondo Topless'', like most other Meyer films, drew much of its inspiration from the more relaxed European attitudes toward sex, and was followed by a host of imitators. |
''Mondo Topless'' shares some stylistic similarities with [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s collaborative effort, ''Le plus vieux métier du monde'' (''The Oldest Trade in the World''). ''Mondo Topless'', like most other Meyer films, drew much of its inspiration from the more relaxed European attitudes toward sex, and was followed by a host of imitators. |
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==References== |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* {{imdb title|0060712|Mondo Topless}} |
* {{imdb title|0060712|Mondo Topless}} |
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* {{Amg movie|70692|Mondo Topless}} |
* {{Amg movie|70692|Mondo Topless}} |
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*[http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1327 Review of film] at the Spinning Image |
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*[https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b746bd3a0 ''Mondo Topless''] at BFI |
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 Poster to Mondo Topless | |
| Directed by | Russ Meyer |
| Produced by | Russ Meyer associate Eve Myer |
| Starring | Babette Bardot Pat Barrington Darlene Gray |
| Narrated by | John Furlong |
| Cinematography | Russ Meyer |
| Edited by | Russ Meyer |
| Music by | The Aladdins |
| Distributed by | Eve Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mondo Topless is a 1966 pseudo documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others. It was Meyer's first color film following a string of black and white "roughie nudies", including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! While a straightforward sexploitation film, the film owes some debt to the French New Wave and cinéma vérité traditions, and is known to some under the titles Mondo Girls and Mondo Top.
Its tagline: "Two Much For One Man...Russ Meyer's Busty Buxotic Beauties ... Titilating ... Torrid ... Untopable ... Too Much For One Man!"
The film was banned in Finland.
Plot
The film presents a snapshot of '60s San Francisco before shifting its focus to strippers. The strippers' lives are earnestly portrayed as they reveal the day-to-day realities of sex work, talk bra sizes, relate their preferences in men, all voiced over while dancing topless to a '60s instrumental rock soundtrack. Throughout a large portion of the film, the narrator talks about the women as if they are a subgenre of the counter culture movement, somewhat similar to the beatnik or hippie movements that were highly prevalent during the same era. The "Topless" movement as it is called by the narrator could also be perceived as an allegorical subset of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s.
Cast
- Babette Bardot as Bouncy
- Pat Barrington as Herself (as Pat Barringer)
- Sin Lenee as Lucious
- Darlene Gray as Buxotic
- Diane Young as Yummy
- Darla Paris as Delicious
- Donna X as Xciting
- Veronique Gabriel as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Greta Thorwald as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Denice Duval as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Abundavita as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Heide Richter as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Gigi La Touche as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Yvette Le Grand as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage)
- Lorna Maitland as Herself (Lorna screentest footage)
Production
Meyer made the film after his "gothic period" - four dramatic movies he did in black and white.[1]
Documentary traditions
The title Mondo Topless derives from the series of "mondo" films of the early 1960s. The first and most successful of these was Mondo Cane (A Dog's World). The purpose of these films was to bypass censorship laws by presenting both sexual and graphically violent material in a documentary format.
Mondo Topless shares some stylistic similarities with Jean-Luc Godard's collaborative effort, Le plus vieux métier du monde (The Oldest Trade in the World). Mondo Topless, like most other Meyer films, drew much of its inspiration from the more relaxed European attitudes toward sex, and was followed by a host of imitators.
References
- ^ What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Business like This,Eve? Wilson, Jane. Los Angeles Times 9 May 1971: o16.
External links
- Mondo Topless at IMDb
- Mondo Topless at AllMovie
- Review of film at the Spinning Image
- Mondo Topless at BFI