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Thanks for the mammaries Mr. Meyer!

Russ Meyer… let me count the ways I love his movies: the knockers, the senseless violence, the boobs, the absurd humor, the breasts, the funky music, the massive gazongas and last not to forget THE TITS! His movies was like a mental booby-trap for most men who saw them, you didn´t expect a thing really and then BAM! The tits bitchslapped you in the face until you got that silly, goofy smile upon your face. And kept you come back begging for more!


I´m certainly not an expert on Russ Meyer, and have not seen all his body of work. That said, the movies I HAVE seen were for years sort of a guilty pleasure. Why that was, I don´t remember… perhaps ´cause I didn´t liked to acknowledge my sexual preferences? Nowadays I couldn´t care less.

I don´t remember how old I was when I first saw Supervixens, but it sure got me bitten by the Meyer-bug. Big time. Double D time! Mr. Meyer had a background as a photographer and became the author, the Ingmar Bergman, the Fellini, of sexploitation cinema. Mr. Meyer shot the films, edited them, directed them and wrote the scripts. His love for the trade was apparent, and his love for big women even more so. Another really cool thing about him was that he actually owned his own movies, and took care of much of the business by himself. Even until his last days he was dedicated to the art of showing the bodies of women to the world. For that we thank him!


From the early success of the softcore The immoral Mr. Teas to his last motion picture Beneath the valley of the Ultravixens, he archived an original and personal style that influenced a lot of other independent directors (and many, many dirty minds). Of course his work was not considered as art by the critics (even though famous Roger Ebert co-wrote with some scripts with Meyer), but as many filmmakers with a mission, the critics was never his target. The fans who loved movies and big breasts were the main public. He did not disappoint us.

Faster pussycat, kill, kill was his first big break. A tale about three sexy strippers who are not at all innocent kittens, but rather vicious cougars who don´t think twice about kidnapping or even murder. Although not filled with naked ladies, Faster pussycat, kill, kill was cast with sexy clothed women. Second best so to say.

My favorite of Meyers earlier film is Mondo Topless. Topless girls like Babette Bardot, Darlene Grey and Sin Lenee dance to funky sixties music the entire film though. No plot, all fun!

Then came Beyond the valley of the dolls. It was written by Roger Ebert and the story involves a girl rockgroup that has just moved to Los Angeles. They are looking for the big break into the business, but ends up meeting some really strange and dishonest people along the way. Not a fun trip down the road of sucess in other words and while some sexy lebian scenes does steam the movie up, it´s the more darker aspects of sex, drugs and rock ´n roll. We like it anyway!

Roger Ebert went back to the typewriter with Russ and wrote Up! Adolf Schwart (look a lot like some german dictator with the same surname) gets killed off and a sort of “who-dunnit” starts. But it is of course just an excuse for some absurd humor and to show off some of the female actors impressive chests! Who needs a plot anyway when Kitten Natividad, Raven de la Croix and Linda Sue Ragsdale gets in frame? I don´t.

Supervixens is the film that that really has that perfect “Russ Meyer” feel to it. The plot is a mixture of humor, surrealistic bits and pieces and some violence sprinkled over it. The murderous cop Harry Sledge (brilliantly played by Charles Napier) has murdered Clint Ramseys wife and does his best to frame Clint for it. Ramsey flees from his job and meets with big breasted women after the other on his way to freedom.

Uschi Digard

“Swedish” Uschi Digard (and an extra plus for Uschi as a Swedish telephone operator), Shari Eubank and Christy Hartburg are the gals with the “largest” roles. Easily my favorite Meyermovie!

As is Beneath the valley of the ultravixens my other favorite Meyer-movie… hmmm… but I CAN have two favorites come to think of it. Tits come in pairs, so I guess Meyer favorites can as well! For being written by one of Americas famous movie critics, Beneath the valley of the ultravixens has a really whimsy story. The essence of the plot is about a couple who has sexual problems (the husband wants to use number two, and not the entrance with the carpet). Even though the story is paperthin the movie really works as a sex-comedy with lots, LOTS, of sexual innuendos. Sort of a “hardcore” softcore movie if you get my point. It´s a really “jolly” and jovial movie and marked an endpoint for Meyer as director for feature movies sadly enough.

There is not a single filmmaker before (or after) the rise of Russ Meyer that has successfully exploited the female curvaceous body as respectfully and as charming as he did. The critics complain that he exploited the girls and that his movies were demeaning towards women. I beg to differ. Mainly because Meyer did movies about women he loved. What´s wrong about that? Nothing at all. His love for big women might annoy a lot of people, but in those days it was all natural! No silicone pumped breasts, but women who had got a bonus at their chest. Environmental friendly breasts!


Russ Meyer passed on to the land of breastmilk and honey in 2002, at the impressive age of 82. I´m sure his healthy life philosophy “I always had a tremendous interest in big tits” helped him get that old.