Movie Ad of the Week: SUPERSONIC SUPERGIRLS (1973)

SUPERSONIC SUPERGIRLS, the super unwatchable sequel to the 3-D box-office smash THE STEWARDESSES (1969) and also known as INTERNATIONAL STEWARDESSES, opened in 22 theaters in the New York tri-state area on October 5, 1973. Advertised with a fake R rating, the movie was slapped with a real X rating by the MPAA three weeks later, but that was just the beginning of this movie's strange and confusing history. We thought our review from a few years ago would finally convince the brains at the IMDb that this movie actually exists and isn't a re-release version of THE STEWARDESSES, but no, after years of listing SUPERSONIC SUPERGIRLS/INTERNATIONAL STEWARDESSES as a.k.a.'s for the '69 smash, they've now deleted both sequel titles from the database altogether. As bad as it is, SUPERSONIC SUPERGIRLS is a real movie that was released and re-released under various titles and in different versions, so it should have its own entry. Below is what we know about the movie, collected from 3-D Filmmakers: Conversations with Creators of Stereoscopic Motion Pictures by Ray Zone, 3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema by R.M. Hayes, and our own research and viewing of the film. It's enough to start an IMDb entry.

SUPERSONIC SUPERGIRLS (1973)

Written and directed

by

Alf Silliman, Jr.
[Allan Silliphant]

Produced by

Chris J. Condon

and

Allan Silliphant

Executive Producer

Louis K. Sher

CAST

Mary Pat Bonney (Candice)

Phyllis Denicke (Pixie)

Goncha Ondemir (Mira)

Peggy Church (Deeanne)

Corona Faora (Pam)

with

Adrienne Stroud

Delana Bissonette

Sally Stevens

Maurice Reese

Vicky Christy [Victoria Silliphant]

Kathy Francis

Kitty [Kathryn] Holcomb

Filmed in
StereoVision
(Single strip side-by-side .67:1
and optically converted to
over-and-under 1.75:1)

Presented in
3-Depix

Optical Conversion
by
Marks Polarized Corporation

in
Eastman color

RCA Photophone recording

Filmed on location in the U.S.,
Portugal, West Germany,
Italy, Greece, Hong Kong

A
StereoVision International, Inc.
production

Released by
Sherpix, Inc.

Running time: 91 minutes
MPAA rating: X

Release date: October 5, 1973 (New York, NY)

Re-released as
INTERNATIONAL  STEWARDESSES
beginning in May 1974
by Rumson Film Distributors

Also known as
THE STEWARDESSES, PART II
SST
AIRLINE!
THE STEWARDESSES, PART III
JET SET
MR. HOWARD'S CRAZY AIRLINE

One-Sheet of the Week: THE SURFER GIRLS (1978)

THE SURFER GIRLS (1978)

Released in "StereoVision 4D" with a bogus R rating in 1978

Officially rated R by the MPAA in 1980 for a 3-D re-release under the title KAHUNA! in '80/'81

Re-released "flat" by MPM as THE SENIOR SNATCH in 1982

Also known as HAWAIIAN FANTASY and THE SURFER GIRLS AND THE KAHUNA LEGEND

Our one-sheet was apparently used for a "flat" showing. Note the "ONE WEEK ONLY" and "OUTRAGEOUSLY SEXY!!" tags that have been pasted over "STEREOVISION 4D."