AL ADAMSON - 15 years gone

AL ADAMSON
July 25, 1929 - June 21, 1995

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."

Which will die in the summer of '73?

THE ROOMMATES (1973)

CAST
Pat Woodell (Heather)
Roberta Collins (Beth)
Marki Bey (Carla)
Laurie Rose (Brea)
Christina Hart (Paula)
Connie Strickland (Alice)
Barbara Fuller (Sylvia)
David Moses (Mike)
Ken Scott (Marty)
Gary Mascaro (Arnie)
Ben Pfeiffer (Lee)
Kipp Whitman (Don)
Greg Mabrey (Harold)
Darl Severns (Nick)
David Ankrum (Andy)
John Morgan Evans (Warren)
Peter Oliphant (Aaron)
John Durren (Socks)
Richard Mansfield (Mickey)
Charles Stroud (The Drunk)
James V. Christy (The Professor)


CREDITS

Directed by
Arthur Marks

Produced by
Charles Stroud

Executive Producers
William Silberkleit
and
Don Gottlieb

Production Manager
Mike Messinger

Assistant Director
Mike Messinger

2nd Assistant Director
Roger Slager

Script Supervisor
Hannah Hempstead

Casting
Betty Bolling

Production Assistant
Betty Bolling

Cameraman
Harry May

Operator
Ed Resnick

1st Assistant Cameraman
Brad May

Stillman
Beau Marks

Gaffer
Tim Griffin

Best Boy
Les Haas

Key Grip
Bobby Rose

Sound Mixer
Andy Babbish

Boom Man
Ken Eisley

Property
Dennis Nodine

Costumer
Alan Hoffman

Makeup Artists
Chuck House
Mitchell Clay

Utility
Marc Dodell

MPAA rating: R
Running time: 87 minutes

A
General Film Corporation
release


SYNOPSIS
(Spoilers!)

Four roommates at Baldwin University in Los Angeles are different looks and style, but they have a common pre-occupation -- sex. They are Carla (Marki Bey), black and beautiful; Beth (Roberta Collins), a blonde psychology major; Brea (Laurie Rose), a pre-med health nut; and Heather (Pat Woodell), the kind of brunette you take home to mother -- especially when mother's not home.

Preparing for a long, hot -- in the figurative sense -- summer at Lake Arrowhead, the girls are joined by Heather's cousin Paula (Christina Hart), a shapely stewardess who might have modeled the entire "Fly Me" campaign. If there's a word for the five girls, and it is hardly adequate, it's voluptuous.

Before going on vacation, the roommates have fun and games at a swinging bar -- actually a headquarters for "body exchanges" -- and at a far-out beach house party. There the action ranges from a chess match between Carla and a sodden professor (James V. Christy) who cannot keep his eyes off her bosom, and a sit-up contest between Brea and Mickey (Richard Mansfield), with varied sexual activity as award to the winner.


At Arrowhead, Heather is to share her luxurious lakefront home with Beth and Paula. There they find Don (Kipp Whitman) trespassing on the property; Heather first orders him off the premises but then agrees to keep him on to do handiwork for hire.

Carla is to be local librarian for the summer at Arrowhead. She rents an apartment and soon finds a liaison with Mike Black (David Moses), a black police officer. Brea is to be nurse at a boys' camp, where her physique instantly arouses the youths, especially an extroverted youngster, Aaron (Peter Oliphant) and a shy lad, Harold (Greg Mabrey).

Beth and a lakeside neighbor, Alice (Connie Strickland) are taking water skiing lessons from Nick (Darl Severns), a sometime boyfriend of Beth's. When she falls, Beth is picked out of the water by Lee (Ben Pfeiffer), a rich divorced architect. They quickly drift into an affair, which Beth takes seriously.


Heather resumes a long-time intimacy with Marty (Ken Scott). He is proprietor of an arcade with his wife Sylvia (Barbara Fuller), who is aware of Marty's reputation as a swinger. She indulges her bitterness by constant nagging of their son Arnie (Gary Mascaro), who is mortified by his parents' public bickering.

Alice is walking home when a drunken motorcycle freak, "Socks" (John Durren), chases her through the forest on his bike. She manages to escape and takes refuge at Heather's house. While walking home from there, Alice is knifed to death by a shadowy female figure.

Another girl, known only as Diane, is killed while water skiing by a rifle shot from the same mystery assassin.

Paula makes a date with Arnie for a night-time walk in the woods. Despite here provocative invitation, Arnie cannot make it with her, and her taunts drive him away in a fury.


The knifer reappears in the middle of the night at Heather's house, where she awakens in time and flees through the house while Paula calls the police. Heather is spared but the attacker gets away before Mike and another officer arrive.

Lee breaks off the affair with Beth, saying he is going back to his wife. Genuinely in love, she realizes he has simply "used" her. There is also a showdown between Don and Heather. He exposes her hangup saying she has put a shell around herself against "little people" like him. When she breaks down and weeps, he kisses her tenderly and says he may see her again "back in L.A." Meantime Brea, who is sympathetic to Harold's mistreatment by his "buddies," overcomes the boy's shyness and gently introduces him to the realities of life.

All of the roommates are attending a gala end-of-summer country club party when bullets start ripping into the crowded room. Several people are hit before Mike can work his way outside, and shoots the killer. The dead "female" murderer, wearing a wig and woman's clothing, is Arnie.

As the roommates drive away from Arrowhead, Heather says, "Hey, troops...what shall we do for Christmas vacation?"

One-Sheet of the Week: SOMETHING CREEPING IN THE DARK (1975)

QUALCOSA STRISCIA NEL BUIO (1971)

Released in the U.S. in 1975 as SOMETHING CREEPING IN THE DARK

Mystery Movie: ONE-NIGHT STAND (1981)

We have no idea what ONE-NIGHT STAND is, but in our files we have August 1981 as its "first sighting" date, with a note stating that it was still playing drive-ins as a co-feature two years later. Assuming for a moment that Candice Rialson really is the star, as this advertisement implies, our guess would be that it's a re-titling of PETS (1973). Can anyone provide more info?

"The Great Drive-In / Grindhouse Trash-O-Rama Trailer Show" returns!

Temple of Schlock presents
THE GREAT
DRIVE-IN/GRINDHOUSE
TRASH-O-RAMA TRAILER SHOW
PART 3!

shown on
DVD projection
in the air-conditioned
Ossie Davis Theatre @ New Rochelle Public Library
Thursday, June 17th
7:00 pm
FREE

The third time's usually the charm, but we guarantee that this program will be every bit as sloppy, tasteless and insensitive as our two previous efforts! Back by popular demand, we proudly present two more hours of previews for the most outlandish fringe films of the sleazy ‘70s and oily ‘80s, a time when rotting rural drive-ins and run-down urban theaters were catering to the wildest, most jaded thrill-seeking movie audiences in the world. Today, those theaters are gone, but the movies live on! Vampires, vigilantes, kung fu killers, car chases, cannibals, giant monsters, spaghetti westerns, swinging stewardesses, happy hookers, bikers, beach parties, disco, rodeo, chainsaws, cheerleaders, rampaging rednecks, roller derby riots... Don’t miss the most talked-about program of 2010!

Not recommended for viewers under 17

Cinema Overdrive collectible poster prints for sale!

We've never attended a Cinema Overdrive screening but we're tempted to jump into the Schlockmobile and high-tail it to Raleigh, North Carolina now that we've seen the extremely cool limited edition poster prints that are being created by local artists for this monthly film series. In the past month we've snatched up 3 of these beauties (SWITCHBLADE SISTERS, SOUTHERN COMFORT and THE CANDY SNATCHERS) and they're already framed and hanging in the Temple library. We would've purchased a few others but they were sold out. Believe me, these prints are going like hotcakes -- but before we go "messin' around gossipin' and blow our good thing" as the great Millie Jackson would say, here's a little bit about the Cinema Overdrive program, brazenly right-clicked from their website and pasted below in italics with the barest minimum effort by yours truly.

12.5" x 19"
by Danny Miller

Cinema Overdrive is a monthly film series dedicated to bringing you the very best in cult, exploitation and gonzo action cinema. Specializing in the audacious, the ludicrous and the flat out ridiculous, each Cinema Overdrive screening will bring you some of the rarest and most entertaining trailers and features you'll ever see. Many of the offerings in this series you may have never seen, or perhaps have never even heard of! But fret not as a good time is guaranteed for all. And since we aim to recreate a true, authentic grindhouse experience from long bygone era, all offerings will be on 100% genuine, honest to God 35mm film!

24" x 36"
by James Rheem Davis

The brainchild of local film archivists Matt Pennachi and Adam Hulin, Cinema Overdrive features a line-up of films that crosses multiple genres and eras. However, all are bound by the same spirit of pure enjoyment and insanity. When we founded the Retrofantasma Film Series back in 1998 our goal was to have the opportunity to show a few of our favorite horror films on the big screen. Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine that series would still be going strong 11 years later, but it is and we're incredibly proud of that. Yet despite the longevity and success of that series, we have always felt that there was another subculture of films that was being sorely overlooked. Having the opportunity to put together a series of this nature was something that we've wanted to do for years, but never had the opportunity to do until now. Fortunately for film fans of the Triangle, Colony Theater general manager Denver Hill shares our enthusiasm for this project and has paved the way for its inception. The bastard offspring of the already established COOL CLASSICS repertory film series has been born!

12" x 18"
by Ron Liberti

After the first few screenings, Pennachi and Hulin were "approached by a couple of local artists who had been coming regularly and asked if they could design advertising posters for our shows," says Pennachi. "I told them we were strictly a grass roots, DIY project and I just couldn't afford to get into that. Once we pay for the print licenses, theater rental and such, we're lucky just to break even -- which is fine, honestly. It turns out they loved the films and believed in the project so much, they agreed to create all of the artwork themselves, and if we sold it at the show they would keep enough to cover their costs, and pitch some our way to keep the series running. Since it couldn't hurt to give it a try, I figured why not."

9" x 24"
by Adam Hale Saul

That was a stroke of brilliance, Matt, because these posters are eye-catching and instantly collectible. Each one is hand silk screened, signed and numbered by the artist, and are offered on a first come, first served basis at the screenings. Whatever's left gets sold through the website, so collectors definitely want to get on the mailing list.

12.5" x 19"
by Laurie Shipley

Click HERE for more info.

18" x 24"
by James Rheem Davis

CINEMA OVERDRIVE shows take place on the second Wednesday of each month at the Colony Theatre in Raleigh, NC. All screenings begin at 8:00 pm and all tickets are only $5.00 per person!

The Endangered List (Case File #71)

TROIKA (1969)

Starring
Nate Thurmond (Attenuated Man)
Gloria Rossi (Mediterranean Woman)
Parra O’Siochain (Warrior)
Morgan Upton (Rax)
T.G. Rossi (Boy)
Richard Faun (Mr. Gordon Goodloins)
Basilio O. Holowaty (Basil)
Sigmund Harris (Linesman)
R. Gordon Henderson (Professor of Astrology)
Elmer Moore (Professor of Folklore)
Ronald Wheeler (Professor of Classics)
Sigmund Harris (Professor of Economics)
Kenn Davis (Professor of Engineering)
Patricia Gaunce (Professor of Dance)
John Feldman (Professor of Ecology)
Fredric Hobbs (Chef/Phantom/Hobbs)

Written and directed by
Fredric Hobbs

Collaborating Director
Gordon Mueller

Art work by
Fredric Hobbs

Camera
William R. Heick
and
Gordon Mueller

“Black and White People”
photographed by Richard Faun

Edited by
Gordon Mueller

Music Consultant
David Johnson

Produced by
Inca Films

Released by
Emerson Film Enterprises

MPAA rating: R

89 minutes

Destructible Man takes on THE GREEN BERETS!

It's been 3 long months since their last appearance, but the Flying Maciste Brothers have made a triumphant return to the blogosphere with a smart and detailed analysis of the most violent G-rated movie ever made, THE GREEN BERETS (1968)! Don't be a dummy -- head over to Destructible Man immediately and prepare to be enlightened!

Donate to the CHURCH OF THE EYES!

Independent moviemaker Andy Copp needs money-money-money to get the cameras rolling on his latest joint, CHURCH OF THE EYES, and he's willing to give a producer credit to anyone who helps make it happen. Ten bucks, twenty, fifty, whatever you can spare. He wants to shoot this movie yesterday, but he'll settle for tomorrow. Now admittedly we've never seen one of Andy's productions, but we know him well from the message boards and he's a heck of a nice guy so we sent him some cheddar. Besides, we want to find out more about this creepy-looking school bus.


Looking for Investor Funds

The latest production from Andrew Copp is CHURCH OF THE EYES, an experimental, rock and roll, horror, return to his roots a la THE MUTILATION MAN and BLACK SUN. Written by Andrew Copp and Kevin Jones with some additional material by Nick Williams, the movie is a trip into the heart of spiritual decay and madness as one man confronts mortality. He experiences a deep loss after his girlfriend dies in a car crash, and as he falls deeper into depression and sorrow, he decides the only way out it is to simply find God and kill him in retaliation for taking away all that he has loved. The project was conceived by musician Keven Jones as a vehicle for his music imprint "Swineburner" and has developed into a beast all its own.


While the movie is set to start shooting soon we are still nowhere near were we need to be funds wise. Due to the economy, two thirds of the saved money that was going towards the budget was lost (thanks lost jobs and GM faulty cars!) and we are simply not willing to forego shooting another year, as we have postponed that long already. We need to raise a substantial amount to do this right. We can get started on what we have and make an okay movie. But if we can raise some decent money we can make the movie we NEED to make.


This is where you THE FANS come in. We are asking for your help. Coppfilms has always been pretty quiet when it comes to this sort of thing, but we are asking this time. We are asking for the fans to donate some money towards this production to get it going properly. There will be a paypal button below at which you can donate however much you can give.


Anyone who donates will receive credit in the film in a special producer line. And anyone who gives more than $25.00 will get a special free gift from Coppfilms. Be sure when you donate to include your name and information so we can properly credit you in the end credits of the final film.


We need all the help you can give and we need it fast to make this work. So please help us out. We've been in making underground movies since the mid 90's and want to continue. But we need the fans support.

Thank you
Andy Copp

Click HERE to visit Andy’s site and see the dif­fer­ent dona­tion options.

One-Sheet of the Week: LIKE A CROW ON A JUNE BUG (1972)

LIKE A CROW ON A JUNE BUG (1972)

Re-released as CARNIVAL TRAMP and SIXTEEN

The impossibly funky Cashiers du Cinemart book is headed your way!

A decade ago, when I was a regular contributor to Shock Cinema and Fangoria and still had pipe dreams of becoming a professional writer, I pitched ideas for articles to a handful of the small press magazines I admired, and one of the editors who responded enthusiastically was Mike White of Cashiers du Cinemart. I wrote a piece on PETS which appeared in CdC #10 (and can be read here), and although I quickly lost interest in free-lance magazine writing I remained a faithful reader of CdC. I'm very happy to report that Mike has a book coming out titled Impossibly Funky (named after the record company owned by John Daniels in GETTING OVER) which collects the very best articles from the 15-year history of Cashiers du Cinemart and contains sections dedicated to BLACK SHAMPOO (another John Daniels classic, and Mike's favorite movie), unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, STAR WARS, Quentin Tarantino (Mike made the short films WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING? and YOU'RE STILL NOT FOOLING ANYBODY) and much, much more. This isn't just a collection of reprints from the magazine either; there are several new articles included here ("13.2% all new stuff" claims the advertising) and many of the older ones have been updated and expanded, so even if you have all of the original issues of CdC there will still be plenty of reasons to pick up this greatest hits package. Or as Mike puts it, "Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem." In fact, I'm gonna turn this post over to Mike in a second, right after I mention that he's offering several options that will enable you to pre-order a signed copy and help pay for the book's advertising at the same time.

Okey-doke, Mike, you can take it from here...


Here's a rough swipe at the table of contents. Still pending. I made some notes about some of the changes included, though every piece has been proofed and edited for clarity and re-fact-checked. My proofreader, Lori Hubbard Higgins, did an amazing job combing through my abhorrent prose. -- Mike White

IMPOSSIBLY FUNKY: A CASHIERS DU CINEMART COLLECTION

Introduction by Herschell Gordon Lewis

Foreword by Chris Gore

Features:

- A Dynamite Double Feature - CdC favorite Rich Osmond looks at some explosive '70s cinema
- Psycho Vixens - Rich Osmond examines two flicks about girls gone wild.
- Tragically Obscure: John Paizs’s (The Big) Crime Wave - Combination of two articles about Paizs by Skizz Cyzyk from CdC 9 & 10
- The Four and a Half Worlds of Parker - Updated piece (formerly "Three and a Half Worlds") which has been edited and expanded. Includes some insight from the creator of Parker, Donald Westlake
- Madness in the 20th Century - This article about Charles Willeford has been updated and tightened up
- The Serious Moonlight: The Cinematic World of David Goodis - Updated to include discussion of "Goodiscon" as well as expansion of the "Goodis on TV" section
- The Dark Places of James Ellroy - Updated to include discussion of Street Kings and L.A. Sheriff's Homicide
- The Cashiers du Cinemart Manifesto - So perfectly written, nothing could make it better
- All The Good Guys and the Bad Guys that I've Been - One of my favorite pieces from Cashiers du Cinemart, this is an appreciation of Paul Williams by Leon Chase
- The Prize is Your Life - I expanded this article to include several other "people hunting people" movies
-Oedipal Ketchip - A terrific discussion of Shuji Terayama's films by Andrew Grant
- The Highlander returns! - Two rants from Mike Thompson about the wonder of the Highlander films. This was updated to include cuts of the films that have been made available since the early days of Cashiers du Cinemart
- Double Impact: The Duplicity of Jean-Claude Van Damme - Brand new piece that has never been published
- Lone Wolf & Cub - Edited and updated for clarity


Tarantino:

- Tale of the Tape - The whole epic story of WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING? and the controversy surrounding it. Updated and severely rewritten
- Ironic Press Release - My facetious discussion of YOU'RE STILL NOT FOOLING ANYBODY
- Attention Enemy - Following up with the YOU'RE STILL NOT FOOLING ANYBODY fun
- Tarantino in a Can - A look at Tarantino's obsession with the bathroom in his early works


Star Wars:

-The Lost Cut - Discussing the early version of STAR WARS that will never see the light of day again
- Jar Jar Done Gone - How THE PHANTOM MENACE put heat behind the Fan Editing movement
- Triumph of the Whills - This piece now combines three different rants about the madness of King George Lucas


Scripts:

- 8mm - Mike Thompson compares what we saw to what Andrew Kevin Walker wrote
- The Uncredible Hulk - Another great Thompson rant, updated to include the latest incarnation of Hulk and the Ang Lee version, too
- CAT WOMAN - Thompson declaws this kitty
- Digging up the Bones of Indy Jones - Severely rewritten and updated version of "Jonesing for the New Indy Film" from CdC 9 that traces the trajectory of Jones through several proposed sequels
- Travis McGee & The Lonely Silver Screen - Combination of the CdC 14 and 15 articles
- Return to the Planet of the Apes - Combining observations about the POTA remake from CdC 10 and 13
- Superman: Grounded - Updated to include Superman: Doomsday and the reaction to Singer's reboot of Superman
- The Metamorphoses of ALIEN III - Includes additional content
- GREMLINS - A thorough look at an early draft of this classic flick by Chris Cummins


Black Shampoo:

- Interview: John Daniels - Edited and updated
- Interview: Greydon Clark - Edited and updated
- Interview: Tanya Boyd - Edited and updated
- Interview: Skip E Lowe - Edited and updated
- A Few Notes on BLACK SHAMPOO - Edited and updated
- Can You Feel the Love? - Edited and updated
- DVD release - Edited and updated
- Interview: Gerald and Gary Lee - Brand new interview with the men who made the music for my favorite film


Interviews:

- Crispin Glover - Brand new, never published
- James Ellroy - Edited and updated
- Guy Maddin - Updated / Additional Content
- Monte Hellman - Edited and updated
- Richard Crawford - Edited and updated
- Taylor Negron - Edited and updated
- Svengoolie - Edited and updated
- Bruce Campbell - Edited and updated
- Keith Gordon - Edited and updated
- Dr. Demento - Edited and updated


Life:

- Theater Work Story - Highly edited and rewritten
- Fish out of Water - Andrea's reaction to the UPC in Bowling Green
- Mike & Andrea go to Breakfast - Never before published tale of woe from Andrea White
- Brendan Fraser + Monkey = Fun! - A new party game from Skizz Cyzyk

Preorder the book now. Enter in the amount you want to pay and your "VIP perk."

Happy Birthday STACY KEACH

America's greatest living actor? We think so.