Sunday, October 21, 2012

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

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