A great new documentary has been released about those fun low-budget movies from the 60s and 70s filmed in the Phillipines such as Beast of Blood and The Big Doll House. Doc is chock full of interviews with actors and crew who worked there incluing Fantasty Femmes cover girl Celeste Yarnall and Film Fatales’ Gloria Hendry. See the below link to teh web site and the amusing trailer.
sixties
RARE SCREENING
The Film Anthology in NYC is hosting on Sunday at 6:45PM a screening, hosted by Cinea Retro editor Lee Pfeiffer, of one of my favorite adventure movies Dark of the Sun (a.k.a. The Mercenaries) starring Rod Taylor, Jim Brown, and Yvette Mimieux as part of the “William Lustig Presents” series (see below link for interview with the director). Released in 1968, Taylor and Brown are mercenaries hired to retrieve $25 million in uncut diamonds in revolution-torn Congo and are sidetracked into helping missionaries escape from the dangerous rebels.
BEAM THEM UP, SCOTTY!
This past weekend William Shatner and Fantasy Femmes cover girl Celeste Yarnall had a mini-reunion at WonderCon the huge Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. In 1967, Celeste guest starred on Star Trek in “The Apple” episode.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCiSjP_4Ao
Below is an excerpt from Fantasy Femmes of ’60s Cinema soon to be out in soft cover and a clip from the show:
In this episode, Celeste played Yeoman Martha Landon, the only female crewmember to beam down to a jungle planet run by Vaal, an ancient computer who controls the planet’s environment and its peaceful inhabitants. Vaal provides for his people in return for offerings of appeasement. However Vaal kills four Enterprise crewmembers (“expendable red shirts”) and imprisons the others (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, and Landon) in a cave. When it threatens to obliterate the enterprise, Spock destroys Vaal leaving the child-like inhabitants to develop their own way of life and to experience physical intimacy. Regarding their ways of reproduction, Celeste’s character inquires, “How do they do it?” This results in an amusing scene with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy who begin speculating on this matter. “It took us many takes to get this scene because they all fell on the floor laughing,” recalls Yarnall. “It really was hysterical. The censors were present during this scene. There is another scene in the cave where I’m not there because the censors had them cut me out of that scene. I was the only woman from the Enterprise on the planet so the audience would have made the assumption that I slept in the cave with all those men if they kept me in it.”
DON’T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA
I humbly consider myself a 60s starlet expert, but even I have never heard of actress Isabel Sarli who I guess was a star of the sexpot kind in her native Argentina and is getting the royal treatment from the Film Society of Lincoln Center with a showing of some of her 60s and 70s movies. Hey Lincoln Center if you can honor her how about showing some 60s starlet love our way with a Carol Lynley or Pamela Tiffin or Tina Louise or at least a Raquel Welch film tribute?
Below is a link for the Isabel Sarli film schedule and a clip from one of her movies. She reminds me of Edy Williams.
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/isabelsarli.html
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQAgEahR5s