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Alice
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Bucky Searles | ... |
Humpty Dumpty /
Queen of Hearts' Brother
(as Bradfor Armdexter)
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Gila Havana | ... |
Black Knight's Girl
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Ron Nelson | ... |
William
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Alan Novak | ... |
Mad Hatter
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J.P. Paradine | ... |
Judge /
Scrugg
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| Larry Gelman | ... |
The White Rabbit
(as Larry Spelman)
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Bree Anthony | ... |
Tweedledum
(as Sue Tsengoles)
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Tony Richards | ... |
Tweedledee
(as Tony Tsengoles)
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Angel Barrett |
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Nancy Dare | ... |
Nurse
(as Nancy Dore)
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Bruce Finklesteen | ... |
Black Knight
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Juliet Graham | ... |
Queen of Hearts
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Terri Hall | ... |
Nurse
(as Terry Hall)
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Astrid Hayase | ... |
Tart
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Alice is a virginal librarian, cheerful and outgoing, who acts and dresses younger than her age. She rebuffs William, a suitor, because he's insistent on behavior she considers inappropriate: she's a prude. While daydreaming about reliving her life, a white rabbit taps her on the shoulder, and she follows him to Wonderland, where playful animals and people introduce her to her imagination and to pleasure. After encounters with the imperious Queen of Hearts, Alice decides that Wonderland may not be for her, and she longs for William. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I saw this fine flick shortly leaving college. As I sat there happily watching Alice go from repressed virgin to sexual adventurer, I got to wondering why her sexual encounters seemed familiar. Then I remembered-- Intro Psych 101 Lecture! One of the lectures dealt with the Psycho-Sexual Stages of Developement, basically the shift over time on what part of the body and its attendant stimulations gets our main attention, as well as the changing emphasis on what gives us pleasure. Alice's first encounter is being bathed, with emphasis on the genitals and bottom. Her next encounter is an oral one with the Mad Hatter's dingaling. I forget the rest of the lecture and the order of Alice's encounters, but I do remember how well they matched. It's interesting to see a skin flick with some brains behind it, rather than the cliche "I'm here to deliver your pizza. Let's screw."
I don't see how Kristin DeBell's career could be wrecked by this film, as it was her first film. And Reagan's tiresome hypocrisies had yet to mar this land when it was released, but in a way he and his stooge Meese did affect Ms DeBell. When Meese was staging his anti-pornography commission (to distract people from his own criminal activities), Meese hired the services of an anti-porn activist named Judith Reisner. Reisner was obsessed with images she perceived as child pornography. She saw the "Alice" cover Ms DeBell did for Playboy and promptly announced she had scientifically proven that Ms DeBell was in fact a photo collage of parts from several grown women and the face of a ten year old. Yeah, right....