9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976)

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Writer:

Nicholas St. John (writer)

Release Date:

20 August 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Adult

Plot:

A series of interrelated episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her.

Plot Keywords:

Gas Station | Sex | Dream Sequence | Blaxploitation | Pornography

Cast

Pauline LaMonde	...	Pauline
Dominique Santos	...	Gypsy
Joy Silver	...	Nacala
David Pirell	...	Husband
Shaker Lewis	...	Stable Boy
Nicholas St. John	...	Chauffeur (as Nicholas George)
Tony Richards	...	Attendant
Peggy Johnson	...	Younger Sister
Abel Ferrara	...	Old Man (as Jimmy Laine)
Everett East	...	Attacker #1
Ack Ming	...	Attacker #2

Also Known As:

9 Lives of a Cat (USA) (bowdlerized title)
9 Lives of a Wet Pussycat
Nine Lives of a Wet Pussycat

Runtime:

70 min | USA:63 min (cut version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:X

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Navaron Films

Quotes:

Gypsy: [narrating] There used to be times when I'd be so jealous with Pauline. I wouldn't accept her letters or answer her calls. She couldn't understand that. Why should she? She's never known a jealous moment in her life. You see, being her lover today would never mean you will be her lover tomorrow. It's as if she didn't have a memory. Only the one in her arms was the one she desired. And because of this, our love was impossible. I wanted to own her, and she couldn't be owned.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Short Film About the Long Career of Abel Ferrara (2004) (V)

The most boring porno ever!

It fails to deliver on two fronts. The story lacks sufficient interest to make the not very titillating sex scenes worth sitting through and vice versa.

It is to pornography what "Driller Killer" was to horror films, meaning that young Abel Ferrera didn't seem to understand what audiences for these kind of pictures wanted to see. Sure, he delivered hard-core sex and in Driller Killer delivered the blood and violence, but both are crippled by absolute pretentiousness and lack of plot. The girls are mostly unattractive and the sex is lame. The "fantasies" of it's characters are dumb and pointless.

Also, don't believe those bootleg hawkers that try to convince you that Ferrera "performs" in this movie. He appears as the character of the old man but saves the nasty stuff for his stunt double.