The Naughty Stewardesses (1975)

User Rating:

1.9/10   

Director:

Al Adamson

Writers:

Bruce Feld (writer)
Samuel M. Sherman (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Fly first class!

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Airplane | Photographer | Female Nudity | Las Vegas Nevada

Cast

Robert Livingston	...	Brewster
Connie Hoffman	...	Debbie
Richard Smedley	...	Cal
Donna Young	...	Margie (as Donna Desmond)
Marilyn Joi	...	Barbara (as Tracy King)
Sydney Jordan	...	Jane
Al Richardson	...	EV
Jerry Mills	...	Mike
Sandy Carey	...	Diane (as Mikel James)
Addison Randall	...	Scott
Sheldon Lee	...	Cake
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Regina Carrol

Also Known As:

Fresh Air (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

USA:102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Iceland:16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Trivia:

After seeing the huge profits that Hemisphere Pictures were making with the softporn German import "The Swinging Stewardesses", producer Sam Sherman set out to find another like-minded foreign import. He was unable to find anything similar, so produced "Naughty Stewardesses" with his longtime associate Al Adamson. The result was one of Independent International's biggest successes.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Drive-in Movie Memories (2001)

Soundtrack:

Roller Coaster

Sam Sherman's multi-genre mess

From the start, you know this is a Sam Sherman film more than an Al Adamson film because as the credits roll, "A Sam Sherman Production" appears in letters as big as the title credit. Not only that, Mr. Sherman co-wrote the screenplay and it was his idea to use Bob Livingstone, a washed-up, 69 year old Western star of the old Hollywood era to be his male lead in a picture that Sherman thought would capitalize on the recent success of "Swinging Stewardesses".

Now why would you want to have a wrinkled old man as your male lead in what is supposed to be a soft-core exploitation feature? It defies explanation, but that is Sam Sherman for you. His obsession with old Hollywood colored a lot of his films for Independent International Pictures, and he and Al Adamson frequently tried to get has-been actors for their films (e.g. J. Carrol Naish, Russ Tamblyn, Lon Chaney Jr.,etc.). But Bob Livingstone? Tell me the drive-in demographic knew who this '40's second-rater was; it's ridiculous!

But then again, "Naughty Stewardesses" was a successful picture for them, so we can't just write this off as a Sherman fiasco. Still, by any aesthetic standard, it's an incoherent mess. Al Adamson wanted out of this picture, and it is easy to see why. First off, it has no genre focus at all and drifts around from super soft core (tits and ass/simulated sex only) to a kidnapping thriller (shades of Steckler's "Rat Pfink and Boo Boo"!) In between, we get subjected to painfully boring sequences of the stewardesses traipsing around Vegas to the hackneyed music of Sparrow, or Richard Smedley and Connie Hoffmann on a photo shoot in San Francisco. Worst of all, we get Bob Livingstone as a Jack LaLanne wannabe in a blue jumpsuit trying to be sexy...gag! (Thankfully, his big sex scene with Connie Hoffmann was deleted, but you can catch him slurping on her titties on the DVD in the Special Features section. Creepy.)

This is a terrible, terrible movie, but I'll give it three stars for Gary Graver's photography and out of sympathy to Connie Hoffmann for having to make it with "Wrinkles" Livingstone. "Naughty Stewardesses" is for Al Adamson completists and/or scholars of exploitation film as Sam Sherman's commentary offers vital inside info. All others, BEWARE.