Hey any movie with a young Tuesday Weld is watchable. Yeah this movie is very campy but it has some good scenes as far as I am concerned. There are several pretty well known actors in this movie. Mamie Van Doran, Tuesday Weld, Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester), Martin Milner, Louis Nye, and John Carradine. Conway Twitty even has a part and sings. How a stripper gets 13 degrees is beyond me but I guess with an IQ of 268 anything could happen especially in a movie!! Bridget Bardot's sister even has a role here as an exchange student. I was actually surprised by Van Doran's acting ability, it was not top notch but a lot better than I expected. I thought she mostly be just covered T & A but not so.
18 Reviews
elevator pitch with nothing else
SnoopyStyle31 May 2020
Collins College is waiting to welcome their new head of the science department, professor Dr. Mathilda West (Mamie Van Doren), with 13 degrees, IQ 298, and 40-20-30. They had used the school computer Thinko to select West. They didn't realize that she is a buxom blonde with unusual effects on everybody. Also arriving on the train are two criminals searching for Thinko.
This is a wacky small sex comedy. It starts with a fun premise but it struggles to go beyond that. Mamie is not a good comedian but at least she can walk and talk. She is Marilyn Monroe without the skills. I'm just not sure if shooting into the crowd is that funny. She does have a monkey. Is that enough? It's definitely not enough to reignite a fun elevator pitch.
This is a wacky small sex comedy. It starts with a fun premise but it struggles to go beyond that. Mamie is not a good comedian but at least she can walk and talk. She is Marilyn Monroe without the skills. I'm just not sure if shooting into the crowd is that funny. She does have a monkey. Is that enough? It's definitely not enough to reignite a fun elevator pitch.
Everyone was directed to be hideous so the leading lady didn't look so bad.
mark.waltz30 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
When a college football player (Norman Grabowski) tells Tuesday Weld that she should know that she doesn't kiss girls, you're thinking what kind of movie is this, especially when he tells her that he wishes that she were a guy. Quite ahead of its time for 1961, but unfortunately, what is insinuated isn't the truth here although I'm sure some audience members must have gotten that impression back when this first played obviously mostly on drive-in screens.
The credits indicate that this is not a movie to be taken seriously in any way, especially since Mamie Van Doren is cast as a doctor of science. She wears black spectacles so you know automatically that she's an intellectual. Over the credits, there's wacky scientist isLouis Nye, a rather bizarre looking assistance and a robot that looks like something left over from a 1930's serial. If the supporting cast isn't being directed to be awful, they've been guided to act completely goofy.
So, does a plot really matter in a movie like this? Absolutely not. The presence of Vampira, John Carradine and Jackie Coogan indicates that the presence of a robot and a science lab will mean some very bizarre situations, and you are best going in watching this as a series of silly situations rather than for the story. The monotone delivery of what they call dialogue here does tend to slow it down a lot, but it is funny and campy, and thus enjoyable in a guilty pleasure sort of way. Going through my collection and getting rid of a lot of titles, this is one that I'll keep.
The credits indicate that this is not a movie to be taken seriously in any way, especially since Mamie Van Doren is cast as a doctor of science. She wears black spectacles so you know automatically that she's an intellectual. Over the credits, there's wacky scientist isLouis Nye, a rather bizarre looking assistance and a robot that looks like something left over from a 1930's serial. If the supporting cast isn't being directed to be awful, they've been guided to act completely goofy.
So, does a plot really matter in a movie like this? Absolutely not. The presence of Vampira, John Carradine and Jackie Coogan indicates that the presence of a robot and a science lab will mean some very bizarre situations, and you are best going in watching this as a series of silly situations rather than for the story. The monotone delivery of what they call dialogue here does tend to slow it down a lot, but it is funny and campy, and thus enjoyable in a guilty pleasure sort of way. Going through my collection and getting rid of a lot of titles, this is one that I'll keep.
Like watching Judge Judy do aerobics in a thong
eminges30 May 2001
There are no actual decapitations, cattle mutilation, desecration of houses of worship, or spurting arteries in Sex Kittens Go To College. Within those limits, this is ghastly beyond anything you can imagine.
Imagine Mamie van Doren as an ex-stripper with an IQ of 268 and twelve college degrees - no, thirteen, hired as a college professor. Imagine Jackie Coogan as a blustering oilman doing a 45-minute W.C. Fields impression. Imagine Martin Milner out-geeking Eddie Deezen, a twelve-foot robot named Thinko that handicaps horse races, a chimp in golf pants. Imagine the most credible and disciplined performance in the film being turned in by Louis Nye. Imagine Vampira so hagged out you'd flee to the arms of Nancy Kulp...Brigitte Bardot's little sister as an exchange student...Conway Twitty...fire engine...funny gangsters... Are your sides aching with laughter yet?
Terrifyingly awful. The only saving grace is that neither Woody Woodbury nor Paul Anka makes a guest appearance.
Imagine Mamie van Doren as an ex-stripper with an IQ of 268 and twelve college degrees - no, thirteen, hired as a college professor. Imagine Jackie Coogan as a blustering oilman doing a 45-minute W.C. Fields impression. Imagine Martin Milner out-geeking Eddie Deezen, a twelve-foot robot named Thinko that handicaps horse races, a chimp in golf pants. Imagine the most credible and disciplined performance in the film being turned in by Louis Nye. Imagine Vampira so hagged out you'd flee to the arms of Nancy Kulp...Brigitte Bardot's little sister as an exchange student...Conway Twitty...fire engine...funny gangsters... Are your sides aching with laughter yet?
Terrifyingly awful. The only saving grace is that neither Woody Woodbury nor Paul Anka makes a guest appearance.
Asinine
jadedalex11 June 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This movie, along with "High School Confidential" and an even worse "College Confidential" (with Steve Allen) are among the most witless and unfunny productions, geared towards "teenagers", coming out of Hollywood in this era of late fifties and early sixties .... how may of these films was Albert Zugsmith involved in? I just checked....all three!
You'd think that there would be some nostalgic appeal in seeing Mamie Van Doren, in her prime. Or the very young and nubile Tuesday Weld, a pretty Mijanou Bardot (Brigitte Bardot's sister). But the plot is so lame, it's real work to get through this film. It hardly utilizes the talents of Maila Nurmi ("Vampyra"). She is reduced to a short unfunny bit as a school secretary, her beauty hidden by dorky glasses.
Jackie Coogan must have felt like he was pounding the last nails in his coffin, I mean career. Fortunately, his classic turn as "Uncle Fester" on "The Addams Family" left us with some pleasant memories of the former child actor.
Seeing officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) as a big part of this sleazy production is a side of Martin we never saw in his stiff portrayal of the LAPD officer in "Adam-12".
This movie is not easily obtained, but I got my DVD copy relatively cheap via the internet. I couldn't quite understand why "Sex Kittens" was never shown on the late, late show, along with "High School Confidential".
I was about falling to sleep through this unfunny romp. (Really sad to see a talent like Louis Nye wasted here.) Then I perked up, as after all of the movie's unfunny situations, we finally get to look at real Hollywood mammary glands. Some brunette does a topless striptease and had I not already been so bored by the movie's asinine antics, I might have livened up a bit for her.
So, essentially, for it's time, "Sex Kittens Go To College" is a soft-core porn film. That's why it never turned up on the late, late show. This film reminds me of "Orgy of the Dead", where the director does for me what no other director besides "Sex Kitten's" auteur has done -- by the end of the movie, I'm kind of tired of watching cleavage and mammary glands.
Don't get me wrong. Movie is worth it for the early footage of Tuesday Weld. Too much footage of the goofy robot, and not enough Mijanou!
But the movie, well....if it looks like a zugsmith, and smells like a zugsmith, it's probably damn well a zugsmith.
You'd think that there would be some nostalgic appeal in seeing Mamie Van Doren, in her prime. Or the very young and nubile Tuesday Weld, a pretty Mijanou Bardot (Brigitte Bardot's sister). But the plot is so lame, it's real work to get through this film. It hardly utilizes the talents of Maila Nurmi ("Vampyra"). She is reduced to a short unfunny bit as a school secretary, her beauty hidden by dorky glasses.
Jackie Coogan must have felt like he was pounding the last nails in his coffin, I mean career. Fortunately, his classic turn as "Uncle Fester" on "The Addams Family" left us with some pleasant memories of the former child actor.
Seeing officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) as a big part of this sleazy production is a side of Martin we never saw in his stiff portrayal of the LAPD officer in "Adam-12".
This movie is not easily obtained, but I got my DVD copy relatively cheap via the internet. I couldn't quite understand why "Sex Kittens" was never shown on the late, late show, along with "High School Confidential".
I was about falling to sleep through this unfunny romp. (Really sad to see a talent like Louis Nye wasted here.) Then I perked up, as after all of the movie's unfunny situations, we finally get to look at real Hollywood mammary glands. Some brunette does a topless striptease and had I not already been so bored by the movie's asinine antics, I might have livened up a bit for her.
So, essentially, for it's time, "Sex Kittens Go To College" is a soft-core porn film. That's why it never turned up on the late, late show. This film reminds me of "Orgy of the Dead", where the director does for me what no other director besides "Sex Kitten's" auteur has done -- by the end of the movie, I'm kind of tired of watching cleavage and mammary glands.
Don't get me wrong. Movie is worth it for the early footage of Tuesday Weld. Too much footage of the goofy robot, and not enough Mijanou!
But the movie, well....if it looks like a zugsmith, and smells like a zugsmith, it's probably damn well a zugsmith.
Proof Positive That Blondes Don't Always Have More Fun
LeonLouisRicci22 June 2013
A couple of things. Mamie Van Doren and Tuesday Weld. They are the minimum interest in this completely unfunny, shallow, dim, laugh-less, and absolutely atrocious attempt at broad humor and low-brow shenanigans.
Its only train-wreck appeal is the aforementioned beauties. Everything else misses the mark and cannot be redeemed even by those who love to tout its outdated tendencies and point to all the "talent" on the screen.
Mamie, as always, does her best and wears a trademark shiny, skin-tight dress in one segment that is the standout in this hard to get through parade of "didn't anyone notice that this wasn't the least bit funny" one-liners, slapstick, and cheapness. Watch it if you must to laugh at it and not with it, but the bottom line is that this is just sad.
The remarkable thing is its ability to take so many easily recognizable Characters Actors that apart from this, have done reasonably good work and manage, after all, to put on the Screen a Monkey that outshines everyone.
Its only train-wreck appeal is the aforementioned beauties. Everything else misses the mark and cannot be redeemed even by those who love to tout its outdated tendencies and point to all the "talent" on the screen.
Mamie, as always, does her best and wears a trademark shiny, skin-tight dress in one segment that is the standout in this hard to get through parade of "didn't anyone notice that this wasn't the least bit funny" one-liners, slapstick, and cheapness. Watch it if you must to laugh at it and not with it, but the bottom line is that this is just sad.
The remarkable thing is its ability to take so many easily recognizable Characters Actors that apart from this, have done reasonably good work and manage, after all, to put on the Screen a Monkey that outshines everyone.
So Bad It's Watchable
Michael_Elliott23 June 2013
Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
1/2 (out of 4)
One of the worst films of the decade has a college needing a new science teacher so a robot picks out one who isn't what you'd typical expect. Dr. West (Mamie Van Doren) is a sexy blonde with big you-know-whats and soon everyone on campus is falling for her. I'm really not sure what the point of this film was unless the producers thought it would be funny to pretend that Van Doren was smart. This film has one of the worst reputations out there and it's easy to see why because this "comedy" doesn't have a single laugh in it that works. In fact, there's really nothing here that works because the entire thing just has a really cheap feel to it and it's clear that it was a rushed item without too much thought put into it. The strange thing is that it does feature a good cast and this here helps keep the film from being a total bomb. I actually thought Van Doren was good in the lead role as she handled the "smart" dialogue just fine and I thought she managed to be charming in the part. Both Tuesday Weld and Mijanou Bardot are nice to look at and we get the likes of John Carradine, Vampira, Jackie Coogan, Allan Drake and Conway Twitty in small parts. In fact, seeing Carradine and Van Doren doing a certain dance is always worth sitting through the picture for. The version I watched was the original theatrical one and not the extended piece that ran 7-minutes longer and featured a striptease. SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE is a really bad movie but at the same time it's certainly bad enough to where it should keep fans of bad films entertained.
1/2 (out of 4)
One of the worst films of the decade has a college needing a new science teacher so a robot picks out one who isn't what you'd typical expect. Dr. West (Mamie Van Doren) is a sexy blonde with big you-know-whats and soon everyone on campus is falling for her. I'm really not sure what the point of this film was unless the producers thought it would be funny to pretend that Van Doren was smart. This film has one of the worst reputations out there and it's easy to see why because this "comedy" doesn't have a single laugh in it that works. In fact, there's really nothing here that works because the entire thing just has a really cheap feel to it and it's clear that it was a rushed item without too much thought put into it. The strange thing is that it does feature a good cast and this here helps keep the film from being a total bomb. I actually thought Van Doren was good in the lead role as she handled the "smart" dialogue just fine and I thought she managed to be charming in the part. Both Tuesday Weld and Mijanou Bardot are nice to look at and we get the likes of John Carradine, Vampira, Jackie Coogan, Allan Drake and Conway Twitty in small parts. In fact, seeing Carradine and Van Doren doing a certain dance is always worth sitting through the picture for. The version I watched was the original theatrical one and not the extended piece that ran 7-minutes longer and featured a striptease. SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE is a really bad movie but at the same time it's certainly bad enough to where it should keep fans of bad films entertained.
"Don't let the grass grow under your tootsies, tootsie!"
moonspinner5518 September 2017
A college computer nicknamed "Thinko" picks a woman with 13 university degrees to head up the campus science department. Expecting an academic-looking spinster, public relations man Martin "Marty" Milner is surprised to greet Mamie Van Doren at the train station, a stripper nicknamed "Tassels" who has a high IQ and measurements to match (she also speaks 18 languages: "What's the 18th?" .. "English."). Milner (also an associate producer) and Van Doren are an enervated pair; better are Norman "Woo Woo" Grabowski as the captain of the football team who is afraid of girls and Tuesday Weld as a co-ed desperate to get pinned. Brigitte Bardot's sister Mijanou makes her one and only screen appearance as a Frenchie doing her thesis on the human male, Jackie Coogan apes W.C. Fields, John Carradine is hypnotized into joining Tassels on the dance floor, and Conway Twitty wrote the songs. Cult film has all the ingredients for a great B-movie...everything, alas, but a funny script. * from ****
I'm sorry....were we supposed to be laughing?
Ed-Shullivan2 June 2020
Funny ha ha
No. More like Funny nah nah
The director, Albert Zugsmith, obviously grew up watching the popular Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers films and I guess he tried but failed miserably at copying the camp comedy style of either The Three Stooges and/or The Marx Brothers styles.
Even with the very sexy and voluptuous Mamie Van Doren starring in this clunker and adding two gorgeous co-stars in Tuesday Weld, and Mijanou Bardot this film still could not hold an audiences attention.
I think that the director Albert Zugsmith believed that if he just simply kept a bevy of beauties on screen then his male audience would just lap it up and laugh even when the film was downright confusing and plain dumb.
I did not enjoy anything about this so-called poorly made camp comedy except for Miss Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, and Mijanou Bardot which is why I jacked my IMDB rating from a pathetic 1 to a still very poorly made 2 out of 10 rating.
The director, Albert Zugsmith, obviously grew up watching the popular Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers films and I guess he tried but failed miserably at copying the camp comedy style of either The Three Stooges and/or The Marx Brothers styles.
Even with the very sexy and voluptuous Mamie Van Doren starring in this clunker and adding two gorgeous co-stars in Tuesday Weld, and Mijanou Bardot this film still could not hold an audiences attention.
I think that the director Albert Zugsmith believed that if he just simply kept a bevy of beauties on screen then his male audience would just lap it up and laugh even when the film was downright confusing and plain dumb.
I did not enjoy anything about this so-called poorly made camp comedy except for Miss Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, and Mijanou Bardot which is why I jacked my IMDB rating from a pathetic 1 to a still very poorly made 2 out of 10 rating.
A stupid and terrible film that is simply trying to be a stupid and terrible film.
planktonrules1 May 2016
"Sex Kittens Go To College" is a terrible film...with lousy writing, dumb acting and not much going for it. However, at least it isn't trying to be a good film and in fact it is trying very hard to be a stupid and terrible movie!
When the film begins, some college decides to hire the perfect professor and they use their computer to tell them the choice. It suggests Dr. West (Mamie Van Doren)--a woman with 15 degrees and with an IQ of nearly 300*! So, without even meeting her, they offer West a position at the school and are shocked when she shows because she's one hot lady...and later they discover she's a stripper! As for Dr. West, she mostly spouts a lot of pseudo- intellectual nonsense which is to supposedly indicate she's a super- genius. On hand throughout the film are a brain-dead jock with some sexual hangups, a group of gangsters, a smart chimp dressed like a student (perhaps Bonzo's cousin), a horny and somewhat dim French student (Bridget Bardot's real life sister) and a LOT of really bad acting!
This movie is much like the later Beach movies (such as "Beach Blanket Bingo")--with very broad acting and writing. It's clearly designed for younger folks who frequented drive-in theaters-- undemanding and dopey. The overall effort is a bit painful to watch and the film is amazingly stupid and just plain bad. Even a guest performance by Conway Twitty (as himself) isn't enough to save this one!
*If you care, IQ scores back in the day were VERY unreliable and lacked real meaning with the old Stanford-Binet. The IQ scores obtained today using the much more widely accepted Wechsler tests top off at about 150...so if you meet anyone claiming to have a much higher score is likely lying, took some online test (that is meaningless) or was tested decades ago.
When the film begins, some college decides to hire the perfect professor and they use their computer to tell them the choice. It suggests Dr. West (Mamie Van Doren)--a woman with 15 degrees and with an IQ of nearly 300*! So, without even meeting her, they offer West a position at the school and are shocked when she shows because she's one hot lady...and later they discover she's a stripper! As for Dr. West, she mostly spouts a lot of pseudo- intellectual nonsense which is to supposedly indicate she's a super- genius. On hand throughout the film are a brain-dead jock with some sexual hangups, a group of gangsters, a smart chimp dressed like a student (perhaps Bonzo's cousin), a horny and somewhat dim French student (Bridget Bardot's real life sister) and a LOT of really bad acting!
This movie is much like the later Beach movies (such as "Beach Blanket Bingo")--with very broad acting and writing. It's clearly designed for younger folks who frequented drive-in theaters-- undemanding and dopey. The overall effort is a bit painful to watch and the film is amazingly stupid and just plain bad. Even a guest performance by Conway Twitty (as himself) isn't enough to save this one!
*If you care, IQ scores back in the day were VERY unreliable and lacked real meaning with the old Stanford-Binet. The IQ scores obtained today using the much more widely accepted Wechsler tests top off at about 150...so if you meet anyone claiming to have a much higher score is likely lying, took some online test (that is meaningless) or was tested decades ago.
Just plain bad
trz195129 July 2020
good education
lee_eisenberg31 March 2015
It'll be easier to enjoy "Sex Kittens Go to College" if you simply accept it as a silly movie. The purpose is to show off Mamie Van Doren, and boy does it succeed! There's one scene in particular that probably helped a lot of boys become men. I guess that since we were just coming out of the sexually repressed '50s, they felt inclined to throw overtly sexual material in the audience's faces. Ridiculous though the content is, it's one enjoyable movie. Every scene showing Mamie Van Doren is a treat; that woman really knew how to move! "Sex Kittens Go to College" won't be for everyone. I should remind you that a lot of the content is dated. Nonetheless, the gags that Van Doren, as well as Tuesday Weld and Mijanou Bardot (Brigitte's sister) pull is some cool stuff. Mamie Van Doren was known as a poor man's Marilyn Monroe, but judging by what she does here, there was nothing poor about her style.
Good times.
Good times.
From the man who gave you: Touch of Evil...........
joeshoe8926 August 2007
Warning: Spoilers
It's really sad that there is only one comment on this fun classic in six years. Written and directed by Albert Zugsmith who worked with Orson Welles on one of his greatest films Touch of Evil, Sex Kittens Go To College is a great Psychotronic film that really should be out on DVD hopefully with a Joe Bob Briggs commentary. The cast is nothing short of amazing! Mamie Van Doren is a "genius" with 13 degrees and a body that drives men wild and women to fume with jealousy. Tuesday Weld is a bit young for college at 17 but looks fantastic. Mijanou Bardot is more like the right age at 21 and her frerrranch accent like the great one done by John Cleese in Holy Grail can't help but make you laugh. There's John Carradine doing the Charleston with Mamie. The great horror movie host Vampira (who dated James Dean and at 39 isn't the hag the other reviewer says she is)is Louis Nye's lab assistant taking care of Thinko the robot a computer (!) that is a big metal robot with a lot of phony machines all around him. Hopefully if they put this on DVD they'll get the European cut which includes four strippers who do their "acts" for Thinko and Voltaire the chimp who's dressed like a beatnik most of the time. The strippers get down to some pretty skimpy panties (one is a thong so young people who think those were invented in the nineties are wrong)and pasties on their nipples. This was really hot stuff in 1960. Today it would get a PG on ABC family channel. MST3K did a great job with one of Mamie's other classics Girl's Town but unfortunately never got to do this film. Here's hoping if the show ever comes back or Joe Bob gets a shot at it this is the film they do. Like Plan Nine From Outer Space this is a classic!
Colossal misfire, unfunny, unentertaining, unbelievably bad
scsu197525 November 2022
In the opening credits, somebody sings "Sexpot Goes To College," which is an alternate title for this flick. I can think of a few more titles, but I don't want to get banned. This is one of the greatest wastes of non-talent ever conceived. Granted, you don't expect much from a Mamie Van Doren flick, but this thing is truly abysmal.
A robot/computer named THINKO selects the newest faculty member for Collins College. That would be Mamie, who has 13 degrees, can speak 18 languages, and has a sign over her bed reading "Over One Million Served." The reaction of the welcoming committee consists of astonishment (Louis Nye), disapproval (Pamela Mason), and lust (Martin Milner). Mamie tries to impress them with her knowledge of theoretical mechanics: "When I blast off, I've got an escape velocity which gets me to my aphelion point practically instantaneously." Actually, I understood that. Mamie is introduced to the science class, and gives a psychology demonstration by firing two pistols. Next, she sets her sights on helping the star football player overcome his shyness. The football player is played by Woo Woo Grabowski, whose character's name happens to be Woo Woo Grabowski. Woo Woo is being wooed by Tuesday Weld, who looks cute but does not give her performance the old college try. Elsewhere, we have Minjanou Bardot (Brigitte's sister) as a student who apparently is writing a book about sex, two moronic gangsters (Mickey Shaughnessy and Alan Drake playing characters named "Boomie" and "Legs" who think THINKO is a bookie), John Carradine as a lecherous biology professor, Jackie Coogan as Admiral Wildcat MacPherson, and Jose Gonzales-Gonzales as a Mexican.
The thin plot involves the discovery that Mamie used to be a dancer named "Tassels Monclair." So I'm not sure how she found the time to get so highly educated. Mamie does get to dance in a tight silver dress, and sings "Baby," accompanied by Conway Twitty's band. This is definitely the highlight of the film, but it quickly deteriorates as Coogan, Carradine, Nye, and some other guy prance around with her, and do a weak impersonation of a chorus line. Then everybody scatters when a monkey shoots off a machine gun. Apparently, even Cheetah can pass a background check.
There are a few subplots, but they are hardly worth mentioning. In fact, I can't even describe them. The dialogue is witless, as witnessed by this exchange between Bardot and Drake:
Bardot: "Parlez-vous francais?" Drake: "Not if I can help it baby, it gives me gas."
ROFLMGasO
This makes at least three films I've seen with the musclebound and mentally challenged Woo Woo Grabowski - "College Confidential," "The Beat Generation," and now this. I have no idea what he is doing in any of these films, and apparently neither does he. Coogan is obviously doing a W. C. Fields impersonation, and falls flat. Shaughnessy seems to be channeling Lou Costello; please, switch channels. Horny Carradine gets to do the Charleston and the tango with Mamie. Nye spends the entire film looking like he is suffering from hemorrhoids. Vampira has a bit part as Nye's assistant; I didn't even notice it was her until one of the final scenes. Bardot needs to have her libido excised. Pamela Mason is out of her league. It's no wonder a few years later she cleaned out hubby James in the divorce; she couldn't have made any money from this dreck. Milner overacts, does doubletakes, and mugs wildly for the camera. In the finale, he commandeers a fire truck (from Charlie Chaplin, Jr.), and, with Nye hanging on the ladder, sets off after Mamie to propose. The truck is pulled over by Officer Kent McCord, thus starting a long and beautiful friendship with Milner.
A robot/computer named THINKO selects the newest faculty member for Collins College. That would be Mamie, who has 13 degrees, can speak 18 languages, and has a sign over her bed reading "Over One Million Served." The reaction of the welcoming committee consists of astonishment (Louis Nye), disapproval (Pamela Mason), and lust (Martin Milner). Mamie tries to impress them with her knowledge of theoretical mechanics: "When I blast off, I've got an escape velocity which gets me to my aphelion point practically instantaneously." Actually, I understood that. Mamie is introduced to the science class, and gives a psychology demonstration by firing two pistols. Next, she sets her sights on helping the star football player overcome his shyness. The football player is played by Woo Woo Grabowski, whose character's name happens to be Woo Woo Grabowski. Woo Woo is being wooed by Tuesday Weld, who looks cute but does not give her performance the old college try. Elsewhere, we have Minjanou Bardot (Brigitte's sister) as a student who apparently is writing a book about sex, two moronic gangsters (Mickey Shaughnessy and Alan Drake playing characters named "Boomie" and "Legs" who think THINKO is a bookie), John Carradine as a lecherous biology professor, Jackie Coogan as Admiral Wildcat MacPherson, and Jose Gonzales-Gonzales as a Mexican.
The thin plot involves the discovery that Mamie used to be a dancer named "Tassels Monclair." So I'm not sure how she found the time to get so highly educated. Mamie does get to dance in a tight silver dress, and sings "Baby," accompanied by Conway Twitty's band. This is definitely the highlight of the film, but it quickly deteriorates as Coogan, Carradine, Nye, and some other guy prance around with her, and do a weak impersonation of a chorus line. Then everybody scatters when a monkey shoots off a machine gun. Apparently, even Cheetah can pass a background check.
There are a few subplots, but they are hardly worth mentioning. In fact, I can't even describe them. The dialogue is witless, as witnessed by this exchange between Bardot and Drake:
Bardot: "Parlez-vous francais?" Drake: "Not if I can help it baby, it gives me gas."
ROFLMGasO
This makes at least three films I've seen with the musclebound and mentally challenged Woo Woo Grabowski - "College Confidential," "The Beat Generation," and now this. I have no idea what he is doing in any of these films, and apparently neither does he. Coogan is obviously doing a W. C. Fields impersonation, and falls flat. Shaughnessy seems to be channeling Lou Costello; please, switch channels. Horny Carradine gets to do the Charleston and the tango with Mamie. Nye spends the entire film looking like he is suffering from hemorrhoids. Vampira has a bit part as Nye's assistant; I didn't even notice it was her until one of the final scenes. Bardot needs to have her libido excised. Pamela Mason is out of her league. It's no wonder a few years later she cleaned out hubby James in the divorce; she couldn't have made any money from this dreck. Milner overacts, does doubletakes, and mugs wildly for the camera. In the finale, he commandeers a fire truck (from Charlie Chaplin, Jr.), and, with Nye hanging on the ladder, sets off after Mamie to propose. The truck is pulled over by Officer Kent McCord, thus starting a long and beautiful friendship with Milner.
Put the blame on Mamie
bkoganbing29 July 2020
Sex Kittens Go To College has former stripper Mamie Van Doren bcoming the head of the science department at a collegein Nevada, She was chosen by he
college's new computer. The compter has a sideline as a bookie and some of
the local gangsters want to find out who's muscling in on their action.
That's the barebones plot of a witless comedy that wastes the talents of a lot of good people. Then again Mamie Vnn Doren's pulchriude is the main reason for seeing this film.
When a bongo playing monkey can steal a scene, you know you got troubles.
That's the barebones plot of a witless comedy that wastes the talents of a lot of good people. Then again Mamie Vnn Doren's pulchriude is the main reason for seeing this film.
When a bongo playing monkey can steal a scene, you know you got troubles.
A B-Movie Masterpiece
ecmelton-186-10504914 April 2019
A lot of the intentionally camp B-movies of this era are truly insufferable, boring, filled with bad acting and awkward attempts at sex appeal. Often times MST3K can't elevate them enough to be watchable. SEX KITTENS manages to avoid the these trappings and create a really fun movie. The appearance of actors like Jackie Coogan, John Caradine, and a brief appearance by Vampira probably do a lot to elevate the story. Nobody gives a restrained or subtle performance. Everyone is very goofy, which is exactly what the film called for.
Surprisingly the film is very tame when it comes to sex. Men ogle Van Doren, but they're such harmless cartoon characters that it never feels sleazy, and none of them make a serious advance. There are also two subplots about men actively rejecting the advances of women. One is about a gangster who is more interested in his schemes than the student trying to seduce him for her report on sex, and the other is about the head of the football team passing out because he's too nervous to talk to girls. Sex is treated in a very cute harmless way, despite what the title and marketing would suggest.
Mamie Van Doren's Dr West shows considerably more depth than you would expect the role to allow. In fact with the exception of the sex obsessed French student, all of the female characters are depicted as intelligent and thoughtful, while the male characters are absolute morons. I think this dynamic does a lot to make the film not feel too dated in it's social politics. It features a woman with 13 PhDs who is also a former stripper overcoming sexism to be the head of a University science department. If that's not a female empowerment fantasy, I don't know what is.
You should have realistically low expectations for a movie like this, but there's a Chimp named after Voltaire and Conway Twitty is in it for a few minutes. Do you really need more?
Surprisingly the film is very tame when it comes to sex. Men ogle Van Doren, but they're such harmless cartoon characters that it never feels sleazy, and none of them make a serious advance. There are also two subplots about men actively rejecting the advances of women. One is about a gangster who is more interested in his schemes than the student trying to seduce him for her report on sex, and the other is about the head of the football team passing out because he's too nervous to talk to girls. Sex is treated in a very cute harmless way, despite what the title and marketing would suggest.
Mamie Van Doren's Dr West shows considerably more depth than you would expect the role to allow. In fact with the exception of the sex obsessed French student, all of the female characters are depicted as intelligent and thoughtful, while the male characters are absolute morons. I think this dynamic does a lot to make the film not feel too dated in it's social politics. It features a woman with 13 PhDs who is also a former stripper overcoming sexism to be the head of a University science department. If that's not a female empowerment fantasy, I don't know what is.
You should have realistically low expectations for a movie like this, but there's a Chimp named after Voltaire and Conway Twitty is in it for a few minutes. Do you really need more?
I remember it being in color.
GJValent4 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
I caught this in the mid 1960s as a late Sunday night, (intended for adults), telecast here in Chicago. It was presented under the 'Beauty and the Robot' title. I thought it was pretty good. You had Mamie as a super intelligent, HOT, babe, taking on an entire college and trying to win the smart guy, Todd, from Route 66. She gets to hypnotize John Carradine into dancing. She gets to drive a fire engine. Bridget Bardot's sister wears the frat pin of her boyfriend on her bra strap, which sticks out of the over-sized, FlashDance', neck of her sweatshirt. Super hot rodder Norman 'Woo Woo' Grabowski is a major character. Louis Nye plays an old man. What more do you need ? Also, the full name of the computer/robot is SAM Thinko. The SAM stands for System Analog Modulator. It means nothing, but, sounds technical. Would be great to watch with friends and a few beers. Oh, yeah, we had a color TV, and, I swear this was in color. Maybe not.
A laugh riot--really fun to watch
hollywoodshack6 September 2019
Miss Van Doren stars as a new science professor at a small college with Martin Milner as the dean who decides to check up on her backround. He finds out she is really Tassles Montclair, a former stripper hiding out from gangsters to exhibit her IQ in a new career where she nurses the troubled psyches of football player WuWu Grabalski and the campus computer Sam Thinko. The film just oozes with comic bits from Louie Nye, Brigette Bardot's sister (she has French subtitles when she talks) the monkey from Bedtime for Bonzo, and the always lovely Tuesday Weld as Wu Wu's jealous girl friend.
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