Mondo Topless (1966)

Completely topless! Completely uninhibited! The wayout craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe. National publications have documented the "Topless", but... See full summary »

Director:

Russ Meyer

Stars:

Babette Bardot, Darlene Grey, Pat Barrington

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Babette Bardot	...	Herself - Bouncy Dancer
Darlene Grey	...	Herself - Buxotic Dancer
Pat Barrington	...	Herself - Rambunctious Dancer (as Pat Barringer)
Diane Young	...	Herself - Yummy Dancer
Sin Lenee	...	Herself - Lucious Dancer
Darla Paris	...	Herself - Delicious Dancer
Trina Lamar	...	Herself - Exciting Dancer (as Donna 'X')
Veronique Gabriel	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage)
Abundavita	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage)
Greta Thorwald	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage)
Heide Richter	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage) (as Heidi Richter)
Denise Du Vall	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage) (as Denice Duval)
Gigi La Touche	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage)
Yvette Le Grand	...	Herself ('Europe in the Raw' footage)
Lorna Maitland	...	Herself ('Lorna' screentest footage)

Storyline

Completely topless! Completely uninhibited! The wayout craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe. National publications have documented the "Topless", but nowhere has it been as thoroughly covered (or uncovered) as it is in Russ Meyer's rampaging motion picture Mondo Topless. The film is believably real - but "unbelievable" just barely describes all of Meyer's discotheque discoveries! Fantastic women, fantastic dances - the "buxotics" - in an incendiary tribute to unrestrained female anatomy featuring the world's loveliest bosom brigade!

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Plot Keywords:

big breasts | breasts | breast | mondo | dance | 

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Taglines:

Russ Meyer's Busty Buxotic Beauties

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

X

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 October 1966 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mondo Girls

Filming Locations:

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$12,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eve Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

There are close-ups of the tape recorders used during the interviews with some dancers, enough for the brands to be read - namely one portable Vista in a beach and a larger Akai M-8 Cross Field in a bedroom. Also, one Panasonic and two Sony portable FM-AM transistors at pool scenes.

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Connections

Edited from Europe in the Raw (1963)

User Reviews

Russ Meyer blast from the past

Although Russ Meyer made this movie in a hurry to make some fast money, he later came to see it for what it is - a classic sendup of the go-go and striptease girls of the swingin' 60's! The movie is sparse, even by Russ Meyer standards - just a music soundtrack accompanied by an announcer who introduces the "girls"!

But the "girls" are something else! Most of them are California based professional strippers of the era who jumped at the chance to get in front of a movie camera and do their go-go bad thing. All of them are eye catching, but one stands out, literally, from the rest.

Russ was actually ready to run this film through his paces, featuring the already well known Lorna Maitland, when he got a phone call from a great "procurer" friend, one Andy Anderson. He told Russ that he had a major discovery in front of him at a strip club in downtown Los Angeles (San Francisco has been incorrectly reported) and that Russ should "get his body down to a certain club a.s.a.p." in order to be the first to shoot her. Andy said "I'll hold the dogs off until you get here!"

Russ complied, went to the club and together, he and Andy went to the dressing room of one Vivian Cournoyer. She had apparently just begun dancing at the club and was new to the art of striptease and the area, temporarily staying with a friend. Identifying himself, Russ asked Ms. Cournoyer to display the goods whereupon Russ got to see, according to him, "the greatest set of breasts I've ever seen or filmed", all the more remarkable on a petite 112 pound body!

Realizing he had to act quickly in order to be the first to get this buxotic lady on film, Russ Meyer drove with her to the desert early the next morning and spent the entire day shooting stills and film of the woman he called Darlene Grey for his ode to the go-go era, MONDO TOPLESS. Darlene Grey went on to a short-lived career in magazines such as Arv Miller's FLING, posing as Candy Morrison, Vivian Moyer and Angela Carter.

Then, as Russ tells it, she just disappeared from sight after less than a year of posing. Nevertheless, Russ Meyer still claims that MONDO TOPLESS has been one of his best selling videos over the years "simply because of Ms. Grey's great heaving chest".

If for no other reason, enjoy this movie for the "girls", but especially for the extended "desert boogie au go go" done by Darlene Grey near the beginning. No less a film critic than Roger Ebert felt compelled to specifically comment on the voluptuous Ms. Grey in MONDO TOPLESS. Seeing her cavort, topless in the desert, holding a tiny AM transistor radio in one hand is an experience never to be forgotten!