Bumbling Jewish mama's boy researcher Homer (Joe E. Tata doing his best spazzy Jerry Lewis impression) acquires a magical watch that enables him to go through time. During his travels through time Homer encounters such notable historical figures as Paul Revere (they smoke weed together), Eric the Red, King Louis XVI, Julius Caesar, and Thomas Cromwell. Meanwhile, a black man in heaven watches Homer's misadventures on his watermelon television. Director Eric Jeffrey Haims, working from a blithely asinine script by E.E. Patchen, relates the enjoyably inane story at a quick pace, offers a decent smattering of gratuitous female nudity and soft-core sex, and milks plenty of laughs from the amusing sense of amiably goofball humor (although the broad caricatures of both Jews and blacks might not go over well with today's touchy-feely politically correct crowd, they are frankly just too overdone to be considered genuinely offensive). Moreover, it's a hoot to see several familiar 70's skinflick starlets portraying historical figures: The always adorable Rene Bond as a perky Anne Boleyn, Maria Arnold as a lascivious Betsy Ross, Suzanne Fields as an appropriately haughty Marie Antoinette, and Jane Allyson as an enticing Helen of Troy. In addition, there are lively turns by Sebastian Brook as an effeminate King Louis XVI, Donn Greer as a pompous Caesar, John Vincent as a hearty and lusty Thomas Cromwell, and William Bagdad as a fruity painter. Arch Archambault's vibrant cinematography delivers lots of bold eye-popping colors. The groovy and eclectic score by Hots Mullins does the dynamic trick. The sets and costumes are grade school level adequate at best, but that only adds to this film's considerable dopey charm. A silly hoot.
2 Reviews
About As Bad As You Can Get
Michael_Elliott30 April 2014
A Clockwork Blue (1972)
BOMB (out of 4)
Awful sexploitation picture has a black man and a Jewish man going to Heaven at the same time. Both are granted wishes so the black man takes a million dollars while the Jewish man takes a watch, which ends up having special powers and can take him back in time. While the Jewish man is on a historical journey playing various figures (George Washington, King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette), the black man watches from his watermelon television. A CLOCKWORK BLUE was released as a part of a double bill with director Eric Jeffrey Haims others film THE JEKYLL & HYDE PORTFOLIO. If you that thought film was bad then you might as well skip this one because it's downright awful from the opening scene to the last. I will say that the director did a good job with the colors used in the film but this here isn't nearly enough to keep this comedy watchable. The jokes are without question some of the worst that you're ever going to hear and it's just amazing that anyone thought they'd be funny. To say they are beyond lame would be an insult to the word lame. Even worse is that for a sexploitation picture there's really not as much nudity or sex. While watching the picture I really couldn't help but wonder what the director was trying to do with this thing but the comedy and nudity both failed. Sexploitation fans will enjoy getting a brief look at Rene Bond but she can't even save this thing. The film is available in both a soft and hard version. I watched the soft but after viewing it I have zero interest in the other.
BOMB (out of 4)
Awful sexploitation picture has a black man and a Jewish man going to Heaven at the same time. Both are granted wishes so the black man takes a million dollars while the Jewish man takes a watch, which ends up having special powers and can take him back in time. While the Jewish man is on a historical journey playing various figures (George Washington, King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette), the black man watches from his watermelon television. A CLOCKWORK BLUE was released as a part of a double bill with director Eric Jeffrey Haims others film THE JEKYLL & HYDE PORTFOLIO. If you that thought film was bad then you might as well skip this one because it's downright awful from the opening scene to the last. I will say that the director did a good job with the colors used in the film but this here isn't nearly enough to keep this comedy watchable. The jokes are without question some of the worst that you're ever going to hear and it's just amazing that anyone thought they'd be funny. To say they are beyond lame would be an insult to the word lame. Even worse is that for a sexploitation picture there's really not as much nudity or sex. While watching the picture I really couldn't help but wonder what the director was trying to do with this thing but the comedy and nudity both failed. Sexploitation fans will enjoy getting a brief look at Rene Bond but she can't even save this thing. The film is available in both a soft and hard version. I watched the soft but after viewing it I have zero interest in the other.
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