Shut Up and Deal

Shut Up and Deal

Overview:

A poker-night bachelor party turns lurid.

Released: 1969-11-19
Duration: 01:04:00
Genre: Drama
Director: Donn Greer
Writer: Paul Deauville
Genre: Drama
Description

From the director of Alice in Acidland (1969) featuring Bambi Allen and Karen Thomas who had both appeared together in Sisters in Leather this same year.  It's a tale about a stag party that doesn't end well. It's a bachelor party for Tom.  His big brother Ned has arranged a night of poker, drinking and broads.  Jerry (Larry Martinelli) is the guy with the goat.

Lots of bad puns and inappropriate jokes ensue.  Take this for example:

    Anybody want a girl scout cookie?
    No, but I'll eat a brownie!
    

Tom Hanson (Gerard Broulard) tells about his angelic and saintly wife-to-be, Carol.  So innocent, so pure. The chicks have arrived!  It's Samantha (Lynn Harris) - looking almost unrecognizable with short hair and makeup, and Bonnie (Karen Thomas). Samantha and Bonnie waste no time getting undressed. As Samantha's pants are pulled off on Tom's lap, we get a full frontal from Lynn Harris.The older gents at the party try to continue their poker game as the naked girls carouse all around them. Another girl named Heather arrives.  I wish I knew who this actress was.

Samantha and Bonnie service a couple guys on a bed next to the pool table. Karen Thomas and Lynn Harris spend a good deal of screen time laughing hysterically. A door-to-door lingerie saleswoman named Greta Holbrook (Bambi Allen) has the misfortune of knocking on their door. Is this okay?  Can you just carry a salesperson into your home like this? In 1969 - yes. Greta is horrified to see Bonnie, Samantha and Heather, half naked and grubbing all over the party guests. But she soon loses her inhibitions when they get her drunk.

Heather takes Greta to the bath in order to sober up a little. Bambi Allen is pretty careful not to show bush in this film; however, when she grabs Heather from the tub, we get a quick glimpse. Bonnie and the other girls take turns having sex with Tom. Heather and Greta get it on with a couple of the guests.  (Bambi Allen keeps her panties on for this scene.) 

Samantha and Bonnie pleasure Greta. The much heralded Aphrodite, the greatest stripper and hooker of all time, has arrived.  But wait - doesn't she look familiar? Tom is horrified to find that Aphrodite is in fact his saintly, innocent bride Carol! Carol explains that she was raped by a farmhand and left for dead.  Since then, she's become a nymphomaniac. Tom can't handle this information, and runs upstairs. The party-goers hear a gunshot.  Tom has killed himself!

How do you ensure your B&W zero-budget sex movie doesn't end up nothing more than a stag film? Director Don Greer does all the right things; pretty much everything he could do to elevate this above a bump and grind loop.  First, he utilizes top notch sexploitation actresses - Bambi Allen, Lynn Harris and Karen Thomas.  Then, he films it with all sorts of fun angles and quick cuts to give it some energy. He also fills it full of groovy lounge instrumentals - that classic exotica vibe with plenty of vibraphone.  Finally, he hits it home with a bizarre over-the-top ending. Nicely done.

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