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Tame and tedious peek at burlesque
MERRY MAIDS is no more, no less than a typical burlesque movie, shown at adult theaters nearly 60 years ago to kill time. When Something Weird revives it, along with many other lookalike titles, it kills time for a new generation.
The strippers here aren't very talented and certainly aren't good-looking. Add to that some very lame Abbott & Costello imitation comedy that was old-hat already 70 or 80 years ago and you have a miserable package.
Some sort of highlights: Cherri Lee, known as the "New Orleans Pepper Pot" begins the program by tap dancing, before she bumps & grinds in suitably dirty fashion. The fact that the whole movie is shot from a discreet proscenium camera adds to the boredom.
Rhea Walker is perhaps the prettiest girl, a "titian haired temptress" (?). Janine France is a featured attraction, a leggy Ann Miller type. Blonde Texan Taffy Terrell also has nice legs. Gerri Darnelle is the most buxom girl, but you don't get to see any nudity at all here.
The show's star Zabuda has a Middle Eastern look and emphasizes the India-style hand motions, but she isn't sexy, and her routine segues from a fine clarinet score to crappy Dixieland music when she switches to cornball stripping. Overall the film's hokey music is pretty poor.
The strippers here aren't very talented and certainly aren't good-looking. Add to that some very lame Abbott & Costello imitation comedy that was old-hat already 70 or 80 years ago and you have a miserable package.
Some sort of highlights: Cherri Lee, known as the "New Orleans Pepper Pot" begins the program by tap dancing, before she bumps & grinds in suitably dirty fashion. The fact that the whole movie is shot from a discreet proscenium camera adds to the boredom.
Rhea Walker is perhaps the prettiest girl, a "titian haired temptress" (?). Janine France is a featured attraction, a leggy Ann Miller type. Blonde Texan Taffy Terrell also has nice legs. Gerri Darnelle is the most buxom girl, but you don't get to see any nudity at all here.
The show's star Zabuda has a Middle Eastern look and emphasizes the India-style hand motions, but she isn't sexy, and her routine segues from a fine clarinet score to crappy Dixieland music when she switches to cornball stripping. Overall the film's hokey music is pretty poor.
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- lor_
- Nov 29, 2010
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