Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (1962)

User Rating:

1.9/10   

Director:

Doris Wishman

Writer:

Doris Wishman (writer)

Release Date:

July 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Romance

Tagline:

Blaze Starr, Proud and Beautiful...UNCOVERED by Nature's Intimate Paradise

Plot:

Stripper Blaze Starr, playing herself, drives her agent--who is also her fiancé--to distraction by ignoring scheduled "press functions" and spending her weekends at a nudist camp. |

Plot Keywords:

Nudist Camp | Camp | Stripper | Nudist | Sexploitation

Cast

Blaze Starr	...	Blaze Starr / Belle Fleming
Gene Berk	...	Tony
William Mayer	...	D. W.
Sandra Sinclair
Stephen Bloom
Allison Louise Downe		(as Bunny Downe)
Jim Antonio		(as James Antonio)
Warrene Gray
Richard Johnson
Mary Jo Walls
Joan Bamford
Craig Maudslay Jr.
Dolores K. Norris
Lee Abell
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ralph Young	...	Andy Simms (as Russ Martine)
Doris Wishman	...	Meg (uncredited)

Directed by
Doris Wishman

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Doris Wishman		writer (as Melvin Stanley)

Produced by
Doris Wishman	....	producer

Cinematography by
Raymond Phelan		(as Raymond Pheelan)

Film Editing by
Martin Samuels

Camera and Electrical Department
Bunny Yeager	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Music Department
Judy J. Kushner	....	composer: theme music (song "Going Back to Nature") (song "The Moon is the Lamp of Love") (as J. J. Kendall)
Ralph Young	....	vocalist: theme song (song "The Moon is the Lamp of Love")

Production Companies

• Juri Productions

Distributors

• Doe-Rae Pictures Inc. (1962) (USA) (theatrical)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2000) (USA) (DVD) (special edition)
• Filmfreak Distributie (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (????) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• B&O Film Specialists  titles and opticals
• Movielab  color
• Titra Sound Corporation  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Back to Nature (USA) (short title)
Blaze Starr Goes Back to Nature (USA) (bowdlerized title)
Blaze Starr Goes Wild
Blaze Starr the Original (USA) (video title)
Busting Out (USA) (reissue title)
Nature Girl (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:12 (2009) (DVD)

Filming Locations:

Sunny Palms Lodge, Homestead, Florida, USA

Company:

Juri Productions

Movie Connections:

Edited into Extra Weird (2003) (V)

I can't believe it

Doris Wishman (the film maker), in this film, managed to do the impossible, something that I thought couldn't be done. She made nudity *boring*! The movie is little more than scenes of naked people in the outdoors, doing mundane things like lounging around the swimming pool, strolling by the pond, playing chess... Zzzzzzzzzz. And since this was 1960, there's no full frontal nudity anywhere. The only part that really got me interested was "Leslie" demonstrating her swimming prowess in the pool. The rest of the film has the flimsiest of plots, something about Belle Starr wanting to get away from it all by escaping to the nudist camp every weekend, as her weasel-like fiancé/manager gets more and more irate. In the end, it all works out -- the final scene, the final meeting with the studio boss, was amusing (though I saw that one coming).