Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Russ Meyer

Writers:

Russ Meyer (story)
Tom McGowan (writer) ...

Release Date:

1972 (Belgium)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Busting Out...

Plot:

Harry (a corrupt sheriff) and his Chicano deputy hunt an Apache who is about to go to the authorities with the news Harry is smuggling marijuana...

Plot Keywords:

Sheriff | Desert | Nurse | Apache | Erotica

Cast

Larissa Ely	...	Raquel
Linda Ashton	...	Cherry
Charles Napier	...	Harry
Bert Santos	...	Enrique
Frank Bolger	...	Mr. Franklin (as Franklin H. Bolger)
Uschi Digard	...	Soul (as Astrid Lillimor)
Michelle Grand	...	Millie
John Milo	...	Apache
Michaelani	...	Doctor Lee
Robert Aiken	...	Tom
John Koester	...	Gas Station Attendant
Daniel Roberts	...	Delivery Boy

Also Known As:

Megavixens
Three Ways to Love

Runtime:

71 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:-16 | UK:18 (video rating) (1997) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:X | West Germany:18

Company:

Eve Productions

Trivia:

This is the first appearance of actor Charles Napier' in a 'Russ Meyer (I)' film. He ultimately appeared in three other films for Russ Meyer: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) and The Seven Minutes (1971) (in which he kept his clothes on) and Supervixens (1975) (in which his frontal nudity was simulated with a huge rubber phallus).

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Flashback scene to a late Forties/early Fifties grocery store was filmed in late Sixties supermarket parking lot, complete with late model cars.

Quotes:

Harry: [yelling] You Frontier Hippy!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Twisted Sex Vol. 15 (1996) (V)

Soundtrack:

Toys Of Our Time

Like "Supervixens," the film is a swiftly paced excursion into sex and violence…

The story takes place in the Nevada desert… Frank Bolger is a conspicuous man in the community who also happens to run a drug-smuggling ring on the side… The local sheriff is in on it, acting as his hit man.

After a hot scene with one of the local women, Bolger orders the sheriff to eliminate the Apache (John Milo), an Indian who has been cutting into their marijuana sales... The sheriff reluctantly agrees, takes the boss's woman home, and relieves his frustrations on her before trying to carry the Indian away…

Meyer does indeed have a fascination for very richly gifted women, and this film is no exception… The scene where Bolger talks the nurse into giving him a body massage is a classic erotic tease… Also, Meyer has very cleverly juxtaposed a sensual lesbian scene against a bloody battle between the sheriff and the Indian… But much of the sex is unmotivated… Meyer cuts so quickly, however, that it is more of a lack of respect tease than an exploitive treatment of sex…

Larissa Ely (Raquel) is wonderful as the steamy, sweaty, desert young woman… Linda Ashton (Cherry) is delightful as the sexy nurse, but Charles Napier steals the show as the violent, explosive, cruel of a sheriff…