Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Russ Meyer

Writers:

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

Directed by
Russ Meyer

Writing credits
Russ Meyer		(story)
Tom McGowan		(writer) and
Russ Meyer		(writer)

Produced by
Tom McGowan	....	associate producer (as Thomas J. McGowan)
Eve Meyer	....	associate producer
Russ Meyer	....	producer
Anthony-James Ryan	....	associate producer

Original Music by
William Loose

Cinematography by
Russ Meyer

Film Editing by
Richard S. Brummer
Russ Meyer

Production Management
Anthony-James Ryan	....	production manager
Jacqueline Ryan	....	assistant production manager

Sound Department
Richard S. Brummer	....	sound editor (as Richard Serly Brummer)
Robert Pergament	....	sound editor (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
John Koester	....	assistant camera

Editorial Department
Robert Pergament	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Igo Kantor	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Tom McGowan	....	transportation (as Thomas J. McGowan)

Production Companies

• Eve Productions
• Panamint Film

Distributors

• Eve Productions
• International Film Distributors (1970) (Canada)

Other Companies

• Producers' Sound Services  re-recording

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

Begins and ends with a diatribe against our society that is ANYTHING but erotic!

Sex and violence in a desert town as sheriff Harry (Charles Napier) gets involved in bushwhacking and murder. More breasts and bloodshed from Russ Meyer, with minimal plotting interrupted by staccato clips of naked women frolicking in the dunes. It's obviously a bad picture, but it does have Napier and he's worth watching in just about anything. I loved Pauline Kael's assessment of his rock-solid stature in her review of "Citizen's Band" (she called him "an erotic Steve Canyon"). To me, he's a kinky Brian Keith, a mountain of brawn and straw-blond hair. He has criss-cross scars on his face and a smile that has a maniacal bend (like Nicholson's Joker without make-up) and his sex scene with Raquel--or is that Cherry?--in the sand is really something to see (and one of the few times the film is not chopped up to provide deeper meaning in the subtext). ** from ****