Double Agent 73
Director: Doris Wishman
USA 1974
73 min
No, I'm not going to tell you anything about this film until you've seen the intertitles:
Well now. Got your own picture of what the film is going to be? Otherwise, I can tell you.
Let me begin with the fact that this is a reeeeally bad movie. I mean, REALLY bad. But let me give you a tip: buy a bottle of wine, some crackers and cheese, and watch this wonderfully entertaining cult film with your best friends. It is hilarious.
So, the plot:
Double Agent 73, who's real world name is Jane (played by polish "actress" Chesty Morgan) receives a call from her boss during her vacation, telling her he as a really important assignment for her, and she is the only right person for it. She is going to find and kill... an evil man. Isn't too important. But he sells low-grade heroin on the market. And that is not good.
The important thing however is that Jane has gigantic breasts (and I mean gigantic, see following pictures) and that she has a camera surgically installed in her left breast (!). In other words - she is perfectly equipped for the assignment!
The last thing you need to know about the plot is - Jane has a habit of making herself comfortable every time she gets alone, meaning that she takes off the clothes on her upper body. But don't all women do that, anyway?
Now - look at all these glorious screenshots. They tell everything you need to know.
A woman is killed in the shower. Hitchcock must feel embarrassed by his shower scene in Psycho (1960).
Brilliant! She kills a man by forcing ice cubes into his mouth until he suffocates. Why didn't I come up with that one?
Yes. She kills a man by rubbing poison on her breast and seduces him to lick them. Watch this movie with your kids! Or even better - with someone else's kids!
And the film ends. But the last frame can't just be of a boring airplane, so we put a couple of boobs there to.
Isn't it amazing that a woman has directed this? People have tried to explain Doris Wishman as a feminist, being a sole woman in a man dominated industry. But no. All women in her films are mostly blonde and stupid. I intend to watch all Wishman's films. For the heck of it.
As for Chesty Morgan, her career was a short one. She made another movie with Wishman, Deadly Weapons from 1974 (I wonder what those "deadly weapons" were...?), but then she got fired because she never came to the set on time. It was also a bit of a kerfuffle to re-dub all her lines because of her Polish accent.
Chesty Morgan made an appearance in Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976), but her scenes were cut. The last film she made was in Hong Kong called Third Hand (1981). Just check out the info on that one on IMDb - nada. Her performance isn't even confirmed.
What a tragic loss of a great actress.
Quotes:
Chesty: Flowers are pretty, aren't they?
9 comments:
OMG!!! THIS IS THE BEST POST EVER!!!!
Manuel:
Haha, well, I'm tired and sarcastic... I write best that way ;)
I used to have a bootleg video of this back in the early 80's...mega!
Paul Brazill:
Cool! Respect for that.
Hey any1 can tell where i can download the movie from ?
Oh my God! Chesty Morgan, eh? I daren't try to work out how many times I've watched this movie over the years...
Seems we have even more in common than I thought!
Matthew Coniam:
Haha, perhaps we do! ;)
http://chesty-morgan.blogspot.com
I worked with Doris on one of her last films, "Dildo Heaven," and was lucky enough to be friends with her for the last 10 years of her life. Amazing woman! I'll never forget the day she pulled out the original art for the "Produced and Directed by Doris Wishman" credit (the one you have posted above). I couldn't believe I was actually holding it in my hands. Plus, it was at a Burger King, which made it even more perfectly weird. Doris was a truly inspiring and amazing woman, I miss her.
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