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4/10
Edy acts her face off!
DHarris3 January 2003
Edy Williams in a starring dramatic/sexy role, a miniscule budget, an impossible-to-believe scenario, horrid acting, and bad writing come together to make this one delightful viewing experience.

Our film opens with the telltale copulatory squeals of Ashley St Ives, I mean Dr. Carol Evans, coming from the upstairs bedroom of an ordinary Southern California house with ugly furniture. We quickly discover the guy she's with wants the money she got when her husband, who was heavily insured, died. One thing leads to another and we find Dr Evans mounting some high school kid with a Georgia accent who lives with his parents and shlepping around a corpse, while running away from a Peter Falk-as-Columbo impersonator who may or may not be wearing a hairpiece and we are led to believe is a high school buddy of the aforementioned mountee. Private citizens exercise their right to bear arms, Edy has a shining Oscar moment, and the film ends.

Highly recommended grindhouse/drive-in trash!
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4/10
More than your usual nudie picture
Leofwine_draca5 July 2016
An obscure and low budget item, which mixes the two genres of the sex comedy film and the drama to interesting effect. Although the ever-so tiny budget is clear from the very beginning and there are many "rough edges" in the movie, there are plenty of twists in the story (which goes in some unexpected directions) and some good performances from cast members. Some bad too, but I'll gloss over those as all low budget movies are stuck with them. Being a '70s movie, there's a fair amount of sex and violence on display but nothing too offensive.

Taking the lead role is former Russ Meyer regular Edy Williams as the voluptuous (it really goes without saying that she frequently sheds her inhibitions - as well as clothing) Dr Evans, who strikes up a relationship with the schoolboy David Brown, played as a nice-but-dumb character by Harvey Jason. Complicating the plot are the hilarious Randy Boone as Brian Thomas, a friend of David's who also happens to be an amateur detective, Columbo-style. '70s regular William Smith also appears as Gus, a former lover of Williams, who is determined to get half her fortune by fair means or foul.

Although the film is quite slow moving throughout, it picks up for the final half an hour with lots of shenanigans involving a corpse and a minor Bonnie and Clyde element to the storyline. The music isn't too intrusive and the film seems to bring out the best of the performers, even if the everyday locations used in the film are plain and drab. Very hard to come by these days, this is best viewed as an interesting obscurity piece which exemplifies the type of low-budget productions made during the mid '70s in America, and is surprisingly deep when on first account it looks like nothing more than a nudie picture.
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4/10
pure drive-in sensation
trashgang21 June 2011
This is flick that doesn't pop up that regular on the net and if it does it's just on old rental NTSC VHS. You will have to lay your hard earned cash on the desk to get yourself a copy. You don't want to get it for the acting because sometimes it's so wooden, just look at the one acting like he's Peter Falk, Columbo, cigar and raincoat included, even the poses he made he imitates. The storyline is about a doctor who takes patients back home to have sex with them but naturally she has a man and is being killed as the story unfolds. She's being helped by one of her patients. Why a cop suddenly go looking to a house were things went wrong, nobody knows. But of course being made in the seventies this flick is a pure example of a drive-in one. Just look at the beginning, nudity from Edy Williams and I guess most people hunt this flick for only to see her going undressed. It's only jugg time for her,it's weird because at that time most females went full frontal. But listen to her voice, the way she speaks is pure porno. But the editing and sound is really good for this kind of flicks, most actors made it into the scene, some still acting today. If you are into drive-in then this is for you, otherwise leave it.
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1/10
A masterpiece
martin-fennell15 October 2017
A total waste of time. Everyone concerned should be sent to another planet and made to stay there. The only acting in it comes from Smith. He must have needed the money. I refuse to believe he would actually choose to appear in crap like this. I'd be willing to bet that Williams is one of the worst actressess around. The word actress is far too strong for her. There is one memorable scene where a corpse gives Williams and Boone a hand, when they find him too heavy to carry.
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4/10
At least Edy Williams in in it
BandSAboutMovies27 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
"She's a vixen - watch her operate."

Dr. Carol Evans (Edy Williams!) keeps having these short affairs but they leave her unsatisfied. She's just dumped her latest boyfriend (William Smith!) but ends up injuring two kids - David (Harvey Jason) and Brian (Randy Boone) - who somehow end up falling for her. There's also the bulldozer death of her husband to deal with and a blackmailer as well. And yeah, Smith is not pleased at all that she's sleeping with a teenager.

But yeah. Most people just watched this to gawk at Edy Williams.

Director Howard Avedis loved making movies about older women deflowering teenage boys. This is also 1975, so get ready for a bleak ending! I think by the 80's, Avedis figured out how to make thrillers that really thrilled. But here, he's doing what he can to entertain the audience.
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5/10
Sexy Doctor
gregorycanfield2 March 2024
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Only recently, I became aware that Edy Williams had appeared in a few soft core exploitation films, such as this one. Thus, my interest in watching the movie was to see Edy Williams with her clothes off. That was it! Absolutely no other reason! This movie, however, has the same problem as many such films of that era. If you're watching only for the obvious reason, you will probably be disappointed. Edy is naked in the opening scene (not bad!), but that's as good as it gets. The nudity factor decreases, as the movie gets more into the "story." The story (about Edy's character having murdered her husband for his money) is fairly interesting. That's if it's the story that you're interested in. I wasn't. I was only interested in Edy, minus her clothes! I recently watched an episode of Lost in Space, in which Edy appeared as a female alien. In that episode, she proved herself a better actress than she was in this movie. Actually, my take on Edy Williams is not completely superficial. She was unbelievably sexy, but she also came across as "nice." There are not many actresses that I would say the same for. Overall, the movie is underwhelming, either as a sex romp or a drama. But, Edy was nice to look at. At least, as much as the movie allows us to see!
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