Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969)

Directed by

Russ Meyer

Genre

comedy film, sexploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 11m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A California border sheriff smuggles marijuana on the side. A female writer and an English nurse become involved with him and each other.

campysexploitationfast-pacedabsurdexplicitdatedlightheartedgrungy

What happens

Cherry, Harry & Raquel! is a 1969 American action comedy and exploitation film, produced and directed by American film director Russ Meyer. The plot involves the smuggling of marijuana, and the attraction between a female writer and an English nurse. Following the success of Vixen! (1968), the film is notable for the first appearance of actor (and Meyer regular) Charles Napier playing Harry Thompson, a California border sheriff and cannabis smuggler who makes a reappearance in 1975's Supervixens. Napier's nude scene with Larissa Ely, where they run in the desert, is the first instance of full frontal male nudity in a Meyer picture. The appearance of a penis in a movie in 1969 was still a novelty, and was reported on by the Associated Press after the movie was released and became a hit. Uschi Digard, who would also go on to make frequent appearances in Meyer's films, was cast as the naked muse of the Apache character. Shown in cut scenes usually wearing only an Apache headdress, this plot device was necessitated after the lead actress left the shoot early and there was 20 minutes of footage needed to complete the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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