Originally planning to watch Preston Sturges The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,I decided after getting back home later than I had expected,to instead take a look,at the second movie in auteur film maker Russ Meyer's "Soap Opera" period.The plot:Laying in bed wide awake beside her sleeping husband,Angel Boland gets hit by a startling realisation that the spark from her marriage has completely fizzled out.Getting out of bed and ignoring the questions from her husband Burt, (who has only been divorced from his first wife for a short while) and the pleas from Burt's daughter Lana,Angel's drive's off in her car for a night of passion with a construction worker that she caught a glimpse of a few days ago,when skinny dipping.The next morning:Returning home feeling fulfilled for the first time in recent memory,Angel announces to Burt that she is going to carry on her "walk on the wild side",due to it fulfilling her needs in a manner that Burt has been unable to achieve for a long while.Surprised by Angel's new found excitement from taking her own route,Burt finds himself seriously considering to take his very own walk on the wild side…View on the film:Featuring a dad/daughter relationship and male nudity for the first time in any of his titles,co-producer/co-editor/cinematography/directing auteur Russ Meyer tones down the ill-fitting "Happening"/New Age Hippy elements of his last film,to instead create a warped soap- opera,that despite going down some delightful mystical sidetracks, (with the gorgeous Haji being an alluring Sorceress,who temps Burt to go on the wild side) is still held filmy together by Meyer keeping Angel and Burt's crumbling relationship troubles at the centre of the movie.Along with showing a fine skill in balancing the off-beat Soap-Opera and more Fantasy focused elements of the movie,Meyer and co-editor Richard S. Brummer display a new keen eye for the editing of sharp punch lines,thanks to Meyer and Brummer transforming a number of serious/exposition scenes, (all of which are well written)by using quick edits which allow for the punch lines to catch the audience completely by surprise.Working with Meyer for the last time, (although,he would reunite with Haji as a production assistant on the 1971 movie Up Your Ally) the screenplay by writer/sound engineer Jack Moran makes sure that their partnership ends with all guns blazing,thanks to Moran matching the cracking,whip smart dialogue, (delivered perfectly by a rugged and very easy on the eye cast) with a strong,episodic Soap-Opera like structure,with Moran taking full advantage of Angel and Burt's new outgoing desire,by having each of the men and women that they go after, be more crazy than the one before them,which leads to this movie being a perfect place to say good morning,and good bye to an amazing partnership.

I saw this movie at the tender age of ten. My best friend's parents wanted to go to the drive-in but they couldn't get a sitter, so Lonnie and I went along. I told my mom that I was going to the movies with the Hughes family and she say "Okay". She asked me what movie I was going to see and I said that I didn't know. That was the end of the conversation. Needless to say, at breakfast the next morning, when mom asked me what I saw, I made up the most elaborate lie that I could. Thank God for the Hughes family and all other COOL adult that let kids do what they aren't suppose to. I have seen all of Mr. Meyers' film since then and I am a fan. Sitting in the backseat with Lonnie, sipping pop and eating popcorn while I watched a parade of voluptuous woman and geeky, hillbilly males go at it tag-team style over a background of bad 70's waa-waa guitar solos prepared me for likes of Andy Warhol, John Waters and David Lynch later on in life. I recommend this film for anyone who likes unapologetic. artsy trash.

Russ Meyer fans may be a little disappointed when they watch this movie, because there's only one storyline and that is of going around having sex with 1 or 2 people. It's kind of boring because there's not too much nudity and it's lacking some action. The story is about an uninhibited woman who is always craving for sex, but her impotent old husband cannot fulfill her sexual needs, so she goes out and has sex with this other guy named "stone" and continues to taunt her old husband....that he's nothing but a boring old fart who can't get it up.What I found really stupid about this movie is this "forest girl" who supposedly lives in the forests. It's pretty lame to put a "forest girl " type character wearing jungle clothes. The old man takes a car ride into the forests , he notices the "forest girl" and he starts making love to her. The ending of the movie is pretty predictable. For all you "early adult movie" fans , I recommend "Mondo Topless", that movie is full of topless girls running around and showcasing mother nature's most luscious assets

Like "Common Law Cabin" and "Finders Keepers Lovers Weepers" this flick a somewhat typically Meyer sex/drama morality play spiced with wicked dialogue and busty chicks. Burl (Meyer regular Stuart Lancaster) is a rich impotent farmer who's sexy nympho wife (Alaina Capri of "Common..") fool around a lot because, eh, she's a nympho! Burl then takes a trip to the woods to sulk and meets a "sex witch" (the exotic Haji from "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!") who revitalizes him to satisfy his young wife..and happy times are back again! The dialogue, editing, photography are topnotch as usual with Meyer-flicks but the plot (except for Hajis role) are a bit routine. It's no "Faster Pussycat..", "Mudhoney" or "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" but still one Russ' better ones (I've seen 17 of Meyers films and I like'em all, so it's hard to be objective). A must for fans!