Famous T & A (1982) is a collection of celebrity nude scenes narrated by
Sybil Danning. The DVD is supposedly remastered, but clearly from the VHS
version of this film, which in turn was mostly created from VHS source
material. All of that is to say that the image quality is lacking. The
content, however, is amazing, and includes raw footage from Sweet Sugar and
Terminal Island, and a very odd clip of stunt woman Laura Jane Leary riding a
Harley bottomless through the Hollywood Hills. Some of this material is
familiar, and is available in much better quality, such as Emanuelle Around
the World (AKA The Degradation of Emanuelle), The Harrod Experiment, Slave of
the Cannibal God, Ms. Don Juan and Fairy Tales. The rest is either only
available on VHS, or not available at all.
For many reasons, Terminal Island is the most interesting title covered.
There is a Canadian DVD version of this standard women-in-prison offering, but
it has all of the nudity cut. I can speak from first-hand knowledge. The
package admits that it was censored, but does not mention the nudity, only the
language and violence. In fact, they cut all of the nudity, and then crudely
blanked the audio to eliminate the offensive language. Couple that with a very
poor, washed-out transfer full of dust, dirt, bad focus, and even some jitter,
and you have one of the poorest DVD jobs I have ever seen. I don't understand
the point of taking a WIP film, and removing the violence, language and
nudity, but the point is that if you are eager to see this film, look for the
VHS version.
We have breasts and buns from Barbara Leigh
and full frontal and rear of Phyllis Davis.
Note that, in the case of Phyllis Davis, the lower nudity is courtesy of
raw footage never shown on screen or in a home video release.
Sweet Sugar is also a WIP offering, and also featuring Phyllis Davis, we
have breasts and buns from her
and also Pamela Collins.
Collins also shows some good stuff on her own:
It is hard to surmise what the plot is like, as nearly all the footage was
shower scene material, both from the film, and raw footage.
Laura Jane Leary in ?? I am guessing on the spelling of her name, and have
been unable to find her at IMDb, but here she is wearing a leather jacket,
high heels and a smile as she rides her Harley through the Hollywood Hills.
There are clear bush and buns shots.
Ornella Muti in Summer Affair. She shows breasts and buns cavorting with a
man on a deserted island.
Ursula Andress in Slave of the Cannibal God. This is the scene where two
native women tie her up and coat her in blood. We have breasts and a hint of
bush.
Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin in Ms. Don Juan. Jane shows full frontal
and Brigitte shows breasts and buns.
Claudia Jennings shows breasts in The Other Woman.
Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) shows breasts in The Working Girls. This one is
not available on DVD.
Jacqueline Bisset shows breasts in Secrets, also not available on Region 1 DVD.
Idy Tripoldi goes full frontal in a great scene from Auditions.
Edy Williams shows breasts in Dr. Minx.
Cara Burgess wears a tiny G-string in The Manhandlers.
Uschi Digard shows everything in Truck Stop Women. This appears to be a
comedy, and is not available on DVD, unfortunately.
Joan Prather shows breasts in a very dark scene from Single Girls, also not
available on DVD.
Angela Aames shows breasts as Little Bo Peep in the Mother Goose send-up,
Fairy Tales. This one is available on DVD.
D.D. Winters shows a breast in Tanya's Island.
Laurie Walters shows breasts and buns ...
... and Victoria Thompson does full frontal and rear in The Harrad
Experiment.
And Laura Gemser flashes in one of those Emmanuelle movies
Despite the image quality, I have to give this DVD very high marks. Given
the production year, it did a reasonably comprehensive job of covering
celebrity film nudity to date, and even presented some material not seen
anywhere else.
This is a high C+.
