The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

(1977)

Thirty years after it was made, The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington is finally available on DVD. Xaviera Hollander, played by Joey Heatherton this time, has moved to Hollywood, presumably as a result of the New York bust chronicled in the first Happy Hooker movie, and is writing an advice column to supplement her brothel income.

As a result of a congressional sex scandal, she is subpoenaed to testify at a senate witch hunt where she is supposed to be burned at the stake to take national attention away from the scandalous senators. Her testimony pleases the gallery and angers the holier-han-thou senators, especially when she starts revealing their dealings with her girls. She also has an episode with a CIA agent (Billy Barty) and an oil sheik.

I am almost embarrassed to admit that I got a laugh or two out of this flick, but it is terribly dated and mostly silly. It did empty all of the B performers out of the unemployment lines, including Billy Barty, George Hamilton, Rip Taylor, Harold "Odd Job" Sakata, Larry Storch, Jack Carter, Ray Walston, Joe E Ross, and many others.

Unlike the first in the trilogy, this one does not cheat on the nudity. There is almost constant breast exposure from Bonnie Large, Marilyn Joi, Cisse Cameron, Raven De La Croix, Linda Gildersleeve, Louisa Moritz, Dana Baker, Pamela Zinzer, Dawn Clark and some unknowns.

The new widescreen transfer is very nice, and the sound is not bad. All in all, MGM did a good job on this bad movie, which is even bad enough to work for MST2K if they did R-rated material.

D

IMDb currently has this one at 2.0.

Scoop's note: This film pretty much marked the end of Joey's movie career. She would not be seen again for about a decade. About seven years after this film was made I had a rather unpleasant encounter with her in the piano bar at The Sign of the Dove in New York. She was hitting on me and would not take no for an answer, and kept getting more and more irate. I thought I would be in trouble because - well, because she's somebody and I'm not - but it turns out that picking fights and acting psychotic in public was pretty much "business as usual" with her, and she was quietly escorted out.

I know it sounds kind of ridiculous that a former bombshell was hitting on me, but you'd understand if you saw her then. She was forty years old, looked anorexic and was reputed to have been a major cokehead for years. Not long after that incident, she was charged with stabbing her drummer in the hand with a steak knife and with cocaine possession. (The charges were dropped, if I recall correctly.) I guess she eventually cleaned up because she did a Playboy layout when she was in her mid fifties.

 

The Door in the Floor

Classic screen nudity: jumbo-breasted Mimi Rogers with full frontal and rear exposure.

Sinatra

The movie follows a lonely, depressed and poor man whom everybody calls Sinatra (Alfredo Landa), because his job is to imitate Frank Sinatra in a cheap cabaret. He lives in a cheap motel in Barcelona and meets all kind of weird people, like the sex-obsessed owner of the motel (Luis Ciges) or a troubled and "pregnant" teenager (Maribel Verdú).

This is one of Maribel's earliest movies and her nudity is great, Ana Obregon is also in the movie playing Sinatra's love interest and also shows the goods.

As I said before, Viva España!
 

Maribel Verdu

Ana Obregon