Executive Wives

1971

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Executive Wives is a West Coast grindhouse offering from 1971.  If you watch enough grindhouse movies - and heaven knows I have - you see significant differences in the New York variety and the California variety.  New York offerings were gritty and often filled with characters for whom sex and drugs were roads to perdition.  Those are story-rich movies with narrators who provided the only sound.  The West Coast (really just LA and SF) gave us movies without much story, not much dialogue and very little narration but a lot of guilt-free nekkidness.

A real obvious, Funhouse-worthy difference was in the shape of the women who fleshed out the stories in the two sub-genres.  The New York scene had curvy gals such as Gigi Darlene and Darlene Bennett, whereas the West Coast movies featured taller, leaner women. 

Case in point is Barbara Mills (aka Barbara Caron). 

She appeared in dozens of movies made on the cheap by West Coast producers, in which she showed off a smile and a bod to die for.  In 1971's Executive Wives, she plays a care-free woman who boffs the main character, but she has some standards and is happy to call him an asshole when he behaves like an asshole.  Love that gal.  Unfortunate for all of us, she disappears from the movie after the first scene... or the first act, depending on your point of view.

Playing a more prominent role is the single-named Capri.

I've seen her in only one other movie, called College Girls, but IMDb says she acted in more than a dozen films, most of which have titles that lead one to believe she might have gotten nekkid in them, too.

Capri plays the wife of some guy who would rather go to a strip club than get down and dirty with her.  She does get nekkid in front of him but turns to her own devices when he rejects the offer.  Then she beds the main character in two other scenes. Lots of screen time, then, with Capri in the buff.

A third woman named Brigitte Deisshauer plays a stripper who - you guessed it - screws the main character.

The movie ends with information that Brigitte's character has been diagnosed with an STD, which means our main character and Capri are likely recipients of that particular present.  So, yay?  Not sure why anyone finds that funny but some people laugh it up as the final scene fades to black.