Doris Wishman week (July 21 – 27) Doris made the loopiest of movies. A self-proclaimed prude who made nudist camp movies, her filmography is filled with contradictions. When she tried to be mean spirited with something like Bad Girls Go To Hell there was always an undercurrent of silliness and fun, but when she tried to be silly and fun in things like Keyholes Are For Peeping there was an underlying seediness and grime that couldn’t be wiped off. It’s hard not to love her!  

After years of softcore, Doris Wishman directed two hardcore pornographic features. We already covered Come With Me, My Love and Wishman directed another movie — this one — with that film’s star, Annie Sprinkle. Wishman made more films than any other female director of the sound era and she didn’t really enjoy making hardcore; she denied these movies for years.

Claudia (Bree Anthony, also known as Gloria Hadott, Lauri Suesan, Bree Anthony Fredericks, B. Anthony Fredericks and Sue Richards, the name she used as the editor of High Society) and Victor (Tony Richards, the Tweedledee to Anthony’s Tweedledum in Bud Townsend’s Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy) are engaged, but that won’t stop her sister Terry (Sprinkle) from sleeping with her sister’s fiancee. He’s not exactly innocent, as he’s also sleeping with C.J. Laing — and who would blame him? — while Terry’s mother and Claudia’s stepmother Ada (Sandy Foxx, who also used the alter egos Diana Ames, L’il Annie, Sandy Morelli and Sandy Sludge; she was married to director Lawrence T. Cole) is ready to cheat everyone out of their inheritance.

The inner voices of the sisters comes from Wishman; this also has an ending — spoilers! — where Terry gets Victor a poisoned glass of water, putting Claudia into shock for the rest of her life. Who in the raincoats on 42nd Street realized they were watching Wishman cover Diabolique?

Also: none of the bodies in this movie look like women in adult today and Annie Sprinkle to this day remains as wild and incredible as she was then.