Rene Bond week (August 11 – 17) Rene Bond could brighten up even the most dreary productions, and she was in plenty of them. In the early adult scene she was one of the better actors, particularly when it came to comedy, though she could squeeze into some leather and throw the whips around when the role called for it. Bond appeared in somewhere near 100 films, thanks to her affable professionalism she worked with many filmmakers multiple times and regularly performed with her boyfriend Ric Lutze. Her career received an enhancement when she became one of the first stars to get a boobjob. She retired from film in the late-70s just as the porno chic era was dying down, but before the video era. You can find her in a ton of SWV titles, so take yer pick!

Directed by Stephen Gibson (using the name Stan Gelson; he also made Black Lolita and used the name Norm de Plumé when he made Disco Dolls In Hot Skin and Hackin’ Jack vs. the Chainsaw Chick 3D) and written by a crew that included Harvey Meadowmuffin (another Gibson name), Pierre LaFarce (yet another Gibson name) and Tommy Rott (Arnold Herr, who shot Teaser, Hard Candy and several other movies with Gibson) and based on a joke by Ramsey Throckmorton (also, you guessed it, Gibson), The Playmates In Deep Vision 3-D is the first Eastman Kodak color 3D movie. Shot in the Deep Vision 3D process, there is a cut for drive-ins and another for adult theaters, but it never gets all that explicit.

There are also several other movies made with Deep Vision 3D, all directed by Gibson: Blonde Emmanuelle, Hard Candy and Wildcat Women.

Dr. Jane Kinsey (Becky Sharpe, If You Don’t Stop It… You’ll Go Blind!!!) is doing research on swinging when she meets TV show host Joe Strovack (John Paul Jones, Angie Baby) and everything up until that point was a documentary and now, it switches to a love story. And then it starts having Laugh-In quick bits.

One of those cut scenes has Rene Bond as a waitress and she looks right into your soul and says, “It’s all real.” Except that she had breast implant surgery before this movie was made. But who cares? It’s Rene Bond!

Also showing up, we have Con Covert, who was in everything from A Scream In the Streets to Repo Man. He was also the intruder in Fantasm and shows up multiple times in Hollywood Babylon. Plus, there’s Dalana Bissonnette (AKA Kathy Foster, Sally Jack and Claire Krumpet), Sandy Dempsey (one of the many prisoners of Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS), Suzanne Fields (Dale Ardor from Flesh Gordon), Kathy Hilton (The Toy Box), William Margold, Linda Marie (the succubus from Terror at Orgy Castle), Titus Moede (Boo Boo from Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), Gretchen Rudolph (Run Swinger Run!), Starlyn Simone (also known as Michelle Simone, Simone, Linda Harris — she used that name for A Climax of Blue Power — and Starline Comb, Nora Wieternik (Queen Amora from Flesh Gordon) and Wendy Winders (the woman going down on Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood Babylon).

This movie promised “The Revolutionary New 3-D Process That Will Put “The Playmates” Right in Your Lap!” The 3D process can’t be that good. The humor isn’t all that funny. But hey, it’s something different. And if you can’t watch a movie and wait for Rene Bond to show up, you really need some help.