Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he was deeply passionate about love.

T. B. Dumore (Nicholas Saunders), the owner of Beaver Bras, gets his ad executive, Albert Zack (Chris Lemmon, Just Before Dawn, Thunder In Paradise), to create a new campaign: they need five famous women to wear their intimates so that people know they’re fashionable. Albert is the one who has to make it happen. He goes after an actress (Corinne Alphen, ex of Ken Wahl and now a pro tarot card reader) who is in the middle of a zombie movie; a disco singer named Debbie Winter (Marilyn Joi, Cleopatra Schwartz!) brings him to the dance floor; wealthy Contessa Bazzini (Carole Davis,  Piranha II) leads him to an orgy with a neon sign that exclaims “THE FUCK IS ON.” And then he dresses as a Yellow Peril villain to meet the First Daughter Lisa Foster (Teresa Ganzel, The Toy). Luckily, Albert has the help of Holly Fox (Olivia Pascal, Bloody Moon).

This was Chuck Vincent’s second try at mainstream after American Tickler. He directed it with German director Sigi Krämer; it was written by producer Wolfgang von Schiber, Rick Marx (who co-wrote Joe Franklin’s autobiography, Doom Asylum, and numerous films), Ian Shaw (who composed music for countless softcore films), and Vincent.

This also has Ron Jeremy and American adult star — not the British singer — Samantha Fox as reporters and roles for Dolly Dollar (not a porn star, a German actress), Pat Finnegan (AKA adult actress Patricia Dale), Jennifer Richards (Madusa in TerrorVision), Michelle Mais (the voice of Eebee the Evil Bong), Jack Wrangler (Lucifer in The Devil In Miss Jones Part II), Kurt Mann (Wanda Whips Wall Street), “Clown Prince of Porn” Bobby Astyr, an early role for Dan Lauria as a Secret Service man, Jake Teague (who did adult and Cannibal Ferox), Lou Leccese (who was C.H.U.D.), Juliet Graham (Bloodsucking Freaks, Vixens of Kung Fu, Miss Ohio in Emanuelle Around the World), pro soccer goalie Sepp Maier and  Lynette Sheldon (Let My Puppets Come).

Cinematographer Larry Revene shot Night Visions, Fright Housemanyts, and Marilyn Chambers’ softcore movies, including Deep Throat II, Raw Talent, the Roger Watkins-directed Corruption, Charlton Heston Presents the Bible, and several of Vincent’s movies, as well as directed Wanda Whips Wall Street.

Not a great movie, but a fun one. And the cast, right?