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The Exotic Ones
The Monster and the Stripper
USA 1968
produced by Ron Ormond, June Ormond (= June Carr) for Carr/Mond Productions
directed by Ron Ormond
starring Donna Raye, Georgette Dante, Gordon Terry, Tim Ormond, Sleepy LaBeef, Ron Ormond (as Vic Narno), June Ormond (= June Carr), Jack Horton, Billy H. Smith, Gene McFall, Peggy Ann Price, Cecil Scaiffe, Ronald Drake, Luther Perkins, Edward B.Moates, Stephanie Moates, Jimmy Mulcay, Mildred Mulcay, Sam Tarpley, Harris Martin, Ed Livingston, June Russell, Diane Marshall, Herb Murray, Lee Hysinger, D. Turner, Jim Rose, William Austin, Chuck Howard, Curtis Keen, Red Lane, Lynn Fontane, Patty Kelly, Kathy Clifton, Marilyn Gallo, Diane Jordan, Pauletta Leeman, Danica Ray, Winona Warde
written by Ron Ormond
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Nemo (Ron Ormond) runs a nightclub, and he spends most of his days
auditioning strippers together with his talent scout, choreographer and
occasional performer Bunny (June Ormond). The police has a constant eye on
him, and rightly so because Nemo does quite a bit of drugrunning for the
syndicate on the side ... but he's just too clever for the local cops. Out
of the blue, Nemo decides he needs a new attraction for his club, so he
sends big game hunter Gordon (Gordon Terry) out to the bayous to get him
the swamp monster (Sleepy LaBeef) that everyone seems to be talking about
of late. The swamp monster slaughters all of Gordon's hunting party apart
from himself and his guide young Timmy (Tim Ormond), but these two manage
to haul the thing (which actually looks more like a man in cheap caveman
makeup) to Nemo's club. 'At the club meanwhile, rivalry has broken out
between bitchy lead stripper Titania (Georgette Dante) and good girl
singer Mary Ann (Donna Raye), and it seems each of their conversations
ends in a catfight. The swamp thing's arrival only fuels their fight,
because while Mary Ann's.singing seems to calm him, Titania's striptease
drives him positively wild - so each girl considers herself the main draw
of the show, besides the swamp monster of course. Eventually, the police
raids Nemo's club while Mary Ann and Titania engage in yet another
catfight, and in the chaos, the swamp monster escapes, kills Titania and
Nemo, and after that it's never seen again ... One of the
weirdest genre mergers ever: One part striptease revue, one part gangster
movie, one part monster flicks with obvious parallels to King
Kong. The fun thing about this unusual blend is of course that
writer/director Ron Ormond doesn't make an all that serious attempt to
make the different genres work with one another, the different stories
seem to just co-exist without deeper meaning for one another, which makes
this film basically a weird trip of the so-bad-it's-good variety. Add to
this a bunch of far-out scenes like the monster beating a man to death
with his own severed arm, the monster smearing itself with the blood of a
freshly killed chicken, and June Ormond performing a fan dance (like she
had done in her burlesque days some 40 years earlier) at age 66, and
you've got one piece of prime weirdness - and a trash gem that deserves
more attention than it presently gets.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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