Verdict
Summary
The movie is mostly junk, although it’s a postcard from a different time, showcasing gorgeous girls in funky outfits when they’re not naked, and despite all the “fun,” it has an ugly sobering quality that is impossible to shake.
Plot:
Airline stewardesses get laid … a lot.
Review:
Ah, the 1960s! Fly the friendly skies and join the mile-high club! Part of the initiation ritual of being a pretty airline stewardess is to give the pilot – or co-pilot – a good time while in-flight, and the cockpit is a revolving door of pretty and very willing girls. We get an almost documentary look into the shallow lives of these pretty stewardesses, who sleep around – sometimes with each other – and one gal is especially attracted to soldiers, sometimes seeing them off to Vietnam, or goofing around in the sack with sailors while they’re on leave. One girl meets a man on a plane, thinking she’s going to get a little leg up in the modeling world (he’s some kind of talent scout), but what she gets instead is a grisly lesson in integrity, and she snaps, killing the man, and then jumps off the roof of the hotel … to her death. But don’t worry: there’re more girls where she came from!
Shot as a hardcore porno, but released (in 3D!) as a softcore erotic film that suddenly takes a hard left turn into harsh reality just as it’s ending, The Stewardesses is a junk pile of made up-on-the-spot scripting, fully nude couplings, and lots and lots of grinding and humping, as one might expect of a plotless sex movie. Needless to say, it was a smash hit success with all of its nearly nonstop nudity, and with the added gimmick of 3D, the movie takes on a slightly psychedelic quality as characters engage in orgiastic bliss (scenes which are visualized with camera tricks), and in one sequence, the girls go through a spook house carnival ride, which adds some 3D dimension. The movie is mostly junk, although it’s a postcard from a different time, showcasing gorgeous girls in funky outfits when they’re not naked, and despite all the “fun,” it has an ugly sobering quality that is impossible to shake. From filmmaker Allan Silliphant.
Kino Lorber has just released a two-disc Blu-ray edition of The Stewardesses, which contains a 3D version, plus the 2D version. They’ve thrown in a pair of 3D glasses in the set, including a slew of bonus features, including several short erotic films (in 3D), an entertaining commentary by two film historians (which I listened to), and promotional material. This is part of the “Kino Cult” line (#45).
