''Fly Me'' is a 1973 United States-Filipino sexploitation film about the adventures of three

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Plot

Three young flight attendants fly from

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. Toby's mother has followed her on the plane and Toby tries to lose her so she can romance a doctor, David. Andrea's lover Donald has gone missing. Sherry is smuggling drugs and is kidnapped by a

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ring.

Cast

* Pat Anderson as Toby *

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as Andrea *Lyllah Torena as Sherry *

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as David *

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as Toby's mother * Richard Miller as Taxi driver *Ken Metcalfe as Donald *

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as Enriquez * Richard Roake as Co-Pilot

Production

The film contains some kung fu scenes shot by

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and

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worked on the movie as a dialogue director.Christopher T Koetting, ''Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures'', Hemlock Books. 2009 p 53 Corman did not want the film to seem like it was done in the Philippines so he had

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shoot an opening sequence in Los Angeles where Pat Anderson jumped in a taxi cab driven by Dick Miller.Chris Nashawaty, ''Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses - Roger Corman: King of the B Movie'', Abrams, 2013 p 115

Reception

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says the film was successful, which he attributed in part to its strong

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'', critic Budd Wilkins described the film as "rife with wooden acting, knowingly awful dialogue, and plenty of kung-fu action," that the editing was "lousy ..as though the film had been cut with a blunt machete and some Super Glue, which the editor was doubtless huffing," and "the fights look to have been choreographed like a game of Blind Man’s Bluff." Critic Rich Rosell wrote in

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that although the film "is fairly awful it is still fun in its own high camp kind of way," that it is "loaded with unintentionally funny chop-socky fight scenes balanced out by obligatory attractive female nekkidness," and that "it has a silly, low-rent charm despite the abundant imperfections."

References

External links

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