''Wild Gals of the Naked West'' is a 1962
nudie-cutie
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Western
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Places
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film written and directed by
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that fea ...
and starring Sammy Gilbert, Anthony-James Ryan,
Jackie Moran
Jackie Moran (January 26, 1923 – September 20, 1990) was an American movie actor who, between 1936 and 1946, appeared in over thirty films, primarily in teenage roles.
Early life and Hollywood career
A native of Mattoon, Illinois, Jo ...
, Terri Taylor, Frank Bolger, and Werner Kirsch. The film is one of the few porn flicks in the
American Western movie genre.
Plot
An old geezer recalls some of the antics of the men and women of his western town, more wild and woolly than
Tombstone or
Dodge City
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. In this town no one is a good shot, the women are hungry for new meat, and
practical joke
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rs abound. A stranger strolls into town, proving resistant to the mayhem, and after donning some cowboy duds begins cleaning up that town.
Cast
*Sammy Gilbert as The Stranger
*Anthony-James Ryan as Crazy Redskin
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Jackie Moran
Jackie Moran (January 26, 1923 – September 20, 1990) was an American movie actor who, between 1936 and 1946, appeared in over thirty films, primarily in teenage roles.
Early life and Hollywood career
A native of Mattoon, Illinois, Jo ...
*Terri Taylor as Golden Nuggets
*Frank Bolger as Snake Wolf
*Werner Kirsch as Snick
*Julie Williams as The Bosom
Reception
According to
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
, the film was "an ambitious attempt at comedy and satire. It is one of Meyer's personal favorites, but did badly at the box-office because, he now believes, he paid too much attention to the humor and not enough to the sex, and was over-cautious in assigning pasties to his actresses."
[RUSS MEYER: King of the Nudies
Ebert, Roger. Film Comment; New York Vol. 9, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 1973): 35-46.]
See also
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List of American films of 1962
A list of American films released in 1962.
''Lawrence of Arabia'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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References
External links
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Complete filmat
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MEYER MONTH – Russ Meyer’s ‘Wild Gals of the Naked West’ (1962)
1962 films
American pornographic films
American Western (genre) films
1962 Western (genre) films
1960s pornographic films
1960s English-language films
Films directed by Russ Meyer
1960s American films
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