Blazing Stewardesses / Naughty Stewardesses
Double Feature DVD

by Fuggy

“Come on, the Victorian age is over,” quips a stewardess to one of her lovers. “Women are enjoying sex today.” And aren’t we happy for it! Retro-Seduction weighs in with two releases from the days when “stewardess” was just another word for “liberated.”

Debbie (Connie Hoffman) is the new girl who is introduced to the free lifestyle of the stewardess. The modern stewardess practices free love, drinks, and travels everywhere, with a new guy in each port.  Problem is, Connie Hoffman mopes around the movie from one bland experience to another. Debbie says she’s enjoying it, so I’ll have to take her word for it, but the actress herself never breaks a smile.  When was Prozac invented, anyway? 

Robert Livingston plays Ben Brewster, a Palm Springs geriatric fond of wearing blazers and, when the lights are off, zip-up jump suits.  Amazingly enough, the old coot actually gets some. He has three love scenes of one sort or another, usually without removing the zip-up suit. If you have a Jack Lalanne fetish, this movie is for you. Actually, if you have a Jack Lalanne fetish, then therapy is probably best for you.

On the one hand, it’s kind of fun to see the way the movie anticipates the feminism of today, with women empowering themselves through sex. One stewardess shaves her pubic hair, because “men love it.” There’s a scene where a man is covered in frosting and presented as a birthday cake to one of the girls. She licks the frosting off of him.  When Debbie insists on posing nude for a photographer, she opines, “I feel so free. I suppose by taking my clothes off, I take my mask off too.”

On the other hand, it’s not very explicit. And, at 105 minutes, tedious, even if you’re fast-forwarding. There’s a sweet visit to 1970s Las Vegas, though.

Naughty Stewardesses is actually a bonus disc. The main feature is the sequel, Blazing Stewardesses. In the context of a softcore review, this movie isn’t worth mentioning. One brief nude scene does not a softcore make. As an homage to the movies of the 1930s, it’s an interesting film, but having a cast that includes Yvonne DeCarlo and the Ritz Brothers (of all people) doesn’t really add much to the softcore interest.

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