Glandscape Artist

"I run my films like the Boy Scouts," claims Producer-Director Russ Meyer. "I want absolutely no hanky-panky on the set. You can't expect two people who have been balling the night before to turn in a convincing performance the next day."

Meyer's stern philosophy, applied to 16 nudie films, has helped make him one of the most successful independent film makers in Hollywood. His first movie, The Immoral Mr. Teas, was made for $24,000, but when it brought in over $1,000,000 Meyer, a former industrial film cameraman, found himself on top of the bottom of the business.

His latest movie. Vixen, is in the Meyer mold. Once again there is the rolling glandscape; once again, such complications as plot and acting are forbidden. In British Columbia, Canada, a bush pilot spends too much of his time on the wing. In his absence, his wife Vixen (Erica Gavin, 42-24-36) lives up to her name, deceiving him with everyone from a Royal Mountie to the wife of a visiting fisherman (Vincene Wallace, 37-24-35). A Mama Sutra of seductresses, Vixen is an ideal utility infielder, at home in any position. Audiences willing to endure lapses into good taste will be rewarded by a work too juvenile to be considered a stag movie, but happily free of the social-minded pretentiousness that mars more serious sexploitation films.

Though Meyer's films have grossed $11 million in ten years, the profits, he claims, have been incidental. "My turn-on," he says, "is making movies that entertain me." Unfortunately, like those other pioneers, Kinsey and Masters, Meyer may live to see himself trampled in the sexual revolution. "I am worried about Am Curious (Yellow)," admits Meyer (46-38-42). "That film has put me at a crossroad. I have never shown genitalia in any of my films. Once you have to show that to get people into the theater, how many people are going to do it with taste? I have always been against censorship in any form, but I have also maintained that you should leave something up to the imagination."

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