The Ecstasy Girls (1979) Rated PG
This picture was nominated for so many awards, took home seven statues! First time producer
Harold Lime, ever worked with director Gary Graver… and it looks amazing! Won best
cinematography. Serena plays… two roles, twin sisters, soap opera style.
It’s 1979’s ‘The Ecstasy Girls’ [Music] “Get Jack Valenti on the horn, I want to
clean up some movies!” What? We are cleaning up some movies! You know that kind of messes with my
psyche… I don’t believe in censorship. What am I doing running this outfit? I’m Jason from Barefoot
This is ‘Squeaky Clean Adult Films’… where we make Jack Valenti very happy. ‘The Ecstasy
Girls’! Gary Graver and Harold Lime… two mega forces! They worked together 10 times. This
is the first one ever. We’ve done five of them. We’ve got 50% of their oeuvre covered. We just did
‘Amanda by Night’ and ‘Indecent Exposure’, this, we’ve also covered ‘Summer Camp Girls’ and then
their last outing, plot twist, shot on VHS, home video produced, “urban”, ‘Black Lava’. Five down,
five to go… one of them is being worked on right now. Gary Graver’s third time in the directing
chair… ever. He’s a famous cinematographer… and this one best cinematography, which he didn’t
shoot. How do you like them apples? Best actor, Jamie Gillis. Best supporting actor, Georgina
Spelvin… best cinematography, best score, best song, best screenplay, which Harold Lime
wrote with Bill Barron… and best production value. Never even heard of that award… not
production design, production value… and wait till you see this… production value,
which is a term… it is on, every dollar is up on the screen! It looks amazing… not a
Vinegar Syndrome. Gary Graver just shot both those Svetlana pictures ‘800 Fantasy Lane’ and
‘Ultra Flesh’. Same year as ‘800 Fantasy Lane’, now he’s in the director’s chair… and just like
‘800 Fantasy Lane’, I can’t tell why this picture looks so good? It got re-released in 2011 on Video
on Demand… they’re not restoring a movie. Best I can come up with is… Image Entertainmen…t
released the laser disc, so we’re going back some years. That’s a possibility. They could have
restored the picture and cleaned it up for that release… I don’t know? I love this movie, we
got, the Churches. The family of, the Churches. That’s their last name. The patriarch of the
family, he’s a good old red-blooded, Republican. He doesn’t like these “alternative lifestyles”,
and that doesn’t mean ‘gay and straight’ like it does mean today. It meant… “hippy”. When they
say “alternative lifestyles” they’re talking about “free love” … and then all his children are
good old blue-blooded, free love, Democrats… and you’re about to see the going ons… of this
different… family. 97 minutes long. Ours is 31 and a half. You have a big whopping feature,
I’ve been editing this for quite some time. I started this before ‘Ultra Flesh’ and before ‘800
Fantasy Lane’. There are so many… similarities, I mean we got tennis scenes in this, I’m like
“Hey 800 Fantasy Lane” We have oversized chess piece playing.. and I’m like “Hey Ultra Flesh”
It’s PG. We have a lot of sexy outfits and we have a lot of drinking and smoking. These rich
people… they drink… and they smoke, a lot, in sexy outfits. We got some innuendo, we
got some romance… but otherwise pretty clean picture. You watch this, we’ll talk
about all the cast… in 31 and 1/2 minutes. [Music] Hello Uh JC hi Yeah we didn’t get a chance to talk at the
party Uh job Sure What are you doing A new film Uh Charlie thought I could help you out Thanks
anyway JC Yeah sure I’ll think it over [Music] [Applause] Glad you changed your Fine Jerry
Well it uh still depends on what you have in mind JC It’s good to be alive
especially when you have money in the back Ah don’t be embarrassed my friend With all
this even I have cash flow problems and my brother’s one of the wealthiest men in the
world and also one of the most miserly But all that seemed to change for both of
us The old boy is dying But the Lord has decreed that we must go on and has provided
a means for you and I to do so You and me I watched you last night out here in there
everywhere In there You have something women want We just get to the point A man is
dying He leaves a will He names heirs Heirs Several heirs My sister Madlin you met
her last night She’s devoted her life to my poor widowed brother and his four seemingly
innocent daughters He’s got a sister and four daughters And a brother me
That makes six right and one sixth of his fortune
to each That’s fantastic Then you’ll all be wealthy or wealthier My brother
also has morals That’s where you come in Finally
Edgar poor fellow doesn’t know that his daughter’s experimenting with lifestyles
Man like that doesn’t know about his own daughters Family album They must all be
seduced therefore cut out of the will Disinherited [Applause] [Laughter] What
a lovely word Disinherited Imagine the same man suddenly confronted by his own family
Those who should support his views the most Moral wastils Can you imagine the reaction A
cataclysmic response to all that infidelity I’ll need filmed and taped evidence
It’s worth $100,000 to you Jerry Martin all of them
Like my brother I want it all [Applause] for this We get paid Turn my key light You’ll never be a successful
director till you learn respect for your producer What we need right now is a successful investor
Did somebody call my name Jerry film That’s the only real thing
in the world Jerry is super rich So what We want to shoot 35 You’re
not doing a feature for a movie house Okay you guys in with me or not What’s the budget
Food travel expenses location shooting Yeah till we get the goods on all five of them
Equipment unlimited film camera sound lights you know the works
It’s a dream come true boys How much If we get all five of them on
film there’s $10,000 for each of you Come on I haven’t got all day We got things to do
Come on George That’s $10,000 a piece That’s enough to start our feature
I’m not an investor I’m a producer No you’re not You’re nothing yet I’m an
assistant And you’re nothing but a gopher Okay we’re in Okay let’s get to work We got to
get the goods on all five of them Check the backgrounds Find out any little
quirks What turns them on What turns them off Sort of does cinema verite Right now if they
don’t fall for the bait that’s you you or me Or if something goes wrong we don’t get all five
of them on film And the whole deal is off There’s nothing for anybody
No pickup shots no second chance
No [ __ ] Okay let’s see who we start with
We’ll start with one of the twins Nancy [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Heat Heat [Music] [Applause] [Music]
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat [Music] [Applause] [Music]
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat [Applause] [Music] [Music] You know that [Applause] We got down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh no Heat Heat [Music] [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] You have expensive hobbies
You mean bakar Oh I only do that till daddy’s allowance
runs out Besides sometimes I win Don’t I know Do you like the champagne
He is to a girl with all the amenities and the best amenities are yet to come I suppose I
should apologize for my behavior at the party Well then I want you to call Hollywood
Meline and tell Jack Valenti that I’m holding him personally responsible for
this year’s dirt In all of those pictures the goodbye girl an unmarried woman Annie
Hall pretty baby the Betsy the Greek tycoon Don’t you think you ought to rest now Edgar
Rest I’m never going to rest till I get this country back on the moral standard Not the gold
standard We lost that But we’re not going to lose the moral standard too And then I want you
to call the networks now All three of them All three of them And I’m going to have you tell
them that I’m cancelling all the sponsorship from all the companies that I control because they
sneaked in a bunch of smutty programs while I really Oh now listen Hey I want you to call that
shanker fella too over at the National Teachers Association And you tell him I’m going to pull my
daughters out of school so as he stopped teaching those dirty courses in sexual awareness Your
daughters are out of school Edgar Well they’re my granddaughters if I ever have any
Well Edgar I’m glad to see you’re in good spirits Happens
Casey I’m not dead yet They’ll keep They’re plastic
Oh that’s the question now It’s my daughters Are they real or are they plastic
They’re very much for real They’re beautiful children
Well then why aren’t they here They were here all those weeks you were so
very sick They’re at your beck and call but they do have their own lives to pursue and fulfill
Well then why aren’t they married and settled down so I don’t have to worry about them so much
They’ll find their own way Just give them time You worried about your daughters Edgar Free
love JC That’s all anybody wants these days But you got to teach them You got to teach them
that nothing is free and no one’s going to have one of my daughters for free or else Listen I’ve
made an addition to my will Now don’t talk about your will Edgars You’re going to outlast us all
I won’t live long enough to get all of these morality initiatives on the ballot JC but
I’ve provided a a funding for them in my will It’s a continuing campaign
and I’ll continue to do whatever I can to keep it going
Will you JC Really will you For real Edgar
You know I’ve only gone for the real JC Real money real power [Applause]
and a real daughters real family real morals real pure chasteed obedient real
and they’re going to remain that way Or else Edgar
what do you think of these gay rights and women’s rights and things JC it’s an abomination We’re
brothers All right We see this world the same way I got it Ah you had to do the first
one without me with this thing Jerry this is for amateurs Frank amateurs
Calm down How was she give us the details Well let’s just uh say she was uh different
Now if you don’t want to give us the details don’t Now there’s one down four to go The next
young lady will be constants competitor church condominiums You like athletic women
don’t you Jerry This should be a snap [Applause] Hi I’m Jerry These are my friends Archie
and George Of course you are Sure [Music] is a great way to end the day It’s time for me to go to
my Pisky practice [Applause] Hey man you let her get away
Look she’s an Olympic runner or something I can’t keep up with her
You blew it Look you take a shot at it But where’d she go Crystal range
Well Archie go Get going One minute Cuz you’re a crack shot and you do want to
shoot your important film don’t you Go Come on Gun smoker We’ll catch up [Applause] All right What the hell happened to you Um
this is crazy man And I’m supposed to be a director not a stunt man I’m supposed to go out
to that pistol range She took me to the soccer and the handball and water skiing All I can’t
believe it Two grown men letting a 115 lb woman run you through the ringer Well looks like the
producer will have to take over I trade the pair of you for a couple of campire campfire girls
I trade me for a pair of vampire girls myself [Music] [Music] [Music] No it’s [Music] more Run [Applause] Run [Music] [Applause] Wait Hey wait for me Hello Hello there Well hello You ready for more
Uh yeah I could do that stuff Come here I used to play this all the time You
don’t believe me do you [ __ ] Nothing like hitting a target Simple as that Guess I swear
Uhhuh I guess I’ll be content with just watching Oh no Come on Try again Come
on All right What the hell You’re a good sport I like that
I did Yeah [Applause] You won
I did I did What do I win Well um how about a home-cooked
dinner at my place if you like You cook I like Great I want to jog five more
miles Work up an appetite Let’s go Hey wake up Come on wake up [Applause] Oh God Look I’ll see you tomorrow
I’m going home Ah Christ Jerry’s going to leave We’re doing all this for nothing
What No bitching all day and now no presumptuous pass I don’t believe it Neither can I Well
since you’re so willing to go why don’t you stay What you really need is some fresh country [Music] Hey Arch Arch get out of here [Music] I think she’s going to give him the endurance
award [Applause] Take a few deep breaths Then let’s play Hey wait wait wait I’m
through with games for today What are those What do you got These
are these Here These are my balls
Let me see Oh All right Oh my choice Let me see by your ear
Oh how about a kiss Another kiss [Applause]
Let’s see Touch me Touch you Is it getting any Yeah it’s hot It’s great Let me see Would you like a brandy Sure
Oh JC keeps it in the den Come on Of course I guess we’re all really actors
Life gives us all roles to play What are your roles Oh sister housekeeper
bookkeeper surrogate mother Of course the girls are pretty much on their
own now You met the twins at JC’s party Yes They’re at that difficult point in life
where they have to find their own lifestyle and it makes them rather vulnerable They
tend to trust people if you know what I mean Would you like to see the rest of the house Love to
Fine Oh yes JC collects everything Why down
here He has a fascinating game room [Music] He’s got the stuff from all over the world Um Bali Africa H [Applause] Which one do you think
is me I think I like the real you best of all [Music] [Applause] Oh Archie Oh you’re perfectly right My shoulders
my hips my thighs symmetrical very observant But photos are still only two-dimensional
Come here This is the real you Go ahead Appreciate yourselves Have you ever
seen such a beautiful body [Music] [Applause] [Applause] I had to see you
You’ve seen me I’m sorry about what happened at
the party I thought you were your sister You’ve seen the worst side
of me I got another face you know I hope you get a lot of extra work
I had a rough night Yeah well you look like a man who’s
had a lot of rough nights [Applause] [Applause] That was a rotten thing for me to say
Forget if it’s true Trust your life to women drivers Sure
Get in [Music] The dawn is on the rise A
brand new day for us to share I see tomorrow It’s there within your
eyes Girl we might just make it after all [Music] Time goes on its way leaving you
and me behind So girl take my hand and I will lead the way Girl we might
just make it Girl we might just make it Girl we might just make
it after all [Music] [Applause] You’re a fraud Jerry Martin I don’t think
you’re so macho I don’t think you’re the frightened little boy type either Well it
covers what you don’t think What do you think I’m not sure Oh [Applause] come here
That’s not a bad rain Come on Oh scary And that’s the whole story
I should have known I know him as guilty as he is but
I’m out of it And of course he may try something else in the future so
I thought I’d better let you know End the film I brought it
along so you can see it burn [Applause] [Laughter] Hello I see All right That was JC He’s expecting delivery
of a very special film and insists on giving me a preview of it tonight
Well that’s the film He’ll have nothing Unless they try to sell him the raw
stock is the real thing [Applause] I think I better warn JC about
the future Want to come along And that’s it Naturally I told Meline
the whole story She had a right to know In any case it’s all over JC I won’t
stand for anymore Do you understand And this um sleazy Sir Galahad will
join the family and maybe be included in the will Edgar has rallied again And
remarkably he’ll be with us for a long time Not when he sees this He won’t Where did you get that gun I’ve had it for
years Someone came to me a long time ago They threatened to send it to
Edgar unless I gave him money So I paid to protect the family
You never said anything Then you consider it a fair
trade My film for yours Guns for water [Music] The dawn is on the rise A brand new day for us
to share I see tomorrow it’s there within your eyes Girl we might just make it after [Music]
Time goes on its way leaving you and me behind Oh girl take my hand and I will lead the way Holy [ __ ] those exteriors of Vegas strip,
were… Oh my God, 1979 Vegas. That’s something! So how did you like that? Did you like them
apples? Jamie Gillis won best actor. This is 1979, the awards for this are handed out in 1980, I
already told you… bunch of people won, Jamie Gillis, playing Jerry Martin, he won. 25th time…
on our show. Paul Thomas, 23rd time on the show. John Leslie, 19th time on the show. I just…
was watching a movie last night, killing time, just going through filmographies, counting them
up. I don’t always do that, but they all did good. Paul Thomas was the 100% free-spirited, hippy…
kind of like his real life, cool guy… persona, getting to kind of play that in this movie.
He got to kind of play himself, in one part, when he had well he had a sling, so
minus the sling, he was Wooderson, he was straight up Matthew McConaughey… in
‘Dazed and Confused’. Paul was Archie. George, John Leslie… boy did I love all of the film
stuff! Did you see that brick of Super 8 film? “Jerry is Super Eight”
“So what, you want to shoot 35? You’re not doing a feature for a movie house”
Look at this… this is Barefoot, this is weak as hell. Look at this… here’s two. Here’s two
little cartridges. “That’s enough to start our feature” You know how expensive this is? It’s
like 2 and 1/2 minutes, 2 and 1/2 minutes. All those little yellow boxes they had are 2 and 1/2
minutes a piece… and I love some of their film discussion. I love when they finally said “Okay
let’s do it.” When he’s like “I’m I’m a producer not an investor.” He’s like “You’re nothing…
You’re a gopher.” “I’m not an investor I’m a producer” “No you’re not. You’re nothing yet,
I’m an assistant and you’re nothing but a gopher” “Okay we’re in”
And he goes… “I’m in.” “Okay we’re in”
It reminded me of the Broken Spoons. So let’s talk about the Churches. Edgar Church, that’s Richard
Norris. He was the… top of the food chain. He was only in one movie ever and it’s this one. Not
too open-minded! He had a brother and a sister… Madeline Church was his sister, Georgina
Spelvin. She won best supporting actor for this. She was cool! Her sixth time on the show.
Her brother was JC. J… C Church. John Alderman, third time on our show and he got to do some crazy
John laughter. Remember I think we even like, super cut it, from ‘Amanda By Night’ where was
like (laughter) the first time he did this, when I was doing a watch through, I was like
“oh man, we’re so back!” [Laughter] and then we have the kiddos, Nancy and Diane, both played
by Serena… this is my favorite Serena movie… hands down. We’ve done seven of them. We’ve got
a lot more to go through… but 100% my favorite Serena movie… not the first sister, the second
sister. Lesllie Bovee… playing Barbara, boy was she amazing! She was gnarly… and fearless and
you barely got to see it. That’s the the worst thing about cutting this, was losing Lesllie
Bovee. Got to see her a little bit at the party in the very beginning. You got to see a little
bit with her … little photoshoot type dealio “What a lovely word” And then we have Laurien
Dominique, who played Constance Church, ‘Sporty Spice’ her second time on the show…
because she was ‘shaky’ in… ‘Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls’ I’ll tell you what I should do, is I should
open this and then I would have a ‘Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls’… t-shirt to wear, during one of
these. I don’t deserve it yet, It’s been sitting there for four days, can you imagine… you know
what kind of, you know what kind of either um… discipline that takes… or mental illness. Your
mega birthday present… just sit at my desk…. I’m not going to open it for a long time either,
I’m just going to stare at it… but when I do you’ll see a ‘Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls’ shirt.
And that wraps it up! We had some some young filmmakers, some cinema vérité, filmmakers,
trying to blackmail a family, the Churches, and…. it didn’t end up going the way they
thought it would. Instead we got John Alderman, doing the jig… in drag. I hope you liked
that… I did! I liked it a lot. Don’t subscribe, Don’t like, don’t share, just watch… Um, we
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cool one! We’re going to… 80’s VHS, but shot on film… and it’s a request. Every once in a while
it gets brought up… and it is a… cult classic. It is weird. We’re going to weirdsville…
and we’re going to… electronic crazy score. I don’t know yet, because I haven’t written the
script, I don’t know if this has been released, it feels like there would be a vinyl,
for a bunch of hipsters, because the, the score is phenomenal… And that’s all the
hints I’m going to give you… I’ll see you then!
Gary Graver and Harold Lime team up for the first of 10… it’s ‘The Ecstasy Girls’…. and it won a LOT of awards! Best Actor (Jamie Gillis), Best Supporting Actress (Georgina Spelvin), Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Song, Best Score and Best Production Value. Plus it’s got that ‘film-within-a-film’ thing going on!
Directed by: Gary Graver
Written b: Harold Lime & Bill Barron
Produced by: Harold Lime
Distributed by: Leisure Time Booking (United States, 1979) (theatrical)
Distributed by: Blue Video (United States, 1980) (VHS)
Distributed by: Caballero Control Corporation (CCC) (United States) (VHS)
Distributed by: Image Entertainment (United States) (laserdisc, video)
Distributed by: Caballero Home Video (United States, 2000) (DVD)
Distributed by: Popporn (World-wide, 2011) (video-on-demand, video)
Starring: Jamie Gillis, Serena, Georgina Spelvin, John Leslie & Paul Thomas!
RE-CUT & performed by jason for our series ‘Squeaky Clean Adult Films’
Music by Bryan Bland
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0:00 Intro / Award-Winning Start
1:05 Graver & Lime’s First Collaboration
2:32 Meet the Church Family
4:01 The $100K Blackmail Plot
9:42 Target #1: Nancy the Twin
13:11 Edgar’s Moral Crusade
17:03 Constance the Competitor
21:11 Dinner & Confessions
27:28 Original Song: ‘We Might Just Make It’
32:27 Behind the Scenes & Super 8 Talk
34:42 Cast Shoutouts & Trivia
37:51 Next Time on Squeaky Clean
2件のコメント
Thank you Jason for this! it’s my favorite one.. you did an Amazing job!
❤️
Laura
Ok,how about now 'The Ecstasy Girls #2' from 1986 with Stacey Donovan? 🙂 Anyway,did I hear you say near the end,something about a birthday? Maybe I misheard and hey,if yours is passed or coming around..HB 🙂