Mondo Topless
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Its tagline: "Two Much For One Man...Russ Meyer's Busty Buxotic Beauties ... Titilating ... Torrid ... Untopable ... Too Much For One Man!"
The film received an X-rating from the MPAA, and was banned in Finland.
Plot
The film presents a snapshot of 60's San Francisco before shifting its focus to strippers. The strippers lives are earnestly portrayed as they reveal the day-to-day realities of sex work, talk bra sizes, relate their preferences in men, all voiced over while dancing topless to a faux "rock" soundtrack.
Documentary Traditions
The film shares some stylistic similarities with Jean-Luc Godard's collaborative effort: 'Le plus vieux métier du monde' ('The Oldest Trade in the World'). Mondo Topless, like most other Meyer films, drew much of its inspiration from the more relaxed European attitudes toward sex, and was followed by a host of imitators.
Quotes
"But enough of this palaver! Let's get the show on the road!" (aired every morning on the Opie & Anthony radio show)
"Fifty fifty where it counts!"