Mondo Topless (1966)

Directors

Russ Meyer

Cast

Babette Bardot, Pat Barrington, Sin Lenee, Darlene Gray, Diane Young, Daria Paris, Donna X, Veronique Gabriel, Greta Thorwald, Denice Duval, Abundavita, Heide Ritter, Gigi La Touche, Yvette Le Grand, Lorna Maitland, John Furlong

The story

The film presents a snapshot of mid-1960s San Francisco before shifting its focus to strippers, particularly in the context of the city's incipient topless go-go dancing craze. (This seminal manifestation of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s attenuated the coquettish tableaux and swing music-underpinned élan of American burlesque-era striptease and its immediate derivations in favor of a pruriently libidinous style generally informed by contemporaneous rock and soul rhythms; at this juncture, dancers generally remained partially clothed below the waist, although this would evolve in subsequent decades.) The strippers' lives are earnestly…

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