Below the Belt (1971)
Genre: Comedy | Action | Crime | Erotic
Country: USA | Director: Bethel Buckalew
Language: English | Subtitles: none
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 90mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv – 720×551 – 23.976fps – 1.39gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132726/
A boxer’s manager pays a prostitute to make his boxer’s nights hot, and endless. Not so strange, considering all the dirty deals the manager has with the local mafia. The strong champion has to contend with the sexy girl, before he gets to the ring with the title contender. But there are other interests at play, and more girls to play.
Veteran trash skinflick director Bethal Buckalew relates the sordid story at a plodding pace, but fortunately crams this schlock with more than enough gratuitous nudity and sizzling soft-core sex to make this junk a perfectly agreeable diversion. The exquisitely busty’n’lusty Uschi Digard steams up the screen by engaging in scorching hot raunchy sex with Sammy in a swimming pool. The ever-adorable Rene Bond likewise heats things up as a lovely hooker Sammy first terrorizes before doing just what you think with. Leggy and statuesque brunette knockout Mirka Madnadrazsky as the enticing Lisa may not be much of an actress, but she sure looks mighty tasty in the buff. The bluesy theme song provides a solid belly laugh. Ditto the surprise downbeat ending. The acting ain’t much, although the always reliable George “Buck” Flower contributes a typically funny and robust turn as affably rundown and stuttering past-his-prime trainer Benny Bravo.
Even though I’m all for female eye candy sans clothing, and still want to catch up with anything that Monica Gayle was ever in, painfully slogging though Buckalew’s “Southern Comforts” has probably put me off wasting more time on any of his other efforts. He just falls way short of being even a poor man’s Russ Meyer — in any respect. (But I’m glad that you cover all this diverse and by now somewhat obscure material, for any who may nevertheless have an interest.)