The best film, Blue Summer, is from the master of low-budget sexploitation [when he wasn't doing hardcore], Chuck Vincent. Chuck’s low budget wonders had plots right out of Crown International’s catalog, only with actual scripts, decent acting, a little melodrama, a little humor, and lots of T&A. A little existentialism thrown into the mix for this one as well. There are a few names here, mostly current or future porno stars: Eric Edwards, Chris Jordan, Darcey Hollingsworth (Davey Jones). This is male fantasy like it should be, tripped out with the trappings of the early seventies. Far out, dude.

Sometime Sweet Susan is a hardcore film that was apparently distributed in a hard R version to legitimate theaters. Seems the gambit failed, because this is the only effort from both the writer/director and female lead. Too tame for the raincoat crowd and too bleak for the porno chic. The soundtrack is excellent and helps maintain the momentum through many overlong sex scenes. It’s integrity is sometimes maintained by the use of freeze frames where the naughty bits would be. The story is of a woman in an asylum who’s tortured by her traumatic past. Her primary personality is fairly normal though withdrawn, but her alter-ego is a prostitute and sexual deviant. Harry Reems stars as the doctor, and Jamie Gillis has a bit as a rapist.

Summer School Teachers is a routine effort from New World Pictures. Staring Candice Rialson (Hollywood Boulevard), and with a sizeable role for Dick Miller (Bucket Of Blood) as the Head Coach. The sparring between Candice and chauvinist pig Dick are the highlights of the film. That and a humorous love scene between Candice and a nerdy suitor, during which she takes a naked five foot headlong fall into a one foot deep concrete pool. Luckily her dude broke her fall. Otherwise, this one is produced by a woman, written and directed by Barbara Peters (Humanoids From The Deep), and edited by a woman. So not a lot of sexist male fantasies here, though there is a strong touch of feminism. The primary story thread is a girl’s football team, resisted by elderly principle Vince Barnett (Scarface, Shame of a Nation).

Apparently completed as Josie’s Castle in 1972, this hippie drama couldn’t secure release, so group sex party footage was added and it was re-edited into Teenage Divorce. Even so, the result is a rather compelling experience as it rambles along. Rather similar to A Small Circle Of Friends, made at the end of the decade, this film wears it’s authentic freak credentials as a medallion around it’s neck. By far the most interesting aspect is George Takei’s (Sulu of Star Trek) appearance as the third roommate, complete with hippie headband.