Not So Classics: “Connie & Floyd”

December 10, 2009
LANK

Aside from the jiggly charms of the poorly-lit 70's exploitation staple Sandy Dempsey, "Connie & Floyd" reminds us that the good old days (of porn) weren't always good.

There is a reason that porn earned its reputation for horrible production values and lackluster directing. The 1973 film "Connie & Floyd," shot at the height of porno chic when production budgets were delivered via bags of cash in dark alleyways, is evidence that, even then, producers believed that people like you would buy anything as long as there was a cumshot in it.

And the fact that this 36-year-old parody of "Bonnie & Clyde" (released six years earlier) has been re-issued with a brand-new box featuring a different car and different costumes than were in the movie, suggests that there are still subscribers to that belief.

All righteous porn consumer anger aside, Sandy Dempsey, the toothy and wholesome star of several porns and sexploitation flicks in the early 70's, looks as good in this movie as anyone can hope to in a ridiculously poorly shot, oversaturated, almost unedited, unprofessionally recorded, trainwreck of a movie that seemed to end only when the cash ran out and not, as you would expect, in a hail of bullets.

There is a pasty orgy, some business with hillbillies, sex on a dirty mattress, and the one great line "Hey let's jig! Let's ball!" delivered several times by an uncredited actor who thought, correctly, that no one would remember it otherwise.

· Buy "Connie & Floyd" (vcx.com)

Buy "Connie & Floyd" (vcx.com)
Buy "Connie & Floyd" (vcx.com)