Blue Sextet
Cast & Crew
David E. Durston
John Damon
Peter Clune
Coco Sumaki
Margaret Cathell
Adrienne Jalbert
Film Details
Synopsis
After an inquest determines that egotistical Jeff Ambler has committed suicide, six of his acquaintances, some of whom were financial backers of his art gallery, gather together, unconvinced by the ruling. While George Horner and Tish Sumaki have sex, Liz Horner and Bud Foster, who, respectively, are George's wife and Tish's fiancé, as well as being siblings, converse with the others and consequently reveal Ambler's legacy. Foster, who shows the group a sex film made by Ambler, confides that the dead man introduced him to drugs and group sex, and thereby exposed his latent homosexuality. When George and Tish rejoin the conversation, Tish states that Ambler took advantage of her, when she was upset about Foster's newfound sexuality, and raped her. Ambler also caused the Horners' marriage to fail, after George learned that Ambler was the real father of their child. Felicia Massey reveals that Ambler drugged and seduced her, and introduced her boyfriend to another woman, who turned out to be a transvestite. Felicia's boyfriend, who admits to stealing money from him, knew that Ambler dealt in drugs and pornography. Tish then reveals that, on the day of his death, she went to Ambler's house to kill him, but when she arrived, she found him under the influence of LSD. Claiming he could fly, she says, Ambler jumped from the rooftop to his death. After hearing everyone's revelations, Foster, realizing that he is in love with Ambler, hangs himself.
Director
David E. Durston
Cast
John Damon
Peter Clune
Coco Sumaki
Margaret Cathell
Adrienne Jalbert
Carey Poe
Paul Chin & The Dynasty
Bhaskar
Tony Rivers
Mark La Roche
Dorian Wayne
Harry Skleros
James Skleros
Jacqueline Welter
Crew
David Anderson
Allen B. Bazzini
Sylvester Bradford
Stan Curtis
John Damon
David E. Durston
David E. Durston
Guy Gilbert
Richard Gray
Shelly Guber
Donald Hunt
Robert Linda
Joseph Mangine
Ulpio Manucci
Lloyd Mertz
Albert Paganelli
Pat Power
Cliff Edwards Ross
Film Details
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to MPAA records, an alternate title of the film is Leap into Hell. According to the Variety review, the film was made in 1969, at which time it was given an X rating by the MPAA. Several revised versions were submitted until it received an R rating in early 1972. Although, according to the Variety review, the X-rated print was shown at the March 1972 press screening, Allen B. Bazzini, the president of Unisphere Releasing Corporation, stated that it was "an unintentional mixup." The Variety review reported that the X-rated version contained complete frontal nudity, a grisly "stag film" within the film and, during the title sequence, shots of sexual coupling.
The Variety review also reported that executive producer John Damon and director-writer-editor David E. Durston decided to change the ending to make the story more ambiguous, and pointed out that the change was not made at the request of the MPAA. According to the Hollywood Reporter review, the dialogue of the released film contained references to humorist James Thurber and the 1941 film Tobacco Road (see below). The Hollywood Reporter reviewer noted that, although the film was meant to be set in contemporary times, several references and such dialogue as "She's wild!" and "This is a gasser!" suggested a decade earlier. A modern source adds John McCook to the cast. According to Filmfacts and the Box Office review, the movie was shot in New York.
