Shock-O-Rama
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ruben Ibenthinkin
Tempest Storm
Mrs. Tommy Manville
The Playmates
Candy
Taffy
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
As a crowd gathers to watch the ninth Mrs. Tommy Manville take a bath in a department store window, Malaham MacDuff sneaks into a striptease show, where he sees Candy, "The Flame of New Orleans"; Cathy St. Claire, who is billed as having "more take-off than a jet plane"; and Diane Ross, "The Brick Smokehouse," who performs with her pet monkey, Squeeky. Interspersed with these acts, stripper Roberta struggles to remove her costume and eventually resorts to prying it off. Also in the show are several comedy sketches, one about a man demonstrating a party game to a homely woman, and one about a shell game involving lemons. The film ends with a sculptor making a plaster cast of stripper Tempest Storm while the press photographs the occasion. Once the cast is completed, the sculptor removes it, revealing Miss Storm in all her glory.
Director
Ruben Ibenthinkin
Cast
Tempest Storm
Mrs. Tommy Manville
The Playmates
Candy
Taffy
Sari
The Mystery Girl
Diane
Retlaw Elah
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The film's opening title card reads: "The publishers of Playgirl Magazine, Play Girls, (You don't need glasses)." Onscreen credits note that the film was "photographed in Sin-A-Mascope and Sex-O-Rama in the 5th dimension." The opening credits conclude with the following written warning: "You view this picture at your own risk! Dangerous to the elderly." Although there was a copyright statement on the opening title card, the film was not registered for copyright.
The film contains no dialogue, but is a series of burlesque skits strung together by descriptions spoken by offscreen narrator and producer Retlaw Elah. The names of the dancers were not presented as written onscreen credits, but were told to the audience by the narrator. The onscreen credit for Ruben Ibenthinkin reads "produced, written and directed by." Thomas Manville, Jr. (1894-1967), was an heir to the Johns-Manville asbestos fortune, and received considerable attention in the press for marrying eleven women in thirteen marriages. Although the eighth Mrs. Manville died in an autombile accident, all the rest of his marriages ended in divorce.
