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Hot Summer in the City |
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Written by Jay Creepy
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Saturday, 02 November 2013 |

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Directed
by: Gail Palmer (The Hare)
Written by: Gail Palmer (The Hare)
Produced by: Harry Mohoney, Imperial & Hare Films
Editing by: Stoned Cutting Rooms
Music by: Various Artists.
Special Effects by: Valerie Kesh
Cast: Lisa Baker, Duke Johnson, Coke Cain, Bruce
Darcy, Shorty Roberts, Stitch Umbas, Black Orchid, Tony
Rizzi
Year: 1976
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 59min
Distributor: Imperial Films
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To a soundtrack of The Doors, and of course The Lovin' Spoonful,
we open, on the film that Quentin Tarantino states is his
favourite porno, with a young blonde nubile played by Lisa Baker
being dropped off at home by her fiancé. She heads upstairs and
finds her mother being deeply and lovingly ravaged by two men.
“Hurry up, I wanna fuck her to,” says the man with his
penis in her mouth. No detail is spared and young Debbie runs
off into the streets crying, minus expressions where she's
bothered by a car full of stereotypical black men. They chase
her, a neighbour decides not to help her, and as the
Shangri-La's boom out they kidnap her and hold her down across
the back seats.
The black actors involved (who incidentally do not use their
real names in the credits) must have been paid pretty well to
act as ignorant and as vile as possible, ala "Birth of a
Nation." She's raped in the car showing a lot of ass and
bush whilst a mentally challenged member of the gang sniffs her
scents off his friend's fingers, cross eyed. We're treated to
under legs camera shots, and one cumming penis later, they drive
on as various other songs play.
Debbie doesn't act very afraid whilst held captive at some
house; just rather sulky. The gang are of course black
activists and very bad actors. Whilst she's made to cook, wash
up and clean, the script is littered with “honky”, “bitch”,
“the Man” and “Civil rights.” I mean, who wrote
this shit? “Please don't,” Debbie says as her breasts
are poked around. The evil negro scoundrels all play poker to
win rights to her body, or as quoted “a piece of that white
ass.” We reckon this sexploitation epic was made to 1: try
and be a rape fantasy porn (obviously) and 2: to make white
rednecks of that era run out and kill the first black man they
see. The grinning winner, Shorty, waits for their leader, Duke
to go to bed before whipping her with his belt for a few
minutes.
“Fuck me, fuck me, anything! I can't stand this!” she
cries out quite uninvolved in the scene. Debbie Does Activist
Phallus again as Shorty graphically rips into her. Debbie has
to suck his friend, Shorty pauses, “Nigger, you didn't win!”
We then wondered how lower the script could sink into cliché.
Then came a lovely close up of Stitch, our cross eyed
youngster, masturbating, then three slow motion cum shots.
The next morning, Duke seems more sympathetic to her.
Meanwhile, some Italian dude “The Man” and a black woman with
really huge hair arrives to plan against “the honkys”: a
race war. The plan involves snipers, fights, etcetera. Not
sure if the budget can handle it if this thing kicks off.
Things set rather surreal as Duke's big haired girlfriend,
Jody, is forced to have sex with Stitch for grabbing Debbie
angrily as flashbacks of all previous sexual encounters assault
our vision, and there's more deep penetration and slow motion
cum shots. Jody doesn't quit, “You weak willed son of a
bitch, you have that honky bitch but she gonna pay!” she
hurls at Duke. Her reward is rape by the forever grinning
Shorty whilst the camera lingers around her vagina.
As romantic music plays, Duke takes Debbie to bed. He slowly
strips her and we're led to believe by his tender kisses, he's
now got feelings for her since raping her in the car. Jody is
shown intercut sucking Shorty. The next morning Debbie escapes
only to be caught by the men all nude. She's tied to a bed and
because Duke heads out, she's at the mercy of Jody and the slow
Stitch. At one point Stitch talks without moving his lips, then
sodomizes Debbie, wearing just his socks. As Jody is about to
slice Debbie up, Duke turns up with a shotgun and a brief
bloodbath happens.
"Hot Summer in the City" runs at around an hour long.
The end is very swift, and no the race war isn't shown. It
doesn't matter since this film wasn't trying to be an early
version of Mario van Peeble's excellent "Panther," its a
porn. In this era where hardcore material of all kind is simply
a few Google clicks away, it's difficult to believe there was a
time that a cheap underground movie like this existed for the
rape-crowd. Miles away from the polished studio skin flicks of
the seventies, "Hot Summer in the City" is one of many
for a select crowd. The porn factor isn't shocking anymore.
Lisa Baker doesn't help matters since the innocent captive is
so bored looking for most of the film, the rough bumming she
receives from Stitch wakes her up a bit though. Lisa acts like
the production crew drugged her first but we weren't fooled,
she's just pathetic!
What is hard to stomach is the bitter racist subject matter on
display, all of the rape, violence and bad acting is second
place to it. Ignore the production values and see it for what
it is. A trashy lil creation for seventies business men with
rape fetishes and the long mack brigade. Due to this, "Hot
Summer in the City" is quite hard to obtain. We tracked ours
down to a grubby DVD-R with bad quality issues.
It made us laugh that the director on the credits is named 'The
Hare' but is actually Gail Palmer, famed for low budget pornos
circa 70's and early 80's.
By the way, here's a
link I found on some adult website. Have fun and clean up
afterwards.
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