Over, under and on

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Movie
German title Over, under and on
Original title Up!
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1976
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Russ Meyer
script Roger Ebert (as Reinhold Timme ), Russ Meyer (as B. Callum ), Anthony-James Ryan (as Jim Ryan )
production George K. Carll, Uschi Digard , Russ Meyer, Fred Owens
music William Loose, Paul Ruhland
camera Russ Meyer
cut Russ Meyer
occupation
  • Raven de la Croix : Margo Winchester
  • Janet Wood: Sweet little Alice
  • Su Ling: Limehouse
  • Elaine Collins: Ethiopian Chef
  • Candy Samples: The main character
  • Edward Schaaf: Adolf Schwartz
  • Robert McLane : Paul
  • Monty Bane: Homer Johnson
  • Linda Sue Ragsdale: Gwendolyn
  • Marianne Marks: The busty young thing
  • Larry Dean: Leonard Box
  • Bob Schott: Rafe
  • Foxy Lae: Pocohontas
  • Ray Reinhardt : The chief of police
  • Kitten Natividad : The Greek Choir

Over, under and drauf (original title: Up! ) Is an American feature film by Russ Meyer from 1976. This low-budget production with its extraordinarily many sex and violence scenes can be assigned to the exploitation film genre. In this film, too, Meyer indulges his preference for large-breasted women with the selection of his actresses . Like other of his works, the film gained a certain cult status .

action

The actual plot tells the story of a man named "Adolf Schwartz" who is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler and who is killed in his bathtub by a masked figure using a piranha . This is followed by scenes in which Margo Winchester meets Sheriff Homer Johnson , who arranges work for her in a restaurant in the city of Miranda, after the killing of a man who raped her. As part of a party that got out of hand, the sheriff and a regular kill each other. In a final scene, the owner of the restaurant "Alice" and the leading actress meet and it turns out that Alice is both the daughter and the murderer of Schwartz. Margo, in turn, turns out to be an undercover policewoman whose job from the beginning was to solve the Schwartz murder case.

reception

The film takes up stylistic devices from ancient Greek theater . The actress Kitten Natividad is used as a kind of choir , which comments on and connects the individual film sequences. Meyer's introductory statement that it is a crime story set in Southern California is a recourse to this form of theater.

This film was shot in a surreality typical of Russ Meyer, which is composed of a mixture of comic-like scenes. The sex scenes, a large part of which take place in the wild, in a river landscape, are also exaggerated and depicted like caricatures. So Russ Meyer equipped the male actors (also for reasons of censorship) with artificial, extra-long penises.

The Nazi bonds, which are also not untypical for Meyer, appear abundantly in this film. If he had a " Martin Bormann " appear in earlier films such as Supervixens , as well as in the later Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens , Hitler appears here personally.

Raven de la Croix made her film debut in Over, Under and On . Although this film was not as successful as others, her character "Margo Winchester" became a similar icon in fan circles as "Varla", played by Tura Satana from the film The Satanswives of Tittfield .

Trivia

Robert McLane (born August 4, 1944), who played Paul, was homosexual and died of AIDS on September 30, 1992 .

Uschi Digard , another of Russ Meyer's favorite actresses, acted as a producer on Over, Under and On .

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