Over, under and on
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Web links
- Over, under and on it in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Over, under and on in the online film database