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Famous T&A (1982)

Studio: Full Moon Entertainment

DVD Release: October 21, 2011

Not Rated

Review by James Klein

Just one year later after The Best of Sex & Violence was released, director Ken Dixon came up with another idea in which to make a quick buck on the video market: naked celebrities. While everyone loves to see our favorite starlets showing some skin before they made it big, Dixon decided to take a bunch of the same trailers and footage that he used in The Best of Sex & Violence and add maybe 10 to 15 minutes of "new" footage that we hadn't seen. Basically this is just the same recycled boobs that we saw in the last trailer compilation.

One of the many reasons this compilation doesn't work is that instead of John Carradine hosting, they got Sybil Danning to narrate. While Danning is attractive to look at, it is obviously that she is reading lines from a cue card. Her eyes keep looking off screen and her delivery is bland. It doesn't help that she is dressed in some bizarre gladiator outfit. In between trailers or clips, it cuts back to her swinging a sword for about five seconds. What the hell is that about? I couldn't help but laugh at this but after the 10th time, the joke wore off.

Famous T&A shows clips from mostly films that Charles Band produced or distributed so there isn't a lot to choose from. It is nice to see Ursula Andress get a naked rub down from Mountain of the Cannibal God or Laura Gemser have a naked make out session with another woman in Emmanuelle Around the World but I personally would rather see these films than watch quick (or in some cases overlong) clips that are just randomly thrown together. I did enjoy seeing some of the naked out takes on a few films and watching a bottomless biker chick drive down the highway provided me with some laughs but it just wasn't enough to hold my interest.

The video quality is also quite poor. I forgive the movie clips and trailers due to their age but the stuff with Danning is shot on early 80's video that is pretty lousy. I enjoyed seeing John Carradine narrate clips on film. I don't enjoy seeing a bored or confused Sybil Danning read cue cards on video.

I will say that if you are an Elvira fan and always wanted to see what those huge jugs of hers look like, you get a clip from The Working Girls in which she shows off those milkers. Maybe for some of you, this DVD is worth purchasing just for that. You can purchase Famous T&A at http://www.fullmoondirect.com and also you can check out fullmoonhorror.com for more info.

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