Stacey 1973 Avi 2
Garcia Miller
Stacey is a 1973 exploitation film directed by Andy Sidaris. Half the budget was provided by Roger Corman for New World Pictures; the rest was raised by Sidaris. It was re-released in 1975 as Stacy and Her Gangbusters.[1]
The protagonist is Stacey Hanson (Anne Randall), a private eye and race car driver. She is hired by aging heiress Florence Chambers (Marjorie Bennett) to investigate the close members of her family who live in her mansion. Stacey is to determine whether the members of Florence's family are worthy to be included in her will. They are three: Florence's nephew John (Stewart Moss), his wife Tish (Anitra Ford), and Florence's grand-niece Pamela (Cristina Raines).[2]
As it happens, all three potential heirs have something to hide. John is a discreet homosexual, Tish is having an affair with the houseboy, and Pamela has dubious friends. Stacey uncovers some family secrets but a greater scandal is about to begin. The scheming houseboy Frank (James Westmoreland) is murdered. Stacey now has to find the identity of the murderer before he/she can kill again. Frank was sleeping with and/or blackmailing nearly all members of the family, so everyone is a suspect.[2]
Stacey's investigation leads to a helicopter and car chase and gunplay. The murderer turns out to be Pamela who is a member of a cult reminiscent of the Manson family. She was planning to frame John and stand as the last viable heir to the family fortune.[2]
The film features an empowered 'babe' in a masculinized action role. She is "a very private detective" in a crime-fighting film. This was the first attempt by Sidaris to produce a film with a female protagonist fighting crime. The film thus serves as a precursor to many 1980s films, including those produced by Sidaris himself. In these films "soft" women adopt "hard" personae. It is also a precursor to 1990s softcore films where gender has little to do with a heroine's career, as by that point women's advance into the workplace was no longer an exploitable hot topic.[3]
The material from the film was reworked into another Sidaris film, Malibu Express (1985). The role of Stacey Hanson was divided into two new characters: private detective protagonist Cody Abilene (Darby Hinton) and his girlfriend June Khnockers (Lynda Wiesmeier).[2]
The openings of both films depict their respective female race car drivers in the finish of a practice race. Both films then have them getting out of uniform. But Stacey is the protagonist while June serves mostly as the source of a recurring joke in her film: "Knockers with an 'h'?". June can still reliably drive a high-performance race car, but it is Cody who performs most of Stacey's functions in the film.[2]
The discreet homosexual nephew John turns into Stuart (Michael A. Anderson), a drag queen in the second film. In both films the detective follows the character into a gay bar. The difference is that in the first film John wears regular clothes, while in the second Stuart is in full drag. Cody laughs while dictating notes in a recorder, but still admits that Stuart has great legs. Stuart is more of a cartoonish gay stereotype than John.[2]
The youthful niece Pamela turns into the bit older niece Liza (Lorraine Michaels) in the second film. Liza has her own sex scene with the houseboy Shane (Brett Clark). The difference in age was probably decided to allow this sex scene to have more nudity than would be acceptable from a teenaged character.[2]
The second film adds a character with no counterpart in the original: Contessa Luciana (Sybil Danning). Contessa has a romantic night with Cody, before he moves into his next assignment. The relationship to the family is unspecified, but she turns out to have murdered Shane. She is beyond the reach of the law and suffers no ill consequences for her murder.[2]
Anne Randall was a Playboy Playmate, the first to appear in a Sidaris' film. Following this film nearly all major female roles in a Sidaris' film were cast with either Playboy Playmates or Penthouse Pets.[2]
Do I have this figured out right? The first Baby-Sitters Club book came out in 1986, and the girls were in seventh grade. According to Wikipedia, they were thirteen. So, assuming that my simple math is correct, Stacey would have been born in 1973?
Anne Randall Alan Landers James Westmoreland Marjorie Bennett Anitra Ford Cristina Raines Nicholas Georgiade Richard LePore John Alderman Eddie Ryder Madelaine Peterson Michael Keep Lothar Motschenbacher Miki Garcia Stewart Moss
Stacey, a race car driver by day, and private investigator by night, is hired by an old lady, to figure out if her relatives are worth leaving her inheritance to. Oh yeah, Stacey is centerfold smokin' hot. I must've died and gone to Andy Sidaris Heaven!
Finally, I've completed the Andy Sidaris filmography. This is pretty much the highlight of my movie watching existence. I respect Andy, like you millennials gush love over NWR, PTA, Malick, and Kubrick. He's one of my heroes, and I miss him like hell. This is Andy's debut. So, it's pretty much like watching Citizen Kane.
The Grandmother of "girls with guns" purveyor Andy Sidaris' Triple B shared universe, Stacey (1973) isn't included with the rest of the series due to being produced by New World. That Roger Corman label being the only thing that keeps this precursor out of the many Bullets, Bombs and Babes collections. If you're feeling left out, don't, as it was largely remade as Malibu Express (1985). Yes, before Sidaris had a series of flakey alter egos in the Abilene cousins - he was in touch with his feminine side, with Anne Randall's Stacey being palette swapped into the later, Cody Aiblene.
The first Andy Sidaris feature film is, predictably, a love letter to boobs and luxury vehicles that feels like a secret collaboration between Russ Meyer and Michael Mann. What was surprising is that the action is a bit more choreographed and the dialogue a bit more punchy than the 80s "armed Playboy models on an island" movies for which Sidaris is more well known. The story is a whodunnit surrounding a bunch of blackmailing, infidelity (some gay, some straight), and other byproducts of the free love era. The titular Stacey (pun intended) is a badass private dick who drives a Stingray, races exotic sports cars for fun, sexually dominates her pilot boyfriend, and never misses when shooting a bad guy. She's great, and in its own ramshackle way, so is this movie.
Seeing Andy Sidaris's first film is much different compared to his other sleaze. This was relased in 1973, over a decade before his "Triple B" series, or BBB: Bullets, Bombs, and Babes. It starts off with some cameras mounted on a racecar, which if I'm not mistaken, never happened later even though many had fast cars.
This is considerably much less sleaze than the rest. It at least takes the female protagonist somewhat seriously in the beginning, even if it still has gratuitous nudity and sleazy men. But unlike the others, this uses a lot of homophobic slurs. Overall terrible.
Andy Sidaris's first movie!!! It is great to see his formula started with this. Stacey isn't ground breaking but it is a lot of fun!!!! A lot of his trademarks can be found here, most notably beautiful women in states of undress. If you are an Andy Sidaris fan and haven't seen this, it is well worth it.
There's something just a little grittier about this one, though, making it feel more like a Ginger film (minus the racism!) than any of Sidaris' later works -- the pulp novel equivalent to Malibu Express' fumetto, if that makes any sense. Marjorie Bennett is my favorite thing about this, tbh.
After a few minutes, I noticed that it had quite a lot of similarities already with 'Malibu Express'. About half way in, there was no doubt anymore; this is the exact same story as in 'Malibu Express'! Only less fun....
Instead of the hilarious Cody Abilene, we get Stacy Hanson. Undoubtedly sexy, but waaay too serious and not funny at all. In general, everything that makes 'Malibu Express' fun to watch is missing in here, making it almost a chore to watch.
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1. The distribution of fusimotor axons to bag1, bag2 and chain muscle fibres in cat tenuissimus spindles has been studied using a modification of the glycogen-depletion technique of Edstrrom & Kugelberg (1968). Single fusimotor axons were stimulated intermittently at 40-100/sec for long periods (30-90 sec) during blood occlusion. Portions of muscle containing the activated spindles were quick-frozen, fixed in absolute ethanol during freeze-substitution, and then embedded in paraffin wax. Serial transverse sections were stained for glycogen using the periodic acid-Schiff method, and examined for depletion. 2. Dynamic gamma axons (i.e. those that increase the dynamic index of primary-ending responses to ramp stretches of large amplitude) depleted bag1 fibres almost exclusively. 3. Static gamma axons (i.e. those that reduce or abolish the dynamic index) depleted both bag and chain fibres. Bag1 and bag2 fibres were depleted about equally. 4. A single static gamma axon may activate both bag and chain fibres in one spindle (the most common pattern), chain fibres only in another, and bag fibres only in a third spindle. 5. Static gamma axons with conduction velocities less than 25 m/sec also had a non-selective distribution, but no depletion was observed in bag2 fibres. 6. The zones of depletion produced by dynamic gamma axons were distributed more or less equally in the intra- and extracapsular parts of spindle poles, whereas those produced by static gamma axons were mainly intracapsular. 7. The results are compared with the glycogen-depletion studies of Brown & Butler (1973, 1975) and our own study of the distribution of static gamma axons to spindles in which all other motor axons had degenerated (Barker, Emonet-Dnand, Laporte, Proske & Stacey, 1973). The implications of the finding that both static gamma and dynamic gamma axons activate bag1 fibres are discussed.
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