"Bomba" Movies, the birth of bold
John Neal
following.
UHAW, 1970.
The first bomba movie. The bomba movie was a melodrama that
was as moralistic as the traditional sarswela. The values were as
old-fashioned as those found in earlier forms of popular culture. What
gave it its sensational character was the subject of sexual relations and
the frankness with which the camera recorded bed scenes only coyly
suggested in earlier movies. Uhaw was about a woman named Lorna, her
"thirst," and the two men who would quench it: her husband and her
husband's friend.
The movie was an instant hit, prompting every producer in town to outdo
its sexual acrobatics that sold so well. Starred Merle Fernandez, Tito
Galla and Lito Legaspi.
From B.L. Lumbera's An Essay on the Philippine Film, 1961-1992. CCP, 1992.
And some trivia.
The first kissing scene in Philippine cinema was between Elizabeth
'Dimples' Cooper and Luis Tuazon in the film Tatlong Hambog which came out
in 1926.
John Neal
Kenneth Ilio
John Neal <har...@linex.com> wrote:
>Before "bold" films there were "Bomba" movies. A little reseach finds the
>following.
Well, the thing that made Uhaw a bomba movie was that there was a scene
where Merle Fernandez (who is the mother of Rudy Fernandez I guess) ran
naked frontal nudity and all through Avenida Rizal. They shot it
at the wee hours of the morning. It was also one of the first movies to
show a bare male bum (Tito Galla's) although of course there were some
earlier comedies (late 50s and early 60s) where mooning were shown. After
Uhaw, came movies wit titles like Hayok, Dayupay, Climax of Love (this was
a notorious movie with Yvonne), Saging ni Pacing (with Rosanna Ortiz who
later starred in a Roger Corman movie because she was a Patty Hearst
look-alike), Talong ni Badong etc.
Those were the days ... 1971-1972 :-).
Dayokdok
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