Directed by Larry Wolk, Doris Wishman
Bank robbers take a woman hostage in the course of a botched getaway. After discovering she's a nudist, they decide to hide out at her nudist camp.
Hide Out in the Sun, Beauties in the Sun, 在阳光下, Солнечное убежище
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Florida exploitation starts here. Well, kind of. Shot in 1958 by a 46 year-old Doris Wishman, Hideout in the Sun was the first film to directly ripoff 1954's Garden of Eden and opened the nudist floodgates.
In a way, it's almost fitting that the first Doris Wishman film opens with a lengthy montage of shuffling feet. Brothers Duke and Steve rob a bank and, when their getaway plans fall through, they find themselves hiding out in the nudist camp that Dorothy, the girl they've kidnapped, works at. Cut to a lengthy sequence where Steve learns about the joys of nudism while eating naked lunch and playing nude archery. The brothers eventually make their escape, only to wind up at Miami's Serpentarium,…
"Do you like it here?"
"It's great!"
"Of course it is."
"I've never been to a camp like this before…"
"Well? What do you think about it?"
"Well, I must say I’m surprised. Everyone here is so healthy-looking! They seem so happy. It's a wonderful way to live and to bring up children. I envy these people. You know, they have the right idea!"
(Note: added to More to Love: 2024 for Doris Wishman, along with Dildo Heaven.)
24 hours ago I could have sworn I was just developing a little cold, but last night into this morning I find that I've got some strain of the flu (Nosferaflu, I guess, since I was home the rest of the weekend?)…
Two bank robbing brothers straight out of an on-the-run noir need to lie low after a heist goes wrong, so they choose to hideout in a... Florida nudist commune for a bit... and discover the joys of love (and, uh, freedom of expression) which are much more fun than being killed over money. Not sure I've seen such a pure, barebones exploitation premise like this mined for genuine romance. Gonna need to check out more Doris Wishman.
Let me ask you a question. How do you film a bank robbery on the cheap? Do you, I dunno, show the inside of the bank? Maybe have a character go up to the teller and hold them up? Have somebody in a security guard or police uniform? Maybe fire off some squibs, or at least point a gun? Or some panicked extras for colour? No, you do none of those things because all of them take time or cost money. What you do is have one of your leads walk into and out of a nondescript building, and have his accomplice pick him up in a car and drive away, while sirens and alarm bells ring on the soundtrack.…
Doris Wishman's directorial debut, Hideout in the Sun is my first 'nudie-cutie,' and I'm fascinated by the way it combines a nearly bashful chastity with the dozens and dozens of bare breasts and (female) asses on display. Within the world of the film, there is no connection whatsoever between nudity and sex — indeed, the one person who is newly seduced by the lifestyle talks only about how happy and healthy everyone looks. In the theater watching the movie, however, the two are inextricably linked, to such a degree that repeated shots of nothing more than women emerging from the water and showing their breasts are (presumably) arousing to audiences. I'm sure many theses have been written about this and…
“This is no country club, this is a nudist camp!”
I watched this due to it seeming like it has an interesting plot. After Ive seen and finished this, all I can say is that it’s alright.
The film itself just has tits. Here, there and everywhere. The majority of the film is nude people swimming or playing handball. There wasn’t a lot of emphasise on the story and it just lacked quality for me.
I only just realized that there is a whole genre of these nude films. Mostly nudist camps. This genre of movies is literally all these directors, Larry Wolk and Doris Wishman, has done so it appears. I suppose people watch these types of movies for one reason. I suppose if you love tits, this is the movie for you.
The genesis of one of the grandest careers in exploitation history.
The nudie-cutie is far from my favorite genre, mainly because of their notoriety for being basically plotless and pointless. But Doris breaks the mold (right off the bat!) by walking a fine line between cheesecake romance and sun-baked, crime thriller. Adding just the right amount of violence and tension without tipping over into roughie territory.
There’s an actual story in here, and some stakes. As well as a climax where a guy gets killed in a snake pit, a swingin’ theme song and of course plenty of shots of people’s feet. Doris was a visionary.
Hahaha how is the "male gaze" even real after this? I suppose one could argue since this is aimed at straight male viewers it's irrelevant that it was directed by a woman, but there is something interesting about the way Wishman shoots nude women. I could be reading too much into the (lack of) content, but there's a particular idyll to this largely-female nudist colony that seems particular to Wishman. The film makes it hard to imagine such a female-dominated space would be anything but harmonious. Luckily, the cheeriness of the colony footage (which fills most of the runtime) complements the story well; this is a half-hearted crime thriller that quickly turns into a sentimental romance. These early sexploitation films…
1st Larry Wolk, 4th Doris Wishman (after Bad Girls Go To Hell, Deadly Weapons and The Amazing Transplant)
Now look, I'm not going to pretend like the fact that this is a NUDIE-cutie doesn't have any bearing on my rating for what is really quite a crudely made film. But I think it's important to delineate why the nudity in this, compared to, say Deadly Weapons, is really quite endearing. The later Wishman films I've seen treat sex and nakedness as battlegrounds for domination, usually by repugnant men. They're singularly cold and cruel experiences, to my mind. Hideout, for all its technical roughness, has a warmth about nudity that is extremely endearing. Wishman spends her time shooting naked people simply frolicking…
The Muppets say it for me at 1:34 youtu.be/0PjD6O5AheA?si=Gt087RKLKaHtYpuo&t=94
I gotta watch a guaranteed great for this challenge next after these last 3 fuckin' things haha. So I will watch Dawn Of The Dead tomorrow :D
Lord Slaw's Incredibly strange films challenge.
“Don’t louse me up.”
Boat to Cuba
Wishman with Lazarus directs her first feature film in the nudie cutie subgenre of sexploitation, with all the requisite stupidity: awkward silences, long segments of nothingness, cheap crooner theme song, and a bookended with a flimsy robbery plot as setup for some chaste nudism.
Instead of Central Park we get the Food Fair, The Dress’n Room, and the Miami Serpentarium (special thank you to the Miami Serpentarium). The police are swarming the pier so our two brother bank robbers bully a sweet kid (Dolores Carlos) and lay low in the Hibiscus Country Club, going full Monty only to stay incognito.
All the nudie tropes are here: volleyball, dimpled cheeks, poor water fountain drinking etiquette, and men using large inflatables to cover their packages (still beyond good taste). Breezily idiotic, with cute reptiles.
admirable how far this movie about a NUDIST COLONY goes to not show any pussy, barely exaggerating when i say that the editing, blocking, choreography, and cinematography of this film is entirely built off of concealing pussy. maybe i am just unfamiliar with the genre because the only movies of this nature i’ve seen are by Hisayasu Satō and Fred Halsted but to me it’s like if you made a movie about soup and didn’t show any bowls.
