The First Nudie Musical

1976 "The ultimate take-off."
5.3| 1h35m| R| en
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The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they can foreclose.

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Also starring Stephen Nathan

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
georgekwatson This is a movie made on the cheap, with corny humor, somewhat stilted dialog and donuts. Lots of donuts. Made at the cultural crossroads, at the peak of the 'porn chic' period where Johnny Carson very publicly attended a screening of 'Deep Throat', this movie attempts to make fun of the various bits of culture attendent to 'porn chic'. It's funny in a B movie sort of way with some fairly catchy songs, all with bawdy themes.In the end, it works because of the awkward innocence of most involved. Oh, and the nudity, 1970's style, hairy and human. It's a glance at ourselves from a bygone time, before pornography transitioned, in the main, into mechanical overt abuse.
ptb-8 Yes, folks, in the 70s world of the double feature, this was the show at my local cinema. Of course I went. Somehow I thought the letter kid had forgotten to add the T after BUS thus making it a rude duo. Both films were very funny. Both films were completely ignored in first release. Both films are now cult faves. Other comments will tell you the details, but MUSICAL is a low budget indie that uses this constraint well to create a plausible storyline and suitably tacky musical production numbers. In the 70s there were a lot of farce sex / musicals like ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THE CASE OF THE SMILING STIFFS. Some compilation skit sex comedies about D grade film studios too: LOOSE SHOES and THAT'S ADEQUATE. This film, NUDIE MUSICAL sort of rolled all the ideas together. The idea of a comedy sex musical was not really new and was also re imagined here in Australia in the mid 90s: we saw a very similar locally made farce/musical/comedy created in 1997 called MONEYSHOT which unbeknownst to the producer with whom I later became friends, alerted him to MUSICAL which saw him flabbergasted at the similarities. It was originally called THE VENUS FACTORY... see IMDb for details. This parallel production of OZ and USA happens a lot: see PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT vs TO WONG FOO, TWO HANDS vs KNOCKAROUND GUYS, and recently WILLFULL vs Almodovar's VOLVER
TheVid Bruce Kimmell, the force behind this one, had such good songs that you can't blame him for creating a musical film to highlight them, albeit at any cost. Too bad he couldn't get funding from a major studio for this sweet little satiric delight. This one's ripe for a remake! Disney? Dreamworks? Imagine? LucasFilm? Some funding, please! Thanks to Image Entertainment for a very thorough presentation on DVD.
Allen Blank I first saw The First Nudie Musical when it first came out and thought it was very funny and extremely outragous. Now I have to say it still holds up. It's a wonderful little film. It's about a porn producer who in order to save his little studio decides to make the worlds first porno musical. The songs are outragous especially the one called "Dancing Dildos", which has to be seen to be believed. This was all the brainchild of one man, Bruce Kimmel, who now is a record producer. He's the one responsible to putting some of the best old albums on CD. For this film he got all his friends involved, including a cameo from one of his stars, Cindy Williams good friends. I won't spoil this cameo though it does come early in the film. Get the new DVD which I just watched. The print has never looked too good plus the DVD has two wonderful commentary tracks, a 54 minute documentary which is outragous in itself, and two deleted scenes. This film is a treat for not only those who love cult films, to the lovers of old time musicals, because this film really does send up the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland let's put on a show films. Do yourself a favor and add this to your DVD collection.