3-D Nudie-Cuties Collection, The (Blu-ray)

Nudie-Cutieswere popular in grindhouse theaters in the early 1960s but they were eventually replaced with more explicit fare. 3-D was a natural for this genre with such titillating promises as A girl in your lap and They dance right off the screen into your arms.ForThe 3-DNudie-CutieCollectionthe 3-D Film Archive has restored two rare features from this era of sexploitation.The Bellboy and the Playgirls(1962)stars June The Bosom Wilkinson and includes new scenes directed by 22-year-old Francis Ford Coppola, including a finale in The New Depth Perception.Adam and Six Eves(1962)was filmed with the venerable Natural Vision camera rig in 1962 but was never released in 3-D.We also present two Golden Age 3-D short subjects:Love for Sale(1953) features the gorgeous Bella Starr andBeauty in 3rdDimensionis a newly curated collection of Figure Studies in Kodachrome Stereo from 1951.