“To see them is to disbelieve them!” reads the strategically placed cover sticker on Something Weird’s home video release of Chesty Morgan’s Bosom Buddies, a triple feature from cult director Doris Wishman in which two of the films star the ridiculously endowed burlesque queen and fleeting grindhouse legend. And it’s no joke, that’s for sure.
Morgan, whose 73-inch breasts measure still measure as the largest (non-augmented) on record for a film star, according to Guinness Movie Facts & Feats, was born in Poland but emigrated to the United States in the 1960s. After some time on the burlesque circuit, she teamed up with filmmaker Wishman, who was busy following in the vein of Russ Meyer, cranking out sexploitation flicks.
Their first collaboration was 1974’s cheap and kind of mean-spirited Deadly Weapons, co-starring Harry Reems, of Deep Throat fame. Morgan stars as an advertising executive who tracks down the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend and extracts revenge by smothering them to death with her breasts. But wait — there’s even a twist ending! Double Agent 73, also from ’74, stars Morgan as a secret agent who busts a heroin ring and takes proof-of-death pictures for her bosses with a tiny camera implanted in her left breast. But wait — they’ve also rigged her boob with an explosive device as a back-up insurance plan!
The best of the three flicks — if such quantitative praise can be applied here with a straight face — is 1980’s The Immoral Three, which doesn’t feature Morgan, but instead stars Cindy Boudreau, Sandra Kay and Michele Marie as the three daughters (“occupational side effects”) of a slutty spy mom who team up to avenge her death in order collect a multi-million dollar inheritance. If the acting is still amateurish, the fashions atrocious and the dubbing frequently terrible, the production value here is at least higher. Bonus points to Wishman, too, for her artful intercutting of seduction footage with a character eating a banana.
Housed in a regular blue slimline case, Chesty Morgan’s Bosom Buddies comes to Blu-ray presented in 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, with a DTS-HD master audio mono track. Its supplemental features, presented in standard definition, consist of a five-minute gallery of Doris Wishman exploitation art — posters, magazine and newspaper ads, layered under promotional radio chatter — for movies like Keyholes Are for Peeping and many more. There’s also a massive trailer gallery, running 36 minutes in total, spotlighting all three of the films included here, plus titles like My Brother’s Wife, Another Day Another Man, Indecent Desires and Bad Girls Go To Hell. For more information, visit Something Weird’s website; or click here to purchase the Blu-ray via Amazon. C- (Movies) C+ (Disc)