Women of the World

[Billy A. Anderson]

Here's a link to Women of the World, on Daily Motion.  I watched some of the opening titles, which look good, and the print is good.

Hope the link is still active when I finally want to take the time to watch it.

This might be the original Italian language version, and if so I won't get to hear the narration by Peter Ustinov unless I can find
the American version. 

[Billy A. Anderson]

Well, the link didn't show up in my post, a first time for me. Right now, my time to watch feature films is so limited.

I do wanat to watch all 4 of the Joseph E Levine 1963-1964 Big Adult Films, A House Is not a home being tghe only one made in USA and not an Italian im;port.

I have not seen Yesterday Today and tomorrow in many years. Most sensational part of it was when Sophia Loren dis a striptease in front of Marcello Mastrianni. I seem to remember it as a fairly good film, but might need to seeit again to refresh my memory and re[-evaluate the film, but right now, seeing the 2 others of the 4 films, is a bigger ;priority, empty canvas being the one most difficult to locate.

[Billy A. Anderson]

I just read the IMDB reviews of Women of the World, and they were genrally positive.  Says there are a lot of bare breasts and butts in it.

(of the other 2 Jos Levene Big 4 Adult films of 1963-64, none of that stuff so far)>

Right now I am at 1 hour 10 mins into Stanley Kramer's Bless The Beasts and the children, about 39 mins to go on that one.

Then, after doing some work on my computer files, I'll start watching Women of the World.

[Dr. Kobb]

I was surprised that it wasn't up on Yootoob, nor could I locate Women of the World on my usual haunts for movies.  Haven't bothered to go pek at it on Dailymotion. 

[Billy A. Anderson]

I watched Women of the world thru to the end a few earlhy mornings ago, but kept dozing off, and can't remember the point at which I dozed thru to the end.

So, I'll start back watching the film after one sad sequence I do remember seeing, with the film strangely having one sequence on a place maybe an island, where therer were no women, and the men watched the painful death throes of a beached walrus.

Sad to see, just like the buffalo in the pens being shot in Bless the Beasts and Children. I wonder if Ted Nugent would go in for that kind of "hunting?"

I've heard that some people are very hostyile toward Ted because of his being a hunter and teaching hunting to his children, and also doing bow and arrow hunting.

I'll say, that Ted is, to me at least, a very disarming type of guy that you (editorial you, meaning me) can't help but like.

I am not going to read any IMDB reviews of Bless the Beasts anytime soon, because the last time I did, they told of the sad things that happened to the cast members,one of them dying of the Acronymn Disease.

Really sad, was that the film begins with the lead character (along with Bll(y gone from his name) Mumy) this character nicknamed "cotton" has a nightmnare in the eopening scene of him being in the pen with the buffalo as they are shot, and him, and the rest of the boys at the camp also being shot, and, although that is not how the film ended, Cotton is shot and killed at the end, for an abriupt, very sad ending).

[Billy A. Anderson]

Well,back to Women of the World. I'll FF to the beached walrus scene, and watch from there to the end, being wide awake now, and no chance of my dozing off.

As far as the bare T & A I've seen so faf in the film, nothing to write home about.

[Deeky]

The Acronymn Disease?

[Deeky]

[Billy A. Anderson]

Jun 3, 2018 15:47:53 GMT -5 Deeky said:

The Acronymn Disease?

Deeky, I suppose there are plenty of diseases with acronymn names,  just like plenty of diseases named after the doctors who first diagnosed the diseases.

I think for the past 30 years or more, there has been one Most Notorious Acronymn Disease, that is an STD (another acronym that replaced the old VD).

[Billy A. Anderson]

OK, I've watched 1 hour and one minute of the Daily Motion version of Women of The World, total running time 1:46:46.

I feel like taking a break.

And, although I didn't remember anything much from a few nights ago, much of what I saw after the dying, beached walrus did come back to me, as
having seen it before.

The film is an OK documentary, and as with A House Is Not A Home, I don't feel I am wasting my time by satisfying my curiousity about Joseph E Levine's Big 4 Adult Movies. I just wonder how well those films did at the box office?

[Marxo Grouch]

It's not the hunting that most people find problematic about Ted Nugent (although it doesn't help) so much as the virulent racism and misogyny and the evangelization of the murder of those resisting the fascistic right wing agenda. Stuff like that.

[Deeky]

He's also a fucking pedo.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Marxo and Deeky, thanks for your further enlightening me about Mr. Nugent. I don't know all that much about him, and I don't know anything about his politics. If either or both of you can give me more details, I would appreciate it, but let's do so on a Ted Nugent thread.

I want to keep this thread on the subject of the film Wommen of the world, which I will have more to say on later.

Scrolling up, I see that I got into the topic of Ted in a chain reaction from the beached walrus in WOTW, compared to the penned buffalo being shot in BTBAC (There isn't a the before Children in the Stanley Kramer film. The Mondo Cane films did hae a lot of cruelty to animals in them, and some were even condemened by anti cruelty to animals groups, although I can't say that just recording on film the cruelty to animals is in any way endorsing it on the part of the filmakers.

One final note on a buttology aspect of BTBAC. The character played by Bill Mumy tells a camp counsellor, an older man to stick someting "up your anal orifice," to which one of the yonger boys replies, "what is an anal orifice?" to which the Mumy played by character replies, "ass," to which the younger boy replies, "why didn't you just say, "ass?"

Now, if there is any more to say on either BTBAC (I will watch the Karen Carpenter video before leaving this thread for the present), or anything more to say on Ted Nugent, let's start new threads for those 2 subjects, and get this one back to Women of the World.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Women of the World, was made by the same filmakers who made Mondo Cane. It ended with the story of the babies born to women who took the sleeping aid thalidomide, resulting in defects of the arms, and the reactions of the parents were quite different.

One woman comitted infantacicde,killing her deformed baby, and was found not guilty at her trial (that case was outside the USA).

I suppose thalidomide might have produced different severities of deformity, but the film also showed some babies that while their arms were shorter than normal, they were able to function, and use their hands, and they seemed just slightly different from normal, and were really enjoying their lives and their parents really were glad to have them, for their sons and daughters.

While the "Mondo Cane" type films generally dwelled on horror and cruelty, Women of the World actually ended on an upbeat, and uplifting tone, with those scenes of the thalidomide babies being accepted and treated as normal by their parents.

That made what was a generally dreary and boring documentary film worth watching.