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Chastity

  • 1969
  • PG
  • 1h 23m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
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Cher in Chastity (1969)
DramaRomance

After bumming across the Southwest, a tough, young woman steals a car and runs off to Mexico, where she visits a bordello and is indoctrinated by a lesbian.After bumming across the Southwest, a tough, young woman steals a car and runs off to Mexico, where she visits a bordello and is indoctrinated by a lesbian.After bumming across the Southwest, a tough, young woman steals a car and runs off to Mexico, where she visits a bordello and is indoctrinated by a lesbian.

  • Director
    • Alessio de Paola
  • Writer
    • Sonny Bono
  • Stars
    • Cher
    • Barbara London
    • Steve Whittaker
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    593
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alessio de Paola
    • Writer
      • Sonny Bono
    • Stars
      • Cher
      • Barbara London
      • Steve Whittaker
    • 20User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    Cher
    Cher
    • Chastity
    • (as Chér)
    Barbara London
    • Diana Midnight
    Steve Whittaker
    • Eddie
    Tom Nolan
    Tom Nolan
    • Tommy
    Danny Zapien
    • Pimp
    Elmer Valentine
    • First Truck Driver
    Burke Rhind
    • Salesman
    Richard Armstrong
    • Husband
    Autumn
    • Prostitute
    Joe Light
    • Master of Ceremonies
    Dolly Hunt
    • Lady In Church
    Jason Clark
    • Second Truck Driver
    • (as Jason Clarke)
    • Director
      • Alessio de Paola
    • Writer
      • Sonny Bono
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    7wlamb-1

    A Strange vehicle for Cher

    In Cher's first attempt in a dramatic role she is found drifting through her young teenage life searching for her identity.She hitch-hikes to Mexico picking up truck-drivers as well as a boyfriend along the way.Her dysfunctional family and abuse follows her ,haunting her as she lives out her escapades wearing the same top and jeans till it makes you a bit nauseous! Her foray into the comfort of lesbianism,is short-circuited by her traditional American values,and Chastity tries the "straight life" one more failed time.The script is trite,and the story jaded .Cher has said the rough stuff was excluded,as Sonny Bono couldn't stand to see his wife do "those things". All in all a cool 60's trip,with an amateurish and weird aura! Chasity later became the name of Cher's daughter conceived during this movie!
    4r-shasta

    Pointless Except as Cher's First Dramatic Role

    Sonny Bono wrote, produced, financed and probably directed (using a pseudonym) this witless entertainment, made at a time when Hollywood did not know how to draw in a younger audience. This film did not help matters. Valuable only as having captured Cher's first performance in a dramatic role, CHASTITY follows an aimless, wandering young woman in search of something... we never quite know what. She does talk about wanting to be loved, but she runs from that, both at the start of the movie and in the final shot. A narration makes an attempt to hold the movie together, but Bono's dialog and situations are so forced and contrived the viewer is never allowed to engage with her apparent angst. CHASTITY is a cynical take on what ailed late-60s youth, but emerges as shallow and condescending toward the very audience Sonny Bono wanted to embrace.
    6Yeled

    A film that should make its way out of obscurity: Sonny Bono's last testament of the 1960s is a low-budget but respectable piece of filmmaking.

    Sonny Bono, in his autobiography "And the Beat Goes On," maligned his own debut as a writer/producer of serious cinema. But "Chastity" does not deserve a bad reputation: on the contrary, the film is a well-thought out and entertaining exploration of a runaway (played engaging by Cher in her first film as a dramatic actress) trying to discover herself, and in the process, find out what life is all about.

    While at times the film strives to be a little too philosophical (it is clear that Bono wanted to make a statement), the film is both visually and aurally creative. From the opening sequence in which a montage of Chastity's thoughts flash through a sketch of her profile and the subsequent telephoto shot of her running towards the camera (she wants to go somewhere - but ends up going nowhere!), to the scene in which she wanders through a Mexican brothel, "Chastity" always keeps the viewer interested in the film itself, and more importantly - caring about its young protagonist.

    The film is low budget - and possibly due to casting constraints some of the actors seem rather stiff - but overall the low budget helps to give "Chastity" more of a realistic look. The movie was obviously not filmed on sets - but instead on real locations - and the camerawork at times even gives it a "cinema verite" feel.

    Of course, Sonny Bono was primarily a song writer and producer, and his use of music (most of which he wrote) is creative. The title theme is a haunting, beautiful composition that must have been influenced by Ennio Morricone and the music he wrote for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. For those who may be familiar with the Atco soundtrack album, the music works very nicely in the context of the film.

    In any case, "Chastity" is no masterpiece, but it is an entertaining (though downbeat) film that deserves to make its way onto a commercial video release. Bono deserves a lot of credit for writing, producing and scoring the film (and according to his autobiography he even edited a good portion of it). And as the soundtrack is out of print, it would give the viewer the opportunity to hear the Bono theme music and the classic opening tune "Band of Thieves."
    6moonspinner55

    Sonny & Cher's "Easy Rider"--and surprisingly not an embarrassment

    Cher is agreeably pithy and cynical as a runaway named Chastity (she got the name from the dictionary). She's a wiseass, she's adorable, she's moody, she tosses off quips and straight lines like a jaded pro. This was Cher's third movie proper (following "Wild On The Beach" and "Good Times") and it's fun to see her in Cleopatra eye-makeup and her old nose. So many bad things have been said or written about this film that I half-expected a disaster, but it's clear right from the beginning the movie is visually expressive and evocative. Directed by someone named Alessio de Paola (an alias?), one tends to suspect writer-producer Sonny Bono held the reins, and if so he has a genuine feel for border towns and nowhere-places where people are cheerfully giving but eventually want payback. The picture begins to sag a bit in the middle when Cher tries her hand at prostitution and has a lesbian encounter with the cathouse madam (lots of fingers touching and wind through the trees, that kind of thing). But I certainly admired the film's gritty quality and easy pace. For her part, Cher concocts a true original in our heroine, talking to herself in the third person ("So, Chastity old girl, whaddya wanna do now?") and when her question to a gentleman bedfellow is met with a surprising answer, she tells him quietly in the dark, "I'm smiling." **1/2 from ****
    6rosscinema

    Good early effort by Cher

    Sonny Bono saved up his money and made this film starring his wife and its really not bad. You shouldn't expect great acting but Cher does show her early raw style here and even in scenes where she's required to cry she does it admirably. Script isn't bad either but all the talking she does to herself gets annoying after a while and I really didn't buy the whole Mexican brothel part at all. Her character is just to smart and in control to do something so brash and foolish. Now, about the nudity. There are two scenes where Cher is supposedly nude and in one scene you don't see her face at all so I'm assuming its a body double. But in the other scene it kind of looks like her though her hair is in the way and the room is dark so while I'm not 100% sure I do think it might be her where you see a glimpse of Cher's breast. The film ends on an emotional level where the voices in her head let us the viewer find out what's wrong with her and the last scene of an emotional Cher on the side of the road I think is just a solid job of acting. Solid effort by all including Sonny who produced, wrote and scored the music. I kept expecting to see Sonny pop up in a cameo but he never does. Interesting hippie flick with solid acting.

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    • Trivia
      Sonny and Cher sold off all their belongings to finance the film. Sonny recalled that after they completed shooting, the couple returned to their Hollywood mansion which was completely empty inside.
    • Quotes

      Man in car: Hey, you wanna do a thing honey?

      Chastity: You gotta have a thing to do a thing, creep.

    • Alternate versions
      An "M" rated version of the film has a few different camera camera angles and shots not used in the "R" or "PG" rated versions. It also has some words muted for content. One version does not have Cher's "Band of Theives" song in the closing credits credits. The television and "M" rated versions of the film are the same.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Barbara McNair Show: Sonny & Cher, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Tom Patterson (1970)
    • Soundtracks
      Chastity's Song (Band of Thieves)
      Written by Elyse J. Weinberg

      Performed by Cher

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    • Release date
      • June 24, 1969 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Честити
    • Filming locations
      • Phoenix, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies
      • American International Pictures (AIP)
      • Progress Motion Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 23m(83 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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