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Cherry, Harry & Raquel!

  • 1969
  • 16
  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
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Linda Ashton, Larissa Ely, and Charles Napier in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969)
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A corrupt sheriff is drawn into a ménage à trois with his nurse girlfriend and an alluring writer, all while trying to kill a renegade ex-associate of his marijuana-smuggling operation.A corrupt sheriff is drawn into a ménage à trois with his nurse girlfriend and an alluring writer, all while trying to kill a renegade ex-associate of his marijuana-smuggling operation.A corrupt sheriff is drawn into a ménage à trois with his nurse girlfriend and an alluring writer, all while trying to kill a renegade ex-associate of his marijuana-smuggling operation.

  • Director
    • Russ Meyer
  • Writers
    • Russ Meyer
    • Tom McGowan
  • Stars
    • Linda Ashton
    • Charles Napier
    • Larissa Ely
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    1.4K
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    • Director
      • Russ Meyer
    • Writers
      • Russ Meyer
      • Tom McGowan
    • Stars
      • Linda Ashton
      • Charles Napier
      • Larissa Ely
    • 14User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
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    Linda Ashton
    Linda Ashton
    • Cherry
    Charles Napier
    Charles Napier
    • Harry
    Larissa Ely
    Larissa Ely
    • Raquel
    Bert Santos
    • Enrique
    Frank Bolger
    • Mr. Franklin
    • (as Franklin H. Bolger)
    Uschi Digard
    Uschi Digard
    • Soul
    • (as Astrid Lillimor)
    Michelle Grand
    • Millie
    John Milo
    • Apache
    Michaelani
    • Doctor Lee
    Robert Aiken
    • Tom
    John Koester
    • Gas Station Attendant
    Daniel Roberts
    • Delivery Boy
    Russ Meyer
    Russ Meyer
    • Man in Pool
    • (uncredited)
    Angel Ray
    • Young Girl
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Russ Meyer
    • Writers
      • Russ Meyer
      • Tom McGowan
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    6The_Void

    An uncharacteristic disappointment from Russ Meyer

    Russ Meyer's career got raunchier as it went on and his 'more serious' early films as well as his comical later efforts both have their plus points. Cherry, Harry & Raquel comes almost in-between the two sides of Meyer's career and almost feels like a dress rehearsal for the likes of Up and Supervixens, as we get all the raunchiness of Meyer's latter day films but it's incredibly poorly strung together and unfortunately, unlike the later efforts, the result is a film that has a handful of interesting scenes, as well as a bucket load of rubbish and boring ones. At times it feels like Meyer shot a load of footage and just stuck it together. As the title suggests, the plot focuses on three main characters - unsurprisingly called Cherry, Harry and Raquel. Harry is a police sheriff with a sideline in drug smuggling, and a local apache has got wind of this, leading Harry to track him down. Harry also has an eventful love life, with no less than two luscious and buxom beauties to choose from - there's Raquel, a prostitute, and Cherry; a nurse.

    Despite not being among his best work, Cherry, Harry and Raquel does feature Meyer's trademark style. We've got plenty of sex and nudity, as well as some fairly vicious violence, some good dialogue and Meyer's trademark fast editing. Most of the film takes place in the desert and this provides a good setting for the movie, and also helps to give the film it's most memorable moments - namely, Uschi Digard posing naked against desert backdrops. This is the first Russ Meyer film to star Charles Napier - the memorable actor who would go on to steal the show in Meyer's 1975 masterpiece Supervixens. He's not as good here as he was in Supervixens; but the performance is something of a landmark as Napier was one of the first men to do a full frontal nude scene. Naturally, Meyer doesn't let his audience down with his choice of actresses; Larissa Ely and Linda Ashton are both great (especially unclothed) and their screen time together is one of the best moments of the film. Meyer often tried to give his films a point and it usually serves only in making his films sillier and more bizarre - and that is the case here too; although the ending monologue will provide some laughs. Overall, this is probably the worst Russ Meyer flick I've seen so far and despite some positive elements - there really isn't much to recommend it for.
    9HalfCentury

    Meyer shot a movie and lost half of it

    Russ Meyer is a genius at cutting films. And from other examples of his work you can tell he had the whole multi, jump cut vision in his head. Shooting plenty of coverage to get the whole hyper-active, ceaselessly interesting story told. But Cherry, Harry and Raquel was completely shot when the lab ruined over half the footage. Meyer was forced to improvise and Uschi Digart became the scene padding "Muse". The afterword narration becomes a completely overboard retelling of the whole movie. But for all those sad concessions to losing whatever Meyer might have made of this story, it's one of my favorites. Charles Napier absolutely rules. He must have double the muscles in his forehead and scalp than the ordinary mortal as evidenced by some of the mugging he does in this flick. Meyer's kinetic film cutting was far ahead of it's time. The climactic final shoot out is just bloody and macho and totally hilarious stuff.
    9john22900

    Meyer near the "top" of his form

    It makes one wonder about the footage (half the film) that the processing lab irretrievably lost. Too bad too because although Meyer improvised by reshooting footage of huge-breasted Uschi Digard (and who can argue with that?), I'd be willing to bet that the lost footage was even better. Not that I don't have anything at all against Uschi (I don't), but I get the distinct impression the missing footage would have even been more erotic. If the missing footage is anything like the most erotic scene in the movie - the seduction of the Franklin Bolger character by the nurse = it would have blown the audience right out of their seats. The jump cuts featuring Uschi are nice to look at but without any substance they cannot be put into proper perspective as relative to the film. Charles Napier is fine as the corrupt sheriff (he plays bad guys extremely well) but it is the amply endowed women in the cast that steal the show.
    2Platypuschow

    Cherry, Harry & Raquel: A black mark on Meyers record

    To all the critics who consider Meyers work near porn I always say this, he essentially makes Carry On style movies and but adds boobs to keep peoples attention.

    Granted they aren't as funny as the Carry On classics but they do have their own special charm once you get past the gratuitous usage of a certain pair of popular lady parts.

    Sadly this particular Meyer film lacks any laughs at all, is short on charm and with the exception of the always excellent Napier even the cast falls flatter than a flat thing on the flattest day of it's life flattened by an electrified flattening machine. So fairly flat! I didn't see this one until adulthood whereas many of the others I was younger and maybe there is a connection there. Not suggesting at all that I watched Russ Meyers movies as a youngster for any nefarious reasons but now into adulthood the mere sight of a nipple does not make me jump up and down, whistle and bang my head with a frying pan repeatedly looney toon style.
    4moonspinner55

    Begins and ends with a diatribe against our society that is ANYTHING but erotic!

    Sex and violence in a desert town as sheriff Harry (Charles Napier) gets involved in bushwhacking and murder. More breasts and bloodshed from Russ Meyer, with minimal plotting interrupted by staccato clips of naked women frolicking in the dunes. It's obviously a bad picture, but it does have Napier and he's worth watching in just about anything. I loved Pauline Kael's assessment of his rock-solid stature in her review of "Citizen's Band" (she called him "an erotic Steve Canyon"). To me, he's a kinky Brian Keith, a mountain of brawn and straw-blond hair. He has criss-cross scars on his face and a smile that has a maniacal bend (like Nicholson's Joker without make-up) and his sex scene with Raquel--or is that Cherry?--in the sand is really something to see (and one of the few times the film is not chopped up to provide deeper meaning in the subtext). *1/2 from ****

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    • Trivia
      This is the first appearance of Charles Napier in a Russ Meyer film. He ultimately appeared in three other films for Meyer: La vallée des plaisirs (1970) and The Seven Minutes (1971) (in which he kept his clothes on) and Supervixens (1975) (in which his frontal nudity was simulated with a huge rubber phallus).
    • Goofs
      Flashback scene to a late Forties/early Fifties grocery store was filmed in late Sixties supermarket parking lot, complete with late model cars.
    • Quotes

      Raquel: When are you gonna introduce me to Cherry? I bet we have a lot in common.

      Harry: I don't like women messing around with women. It's un-American.

    • Alternate versions
      Film was edited and re-rated "R" for its 1977 re-release.
    • Connections
      Edited into Ultra Vixens (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Toys Of Our Time
      by Byron Cole, James East and Stu Phillips

      Performed by The Jacks and Balls!

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    • Release date
      • 1972 (Belgium)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
      • Swedish
    • Also known as
      • Megavixens
    • Production companies
      • Eve Productions
      • Panamint Film
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    • Budget
      • $90,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 11 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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