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The Beauties and the Beast

  • 1974
  • R
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
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The Beauties and the Beast (1974)
AdventureComedyCrimeHorror

Girls in a nudist camp are terrorized by an Abominable Snowman-type beast.Girls in a nudist camp are terrorized by an Abominable Snowman-type beast.Girls in a nudist camp are terrorized by an Abominable Snowman-type beast.

  • Director
    • Ray Nadeau
  • Writer
    • Gaynor MacLaren
  • Stars
    • Jacqueline Giroux
    • Uschi Digard
    • Marius Mazmanian
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.7/10
    234
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    • Director
      • Ray Nadeau
    • Writer
      • Gaynor MacLaren
    • Stars
      • Jacqueline Giroux
      • Uschi Digard
      • Marius Mazmanian
    • 14User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    Jacqueline Giroux
    Jacqueline Giroux
    • Ann
    • (as Jean Gibson)
    Uschi Digard
    Uschi Digard
    • Mary
    Marius Mazmanian
    • Frenchie
    Bob Makay
    Patrick Scott
    David Wheeler
    Susan Westcott
    • Becky
    • (as Susan Wescott)
    John Shell
    Carol Evins
    Sandy Carey
    • Girl in Volkswagen
    • (as Sandra Carey)
    Colleen Brennan
    Colleen Brennan
    • Redhead in Cave
    • (as Sharon Kelly)
    Tami Lynn
    Beverly Wallace
    Paul Kalin
    Charles David
    Brian Jacobs
    Ewing Miles Brown
    • Man in Woods with Binoculars
    • (uncredited)
    Tracy Handfuss
    • Girl in Rowboat
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ray Nadeau
    • Writer
      • Gaynor MacLaren
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    Michael_Elliott

    Decent Sexploitation

    Beauties and the Beast, The (1974)

    ** (out of 4)

    What's better than nudity and a Yeti? This soft core romp has plenty of both as a lonely Yeti stalks the woods kidnapping beautiful women and taking them back to his cage. He's in luck as some hippies and a couple other ladies (one played by Swedish bombshell Uschi Digard) come to stay for the weekend so he has plenty to pick from. I love Yeti movies but this here is one of the wackiest out there even though it contains absolutely no plot. I'm still not quite sure why the Yeti here was taking the women to begin with as he never does anything with them except throw them in his cave and we never find out what happens to any of them. The main reason this film was made was to show off countless nude women and especially the 44-26-35 Digard who many will remember from Russ Meyer's CHERRY, HARRY & RACHEL!. As far as soft core flicks go this one here is pretty good but at only 66-minutes there's not too much going on and that includes everything with our hairy friend Mr. Yeti. I'm still not sure what the point of throwing him in here was for because we really don't get enough of him and when we do see him he's usually just carrying the women around. The idea of a horny Yeti wasn't started here as BIGFOOT beat this one by a few years and it had the added bonus of John Carradine. The main reason to watch this film is just for the nudity and some really bad sex scenes including one of the most hilarious "make out" sessions I've seen from any movie. This here takes place inside a car and you certainly won't forget it due to how stupid it is.
    EyeAskance

    dime-store nudie monster trash....loads of fun!

    The legendary Bigfoot monster does his usual...erm...Bigfooting around some woods where a couple of vacationing young lovelies and a communal household of rather irritating hippies(oh Gawd....that folk song...)spend their time in various states of undress. The titular "beast" is a pretty shoddy man-in-a-gorilla-suit mess with what appears to be a cro-magnon head mask. Our Bigfoot carries unsuspecting girlies to a cave, where he keeps them captive for future(implied sexual)activities.

    This rock-bottom crud has everything trash film mongers crave...it's astoundingly cheap, with more nudity than you might expect of it(full-frontal, both male and female....the Bigfoot, however, is devoid of any obvious genitalia....perhaps the monster is of the lesbian persuasion?) Pisspoor editing abounds....either the video I bought is badly cut, or several key issues are left entirely unresolved. Who cares, though? You're watching this to see boobs and cheesy monster mayhem, and that's just what you get.

    Ten filthy little stars....now go buy yourself a copy.
    lazarillo

    Boring boobs & bigfoot movie

    Usually bigfoot movies and sexploitation are a winning combination whether they're arty ("La Bete"), cheesy ("Monster at Camp Sunshine"), or somewhere in between ("Tanya's Island"). This movie, however, is just boring. Actually, it's really two different boring movies with only the most tenuous connection between them. In one movie a ridiculous bigfoot-type creature kidnaps naked women. But all he does is seal them in his cave (if you're looking for some bestiality here, forget it). In the second movie, a bunch of hippie campers sit around talking endlessly, playing godawful guitar music, and having a lot of sex. And even the latter is boring because the incompetent filmmakers always managed to find the most unappealing angle from which to shoot the action and then held the same shot practically forever. It's hard to believe a movie like this that is barely more than an hour long (and at least half of which is devoted to sex scenes) could seem to drag on forever, but it does. Some of the more rabid Russ Meyer fans might appreciate the appearance of the top-heavy (if otherwise totally untalented) Uschi Digart. I really wouldn't recommend this to anyone else though.
    5HumanoidOfFlesh

    Utter sleaze with horny Bigfoot.

    The basic story of "The Beauties and the Beast" features two hotties including Uschi Digard running across Bigfoot while on holiday at a lakeside cabin.Bigfoot captures a couple of women and takes them into cave,spies on naked ladies and terrorizes a couple having sex in the woods.Incredibly amateurish piece of sleaze with laughable acting,retarded plot and one of the most laughable creatures ever put to film.The music is extremely generic and the monster makeup is just plain shoddy.Of course if you want to amuse yourself give it a try.A perfect Z-grade sleazy trash that is heavy on nudity and low on plot.Lovers of absolutely bad cinema will be enthralled.
    5Coventry

    Yeti, Uschi and the Sleazy...

    I love how this movie opens with an sincere on screen narration about scientific facts, examples of newspaper clippings and alleged factual sightings of an American Sasquatch monster, and then stupidly continues by saying "the story you're about to see COULD be true…". Well of course it could be true! Stuff like this happens all the time! Not a week goes by or I read something in the papers about lewd and nakedly parading around wenches getting abducted in the woods by Sasquatch himself! "Beauties and the Beast", like the title implies, is a rancid and utterly nonsensical sexploitation product of the early 70's; simultaneously cashing in on the Bigfoot hype in horror cinema at that time as well as benefiting from the always popular concept of voluptuous girls practicing the Free Love principles. It's Big-foot meeting Big-boobs, as Russ Meyer regular Uschi Digard (with her lovely Scandinavian accent and her even lovelier triple-D balcony) and her friend drive up to a remote cabin in the woods where a big and perverted guy in an ape suit resides. In earlier sequences we already witnessed how he collects scarcely dressed girls and stores them in a cave without even sexually harassing them. Now, that is weird! I personally expected at least one repulsive monstrous rape-sequence, to be honest. Anyway, the girls encounter a bunch of hippies (who have been there since 8 months but never spotted the Yeti…) and subsequently some thugs in search of golden coins, so the monster never really has a proper chance to demonstrate to Uschi what a hot date he is. "Beauties and the Beast" is a pretty lousy but undeniably entertaining piece of trash, with a large amount of unintentionally hilarious sequences (for example the guy running away naked upon spotting the Sasquatch; leaving his girlfriend behind) and harmlessly tame sexual footage. The last fifteen minutes are quite strange. It feels as if, after a whole movie of redundant sex images and pointless padding, the story suddenly becomes ambitious and eventful. There's violence and rape, new characters and the titular beast actually becomes the day-saving hero! In the end, they all live happily ever after in harmony, and nobody even bothers anymore about the Yeti's first victims, who are mostly likely still entrapped in the cave.

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      Referenced in The Big Box: The Thirsty Dead (2010)

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    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Desperately Seeking Yeti
    • Filming locations
      • Big Bear Lake, California, USA(main location)
    • Production companies
      • Raynad
      • Second Unit Productions (I)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 6m(66 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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