Hellcat Mud Wrestlers

A semi-staged documentary about an evening of female mud wrestling in Croydon.

Essentially the very last British sex flick released to cinemas (the first was Nudist Paradise in 1958), this is Wheeltappers and Shunters with added dirty grappling (which takes an age to start), intercut with fake interviews by John M East, mostly with glamour girls purporting to be mud wrestlers - a couple of whom casually wear nothing but a robe. One of them is the lovely Vicki Scott - after she has spoken the camera pans down her naked breasts and then rests on her pubic hair. It's the sexiest moment!

You could call this a nadir of UK culture, or you could be kinder and say 'well, you had to be there...' Sound recording, photography and acting are all out of the bottom drawer.

It is perhaps proof, though, that even an enterprise as low rent and dingy as this has some sort of cultural value - and anything with sizeable American wrestler Queen Kong in it will at least raise one or two smiles.

It's extremely hard to see nowadays, probably not surprisingly.

Dir: Alan Hall, David Sullivan.