Double Agent 73

Year: 1974

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Wishman

Review

vintage camp. this is actually the first doris wishman film i’ve seen despite having heard about her for years from my dad and others. the production values are awful, the script is poor, the entire concept is completely wacked…in other words, it’s a perfect midnight movie. agent 73 (named so because her bust is a total 73 inches around) goes undercover to take down some criminal organization. after she kills each member of the crew she takes a picture of the dead body for intelligence gathering…this is where the genius comes in…for some reason they found it necessary to implant a camera into her breast. so after she kills these guys (one of them she offs by choking him with ice!?), she takes off her shirt and bra so she can photograph the body. i told you it was classic. wishman’s direction and editing are very different. she has lots of fragments, especially when establishing location or in her long shots and close-ups. it complements the b-grade story well. it was entertaining enough, but defies grading in the typical sense. that said, it gets a C. p.s. chesty morgan (the lead actress) appears in only four movies, one of them being fellini’s 1976 film ‘il casanova di fellini.’