The Stewardesses

1969 "The Unpublishable Novel Is Now America's Most Controversial Film!"
3.8| 1h9m| R| en| More Info
Released: 25 July 1969 Released
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A single eventful night in the lives of a crew of Los Angeles-based, trans-Pacific stewardesses, as they experiment with drugs and engage in various sexual encounters. The Stewardesses is a 1969 Softcore 3-D film. Produced on a budget of just over $100,000, the film grossed over $27,000,000 (USD) in 1970 dollars, becoming the most profitable 3-D film ever released.

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Comedy

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Al Silliman Jr.

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Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
spiritof67 The 5-out-of-10 rating is strictly for the technical quality of the 3D in the film, the naturalness (and nakedness) of the actresses and the contemporary nature of the "plot".SPOILER ALERT HEREWell,there's no real"plot" at all. There are a number of stories, told almost Love-American Style style but much more adult, and with casual full nudity from most of the actresses and nearly as much from the actors. Gay themes; relationship/fidelity themes; humorous drug themes. And done with 1970's-style nudity, proudly unshaven. Bushy, even. One high spot in the showing I attended was the hallmark of any good movie: a couple left in a huff about 20 minutes into the film. Full marks there.But the pinnacle is (as of 7/17) the quality of the prismatic 3D. I have seen 3D movies since the 1950's and this film has some of the very best I have ever seen. There are some depth shots here that are almost unsurpassed at any budget level, and this was a low budget. But that said, this time "all the money was on the screen" is a truism. The technical level (on a movie screen, mind you) was mindblowing.SPOILER ALERT HEREWell, not really needed but this isn't a full "adult" (i.e. no penetration) film. There was an alternative version done with X inserts but this isn't it, evidenced by the copy I saw at my local Alamo Drafthouse. But if you want to see what CAN be done with the old technology of 3D, see this on a screen. It's impressive technically - just not as a movie.Unless you have a 3D TV and a recent Blu-Ray copy of this film or you are lucky enough to actually catch a theater showing of The Stewardesses I can't recommend it. With either of those (and preferably on a screen) it's a must-see.
mmcgee282 I remember coming out of the Capri theater,not in Dallas,after seeing Diamonds are forever,James bond film, and saw the advertisement of this film back in 1971.I wanted to see this film cause it was in 3D.I became a 3D fan when it was dead.The problem is that it was rated x.Years later I learned that it was re rated as an r back in 71.I was under age.I finally saw it during the 80's revival of 3D.It was in wide screen and 3D.For a long while ,years later,I was wondering when it was going to come out on DVD in anaglyph 3D.There was an internet discussion on the web page that I ordered Ed woods only hard core feature,Necromania ,some times back.It was recently that I discover that it was released on DVD in 3D anaglyph back in 2009.So I got it.The only problem is that they gave you only one pair of 3D glasses and it was the wrong type.The anaglyph on the film is red right blue left.The glasses they gave me was blue right red left.I was using my plastic ones .I had to turn them upside down.After that the 3D was okay.It's not the best film in the world but it's fair .It's a cult classic.Another thing it was not letter box for wide screen.It was cropped.I later learned that it was shot in a single strip process splitting up two images and due to the fact they had to include optical sound track,The producers had to squeeze it,giving an artificial wide screen affect Both color and black n white 3d was good .The flat was also excellent print.It include interviews from the crew and the actors and producers.This was 2005.Al Silliman j.r. was still preserved .So was one crew man for the road show version.That handsome pilot,make up artist and actor William Condos was now a very old and probably in his 80s.Christina Hart,who hated doing the production was still very much youthful in 2005 for her being in her fifties.She regretted doing this film and thought it was a bad film ,when she was interviewed.The 3d was good,but, it be better in blue ray Polaroid.It was stereo vision process that was used in films like Jaws 3d and Friday the 13th 3d.What probably killed the 80s revival is the fact that the simpler method of shooting a 3D movie made the image smalls and theaters had to close their screen aperture down.The 3D images were smaller I also learned that it did not work in drive in theaters.I still enjoyed the movie.01/17/16.Boy! it was not too long ago that I had blogged the anaglyphic version. The Blu-ray is now out .This results in a sharper clearer images on shutter active and passive active smart t.v. screens.This version does not have the interviews.I don't understand why.It's not released by the same company. It contains a soft core 3D short ,Experiments in love,which the review can be seen in the adult section of i.m.d.b.The 3D was good in the Samsung 3D t.v.It was also good in the red green#d of my Blu- ray burner player in my computer.It did very well in my color code adapter,3D Wizard. The only differences was that on the menus the title pops out on the shutter active and the red-green ,but, stays hardly popping out on the color code,the whole film pops out of course.It's still only 7.12/28/16
billmarq I saw this in the theater in its 3D version when it was originally released in 1969. It stunk to high heaven then and it can't be any better now. Scenes of a woman being brutalized in the bedroom and then jumping out a window hardly fit into a movie described as a comedy-drama. Nudity for no other purpose than titillation does not a movie make. The 3D effects were not all that good and did nothing at all to add to the enjoyment of the film. It has been 35 years since I saw this movie and I still think of it as the worst film I have ever viewed in a theater. My companions and I asked for our money back but were refused. Other vignettes within this "movie" included the story of a man who was traumatized by an act of sodomy. Cheery stuff, eh?
weinerm I must confes than I am a big fan of Monica Gayle, who although does not appear in the credits, has a phenomenal scene where sit sits naked and meditates and stretches her nude body every which way but loose. That scene lasts 30 seconds. The rest of the movie isn't much. Lots of pretty girls with a minimal amount of nudity, but not much in the way of plot. The film ends with Monica Gayle addressing the plane over the P.A. system. Watch her introduce the stewardesses and, amazingly, forget her name as well as the name of one of her co-stars. Incredible that they didn't re-shoot it, but that's low budget films for you.