8. Mondo Topless (1966)
An opportunity for Russ Meyer to throw his lot in with a pseudo-Mondo documentary, I have included Mondo Topless because I think we need a smutty, light hearted interlude among all of the animal slaughter and humans acting like sick freaks. "Too Much for one man!" is the tagline. Whenever you see the size of the girls' bazookas in Mondo Topless, you will understand what Meyer is getting at. An unadulterated worship of the shapely female form, Meyer treats his topless women as a new kind of movement - like the counterculture. This is in keeping with the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. The women dance topless (naturally) to instrumental music and talk about their lives and their work, the men they associate with - anything really. This is transposed over the sight of the women dancing on screen. There really is some top crumpet in Meyer's film - like Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland and the amazing Darlene Grey - whose bouncing boobies have kept this film a cult favourite since the 1960s. The narration is typical Russ Meyer - wisecracking and ironic - it transforms the film from being just a breast fest into a clever commentary on sexual politics in the 1960s.