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Alice in Wonderland (1976)
 Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1976
Running Times: 72m (UK)/78m (USA - R-rated version)/81m
(USA - X-rated version)
Length: 6480 ft (UK)
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Bud Townsend
CREW
 PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cruiser
Productions
Executive Producer: Roy
Cruiser
Producer: William Osco
Production Manager: Jason
Williams
SCRIPT
Script: B.
Anthony Fredericks
Books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the
Looking Glass by Lewis
Carroll
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Joseph
Bardo
Key Grip: Johnny
Joseph
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Shaun Walsh
MUSIC
Music: Jack Stern,
Peter Matz, Buck
Searles
Musical Directors: Jack
Stern, Peter Matz
Songs: Bucky Searles
Conductors/Arrangers: Peter
Matz, Jack Stern
SOUND
Sound Recordist: William
Wang
Re-Recording: Bill
Varney
Sound Effects: The Magician,
The Wizard
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Ed Duquette
OTHER CREW
Choreographer: Noah
Underwater Nude Volleyball Sequence Choreographer: Jacques
Coote
Hawaiian Number Choreographer: Halelokie
Steinberg, Marion
Thompson Dancing School and Riding Academy
CASTING
Casting: Dorthy
Palmer
CAST
Kristine DeBell
(Alice)
Ron Nelson (William)
Bradford Armdexter
(Humpty Dumpty)
Alan Novak (Mad
Hatter)
J.P. Paradine
(Scrugg/doctor)
Jerry Spelman
(White Rabbit)
Sue Tsengoles
(aka: Bree Anthony)
(Tweedledum)
Tony Tsengoles
(Tweedledee)
Nancy Dare, Terri
Hall (nurses)
Bruce Finklesteen
(Black Knight)
Juliet Graham
(Queen of Hearts)
Astrid Hayase
(tart)
John Lawrence (King
of Hearts)
Angel Barrett,
Ed Marshall, Melvina
Peoples, Marcia
Raven (jurors)
Kristen Steen
(Oogaloo)
Jason Williams
(White Knight)
Gila Havana (Black
Knight's Girl)
Tony Richards
PLOT SUMMARY
Innocent young librarian Alice offends her would-be lover William when
she rejects his advances. Upset by the encounter, she falls asleep while
reading Alice in Wonderland and a white rabbit appears, taking her to
a sexual Wonderland where she quickly learns that William may not have
been so bad after all.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Well, it had to happen eventually I suppose - the underlying sexuality
of Lewis Carroll's children's classic must have sorely tempted many
a porn director in the early 70s but it eventually fell to Bud Townsend
to turn the story into a fully-fledged skin-flick classic. Though it's
as technically primitive as any other no-budget 70s porn escapade there's
an energy and sense of oddball invention in Alice that's
missing from so many of its contemporaries. Carroll purists would recoil
in abject horror at the very thought of an adaptation featuring an almost
constantly nude fellatrix in place of their more traditional Alice,
but anyone with a taste for the weird, the off-the-wall and the downright
silly will find much to enjoy in this unique reworking of the novel.
(Full
Review)
AVAILABILITY
Finland
Theatrical Distributors: Sef-Filmi (set to release the film in 1978
but it was denied a certificate by the censors and the release was cancelled)
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Production Associates
Video Distributor: Intervision; Iver Video Services
USA
Theatrical Distributor: General National Enterprises
Video Distributors: Caballero Home Video/Creative Image Home Video (X-rated
version (1984)); Edde Video; X-Travision; Video Comp; Vid America
DVD Distributors: Subversive Cinema (2007)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: KK (banned) in 1978
UK
Rating: X (cut by 2 minutes 30 seconds)
USA
Rating: X (in 1976); R (in 1977, with 3 minutes of cuts)
TIMELINE
1976
July
2: USA - Kristine Debell appears at the New Westwood, Van Nuys,
California to promote the film
3: USA - Kristine Debell appears at the South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa,
California to promote the film
August
31: USA - press screening at the National Theatre, New York
December
10: USA - theatrical release
2000
May
26: USA - shown at the Grand Illusion Theater, Seattle, Washington as
part of the Satellites 2000: Screens From Outer Space season
27: USA - shown at the Grand Illusion Theater, Seattle, Washington as
part of the Satellites 2000: Screens From Outer Space season
POSTER TAGS
An X-Rated Musical Comedy
The world's favorite bedtime story
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Alicia en el país de las pornomaravillas
- Spanish title
Alice nel paese delle pornomeraviglie - Italian title
Alicja w krainie czarów - Polish title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Best of Sex and Violence, The (1981)
Bucky's '70s Triple XXX Movie House Trailers Vol. 3 (1995)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Continental Film Review vol.24 no.3 (January
1977) pp.12-13 (UK)
illustrated review
Film Review Digest vol.2 no.1 (Fall 1976)
p.1 (USA)
reprinted review
Films and Filming vol.23 no.12 (September
1977) p.35 (UK)
review (by Julian Fox)
Films Illustrated vol.6 no.72 (August
1977) p.448 (UK)
review (by David Quinlan)
The Listener vol.98 no.2520 (4 August
1977) p.151 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.44 no.524 (September
1977) p.187 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review (by Clyde Jeavons)
Rhesus O 4 p.23 (France)
credits, review
Screen International no.99 (6 August
1977) p.16 (UK)
credits, review
Variety 8 September 1976 p.20 (USA)
credits, review (by Sege)
NEWSPAPERS
Albuquerque Journal 9 September 1976
p.C-3 (USA)
review ('Alice in Wonderland' Has Message by David Eden)
Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown,
Pennsylvania) 25 June 1976 p.18 (USA)
illustrated review ('Alice' leaves morals behind by Lou Gaul)
Los Angeles Times 24 June 1976 Pt.IV
p.15 (USA)
review (by Kevin Thomas)
BOOKS
Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.15
credits
The X-Rated Videotape Guide I p.59
credits, review
KEYWORDS
Alice in Wonderland,
book into film, porn
CATEGORIES
Fantasy -
USA | Films (A)
| Films - 1976
| Fantasy
Films - 1976 | US
Films - 1976 | US
Fantasy Films - 1976
Last Updated:
24 October, 2009
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