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LIP-GLOSS, LINGERIE AND [LIVE] AMMO... the cult cinema of Andy Sidaris by Jeff Young interview filmography Andy and Arlene Sidaris are unique 'auteur' filmmakers... that's a given. No other director and producer teams have created so many slick action movies featuring beautiful girls with guns. They have championed the cause of sex 'n' violence with admirable efficiency since 1973, when Andy Sidaris co-wrote, produced and directed Stacey, a private detective adventure starring Anne Randall. Since then, the Sidaris family - including son Christian Drew - have pursued a trusty formula that generally picks up where the more conservative 007 movies traditionally end, by offering plenty of nudity and adult-rated levels of bloodshed. |
Andy Sidaris, surrounded by (clockwise from left):
Carolyn Liu, Roberta Vasquez, Cynthia Brimhall, Ava Cadell, Dona Speir |
| Andy's background is sports on TV. He's directed coverage of hundreds of football and basketball games, Olympic events, and special programmes, and he's won seven Emmy awards for his work in the field. He obviously knows plenty about how to capture 'live' action scenes, and brings this wealth of documentary experience to his filmmaking. And so, unlike much fast-paced Hollywood action product based on the suggestive techniques of pop and rock video promo directors, you always know exactly what's going on with a Sidaris movie! Another thing about the Sidaris style is the agreeably camp sense of fun in the characters, dialogue, and thrills. Perhaps this also comes from the acute game-playing awareness of sports, rather than the often-pompous sensibility of the music industry? It's certainly true that the directors and producers of many over-budgeted US action movies take their films' fantastic levels of violence too seriously, leaving themselves open to shameless mockery from the spoof-makers. By starting out with fairly similar comedic ideas in the first place, the Sidaris team have already planned for satirical moments in their movies, and this strategy has carved out a niche market for their amusing thrillers, which has maintained an enduring appeal. |
lucky leading man, R.J. Moore, with his FIT TO KILL co-stars
(clockwise from left): Dona Speir, Cynthia Brimhall, Julie Strain, Roberta Vasquez |
The somewhat vaguely defined group of federal agents, led by athletic blonde
Dona Speir (operating undercover as a pilot at air
freight service, Molokai Cargo), that star in cult movie adventures of the 1980s - films with
such intriguing and evocative titles as Hard
Ticket To Hawaii, Picasso Trigger
and Savage Beach - has more recently given
way to a 1990s' brand - the L.E.T.H.A.L. ("Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law") Force,
led by fabulous six-foot-one Julie Strain, in entertaining
films like Day Of The Warrior and
Return To Savage Beach - but the endearing
B-movie elements of each new larger-than-life offering from the Sidaris family business of
Malibu Bay Films has happily remained
pretty much the same.
Sidaris productions have also featured Sybil Danning, and stunning starlets Cynthia Brimhall, Hope Marie Carlton, Roberta Vasquez, Patty Duffek, Julie K. Smith, Teri Weigel, Devin DeVasquez, and Suzi Simpson, not to mention co-starring the likes of familiar cult actors William Smith, Erik Estrada (from TV cop show 'CHiPs'), Martin Kove, Pat Morita, and Reggie Nalder. In addition to such a varied line-up of stars, Sidaris movies showcase location changes from tropical Hawaii and the Texas outback, to steamy New Orleans and Las Vegas glitz, all of which provide a suitably spectacular backdrop to the many car chases, explosions, karate bouts, and loads of gun battles and shootouts! |
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