AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) will be teaming up with Something Weird on Nov. 24 for the Blu-ray debut of producer/director Maurice Levy’s 1968 out-of-this-world “Texploitation” gem, She Mob.
In April of 1968 there was a little blub in Box Office Magazine that adult and exploitation distributor, Sacks Amusement Enterprises had acquired the distribution rights to Levy’s film for distribution. It made the rounds theatrically through their Dallas and Baltimore booking offices and farmed out to sub-distributors in other markets.
What’s interesting about the production — the film itself, in a moment — is Levy himself. He worked for Paramount for years and then was the NBC Bureau Chief for the Southwest area and is famed for filming president Kennedy, in Dallas, one hour before Kennedy was assassinated. In any case, She Mob was his only outing as a filmmaker.
As to She Mob, the movie … well, let us just say that it is exactly as advertised. “Strictly Adult Entertainment,” featuring “Butches and Dykes of the Weird World.” And, as legend has it, Levy recruited the lovely ladies who appear in the film from Jack Ruby’s former nightclub in Dallas, the Carousel Club, which actually — in a twisted sort of way — makes sense.
She Mob was shot in black and white, on-a-dime and this new 2K restoration is from the only known surviving 35mm print of the film. In all of its grainy glory, we are introduced to “Big Shim,” who is played by Marni Castle, who escapes from prison with her “gang” of sex-crazed associates and almost immediately they find some violent mischief to get into.
Big Shim is an impressive woman, she could snap your neck without giving it a thought. Her outfit of choice is leather, and let’s leave it at that. She has a sex toy known as Baby (Eve Laurie) and the rest of her pals — Teeny (Peaches Chatman), Harriet (Joy Dale) and Lorenz (Ann Adams) — are as deviant as her.
The mischief that they get into is kidnapping a guy named Tony (Adam Clyde), whose “fiancé,” Brenda (also played by Castle) is well-heeled. He’s held for ransom, but when you are dealing with a deviant with a short attention span you suspect that it will not end well for Tony.
Bonus features include the She Mob Q&A Session at Fantastic Fest with Lisa Petrucci from Something Weird and Alicia Coombs from AGFA, and, to sweet the deal, AGFA is including as a bonus feature, director Smythe David’s 1969 sexploitation crime-thriller, The Girl from Pussycat.
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