Something Weird Cinema : Thar She Blows 1969 and Remembering George Eastman

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:03]Move one out of the way. Okay.

[00:00:07]So, good morning and welcome to 42nd Street Pete's Grindhouse, courtesy of the Fusebox Show dot com.

[00:00:17]Trying to wake up and uh have my morning coffee here cuz I didn't get a chance to do this last night cuz I was kind of occupied with something else that's going on and [clears throat] that should be revealed on Monday's show cuz yes, we will have a show on Memorial Day because what the [ __ ] else do I have to do? Ain't like I'm going to a barbecue. Ain't like I'm having a barbecue. Ain't like the weather's going to be nice, so just going to do that Monday.

[00:00:49]And um whoever sent me this, I thank you. I don't know who it was. There was no note in the box, but obviously someone who's watching the show sent me some chocolate nuts.

[00:01:01]So, anyway, I mean it's Memorial Day weekend and all that other good [ __ ] and people will be out, you know, picnicking and boating and [ __ ] like that. How about something from 1969 that's nonsensically nautical?

[00:01:14]A film by the great Colonel Dave Friedman, a film that basically would stop a car in its tracks or cause a car to veer off the road if you were driving and that [clears throat] film is 1969 of Ar She Blows.

[00:01:29]Yes, it's a tale of um nautical nonsense with Captain Billy as uh he has this uh little pleasure cruise craft with his sister Sally who he keeps uh walking around in a mini skirt semi-naked and his Canadian uh cabin boy who uh is lusting for young Sally and some other chicks on there.

[00:01:52]But anyway, we get uh a flashback where uh uh Captain Billy all dressed in whites is uh in a sleazy uh uh bar by the pier where he takes up with some little strumpet named Sheila and they go back to her place for a drink and he's followed by three thugs who either want to rip him off or take his chick.

[00:02:16]So, anyway, he's in the mid-thrust, shall we say, when they kick in the door and interrupt him. So, he decides to fight them off balls-ass naked and one of them grabs a boat hook and unfortunately uses it to remove his gonads. So, holding it up, looky looky, balls on hooky.

[00:02:34]So, Captain Billy is not a whole captain at this point.

[00:02:38]But, he takes a charter from this movie producer uh played by Stuart Gordon, who you will remember from some Russ Meyer films and things like that.

[00:02:48]And uh his uh personal assistant, this greasy guy named Phil Latio.

[00:02:54]I'm not kidding.

[00:02:55]And three other strumpets, uh two blondes and a brunette.

[00:03:00]And it seems that the producer takes great joy in tormenting uh Phil Latio by, you know, having chicks get naked in front of them and taking them away and having girl-girl action occur and making [clears throat] him watch and then making him drink a fifth of, I think, Cutty Sark or something like that, which no one in their right mind would [ __ ] do anyway.

[00:03:20]So, anyway, the stage is set, shall we say.

[00:03:25]And yes, it does take place on a boat and out in the ocean. It's, you know, uh hey, it's Dave.

[00:03:31]And uh anyway, there's a lot of ample nudity, there's a lot of girl-girl action, there's a lot of simulated sex.

[00:03:39]And of course, one of the girls who's not paired off with anybody approaches Captain Billy who pretty much blows her off and she yells at him, "What, are you queer or something? You must be."

[00:03:50]So, anyway Billy goes into a when he finds his sister uh in bed with the the Canadian uh cabin boy, who he knocks out, takes sister Sally downstairs and gives her a spanking that is pathetic at best. But, anyway, you know, we get the Some [ __ ] turns certain people on, some [ __ ] don't, but spankings turn certain people on. Not specially me, but anyway.

[00:04:15]But, anyhow, that's another thing, and then there's a plot where basically uh the cabin boy is told by one of the girls that, you know, she has to get he has to get Sally away from her crazy brother.

[00:04:25]>> [snorts] >> So, anyway, this whole thing culminates badly because one of the girls catches the captain coming out of the shower minus his Moby Dick.

[00:04:34]So, of course, that freaks him out. He, for whatever reason, climbs the mast, keeps on climbing the mast, and the boat hook, for some reason, flops on the deck upside down, and the Canadian guy is trying to talk the guy down, but Billy takes the plunge and lands chest-first on the boat hook, which the producer removes and tosses overboard, and the big "The End" flashes across the screen.

[00:04:59]Uh not exactly Moby Dick, but you are moved in a mysterious way. Of course, this is, you know, this is Dave at his best. Only Dave would throw some a title like this on a marquee, and you expect to see someone getting a [ __ ] Um but, anyway, you got to love Dave. And um not to close on a bad note, but unfortunately, we had a legend pass away uh this week. Um Georgie Eastmond, real name Luigi Montefiori, passed away at age 83 years old. Um George has been an icon of the grindhouse uh industry for decades. He started in 1967 with a spaghetti western Django Kill Softly. He was in 61 films and a screenwriter for 47 of them.

[00:05:47]He was also in Boot Hill with Woody Strode and Terence Hill in 1969.

[00:05:52]He teamed up with Woody again for The Unholy Four in 1970. He was with Carol Baker in Baba Yaga in 1973.

[00:06:01]Crime film Rabid Dogs in 1976 and the film he's most known for Anthropophagus in 1980 aka The Grim Reaper where basically he tore a fetus out of a woman's abdomen and ate it and at the end was eating his own intestines. So, kudos, George.

[00:06:21]Uh he was also a close associate of Joe D'Amato and uh they did a lot of films together including this little stint in the Caribbean where they sort of wangled a vacation out of the whole thing.

[00:06:35]Um Erotic Nights of the Living Dead was the first one in 1980 which really isn't a bad film.

[00:06:42]And Porno Holocaust in 1981 which really isn't a good film because the selling point was supposedly this mutant mutant with a radioactive [ __ ] And there was no really radioactive [ __ ] Uh George played a scientist who actually got a peaceful death in this one was actually strangled.

[00:07:00]Uh after that was brought The Bronx Warriors in 1982 and Iron Masters and a lot of postal apocalyptic stuff from 1983 to 1986, Warriors of the Wasteland and other films uh Hands of Steel.

[00:07:15]Um The fight scene in one of the films with Fred the Hammer Williamson, uh Fred had to stand on a pile of skids because George was that much taller than he was to make the fight look more realistic.

[00:07:26]So, like I said, George was an icon of the grindhouse culture, the grindhouse films and will be missed.

[00:07:33]And unfortunately another passing was uh Frank Zappa's lead vocalist Ike Willis.

[00:07:39]And I 70 years old passed away.

[00:07:42]So, anyway, like I said, um Memorial Day weekend, I hope people get a chance to go out and enjoy themselves. I mean, the weather's supposed to suck here. I don't know what's going to where it's going to be anywhere else.

[00:07:53]But, we remember the brave men and women who served our country and are still serving our country.

[00:07:59]And the [clears throat] ones that are still serving our country, we wish them the best because the guy in charge is a [ __ ] lunatic.

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[00:08:35]And like I said, um there's been stuff on my mind since uh Cinema Wasteland has announced it's not going to run anymore.

[00:08:44]And a couple people have asked me uh to do some stuff and maybe network and put something together. So, I'm going to have information on that Monday cuz I'm talking with a couple people. You know, I'm not going to do this by myself and this is no way endorsed or reflected on Cinema Wasteland. This is something a way for some fans to get together and maybe say goodbye for the last time because we didn't have a chance to do that at the last show cuz nobody really knew that that was going to be the last show.

[00:09:15]So, I'll have details for that on Monday. So, until then, thanks for subscribing, thanks for tuning in.

[00:09:21]Have a safe and happy weekend and we'll catch on the flip side.