Doris Wishman’s 1974 exploitation film Deadly Weapons occupies one of cinema’s strangest corners: it stars burlesque performer Chesty Morgan as Crystal, an advertising executive who hunts down the mobsters responsible for her boyfriend’s death. Rather than confronting them conventionally, Crystal seduces each man, drugs him, and kills him by smothering him with her extraordinarily large breasts. The revenge plot eventually takes an even more melodramatic turn when Crystal discovers that her own father helped cause her lover’s death. He shoots her in the chest, after which she turns her gun on him and kills him. The film also featured porn star Harry Reems and was followed by Wishman’s similarly lurid Double Agent 73, often treated as an ostensible sequel.
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The 1974 Exploitation Oddity That Turned Murder into a Weaponized Burlesque Spectacle
Deadly Weapons / 1970s
Doris Wishman’s 1974 exploitation film Deadly Weapons occupies one of cinema’s strangest corners: it stars burlesque performer Chesty Morgan as Crystal, an advertising executive who hunts down the mobsters responsible for her boyfriend’s death. Rather than confronting them conventionally, Crystal seduces each man, drugs him, and kills him by smothering him with her extraordinarily large breasts. The revenge plot eventually takes an even more melodramatic turn when Crystal discovers that her own father helped cause her lover’s death. He shoots her in the chest, after which she turns her gun on him and kills him. The film also featured porn star Harry Reems and was followed by Wishman’s similarly lurid Double Agent 73, often treated as an ostensible sequel.
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