Woman or Animal?
Russ Meyer was an American original. A former combat photographer in World War II who returned to the United States to become the self proclaimed "King of the Skin Flicks." Meyer not only directed his twenty-three feature films he also produced, filmed, wrote and edited them. If anyone deserves to be called an American auteur he is the man. He managed to create a body of work that is distinctly his own and along the way redefined the way popular films are presented to audiences. A Meyer film has its own look and style and oftentimes its own internal agenda.
Vixen! courted controversy from the start with its frank depiction of an oversexed woman in the CAnadian wilderness. It was the first American film to receive an "X" rating from the MPAA. Vixen (Erica Gavin) lives in British Columbia with her bush pilot husband Tom (Garth Pillsbury). While Tom is often out of town Vixen amuses herself by seducing just about any man she can find. When Tom brings home a bored couple for a...
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