Vintage Pulp

November 11 2025

ACAPULCO GOLD

Quasi doc clues in viewers about sexual possibilities in paradise.

We had to watch Acapulco Uncensored for two reasons. First, it’s set in Mexico, which is our favorite country of all those we’ve visited so far (nine trips for PSGP and counting), and two, it’s in “throbbing color,” according to this promo poster. Well, there’s color but not much throbbing. At least at first. But about ten minutes in Virginia Gordon makes an appearance. We had no idea. So we retract that statement about there being no throbbing. This was one of three movies Gordon made in 1968, in her thirties by then and growing still more beautiful, sporting six pack abs and a slimmed down frame since her Playboy days.

Okay, so what’s the movie about? It’s a travelogue of Acapulco, part staged, part documentary, purporting to take viewers through the sexual hot spots, places where sun lovers can sun, swingers can swing, and whorehouse Johns can get their ashes hauled. It also discusses the dark side—women stuck in prostitution or sexual slavery, drug dangers, the places where tourists can be robbed or shot if they aren’t watchful. It’s narrated, and the script is intelligently written and occasionally eloquent—another surprise. It’s also a bit superior and rude—not a surprise at all.

Acapulco Uncensored is mainly supposed to be a titillation movie, and it offers plenty of that, including Kathy Williams, aka Ira Makepeace, briefly implying oral sex. Surprisingly for the era, there are flashes of pubes. Gordon pushes the envelope—she’d be offering extended looks at her old growth forest if she weren’t shaved. We presume that was a decision made to confound the censors. If the camera goes low enough that there should be hair but none is seen, should those frames be cut? Apparently not. Acapulco Uncensored is a worthy cinematic oddity, and you’ll even learn a few things. It premiered in the U.S.—and weakened some taboos—today in 1968.

Mexico, Acapulco, Acapulco Uncensored, Playboy, Victor Izay, Vic lance, Virginia Gordon, Kathy Williams, Ira Makepeace, poster art, cinema, nudism, naturism, movie review

Vintage Pulp

November 12 2019

MUTHERLY LOVE

They don't have much in the way of maternal instinct but they make up for it with eagerness to please.

In the nudie flick The Muthers, which opened this month in 1968, two groups of people located somewhere in Southern California between No Budget and No Inhibitions spend an inordinate amount of time putting the ’60s ethos of free love to the test. You have the teens, who party and get laid, and the mothers, who do the same, but with more skill. The movie is just a lighthearted little softcore romp, quaint by today’s standards, but notable for the fun attitude it brings to the proceedings. The plot, such as it is, eventually coalesces around one teen’s feelings of neglect and tendency toward self-destruction, and the title derives from the fact that for some reason she can’t spell “mother” properly.

But don’t let our suggestion that there’s a plot scare you—this flick is just one long sex scene after another. None of it is explicit, or even frontal for that matter. Mainly the performers just grind and wiggle. But it’s still pretty stimulating because one of the moms is Virginia Gordon. For those unfamiliar, Gordon was an in-demand nude model, who, like a fine reposado tequila, just got more golden and more potent as time went by. She’s in her thirty-second year in this film, and her body makes every other performer, including those twelve years younger than her, look like walking cookie dough. Safe to say your muther—or mother, even—never looked like that.

I know—you can’t take your eyes off them, can you?

Grinding is how I keep my muscle tone. Three-hundred fifty reps to go.

The Muthers, Marsha Jordan, Kathy Williams, Virginia Gordon, poster art, cinema, nudity, sexploitation, movie review

Vintage Pulp

January 3 2009

BABY GOT CRACK

What do you mean my pants are sagging? I'm wearing a belt aren't I?

Above: Cheeky magazine, with cover girl Diane Digby, aka Kathy Williams,1968. There’s a hilarious pictorial feature: “Babe with the Best Banana Boobs!” We’ll leave those to your imagination.

Cheeky, Diane Digby, Kathy Williams, Ira Makepeace, nudie mags, nudity

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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

January 25

1949—First Emmy Awards Are Presented

At the Hollywood Athletic Club in Los Angeles, California, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents the first Emmy Awards. The name Emmy was chosen as a feminization of “immy”, a nickname used for the image orthicon tubes that were common in early television cameras.

January 25

1971—Manson Family Found Guilty

Charles Manson and three female members of his “family” are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, which Manson orchestrated in hopes of bringing about Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic war he believed would arise between blacks and whites.

January 24

1961—Plane Carrying Nuclear Bombs Crashes

A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two H-bombs experiences trouble during a refueling operation, and in the midst of an emergency descent breaks up in mid-air over Goldsboro, North Carolina. Five of the six arming devices on one of the bombs somehow activate before it lands via parachute in a wooded region where it is later recovered. The other bomb does not deploy its chute and crashes into muddy ground at 700 mph, disintegrating while driving its radioactive core fifty feet into the earth.

January 23

1912—International Opium Convention Signed

The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague, Netherlands, and is the first international drug control treaty. The agreement was signed by Germany, the U.S., China, France, the UK, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam.

January 22

1946—CIA Forerunner Created

U.S. president Harry S. Truman establishes the Central Intelligence Group or CIG, an interim authority that lasts until the Central Intelligence Agency is established in September of 1947.

January 22

1957—George Metesky Is Arrested

The New York City “Mad Bomber,” a man named George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. Metesky was angry about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier. Of the thirty-three known bombs he planted, twenty-two exploded, injuring fifteen people. He was apprehended based on an early use of offender profiling and because of clues given in letters he wrote to a newspaper. At trial he was found legally insane and committed to a state mental hospital.

KISS AND TELL STORIES

We can't really say, but there are probably thousands of kisses on mid-century paperback covers. Here's a small collection of some good ones.

INCLEMENT WEATHER

Two Spanish covers from Ediciones G.P. for Peter Cheyney's Huracan en las Bahamas, better known as Dark Bahama.

DON GIOVANNI

Giovanni Benvenuti was one of Italy's most prolific paperback cover artists. His unique style is on display in multiple collections within our website.